Bomb does not solicit submissions, and offers only a fiction contest:
BOMB MAGAZINE FIRST ANNUAL FICTION PRIZE
FIRST PRIZE: $1,000 honorarium and publication Final Judge: A.M. Homes Postmark Deadline: April 1, 2004 Reading Fee: $20, which also includes a free one year subscription to BOMB
(overseas addresses please add $6).
All entries considered for publication.
All entries considered anonymously.
Send no more than one story per entry,
20 double-spaced pages maximum, in 12 point type.
No previously published works, or works forthcoming elsewhere.
Cover letter must include name, address, phone number, and title.
Simultaneous submissions acceptable, but fee is non-refundable.
Entrant's name should appear ONLY in the cover letter.
Entries must be accompanied by SASE for notification.
Manuscripts will not be returned.
Make checks payable to BOMB Magazine.
Each fee entitles entrant to one-year subscription, an extension of a
current subscription, or a gift subscription.
Please indicate your choice and enclose complete address information for
subscriptions.
Winner and runners up will be announced in the Fall 2004 issue, where the
winner's story will also be published.
Mail entries to:
BOMB Magazine
Annual Fiction Prize
594 Broadway, suite 905
New York, NY 10012
About A.M. Homes:
A.M. Homes is the author of the novels Music for Torching,The End of Alice,In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as two short story collections: The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know.
Homes has been the recipient of numerous awards including: a Guggenheim
Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a New
York Foundation for the Arts Artists Fellowship, and the Deutscher
jugendliteraturpreis-German Literature Prize.
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and The University of Iowa
Writers Workshop, A.M. Homes currently lives in New York City.