Prose Poem/Flash Fiction Contest

June 15th is the deadline for the 2010 Indiana Review ½ K Prize. Alberto Ríos will be judging. The winner will receive publication in the magazine and $1,000. All entries will be considered for publication and all entrants will receive a one-year subscription to IR. You can find guidelines at

http://indianareview.org/general/prizes/microprizeguidelines10.html

The Editors
Indiana Review

IR's 2010 '1/2 K' Prize Guidelines

$1000 Honorarium and Publication
Final Judge: Alberto Ríos

Contest Period: April 30 – June 15, 2010

Reading Fee: $15
Includes a year’s subscription.

All entries considered for publication. All entries considered anonymously.

Send no more than 3 pieces, 500 words maximum per piece. Must be non-lineated prose. (That's 3 short-shorts max per entry fee.)

No previously published works, or works forthcoming elsewhere. Cover letter must include name, address, phone number, and titles. Simultaneous submissions acceptable, but fee is non-refundable. Entrant's name should appear ONLY in the cover letter. Entries must be accompanied by SASE for notification. Manuscripts will not be returned. Make checks payable to Indiana Review. Entry entitles entrant to one-year subscription, an extension of a current subscription, or a gift subscription. Please indicate your choice and enclose complete address information for subscriptions.

Send entries to:
'1/2 K' Prize/Indiana Review
Ballantine Hall 465
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN
47405-7103

Online Submissions and payment also accepted on the web at www.indianareview.org.

Please visit our website for further instructions.

Alberto Álvaro Ríos, born in 1952 in Nogales, Arizona, is the author of ten books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. His books of poems include, most recently, The Dangerous Shirt, preceded by The Theater of Night, winner of the 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Award, along with The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body, a finalist for the National Book Award, Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses, The Lime Orchard Woman, The Warrington Poems, Five Indiscretions, and Whispering to Fool the Wind. His three collections of short stories are, most recently, The Curtain of Trees, along with Pig Cookies, and The Iguana Killer. His memoir about growing up on the Mexico-Arizona border—called Capirotada—won the Latino Literary Hall of Fame Award and, most recently, was designated as the One Book Arizona choice for 2009. Ríos is a Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University, where he has taught for over 27 years and where he holds the further distinction of the Katharine C. Turner Endowed Chair in English.