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The Non/Fiction Collection Prize is awarded annually to a book-length collection of short stories, essays, or a combination of the two. The prize carries a cash award of $1500 and publication with The Ohio State University Press under its standard contract.

Eligible submissions include an unpublished manuscript of short stories or essays; two or more novellas or novella-length essays; a combination of one or more novellas/novella-length essays and short stories/essays; a combination of stories and essays. Novellas or novella-length nonfiction must be part of a larger collection. 

Prior publication of your manuscript as a whole in any format (including electronic or self-published) makes it ineligible. 

Individual stories or essays that have been previously published may be included in the manuscript. Each submission must include a list of acknowledgments of previously published work (title and magazine/journal/anthology) included in the manuscript.

Non/Fiction Collection Prize

Please read contest details carefully before submitting.

Manuscripts may be no fewer than 150 and no more than 350 typed double-spaced pages, 12-point font. 

Non/Fiction Collection Prize

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