The Common Review's First Annual Short Story Prize

The Common Review, the quarterly magazine of the Great Books Foundation, announces its first annual writing contest, The Common Review Short Story Prize.
Deadline for manuscripts is January 31, 2010 (postmark date). Mail to: The Common Review Short Story Prize, The Great Books Foundation, 35 E. Wacker Dr., Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60601. Electronic submissions not considered. No reading fee. SASE’s optional. Manuscript length: 500 to 5,000 words.
First prize is $400 and publication. Second prize is $200 and third prize is $150. All prize winners and two honorable mentions will receive a free copy of The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus (www.greatbooks.org/omnibus) and a one-year subscription to The Common Review.
Final judges for the prize are novelist Achy Obejas (Ruins), former Poetry magazine editor Joe Parisi, and Chicago journalist Danny Postel. All three serve on the editorial advisory board of The Common Review.
For more information, visit www.thecommonreview.org/contest.