Porter House Review 2024 – 2025 Editor’s Prize | $750+ Cash Prizes

The Porter House Review staff is excited to announce our 2024 – 2025 Editor’s Prizes in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction.

Porter House Review 2024 – 2025 Editor’s Prize (Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction)

The Porter House Review staff is excited to announce our 2024 – 2025 Editor’s Prizes in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction. This year’s contest will be judged by Rebecca Makkai, Romeo Oriogun, and Maurice Chammah. This contest will open on November 15, 2024 and will close on December 31, 2024. Winners and Finalists will be announced in April 2025. Please see below for full submission guidelines and more information on our brilliant guest judges.

Contest Rules & Submission Guidelines

One winner will be selected in each of the three genres—fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The three winners of Porter House Review Editor’s Prize will each receive an award of $750 and publication in our literary journal.

 All submitted works will be considered for publication. Porter House Review is dedicated to paying all of our featured writers a competitive rate for accepted works.

The submission fee for this contest will be $10.00. During the week of December 22nd through December 28th, this submission fee will be waived. While we rely in part upon submission fees to pay our contributors, we are also dedicated to offering free submission periods as we recognize these fees may present a hardship to submitters. 

Whether a submission was received during a paid period or a waiver period will have no bearing on its consideration by our editors and judges.

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Poetry

We seek poetic works that capture experience by reinvigorating the language of the everyday, or surprising readers with novel, rarefied text. We are particularly interested in poetry that champions inventive forms and content.

1. Submit a maximum of 5 poems or fewer.
2. Include the number of poems you are submitting in your submission title.
3. All entries will be read blind. Before you submit, please remove your name and any other identifying information from your manuscript. Texas State University students, alumni, and faculty members are not eligible.
4. All work must be submitted through our Submittable portal. We do not accept paper or emailed submissions.
5. All submitted work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please immediately withdraw from our contest if you place your work elsewhere.

 

Nonfiction

We seek nonfiction that involves discovery for the reader and the writer, work that creates a dynamic of mutual construction through literary dialogue. Personal essays, creative nonfiction flash, memoir, and literary reportage are all welcome.

1. Limit your submissions to 6,000 words or fewer.
2. Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, and paginated.
3. All entries will be read blind. Before you submit, please remove your name and any other identifying information from your manuscript. Texas State University students, alumni, and faculty members are not eligible.
4. All work must be submitted through our Submittable portal. We do not accept paper or emailed submissions.
5. Please send work that is previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please immediately withdraw from our contest if you place your work elsewhere.

 

Fiction

We seek to publish fiction that is emotionally affecting, haunting, bizarre, and in firm control of the machinations of storytelling (e.g. character, scene, plot, and momentum). We welcome both traditional short stories, flash fiction, and other hybrid forms.

1. Limit your submissions to 8,000 words or fewer.
2. Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, paginated.
3. All entries will be read blind. Before you submit, please remove your name and any other identifying information from your manuscript. Texas State University students, alumni, and faculty members are not eligible.
4. All work must be submitted through our Submittable portal. We do not accept paper or emailed submissions.
5. Please send work that is previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please immediately withdraw from our contest if you place your work elsewhere.

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