The South Carolina Academy of Authors (SCAA) announces its first annual $1000 fellowship in fiction. Entries may be previously unpublished short stories or excerpts from unpublished longer works. Limit 15 pages per submission, one submission per author. There are no restrictions on content; however, applicants must be full-time South Carolina residents. SCAA board members are ineligible. Winner will be invited to SCAA induction ceremony in April, 2012.
Submissions must be typed on 8.5 x 11 paper. Author's name must not appear on manuscript. Send two hard copies of story/chapter with separate cover sheet specifying author's name, contact information and submission title, plus $15 submission fee payable to SCAA.
DEADLINE: Entries postmarked no later than November 11, 2011.
Send submissions and $15 application fee payable to SCAA to Jon Tuttle, Department of English, Francis Marion University, PO Box 100547, Florence SC 29502. Contact Jon Tuttle for more information at Jtuttle@fmarion.edu.
Mark Powell, this year's judge, is the author of Prodigals and Blood Kin (winner of the Peter Taylor Prize), and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Prague Summer Institute. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in such journals as Rivendell, The Southeastern Review, Yemassee, The South Carolina Review and The North Carolina Review. He holds degrees from The Citadel, the University of South Carolina and Yale Divinity School. He lives in Deland, Florida and teaches at Stetson University.
For more information about the South Carolina Academy of Authors, please visit www.scacademyofauthors.org.
