Our annual short story contest is open for submissions. We are looking for the best possible short stories from writers located in any country. Winning prize is $100 USD and publication in Southern Pacific Review. Deadline is 30 March 2013. Candidates must have previous writing experience either in a print publication or on-line in a blog.
Submit entries along with links to any work you have published to editor@gringolandiasantiago.com. There is no reading fee. We are interested in quality writing.
Notice:
We need writers and editors in any Latin American country to write in English or Spanish.
Results from 2013:
Congratulations to HM Gruendler-Schierloh for winning the 2013 South American Short Story Contest. At a mere 1,200 words this story is very well-crafted. Here is the winning entry.
Results from 2012:
Congratulations to Daniel Hurren on winning this year’s South American Short Story contest. This is a truly original story written in the David Foster Wallace stream-of-consciousness whatever-you-want-to-call-it meandering style which we like. Below you see his bio and picture below. Thanks to the many other writers who submitted some excellent works of fictions. Now here is Daniel’s story.
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2013 South American Short Story Contest Winner: The Wanderer
Helga, what an excellent story! You are a superb writer and deserve t
2013 South American Short Story Writing Contest
was wondering if you accept or reject these various art forms: short-s
The Gringo and the Harvest
showamerica
Story writing is really amazing contest. I always had positive idea and excited to attend story writing. Hope I win prizes. Thanks!
stamp price
i love your blog, i have it in my rss reader and always like new things coming up from it.
Ngozika Nwiro
Please i am a Nigerian in West Africa. I want to know if someone from Nigeria is eligible to participate in your competition? Thank you, and keep it up!
admin
Anyone who writes well in English is welcome to participate. You might be the next Chinua Achebe.
Mpumelelo aka robbie
I wish to take part in this competition i am in south africa
admin
just send submission to werowe@walkerrowe.com.
pearl
Hello I want to get involved in this essay , is there any specific topics you’re interested in.Please send me the information to my email address ,I’m based in the U.K and hope I’m eligible for this contest.
Best wishes,
Pearl
admin
Any topic is welcome as long as it makes for a good story. Write something like Julian Barnes or any of your UK countrymen. The British Isles throughout history have been brimming with literary talent. What can you offer? saludos.
Maude Larke
Word limit?
Maude Larke
Time limit/deadline?
admin
End of contest is 3/31/2012. No word limit.
Seanna
Just wondering… do you have to have a blog? because I write in our school magazine… and I can’t usually get internet all of the time to write a blog because stuff like that is banned on the school sever.
Salvatore Buttaci
Does one send a .doc attachment of the story, along with the site where that story was first published, or must the story be so far unpublished?
Salvatore Buttaci
admin
Should be original unpublished work only.
regards,
Walker Rowe
Publisher
Christopher Miller
Is there a limit on the number of stories a writer may submit?
Walker Rowe
One story per writer please for the contest.
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Jerry Vilhotti
was wondering if you accept or reject these various art forms: short-short stories, storellas, literary pre`cis, “tonepoems”, literary blends, literary pastiche, literary collages, and literary snapshots via E-mail? Some of my latest works are: “A Ten Pound Large Man”, “A Fallen Penis”, “Docta Freud’s House Calls”, “Kamikaze Shooterdowner”, “Falling Way Way Out of Olivia”, “Kafka’s Tomb”, “Mind Wipe”,”Drinking in Whispers”, “Olivia’s Fiery Words”, “A Poor Man’s Havaad”, “Tina of the Troy”, “Tommy Tom Tom’s Outer Space Journeys”,”Where the Facawee?”, “Sports Wars between the Jinx Gods and Greek Gods”, “A Hundred-one eyed Dog”, “Hyphenated All Americans”, “Once a Time Ago on Old Arthur Avenue”, “Oedipus of the Knowing”, “What the World Needs Now Is a Cure – Forget about “Love” – Where’s it been?”, “Singing Wombs”, “The Man Who Visited the California Settlement in NB”,”Suffering in the Eyes of Watching”, “Why We Hate the French Like Ourselves”,”A French Joke: Liberties Legs Are in Chains!”, “Look Whose Nose Is up the Shrub’s Ass Now!”, “The Whistling Man’s long Dark Journey into Nights and the Great Lakes!”, “Hyphenated Americans Like”, “If I Say It First and You Second – I Win – Ginky said!” “One Finger Pointing and Two Coming Back while one Is up One’s Ass” “Tips from Nick Machiavelli”, “Green Ship Coming In? Oh Yeah Lotto”, “What Did Pension Mean Anyway? “Dying of Hunger”, “Doing a Shrub’s Smirk !”, “When Autumn Leaves”, “Born in the Eyes of Memory”, “Drinking Marmalade Trees”, “Suffering in the Eyes of Watching” and “The Greek Goddess Free Will Said: “Why Do Mortals Look Both Ways when Crossing a Street If They Believe In Predestination?”,”Spinning about Waters”,”Constitution Nazi Style”, “Bill of Rights Who?”, “Hey, Can I Bribe in the Name of Free Speech?”, “Hey We Don’t Torture!”, “Leny One N Learns Lilith” …. Many of these works are about 800 words.
I also have Collections of Short Stories: “Hitler’s Mustache in Your Soup”, “When We Grunt Twelve Times Call PETA”, “A Dying Living”,”The Last American-African”, “An Old Born Baby”, “When the Fan Hit the”, “The Village Idiot Comes Home to Oedipus”, “Wake Up Before Going to Sleep!”, “Thirty After Noon”, “Once Catholicism Meant Liberal”, “Just a Mean Mean No Hearted People”, “When The Bronx Became Brooklyn”, “The Boy Who Gave Birth to the Man”, “You Funnen at My Intelligent Design Body?”, “The Fourth World Order: Global Gobbling”. And if interested I have two chap book collections: “Seeing the Divided States of America from a German-Italic- French Woman’s Eyes” and “Leny One N’s Prison Stays” …. I have been fortunate to have my works accepted and published in many places: USA, Greece, Scotland, Canada, Australia, Romania, Ireland, England, India, Singapore ….
Thank you for your time and kind attention and please accept my apologies if I have bothered you before. Often, I receive E-mail addresses from friends – not the zine’s so I can’t follow instructions until after I hear from you. And since I have lost most of my records, I can not recall if I sent you this query before. Again I am sorry for this. vilhotti.at.peoplepc.com