Barksdale-Maynard Prizes in Fiction and Poetry & the Thomas H. Brown Prize in Creative Nonfiction
Deadline for Submissions: February 22, 2008
The Barksdale-Maynard Prizes in Fiction and Poetry are made possible by a gift from Isabel Barksdale-Maynard in honor of her family. The Tom Brown Prize for Creative Nonfiction is named in honor of Dr. Thomas H. Brown, chair of the English Department from 1984-1992. Prizes of $200 each are awarded annually for the best work of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and the best poem or group of poems submitted by currently enrolled UAB students in good standing with the University.
Contest judges are selected by the Creative Writing Faculty of the UAB English Department. Prizes are awarded at the judges’ discretion; that is, the judges may elect to award no prizes in any category if, in their judgment, works submitted in any given year are not sufficient to merit an award.
Winners will be announced April 1 and recognized at the annual UAB English Awards Ceremony in the spring. The winning works will be published in Aura, the UAB literary arts magazine.
Submission Requirements
- Both graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit.
- Submissions to the competition must be original works not previously published in any form.
- Submissions in fiction and creative nonfiction must be typed double-spaced. Submissions in poetry may be single-spaced. No more than one poem should be included on a page.
- Students may enter in all three competitions, but each entrant is limited to one story, one piece of creative nonfiction, and up to three poems. Use a separate cover sheet for each genre.
- Submissions should not include the name of the author. Rather, each submission should be accompanied by a separate cover sheet containing the name, address, phone number, email address, social security number, and a short bio of the author.
- Please identify the genre (fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry) on the upper right corner of the manuscript and cover sheet.
- Manuscripts will not be returned. For a list of winners, include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
- Submissions should be sent or brought to:
Barksdale-Maynard Prizes or Tom Brown Prize
UAB English Department
HB 218
1530 3rd Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35294-1260or emailed as attachments in MS Word to collinsr@uab.edu. Email submissions should follow the same format as described above.
- Deadline: manuscripts must be received by 22 February 2008.
For additional information, contact Dr. Robert Collins, Director of the Creative Writing Program (205/934-4250).
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