Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest 2023

Celebrate and participate in the 10th Anniversary of LTHS’ popular program with your fictional story about Little Tokyo. Winners of Adult, Youth

Submit To Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest 2023

Celebrate and participate in the 10th Anniversary of LTHS’ popular program with your fictional story about Little Tokyo. Winners of Adult, Youth (18 and under) and Japanese language categories will receive a special prize of $1,000. 

Story submission deadline is January 31, 2023.

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Guidelines For Submission

• The story must be original, fictional, written in either Japanese or English by the submitting author and never been published (even online).
• The same story submitted in a previous year cannot be resubmitted.
• The setting of the story should be in Little Tokyo – either past, present or future.
• Submitted manuscript should be 2,500 words or less for English or 5,000 ji or less for Japanese and have a title.
• File should be a Microsoft Word doc, docx or rtf.
• For English-language entries, please use 12 point font, preferably Times Roman or Courier type and double space.
• Please remove any mention of your name from your short story, including headers.
• The short story manuscript must be submitted digitally as an e-mail attachment to Imaginelittletokyo@gmail.com (include SHORT STORY in the subject line). In the e-mail message, please include your name, phone number and age if 18 or under.
• The submissions should include a signed agreement, which can be found on the Little Tokyo Historical Society website. The agreement can be either e-mailed or sent via post.
• Submissions need to be e-mailed by January 31, 2023, 12 midnight PST. NO EXCEPTIONS.
• Immediate family members of judges (first-round or final) are ineligible.

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