submit to the cupboard.

THE CUPBOARD

holds its annual contest.

The Cupboard is pleased to announce its second annual pamphlet contest. One winning manuscript will be published as an upcoming volume of The Cupboard in 2012. In addition, the winning author will receive $500 and contributor copies.

The Cupboard is also very excited to announce that Maud Casey will judge the contest. (See below for bio.)

The contest entry period will be open February 1 and will close April 30. Entry fee: $10. Word limit: 4,000 to 10,000 words. All entries will be considered for general publication as a volume of The Cupboard.

Click here to enter or find more information. Please feel free to email cupboard [at] thecupboardpamphlet [dot] org with any questions.

About Maud Casey

Maud Casey lives in Washington, D.C. She is an Associate Professor of English and teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland and in the low-residency MFA Program at Warren Wilson. She is the author of two novels, The Shape of Things to Come, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Genealogy, a New York Times Editor's Choice Book, and a collection of stories, Drastic. She has received international fellowships from the Fundacion Valparaiso, Chateau de Lavigny, Villa Hellebosch, and the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, and is the recipient of the Calvino Prize and a DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship.

General Guidelines

The Cupboard is currently not accepting unsolicited submissions. Current subscribers are invited to submit prose work between 4,000 and 10,000 words at any time. Submissions can be composed of one piece or multiple pieces. We do not publish verse poetry. Send manuscripts through Submishmash here. Please include a note by way of introduction.

Check back here for news about our next open submission period in summer 2012.