Crump / Kinder Prize in Short Fiction Pleiades: Literature in Context

Pleiades is accepting submissions for the Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction during the month of May. The winner will receive $1,000 and publication in an upcoming issue of Pleiades: Literature in Context. Submissions will be open from May 1-May 31 at 11:59pm CST. Ananda Lima will judge.

ABOUT OUR JUDGE: Ananda Lima is the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor, 2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at StoryStudio, Chicago. She has an MA in Linguistics (UCLA) and an MFA in Creative Writing (Rutgers University, Newark). Craft, her fiction debut, was longlisted for the Story Prize, the ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and named Best of the Year by Library Journal, Electric Literature, Debutiful, The Chicago Review of Books and more. The New York Times describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.”

TO PAY for your submission: Please visit this link to pay the $20 entry fee.

TO SUBMIT: Writers may submit one story for a $20 entry fee between May 1-May 31. There is no word count maximum, and writers may submit multiple times. Please include your order number in your cover letter. Please do not include any identifying information on the submission document.

The Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction is named in honor of Professor Emerita at UCM and Editor Emerita of Pleiades, R.M. Kinder, and Professor Emeritus at UCM and Pleiades fiction reader G.B. Crump.