'Shenandoah' Announces Winner of 2015 Bevel Summers Prize for the Short Short Story
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| Lexingon, VA. (July 16, 2015) - âMay Applesâ by Ellen Birkett Morris of Louisville, Kentucky, won the 2015 Bevel Summers Contest for the short short story, which was sponsored by âShenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review.â
The honorarium for the prize is $1,000 and publication of her work; it will appear in the fall issue of âShenandoah.â Morris has been published in âAntioch Review,â âNotre Dame Review,â âSouth Carolina Reviewâ and is a âPushcart Prizeâ nominee.
The winner was selected from a pool of almost 400 writers sent to âShenandoahâ in the spring. Editor R. T. Smith says of the contest, now in its sixth year, âEvery year we receive more and better entries in the short short story genre, which is ideal for a web journal like ours. Morrisâ story, or âflash fiction,â is remarkable for its vivid particularity and range of implication. Itâs about youth and age, art and nature, resistance and acceptance. A lovely, thrifty story.â
The judges also named five honorable mentions, which will also be published in the fall issue: âThe Tigerâ by Ihab Hassan of Bayside, Wisconsin; âTwo Livesâ by Mary Byrne of Paris, France; âEat a Pancake, Eat Your Joyâ by Nick Fuller Googins of Venice, California; âThe Bridesmaidsâ by Brenda Peynado of Cincinnati, Florida; and âWest of Orionâ by Maxim Loskutoff of Portland, Oregon.
The 2016 version of the contest will open in late March 2016 and close in early April. Writers should visit the announcements link on the âShenandoahâ website (shenandoahliterary.org) for notification of exact dates. All submissions are through the websiteâs Submittable link, and any writer not a part of the W&L community may submit up to three stories (as three separate submissions). There is no entry fee, and next yearâs prize will be $500.
âShenandoahâ was founded as a print literary journal in 1950 by members of the Washington and Lee University community, including Tom Wolfe and Cy Twombley. Sixty years later, after establishing itself as one of the elite journals in the country, the journal became an exclusively online publication. It now presents, in addition to two full issues a year, a poem of the week, a blog and interviews with writers and artists.
The fall issue will include an anthology of poetry from the 20 years of Smithâs term as editor, featuring work by W. S. Merwin, Mary Oliver, Natasha Trethewey, Claudia Emerson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Dunn, Linda Hogan, Brendan Galvin and 45 others. Access to the journal is free to the public.
For further information contact the magazineâs office at (540) 458-8908 or e-mail shenandoahliterary@wlu.edu. | | | |
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