T Paulo Urcanse Prize for Literary Excellence

Whether you be a lonely writer looking for community and wanting to make your literary debut, or a similarly egg headed and celebrated writer in the vein of the namesake of this prize, they welcome your submissions with open arms, without fees or prerequisites, without ever having known you or met you at a cocktail party where they discussed the terror of contemporary history and post-structuralism theory or the pitfalls of the first person perspective in a short story or weird childhood stories that involve stray cats and the throwing of tennis balls at moving vehicles from behind bushes at night in the summer on the Main Street of the provincial town where they were raised.

Prize Information

• 1st Place: $250, publication on the website, and an optional interview with the Editors.
• 2nd Place: $100, publication on the website.
• 3rd-5th Place: $50, publication on the website.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Second Annual T Paulo Urcanse Prize for Literary Excellence is open to poets, writers, and essayists of all colors and stripes.

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