Deadline for submissions: December 11

Fiction: Stories should be 3,000 words or less and previously unpublished. No more than one submission per entrant.

Poetry: One entry can consist of up to five poems.

Eligibility: Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware residents are invited to participate. Employees and regular freelancers for the City Paper are ineligible, obvs.

Prizes: Winning story and poem will be published in the Dec. 31, 2009 issue of City Paper and featured in a reading. Top two runners up will be published on citypaper.net Additional prizes TBA.

Deadline: We must receive your work before 5 p.m. on Fri., Dec. 11. No exceptions.

Please include a processing fee of $5 made payable to City Paper Writing Contest at the address below or via PayPal to paypal@citypaper.net. Stories should be e-mailed to gimmefiction@citypaper.net or mailed the old-fashioned way to:

City Paper Writing Contest
123 Chestnut St., Third Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19106.

No phone calls please regarding specific entries. Manuscripts will not be returned.

Prizes, Judges and Readings TBA.

Previous Winners