The topic is open. Any type of entry that meets the submission criteria below is eligible. Multiple entries welcome.

• The contest is open to prose works.
• Entries can be fiction, non-fiction or creative non-fiction.
• Entries must be previously unpublished and not under consideration by any other publication.
• Entries must be original and not a translation of a previously published work.
• Maximum length: 2000 words.
• No poetry, plays, reviews, and scholarly essays.
No footnotes and endnotes. No pseudonyms.
• Submissions must be in Word or txt format.
• No email or fax submissions.

• Submissions must be in English.
• Submissions can be an English translation of the author's unpublished original work in another language.
• The contest is open to all writers, established and emerging, worldwide.