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IOWA SHORT FICTION AWARD

http://www.uiowapress.org/authors/iowa-short-fiction.htm

Any writer who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter. Writers are still eligible if they have published a work in a small print run. The manuscript must be a collection of short stories in English of at least 150 word-processed, double-spaced pages. Stories previously published in periodicals are eligible for inclusion. Award-winning manuscripts will be published by the University of Iowa Press under the Press's standard contract.

Links to stories from previous winners are on the web site.