The Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction Orison Books

Opens on Friday, December 1, 2023 12:00 AM EST (in 174 days)

• Original English work only; no translations.
• Do not include your name anywhere in your manuscript file or file name, but only in your Duosuma cover letter.
• Individual poems and stories or excerpts may have been previously published in periodicals and/or chapbooks, but the manuscript as a whole must not have been published in book form, whether digital or in print. Self-published manuscripts are considered previously published and are not eligible.
• Please include any publication acknowledgments in your cover letter, listing any periodicals where individual pieces from your manuscript first appeared. Acknowledgments should not appear in the manuscript file.
• Poetry manuscripts must be 50-100 pages of poems (each poem beginning on a new page). Fiction manuscripts must have a minimum word count of 30,000.
• Fiction manuscripts may consist of short stories, a novel, a novella, flash/micro fiction, or any combination of forms, as long as the manuscript meets the 30,000 word minimum.
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted; please notify us immediately should a manuscript be accepted for publication elsewhere.
• Multiple manuscripts may be submitted; each manuscript must be accompanied by a separate entry fee.
• Orison Books is committed to running ethical and transparent contests. Current or former students of the judge or the lead genre editor(s), or anyone with a close personal relationship with that judge or lead genre editor(s), are not eligible to submit in the category in question. Judges also never see author names until after they have made their selections.
• Existing Orison Books authors and current or past Orison Books board or staff members are not eligible for The Orison Prizes.
• Orison Books undertakes never to extend contest deadlines, except in the case of technical problems or other events that would prevent submitters from entering the contest by the original deadline.
• Entry Fee: $25.
• We only accept electronic submissions, which must be sent through our Duosuma page.

Opens on Friday, December 1, 2023 12:00 AM EST (in 174 days)

• Original English work only; no translations.
• Do not include your name anywhere in your manuscript file or file name, but only in your Duosuma cover letter.
• Individual poems and stories or excerpts may have been previously published in periodicals and/or chapbooks, but the manuscript as a whole must not have been published in book form, whether digital or in print. Self-published manuscripts are considered previously published and are not eligible.
• Please include any publication acknowledgments in your cover letter, listing any periodicals where individual pieces from your manuscript first appeared. Acknowledgments should not appear in the manuscript file.
• Poetry manuscripts must be 50-100 pages of poems (each poem beginning on a new page). Fiction manuscripts must have a minimum word count of 30,000.
• Fiction manuscripts may consist of short stories, a novel, a novella, flash/micro fiction, or any combination of forms, as long as the manuscript meets the 30,000 word minimum.
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted; please notify us immediately should a manuscript be accepted for publication elsewhere.
• Multiple manuscripts may be submitted; each manuscript must be accompanied by a separate entry fee.
• Orison Books is committed to running ethical and transparent contests. Current or former students of the judge or the lead genre editor(s), or anyone with a close personal relationship with that judge or lead genre editor(s), are not eligible to submit in the category in question. Judges also never see author names until after they have made their selections.
• Existing Orison Books authors and current or past Orison Books board or staff members are not eligible for The Orison Prizes.
• Orison Books undertakes never to extend contest deadlines, except in the case of technical problems or other events that would prevent submitters from entering the contest by the original deadline.
• Entry Fee: $25.
• We only accept electronic submissions, which must be sent through our Duosuma page.