Fugue’s 2018 Annual Writing Contest Opens Today
Fugue is very excited to officially announce the opening of our 2018 Annual Writing Contest! This year’s judges are Carmen Maria Machado (prose) and Vijay Seshadri (poetry). Contest winners in both categories will receive $1,000 prizes and publication in our next print issue alongside a brief judge’s comment on the chosen piece. Submissions to the contest are $15. Please note that our “prose” category is and has always been open to both fiction and nonfiction, and that we purposefully select the judge for this category based on their work in both genres. Submit here.
Vijay Seshadri was born in Bangalore, India, in 1954 and moved to America at the age of five. He is the author of the poetry books "Wild Kingdom," "The Long Meadow," The Disappearances," and "3 Sections," as well as many essays, reviews, and memoir fragments. His work has been widely published and anthologized and recognized with many honors, most recently the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and, in 2015, the Literature Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was educated at Oberlin College and Columbia University, and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, where he has held the Michele Tolela Myers Chair.
Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, Gulf Coast, NPR, and elsewhere. Her stories have been reprinted in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and Best Women’s Erotica. Her memoir House in Indiana is forthcoming in 2019 from Graywolf Press.
