E. M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest now open (top prize, $1,100)

Writcorner Press Poetry Contest now open (top prize, $500)

2012 Short Fiction Contest Guidelines   

      2011 Winner Nominated for a Pushcart Award

2012 Poetry Contest Guidelines

      2011 Winners Nominated for Pushcart Awards

Poetry Contest Winners: 2011 2010  2009  2008 2007

Note: Writecorner Press, now in its tenth year, is a wholly independent e-press. (It should not be confused with another website with a similar name.)

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Gentry's Journal: The Magic Mountain and Suttree Compared. Pro vs. Con on John Updike's Rabbits. An interpretation of the film Mulholland Drive.

Click here to read Winning Writers' exclusive interview of Writecorner Editors Gentry & Koeppel. Winning Writers is a leading literary website with 25,000 subscribers. 

Writercorner Press Winners Achieve Honors:

Edith Pearlman, whose short story collection Binocular Vision was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review section won the 2008 E. M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest Editor's Choice Award. Greg Cusick, winner of the 2004 E. M. Koeppel Short Fiction Award, won the 2010 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. A. Molotkov, winner of the 2009 E. M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest, won the 2010 New Millennium Writings Fiction Award.

Short Fiction Contest Winners:

$500 P. L. Titus Writing Scholarship

The P.L. Titus $500 Scholarship can be used any way the winner chooses. This scholarship is offered to any student who wins the $1,100 E. M. Short Fiction Contest. Thus the winning student award totals $1,600. Guidelines

Writecorner Press to sponsor reading by award-winning poet Peter Sears in Gainesville, FL, February 14. For free tickets send an e-mail to contact@writecorner.com

Fresh & Ripe: Works by New and Established Writers

Good literature is like fine fruit: Fresh & Ripe. Find here fiction and nonfiction from Fresh-New Writers and Ripe-Seasoned Authors, like award winners Sohrab Fracis, Tom Glenn, Dianne Luce, Rick Maloy, Peter Sears, and Rick Wallach who have a body of work to their credit and who deserve a wider reading audience. Works published on this page are by Writecorner invitation. We pay honoraria.

Light and Time in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse,

a new essay by Robert B. Gentry

Fresh & Ripe

Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry Collections, Oral Histories, and Memoirs

Writecorner Press welcomes review copies of poetry, short fiction collections, and novels by emerging and established writers. (No self-publishing.) Mail (no Fed-ex, etc.) to Writecorner Press, P.O. Box 140310 Gainesville, FL 32614.

Reviews

Annotated Links to Writing and Publishing

Literary Links

Recommended Books to Spark Your Creativity

Find an annotated list of standard works which writers should read and reread. Recommendations include classics by noted writers like Thomas Mann, Ralph Ellison, and John Kennedy Toole and excellent contemporary novels by Milan Kundera, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and others.

Recommended Readings

Writecorner.com Editors

Mary Sue Koeppel, Coeditor: Award- winning editor, poet, short fiction writer, textbook author, TV interviewer. Discover more about her. Order her books.

Robert B. Gentry, Coeditor: Award-winning short story writer, essayist, memoirist, book reviewer, textbook author, oral historian. Read more about him. Order his books.