Ninth Letter

First prize is $1,000 for each genre (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction), print and web publication, and bragging rights! Every U.S. entrant receives a free, one-year print subscription per submission. International entrants will receive a complimentary copy of the fall/winter issue.

No current students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or students associated with the school in the past five years are eligible to submit. Likewise, any entrants with a close relationship with guest judges are not eligible to submit.

Ninth Letter Literary Awards

Please read contest details carefully before submitting.

Please submit up to 5 poems in a single file of no more than 8 pages.

Please submit one piece of no more than 8,000 words. You may also submit up to three pieces of flash-fiction or flash-nonfiction as long as the total word count of the submission is no more than 4,000 words.

Ninth Letter Literary Awards

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