Rodney Nelsestuen, 2010 Grand Prize Winner of $1,100 E.M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest

Lester Colodny, Evan Guilford-Blake Win Editors' Choice Awards for Fiction

Sarah Marx Wins First Place in 2010 Writecorner Poetry Contest. Richard Downing and Cristina Ferrari-Logan Win Editors' Choice Awards for Poetry.

Our 2011 Contest Season Begins October 1, 2010.

Learn more about our contests, awards, guidelines. Read winning poems and stories.

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2011 Fiction Guidelines   

2011 Poetry Guidelines

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Poetry Contest Winners:   2010  2009  2008 2007

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Entries from Gentry's Journal: Thelma Toole on her late son John Kennedy Toole, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. Scenes and Thoughts in Massachusetts and Wisconsin. The Magic Mountain and Suttree Compared. Pro vs. Con on John Updike's Rabbits.

 

They Remember War: True Stories from World War II, Korean War, Cold War, Vietnam War

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Short Fiction

Contest   Winners:

$500 P. L. Titus Writing Scholarship

The P.L. Titus $500 Scholarship can be used any way the winner chooses. The scholarship originated as a graduation gift to Titus, an honor graduate of a major university who completed a novel while excelling as an engineering student. Guidelines

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.

Fresh & Ripe

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

Writecorner Press welcomes review copies of books and plays 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.