CRWROPPS Post: the $10,000 C. Michael Curtis Short Fiction Prize

The C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize is open to emerging writers in the South. The winner receives $10,000 and publication. 

Includes $10,000 and publication for a debut book of short fiction. Open until April 1! Dear writers,  The C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize is now open to emerging writers in thirteen Southern states. Applicants must currently reside in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia or West Virginia, and must have no previously published books of fiction. We're proud to announce our judge this year is ZZ Packer. The winner receives $10,000 and book publication for a debut book of short fiction and is open for submissions until April 1. Submit your collection today! The prize is named in honor of C. Michael Curtis, who has served as an editor of The Atlantic since 1963 and as fiction editor since 1982. Curtis moved to Spartanburg, S.C. in 2006 and has taught as a professor at both Wofford and Converse Colleges, in addition to serving on the editorial board of Hub City Press. This prize is made possible by an anonymous contribution from a South Carolina donor.   Meg Reid Director, Hub City Press meg@hubcity.org 864-577-9349 Submit Today 2020 Judge: ZZ Packer ZZ Packer is the author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003) and has been frequently published in such journals as The New Yorker and Granta. She is at work on a novel. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy in Berlin Prize and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She has taught at many institutions including Princeton, where she was a Hodder Fellow; the Michener Center at the University of Texas; Vassar College; and as a Jones Lecturer at Stanford.  Previous Winners 2019 Winner Sleepovers by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips Selected by Lauren Groff Hailed by Groff as "fully committed to the truth no matter how dark or difficult or complicated it may be," and written with "incantatory crispness," Sleepovers takes us to a forgotten corner of the rural South.  2018 Winner Let Me Out Here Selected by Lee K. Abbott In her debut collection, Emily W. Pease is at work redefining the Southern short story. Let Me Out Here explores the underbellies and strange desires of our neighbors, our loved ones, ourselves. Submit Today Copyright © 2020 HubCulture, Inc., All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are on our residency newsletter list. Our mailing address is: HubCulture, Inc. 186 W. Main St. Spartanburg, SC 29306