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Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award



Address:

Iowa Writers Workshop
Iowa City , IA US

Any writer who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter the competition.

The manuscript must be a collection of short stories in English of at least 150 word-processed, double-spaced pages. We do not accept e-mail submissions.


Submission Info

Prize Info

  • First Prize: Award-winning manuscripts will be published by the University of Iowa Press under the Press standard contract.

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