2022 Mountain West Writers Contest [CLOSED]
Western Humanities Review invites writers currently living in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, or Utah to submit to our annual contest. Prizes will be awarded in poetry and prose. Winners will receive cash awards of $500 and publication in the Winter 2022 issue of Western Humanities Review. All entrants will receive one copy of the prize issue.
CONTEST JUDGES:
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Blas Falconer (poetry)
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Susan Neville (prose)
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Submissions are due January 15th, 2022. Poetry submissions should not exceed 10 pages or 5 poems. Prose submissions may be fiction or nonfiction and should not exceed 25 pages. Entries must be previously unpublished. Previous winners of the competition may not re-enter in the category for which they won. Past judges have included Carmen Giménez Smith, Vi Khi Nao, Brian Evenson, Mónica De La Torre, Lucy Corin, Oliver de la Paz, Kellie Wells, Kathleen Graber, Ander Monson, Robert Wrigley, Edward Hirsch, Allison Hagy, Ron Carlson, Stuart Dybek, Albert Goldbarth, T.R. Hummer, David Lehman, Kevin McIlvoy, Marie Ponsot, Bob Shacochis, Timothy Donnelly, David Shields, and Bob Hicok.
Blas Falconer
Blas Falconer is the author of three poetry collections, including Forgive the Body This Failure, and a coeditor of two essay collections, The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity and Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. He has received numerous awards, including an NEA fellowship, and his poems and translations have appeared in various literary journals. He is a poetry editor for The Los Angeles Review and teaches in the MFA at San Diego State University.
Susan Neville
Susan Neville is the author of six books of creative nonfiction, including Fabrication, Iconography, and Sailing the Inland Sea. Her essay “Into the Fire” was a Ploughshares Solo. Collections of short fiction include The Town of Whispering Dolls, winner of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction; Invention of Flight, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award; and In the House of Blue Lights, winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize from University of Notre Dame Press. Individual essays and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Diagram, The Missouri Review, Image, The North American Review, and other magazines.
Photo by Bob Wick, BLM “Vermillion Cliffs, NM”
