The Cinnabar Moth Literary Collections Prize for Short Story TellingSubmissions Dates December 1, 2022 through February 28, 2023 for short stories published in 2022.
Submit to: awards@cinnabarmoth.com
Submission Details & Instructions
- Award entry is open and free to all authors.
- All entries must be previously published works and include publication information. Personal blogs and Medium are accepted forms of publication. Social media platforms are not.
- Only one entry per author.
- Short Stories must be published and in print by December 31st of the awards year.
- Submissions of short stories with more than one author are not eligible.
- All short stories must be primarily in English.
- We cannot accept corrections after submission.
- Submissions from Cinnabar Moth Publishing, Cinnabar Moth Literary Collections, officers, or members of the selection committee are ineligible.
- Send the short story for consideration as an attachment to the email. Title the email short story award submission.
Notification
- We cannot confirm receipt over phone.
- We cannot accept any corrections or revisions to submissions.
- The winner will be announced early April.
- Winner will be notified by email.
- The prize will be publicly announced in October.
Winners Receive
- A cash prize of $250 USD.
- A four-month author residency which includes: publication of four original short stories in Cinnabar Moth Literary Collections ezine, featured spot on the landing page of the Cinnabar Moth Literary Collections website for four months, lifetime listing on the authors in residence internal page of the website, promotion on social media, and an interview on The Writers Triangle podcast
- An award seal to post on social media or blogs.