2008
Winner: Gregory Plemmons, “Kidding Season”
Honorable Mention: Matthew Fiander, “She Was an Egyptian Cartoon”
Judge: Tommy Franklin

2007
WINNER: Bob Thurber for his story “If You'd Like to Make a Call”
Judge: LeAnne Howe

Announcing the 2009 Barry Hannah Fiction Prize!

"This is what a story needs: Beginning. Middle. End. Thrill Me."
--Barry Hannah

All submissions will be read blind and judged by Padgett Powell.

Padgett Powell has published four novels and two collections of short stories, his latest is the novel Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (Houghton-Mifflin.) His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Paris Review, Grand Street, Esquire, The New York Times Book Review and Magazine, and Oxford American; and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Best American Sportswriting. The winner of the Prix de Rome and a Whiting Writers Award, he has also taught at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and currently teaches at the Summer Literary Seminars, St. Petersburg, Russia.

All submissions postmarked by October 1st, 2008. No limit on number or length of submissions. Each submission must be accompanied by $10 reading fee (check or money order payable to the Yalobusha Review.) Include a cover letter with the title of your story. Your name should not appear anywhere on the story itself. Include SASE with submission for notification of results. Winner will be notified by December 15, 2008.

Winner receives $500, publication in the 2009 Yalobusha Review, exclusive publication on our website, and two contributor's copies. We retain first North American rights.

The Yellowwood Prize

2008
Winner: Jonathan Rice, “Folie à Deux”
Honorable Mentions:
Miriam Bird Greenberg, “Hermeneutics of Fire”
Katie Hartsock, “Petra, Lost City of Stone”
Judge: Beth Ann Fennelly

Announcing the 2009 Yellowwood Poetry Prize!

All submissions will be read blind and judged by Ann Fisher-Wirth.

Ann Fisher-Wirth is the author of two books of poems­Blue Window (Archer Books, 2003) and Five Terraces (Wind Publications, 2005)­and two chapbooks­The Trinket Poems (Wind, 2003) and Walking Wu Wei’s Scroll (online, Drunken Boat, 2005). She has won a Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, the Rita Dove Poetry award, a Poetry Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and two Poetry Fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission; received six Pushcart nominations and a Pushcart Special Mention. Her poems have appeared widely. She teaches at the University of Mississippi, and has held Fulbrights in Switzerland and Sweden.

All submissions postmarked by October 1st, 2008. Send 3 poems along with a cover letter stating your contact information and the names of your poems. Your name should not appear anywhere on the poems. Each submission must be accompanied by $10 reading fee (check or money order payable to the Yalobusha Review) and SASE for response only.

Winner will be notified by December 15, 2008. Winner receives $500 and publication in the 2009 issue, exclusive publication on our web site, and two contributor's copies. We retain first North American rights.

The submission period for both contests is July 15th - October 1st.


Send all entries to:

Yalobusha Review

ATTN: Contest

Department of English

University of Mississippi

P.O. Box 1848

University, MS 38677-1848
Phone: (662) 915-3175