Craft Chat Novelette Contest: Literary, deadline March 16

[Pamela Jo]

https://www.craftliterary.com/craft-novelette-print-prize-2025/

 

[Sarit]

https://www.craftliterary.com/craft-novelette-print-prize-2025/

Oooh this is totally up my alley. However, I am a bit weary of submission fees, I don't mind if it's legit. But just wondering if in your opinion this is legit? Has clout?

 

[Pamela Jo]

Wouldnt mean anything to a publisher really, but the guys behind it have some deep pockets and are committed to running a literary contest-not one for profit. If your goals are literary and I think they are-it would get you into that US crowd.

’PEMI AGUDA is from Lagos, Nigeria. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her writing has been published in Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, and One Story, among others, and won O. Henry Prizes. Her novel-in-progress won the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. She was a 2021 Fiction Fellow with the Miami Book Fair, a 2022 MacDowell Fellow, and is the current Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor at Transition Magazine. Her collection of stories, Ghostroots (Norton, 2024), a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction, is her first book. Find her on Instagram @pem.i.

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