Guidelines - We now accept submissions all year around. The deadline for the Winter issue is October 15 and the deadline for the Summer issue is March 15. We have no restrictions on subject matter or form. Quite simply, send us your highest-quality fiction and poetry.

Awards

John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction (deadline March 1)

Opens: January 1
Extended deadline: March 31

Contest Guidelines
Short story submissions should be: 1) 8000 words or less, and 2) previously unpublished. You may enter as many stories as you wish. The entry fee is $15 per story. Please send checks drawn on a U.S. bank or money orders. Please make sure your checks are made out to Harpur Palate, or we won’t be able to process them (or accept your submission).

Please include a cover letter with your name, address, phone number, your preferred e-mail address and story title. Entrant's name should ONLY appear on the cover letter and should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. Manuscripts cannot be returned, so please only send disposable copies.

Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry (Deadline .October 1)

Opens: July 1
Postmark deadline: November 15

Contest Guidelines
Harpur Palate accepts Poems in any style, form or genre are welcome as long as they are 1) no more than 3 pages and 2) previously unpublished. The entry fee is $15/5 poems. You may send as many poems as you wish, but no more than 5 poems per envelope. Please send checks drawn on a US bank or money orders made out to Harpur Palate. IMPORTANT: Check MUST BE made out to HARPUR PALATE, or we will not be able to process it!

All poems entered will be considered for publication in Harpur Palate. All entrants will receive a copy of the issue in which the winning poem appears. Please include a cover letter with your name, address, phone number, your preferred e-mail address and poem titles. Entrant's name should ONLY appear on the cover letter and should not appear anywhere on the manuscript. Manuscripts cannot be returned, so please only send disposable copies.

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