Fourth Genre Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize

In honor of Fourth Genre’s founding editor, Michael J. Steinberg, we’re proud to award $1000 and publication each year to the winner of the Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize.

Our judge this year is A. Kendra Greene. Writer and book artist A. Kendra Greene became an essayist during a Fulbright grant in South Korea. Her illuminated essay collections, The Museum of Whales You Will Never See (Penguin) and No Less Strange or Wonderful (Tin House), have been compared to Borges by Le Monde and called “elegiac and piercing…authoritatively atmospheric” by the New York Times. Her artist books are collected as far away as Qatar. Her nonfiction appears both in zine machines and publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva, including Freeman's, The Guardian, Nautilus, Orion, and The Wall Street Journal. Currently the Viebranz Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Saint Lawrence University, her work has been supported by fellowships from Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab, MacDowell, Yaddo, Dobie Paisano, and The American Library in Paris.

• Submit from January 1st to April 15th.
• All submissions will be considered for publication.
  
• We rarely publish essays longer than 6,000 words. But if you have something longer, and it is really good, send it our way.
• A reading fee of $20(U.S.) for each individual submission (multiple submissions accepted).
• For all reading periods, we read blind, so be sure your name or any other identifying information does not appear on the manuscript or in the file name.

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