Ohio State University Press

The Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction offers an award of $5,500 and publication by Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press

To avoid conflicts of interest, friends and former students of a judge (former students who studied with a judge in an academic degree-conferring program or its equivalent) are ineligible to enter the competition in the genre for which their former teacher is serving as judge.

Current staff of AWP and members of the AWP Board of Directors may not enter the AWP Award Series, and previous staff and board members may not enter for a minimum of three years after leaving AWP or rotating off the board, respectively.

Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction

Please read contest details carefully before submitting.

Only book-length manuscripts are eligible. The AWP Award Series deﬁnes “book-length” as follows: short story collection or creative nonfiction: 150–300 manuscript pages

Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction

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