2024 Prose Contest submissions should include no more than one short story or one essay per submission in a .doc, .docx (preferred), or .pdf document. Multiple submissions are considered as long as a separate fee is paid for each. We ask that submissions not exceed 7000 words. The contest winner in prose receives $1,000 and publication in Fugue’s 2025 print issue. One runner-up is also published. All submissions will be read by at least two editors, and ten finalists will go on to our judge. All submissions will be considered for general publication in Fugue.

This year's prose judge is Jess Arndt. Jess Arndt is a transgenre writer seeking protuberant forms. Their story collection, Large Animals, (CATAPULT 2017 / CIPHER 2020), was shortlisted for the California Book Prize and their writing has recently appeared in Conjunctions, Granta, LARB, Lithub, Fence, BOMB, Night Papers, and in collaborations with The Knife's Shaking the Habitual tour. Arndt received an MFA at Bard College (2007) and is a co-founder of the Brooklyn-based prose experiment, New Herring Press. They have been teaching endogenous writing at the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts (PNCA), the California Institute of the Arts, and currently co-chair the Bard MFA Writing department. 

We look forward to reading your work!

2024 Poetry Contest submissions should include 1-3 poems per submission in a .doc, .docx (preferred), or .pdf document. Multiple submissions are considered as long as a separate fee is paid for each. The contest winner in poetry receives $1,000 and publication in Fugue’s 2025 print issue. One runner-up is also published. All submissions will be read by at least two editors, and ten finalists will go on to our judge. All submissions will be considered for general publication in Fugue.    

This year's poetry judge is Donika Kelly. Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book  award in poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a  Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Kelly’s poetry has  been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Publishing Triangle  Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and longlisted for the National Book Award. A  Cave Canem graduate fellow and recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has also received a Lannan  Residency Fellowship, and a summer workshop fellowship from the Fine Arts Work  Center. She earned an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of  Texas at Austin and a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University. Her poems have been  published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Donika lives in Iowa City with her wife, the nonfiction writer Melissa Febos, and is an associate  professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.  

 We look forward to reading your work! 

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