>Press 53 Contest

>Press 53 is having it’s second annual Open Awards and the deadline in all categories is March 31. They’ve got some great people judging in Flash Fiction, Short-Short, Short Story, Poetry, Novella, Creative Non-fiction, Genre, and Young Writers. There’s no prize money, but you get a cool trophy AND inclusion in an Anthology (along with some of the runners-up).

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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