THE DRAPERS GUILD
PERPETUAL
SHORT STORY CONTEST
Our goal: to promote a wide audience for literature and to encourage fine writing.
The contest will be judged by Samuel Reifler, the eminent author of October Snow, whose work has been translated into five languages and whose fiction has appeared in numerous periodicals including Esquire, Harper's Bazaar and New Directions. The story judged the best, out of those submitted by fifteen different authors, will win $100 and be published on the Drapers Guild Short Story Contest website.
The Ninth Drapers Guild Short Story Contest
Fiction about a Stranger
Fiction, in a contemporary setting (sometime between 1960 and now) whose protagonist is a real person whom the author knows nothing about - a stranger seen on a bus, jogging in a park, leaving a party, delivering a package, lurking in an alley.
Note: If you already have a story in your files that you think would fit our themed Ninth Short Story Contest, feel free to submit it. Just keep in mind that our judge has a keen nose for autobiographical details. Autobiography, by definition, is non-fiction.
PERPETUAL
SHORT STORY CONTEST
Our goal: to promote a wide audience for literature and to encourage fine writing.
The contest will be judged by Samuel Reifler, the eminent author of October Snow, whose work has been translated into five languages and whose fiction has appeared in numerous periodicals including Esquire, Harper's Bazaar and New Directions. The story judged the best, out of those submitted by fifteen different authors, will win $100 and be published on the Drapers Guild Short Story Contest website.
The Ninth Drapers Guild Short Story Contest
Fiction about a Stranger
Fiction, in a contemporary setting (sometime between 1960 and now) whose protagonist is a real person whom the author knows nothing about - a stranger seen on a bus, jogging in a park, leaving a party, delivering a package, lurking in an alley.
Note: If you already have a story in your files that you think would fit our themed Ninth Short Story Contest, feel free to submit it. Just keep in mind that our judge has a keen nose for autobiographical details. Autobiography, by definition, is non-fiction.
Rules
1) Your story must have a contemporary setting - any time between 1960 and now is fine. (No pandemic stories, please.) 2) Your story may be any length. (However, the longer the story is, the more engaging it must be for our judge to finish reading it.) 3) Your story must be written in English. 4) You may submit more than one story. Entry fee $15 per story Payable by check or money order to: Rhinebeck Records, LLC or via Paypal to: [email protected] Contest Addresses Mail submissions to: Denkof Zwemmen The Drapers Guild c/o Rhinebeck Records LLC 142 Montgomery St. Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Or e-mail your story -- either in the body of your e-mail or as an MS-Word attachment (no PDF files please) -- to: [email protected] We have no arrangements for author anonymity, but friends, acquaintances, and writers we already have heard of will not receive special consideration. It is not necessary to provide us with biographical information or a list of previous publications. Each story will be judged on its own merits. If you have any questions about the contest, please contact Denkof Zwemmen. [email protected] (The contest is sponsored in part by the United Front for the Revival of Neo-Classicism. "Art is not self-expression; it is creativity.") |
Winners of Previous Contests
First Drapers Guild Short Story Contest Hello, Massage by Vasil Tuchkov ~ Second Drapers Guild Short Story Contest Lovers and Boyfriends by Michelle Harris ~ Third Drapers Guild Short Story Contest European Union by Cosima Armstrong ~ Fourth Drapers Guild Short Story Contest A Boy Gone South by Nathaniel Trost ~ Fifth Drapers Guild Short Story Contest Rex and His Purty Girl by Philip O'Melia ~ Sixth Drapers Guild Short Story Contest My Mind Is A Dark Place by Bethany Bartrum ~ Seventh Drapers Guild Short Story Contest First Prize: No Bags by J. Cade Keith Second Prize: Wrong by Namrael Dawde ~ Eighth Drapers Guild Short Story Contest Nobody Tells a Story by Dean Gessie |