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Announcing the 2012 winner of our Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction

Judged by Miroslav Penkov

Venus in the Afternoon

by Tehila Lieberman

to be published November 2012

Katherine Anne Porter Guidelines

The University of North Texas Press announces the 2013 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. The winner of this annual award will receive $1000 and publication by UNT Press. Entries will be judged by an eminent writer.

Entries can be a combination of short-shorts, short stories, and novellas, from 100 to 200 book pages in length (word count between 27,500 and 50,000). Material should be previously unpublished in book form. Once a winner is declared and contracted for publication, UNT Press will hold the rights to the stories in the winning collection. They may no longer be under consideration for serial publication elsewhere and must be withdrawn by the author from consideration.

Please include two cover sheets: one with title only, and one with title, your name, address, e-mail, phone, and acknowledgment of any previously published material. Your name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript except on the one cover page. Manuscripts for the 2013 award should be postmarked between May 1 and June 30, 2012. The winning manuscript will be announced in January 2013. Watch for more details in Poets & Writers. Manuscripts cannot be returned and must be accompanied by a $25 entry fee (payable to UNT Press) and a letter-sized SASE for notification.

Send entries to:

Laura Kopchick, General Editor
Katherine Anne Porter Contest
English Department
University of Texas at Arlington
203 Carlisle Hall, Box 19035
Arlington, TX 76019

Prior Winners—

Out of Time by Geoff Schmidt was our 2011 winner, judged by Ben Marcus.

A Bright Soothing Noise by Peter Brown was our 2010 winner, judged by Josip Novakovich.

Irish Girl by Tim Johnston was our 2009 winner, judged by Janet Peery.

Last Known Position by James Mathews was our 2008 winner, judged by Tom Franklin.

Wonderful Girl by Aimee LaBrie was our 2007 winner, judged by Bill Roorbach.

Body Language by Kelly Magee was our 2006 winner, judged by Dan Chaon.

What Are You Afraid Of? by Michael Hyde, was our 2005 winner, judged by Sharon Oard Warner.

Let's Do by Rebecca Meacham was our 2004 winner, judged by Jonis Agee. Let's Do was selected for the Spring 2005 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program.

Here Comes the Roar by Dave Shaw was our 2003 winner, judged by Marly Swick.

The Stuntman's Daughter, a collection of stories by Alice Blanchard, was the 1996 winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Ms. Blanchard went on to sign a lucrative contract with Bantam for her first novel, Darkness Peering.

Announcing the 2012 winner of our Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry,

Matt Miller

Club Icarus

was chosen by Major Jackson

and will be published in April 2013

University of North Texas Press is also pleased to announce the publication of the 2011 winner:

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Death of a Ventriloquist

chosen by Lisa Russ Spaar and published in April 2012

The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2013

The winner of this annual award receives $1000 and publication by the University of North Texas Press.

This year’s judge will be Chad Davidson. To avoid conflicts of interest, current or former students of the judge should not enter.

Postmark deadline: November 15, 2012

Submit 50- to 80-page, typed manuscript, including an additional title page that does not bear the name of the poet. All pages indicating the poet's identity will be removed from the manuscript prior to its being forwarded to the final judge.

Manuscripts cannot be returned and must be accompanied by $25 entry fee (payable to UNT Press) and a letter-sized SASE for notification.

Previously published portions of the manuscript should be identified on a separate acknowledgment page. Once a winner is declared and contracted for publication, UNT Press will hold the rights to the poems in the winning collection. They may no longer be under consideration for serial publication elsewhere and must be withdrawn by the author from consideration.

Winning manuscript will be announced by March 15, 2013.

Send manuscripts to:

John Poch
Vassar Miller Prize
Department of English
Texas Tech University 
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091

Previous Winners:

Partial Eclipse by Tony Sanders

Selected by Richard Howard

Delirium by Barbara Hamby

Selected by Cynthia Macdonald

The Sublime by Jonathan Holden

Selected by Yusef Komunyakaa

American Crawl by Paul Allen

Selected by Sydney Lea

Soul Data by Mark Svenvold

Selected by Heather McHugh

MOVING & ST RAGE by Kathy Fagan

Selected by T. R. Hummer

A Protocol for Touch by Constance Merritt

Selected by Eleanor Wilner

The Perseids by Karen Holmberg

Selected by Sherod Santos

The Self as Constellation by Jeanine Hathaway

Selected by Madeline DeFrees

Bene-Dictions by Rush Rankin

Selected by Rosanna Warren

Losing and Finding by Karen Fiser Selected by Lynne McMahon

The Black Beach by J. T. Barbarese

Selected by Andrew Hudgins

Re-Entry by Michael White

Selected by Paul Mariani

The Next Settlement by Michael Robins

Selected by Anne Winters

Mister Martini by Ricard Carr

Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye

Ohio Violence by Alison Stine

Selected by Eric Pankey

Stray Home by Amy M. Clark

Selected by Beth Ann Fennelly

Circles Where the Head Should Be by Caki Wilkinson

Selected by J. D. McClatchy

 

Death of a Ventriloquist by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Selected by Lisa Russ Spaar