2024 Streetlight Contests

Streetlight Magazine‘s Annual Writing Contests:

 

Essay/Memoir — Winter/Spring

Judging lead by our Essay/Memoir Editor, Susan Shafarzek

January 8 to April 1
***This contest is currently OPEN****

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 Susan Shafarzek
Susan Shafarzek lives in Charlottesville, Va. Besides editing essays for Streetlight, she is a poet and photographer, blogging occasionally at Whaddyameanrosebuds.com.

Art — Winter/Spring

Judging lead by our Art Editor, Elizabeth Howard

March 4 to May 27
***This contest is currently OPEN****

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Elizabeth Howard
Elizabeth Howard is Streetlight Magazine‘s Art Editor, and author of Aging Famously: Follow Those You Admire to Living Long and Well (winner of the 2019 International Book Awards, health 50+). A former lecturer at the University of Virginia, Howard is a member of the American Society of Journalists & Authors. She has also made documentary films which have aired on Virginia PBS.

Poetry — Spring/Summer

Judging lead by our Poetry Editors, Sharon Ackerman and Fredrick Wilbur

April 8 to July 1
***This contest is currently CLOSED****

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Sharon Ackerman
Sharon Ackerman earned an MEd from the University of Virginia. Her poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, Northern Virginia Review, Heartwood Literary Journal, and Poetry Virginia, among others. She is the winner of the Hippocrates Poetry in Medicine Contest 2019. Her first collection, Revised LIght, was a finalist in the Main Street Rag Poetry Book contest 2021, and will be published in November, 2021.

Frederick Wilbur received his BA from the University of Virginia and an MA from the University of Vermont. He has authored three books on architectural and decorative woodcarving. His two poetry collections are As Pus Floats the Splinter Out and Conjugation of Perhaps. His work has appeared in many print and on-line reviews including Shenandoah, The Atlanta Review, The Comstock Review, The Dalhousie Review, Rise Up Review, and Mojave River Review. He was awarded the Stephen Meats Award by Midwest Quarterly (2017).

Flash Fiction — Spring/Summer

Judging lead by our Fiction Editor, Erika Raskin

June 10 to September 2
***This contest is currently CLOSED****

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Erika Raskin
Erika Raskin, Streetlight’s fiction editor, is the author of Best Intentions and Close. Her non-fiction work has run in a variety of publications and on public radio. Her wry world view can be found at erikaraskin.com and @erikaraskin on twitter.

For all contests:

    • By submitting your work, you grant Streetlight Magazine first North American print and electronic publication rights and guarantee that the submission is your own, original writing. All rights return to the author after publication.
    • Simultaneous submissions at other magazines are okay. Notify us immediately if a piece is accepted elsewhere.
    • If you publish your work again at a later date, we request that you include a notice stating that it was first published by Streetlight Magazine.
    • Streetlight will only mark contest entries as ACCEPTED. Our editors do NOT decline contest entries nor close them out. After the contest deadline, winners are announced, and non-winning entries are considered for general publication.

 For specific information on contests (including prize amounts, word counts, deadlines, and submission fees), and to submit, please check on our homepage, on the right-hand sidebar, or below.


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