The University of Iowa

The Iowa Short Fiction Award and the John Simmons Short Fiction Award are annual prizes given to two collections of stories by emerging short fiction writers, which are then published by the University of Iowa Press.

Writers who have yet to publish a book-length volume of fiction are eligible to apply,

Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award

Please read contest details carefully before submitting.

The manuscript must be a collection of short stories in English of at least 150 word-processed, double-spaced pages.

Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award

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