The South Carolina Academy of Authors (SCAA) announces its second annual $1000 fellowship in fiction. Entries may be previously unpublished short stories or excerpts from unpublished longer works and must be no longer than 15 pages. There are no restrictions on content; however, applicants must be full-time South Carolina residents and may submit only one story or excerpt. The Fellowship winner will be invited to SCAA induction ceremony in Columbia in April, 2013. The entry deadline is December 1, 2012. Submissions must be typed on 8.5 x 11 paper, and the author's name must not appear on the manuscript. Entrants should send two hard copies of story/chapter with separate cover sheet specifying the author's name, contact information and submission title, plus $15 submission fee payable to SCAA.
Applicants should send submissions and application fees 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.
Mary Robison, this year's Fellowship judge, has been widely hailed for her biting depictions of contemporary American life since her story "Sisters" was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Since then, her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, GQ, Harvard Magazine, The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, The Pushcart Prize and The O.Henry Prize Stories and complied in four collections. Her novel Why Did I Ever won the Los Angeles Times Book prize for Fiction, and One D.O.A., One on the Way was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the "100 Most Notable Books of the Year" and by Oprah Winfrey for her Summer Reading list in 2009. Robison has received numerous awards, including a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, and in 2009 the prestigious Rea Award For The Short Story. She has worked also as a screenwriter and script doctor for various film makers and teaches now at the University of Florida.
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