Porter House Review

One winner will be selected in each of the three genres—fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The three winners of Porter House Review Editor’s Prize will each receive an award of $750 and publication in our literary journal. 

Porter House Review Editor’s Prize

Please read contest details carefully before submitting.

We seek to publish fiction that is emotionally affecting, haunting, bizarre, and in firm control of the machinations of storytelling (e.g. character, scene, plot, and momentum). We welcome both traditional short stories, flash fiction, and other hybrid forms.

Limit your submissions to 8,000 words or fewer.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted.

Submit a maximum of 5 poems or fewer.

We seek poetic works that capture experience by reinvigorating the language of the everyday, or surprising readers with novel, rarefied text. We are particularly interested in poetry that champions inventive forms and content.

Simultaneous submissions accepted.

We seek nonfiction that involves discovery for the reader and the writer, work that creates a dynamic of mutual construction through literary dialogue. Personal essays, creative nonfiction flash, memoir, and literary reportage are all welcome.

Limit your submissions to 6,000 words or fewer.

Simultaneous submissions accepted.

Porter House Review Editor’s Prize

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