Author Rick Moody will serve as the judge for the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review’s inaugural Gertrude Stein Award for Fiction. The winner will receive $500 and publication in the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review.
Eckleburg, the literary journal housed by the Johns Hopkins University M.A. Program in writing, launched the first annual competition, which is currently open for submissions, this past July. Writers, editors, publishers, and agents may submit short stories of up to 5,000 words, along with a $10 entry fee, by January 1, 2013. Second- and third-place winners will also receive publication in the journal.
Taking its name from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the online quarterly publishes original fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translation from emerging and established writers. In addition to work by Rick Moody, the journal has also featured original writing by Stephen Dixon, Moira Egan, and David Wagoner. The journal looks for character-driven storytelling that is eclectic and experimental; it welcomes magical realism, surrealism, metarealism, and offbeat realism, and "humor that explores the gritty realities of the world and human experiences.
“It is Eckleburg‘s intention to represent writers, artists, musicians, and comedians as a contemporary and noninvasive collective, each work evidence of its own artistry, not as a reflection of an editor’s vision of what an issue 'should' be," the journal’s website states. “It is our intention to create an experience in which readers and viewers can think artistically, intellectually, socially, and independently. We welcome brave, honest voices.”
Rick Moody is the author of five novels, including Garden State, which won the Pushcart Press Editors’ Book Award in 1992, as well as four short story collections and a memoir. He has received a PEN/Martha Albrand Award, an Addison Metcalf Award, the Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
For more information on the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review or the Gertrude Stein Award, visit the website.
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Award now $1000 and publication to first place winner
Thanks so much for the mention. We wanted to let everyone know that Moon Milk Review is now The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, owned and operated by Moon Milk Press, Inc. and housed at The Johns Hopkins University, M. A. in Writing program. We take our name from F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby. Staying with our original MMR vision, we run quarterly issues and look for literary mainstream to experimental works. We like character-based storytelling with rigor, humor, wit, satire, offbeat vibes, grittiness, realism, magic realism, and surrealism. We accept fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, music, and multimedia, and we run a daily salon with articles, essays, music, comedy and gallery spotlights. Eckleburg still offers our the prosetry contests each issue with guest judges and now offers an annual fiction contest--The Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction. This year's judge is acclaimed author, Rick Moody. We've recently raised the award amount from $500 to $1000 awarded to first place winner, along with publication, announced at AWP. Second and third place winning stories will be published at Eckleburg along with a list of authors' names who receive an honorable mention. Read more here: http://thedoctortjeckleburgreview.com/the-gertrude-stein-award-in-fiction/
Best,
Rae Bryant
Editor in Chief
The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
Best,
Rae Bryant
Editor in Chief
The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review