- Welcome
- Editors' Prize
- Subscriptions
- Submissions
Jabberwock Review is pleased to announce the publication of our Winter 2013 issue (33.2).
Congratulations to William Huhn, whose essay "I Know You Rider"
(Summer 2011, vol. 32.1) has been selected as a "Notable Essay" in Best American Essays 2012.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize for Fiction and Poetry.
FICTION
Winner: David Armstrong, "Bethesda"
Finalists: Laurie Doyle, "Bigger Than Life"; Debka Colson, "My
Remarkable Journey
POETRY
Winner: Kara Krewer, "Cursive," "Memory, While Driving," and "Epistemologies"
Finalists: Carolyn Moore, "Written on Company Time at the Stationery
Plant"; Jed Myers, "Taking Time"
Congratulations to our winners and finalists!
Congratulations to our 2012 Pushcart Prize nominees!
--Christina Elaine Collins, for her short story "The Last Midnight"
--Tim Hedges, for his short story "Brave in the Attempt"
--Sondra Friedman, for her short story "The Lush-Green Life"
--Nancy Hewitt, for her poem "Proof"
--Rochelle Hurt, for her poem "Music Box"
--Judd Hess, for his poem "Coyotes"
Jabberwock Review is a literary journal published semi-annually by students and faculty of Mississippi State University. The journal consists of art, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from around the world. Funding is provided by the Office of the Provost, the College of Arts & Sciences, the Shackouls Honors College, the Department of English, fundraisers, and subscriptions.
For further information about Jabberwock Review, contact
Michael Kardos, Editor
Lisa Fulgham, Associate Editor
THE NANCY D. HARGROVE EDITORS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION AND POETRY
DEADLINE: March 15, 2013
- Winner receives $500 and publication in Jabberwock Review.
- All finalists are considered for publication.
- All entrants receive a one-year (two-issue) subscription beginning with the prize-winning issue.
- Each fiction entry should consist of a single short story of any length. (Novel excerpts may be submitted if they are self-contained.)
- Each poetry entry should consist of 1-3 poems. The winning entry may be for a single poem or group of poems.
- Entry Fee: $15, which includes a one-year (two-issue) subscription to Jabberwock Review. (If you enter more than once, you may either extend your subscription or give the additional subscriptions as gifts.)
HOW TO ENTER
Online:
. The site will walk you through uploading your manuscript.
Entries will be read anonymously (blindly). For that reason, do not include any identifying information on the manuscript.
The website will prompt you to pay the entry fee through a secure online credit-card payment.
All manuscripts uploaded by 11:59 p.m. on March 15 will be considered.
By Mail:
Mail in each paper manuscript along with a $15 check for each entry made payable to “Jabberwock Review.” Check must draw from a US bank.
Each entry should include a cover page with the entrant’s name, address, e-mail, and telephone number. The Editors’ prize will be read blindly. For that reason, do not include any identifying information on the manuscript itself.
Mail manuscript and entry fee payment together to
Editors’ Prize
Jabberwock Review/Editors’ Prize
Department of English
Drawer E
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Manuscript and entry fee must be postmarked by March 15, 2013.
No SASE required. Winner and finalists will be posted at www.jabberwock.org.msstate.edu on or before June 1.
PLEASE NOTE:
• All manuscripts must be original and previously unpublished.
• Simultaneous submissions are welcome; if your work is accepted elsewhere, please notify us right away at jabberwockreview@english.msstate.edu.
• Current students or staff of Mississippi State University are ineligible for the Editors’ Prize.
PROCEDURES:
All manuscripts entered are read anonymously. If there is any identifying information, it is removed. Manuscripts are only identified by number and title while they are being reviewed. The Jabberwock Review’s editorial staff will consider all manuscripts submitted according to these guidelines, and will select one winner and as many as 10 finalists.
Questions? Please drop us a line at jabberwockreview@english.msstate.edu.
We look forward to reading your work!
To subscribe to one year (two issues, $15.00) of Jabberwock Review, or to purchase a single issue($8.00), please CLICK HERE or send a check made payable to Jabberwock Review to: Subscriptions Jabberwock Review publishes a Winter and a Summer issue each year. |
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- Submissions will be accepted only from August 15 to October 20 and January 15 to March 15. Submissions received at other times will be returned unopened.
- Submissions should include a cover letter containing the author's name, address, phone number, email address, and a brief biographical statement.
- Please remember to include a stamped, self-addressed envelope (SASE) with your submissions.
- Please submit no more than 1 story or no more than 5 poems at a time.
- Manuscripts should be typed on one side only of 8 ½ x 11 white paper.
- The author's name and address(es) should appear on the first page of the manuscript, with each poem, or on the back of each piece of artwork.
- Poems of multiple pages should indicate whether or not stanza breaks accompany page breaks.
- Art will be published in black and white but may be submitted in color.
- Simultaneous submissions should be noted as such, and Jabberwock Review should be notified immediately in the event that the work is accepted elsewhere.
- Please do not send another submission until you have received a response on the first. Additional manuscripts will be returned unread.
- We will try to respond in three months. If you have not heard from us in five months, feel free to contact us about the status of your submission.
- Rights revert to the author upon publication, but please acknowledge Jabberwock Review in any future publications.
- Jabberwock Review welcomes all forms and styles of writing, from traditional to experimental.
Address submissions to appropriate editor (art, fiction, non-fiction, poetry) and mail to:
Jabberwock Review
Department of English
Mississippi State University
Drawer E
Mississippi State, MS 39762
To submit material electronically
