The first Torrey House Press fiction contest closed last night with about 44 entries. It is going to be interesting to see the quality of the writing that found THP in this first go around. Writing was submitted from all over the country and nearly all have some part of the West in the story. We have submissions from both professors and students, established writers and, of course, writers readers have yet to hear from.
We hope to publish the top entries in book and e-book journal form by the end of the year along with top submissions from our upcoming contests: Creative Literary Nonfiction, deadline: May 31, 2011 and Short Fiction and Creative Nonfiction, deadline: September 30, 2011. See more here for contest information. In addition we would like to give everyone a feel for our contestants' work by publishing a top tier entry every two weeks on www.torreyhouse.com.
I'm eager to see the quality of what is out there with these submissions. My expectation is there will be writers with real promise and we will be contacting them to see what else they have. I'll keep you posted here.
Mark,
ReplyDeleteAm sure I speak for all 44 of us when I say thanks for the opportunity to submit!
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