The Association for Mormon Letters is pleased to announce their eighth annual Irreantum Fiction Contest and their first annual Charlotte and Eugene England Personal Essay Contest.
Because Irreantum is a literary journal dedicated to exploring Mormon culture, all contest entries must relate to the Mormon experience in some way.
Authors need not be LDS.
You can go to the Irreantum Contest page on the AML website for more information:
http://www.mormonletters.org/irreantum/contest.htmlor you can scroll down and read the information below.
2008 Charlotte and Eugene England Personal Essay Contest
Any personal essay up to 5000 words will be considered. The first-place author will be awarded $200, second-place $150, and third-place $100 (unless judges determine that no entries are of sufficient quality to merit awards). Winners agree to give Irreantum first publication rights.
Deadline: May 31, 2008
Submission Instructions
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email your entry as an MS Word, WordPerfect, or RTF file attachment to
irreantum@mormonletters.org In the subject line, please write "2008 Personal Essay Contest." Include your name, the title of your submission, and your contact information, including address and phone number, in the body of the email.
To facilitate blind judging, no identifying information should appear in the essay itself other than the title of the manuscript, which should appear as a header on each page.
Winners will be announced by August 31, 2008.
The Charlotte and Eugene England Personal Essay Contest is funded through the estate of Eugene England.
2008 Irreantum Fiction Contest
Any fictional form up to 8,500 words will be considered, including short stories and excerpts from novels.
The first-place author will be awarded $250, second place $175, and third place $100 (unless judges determine that no entries are of sufficient quality to merit awards). Winners agree to give Irreantum the option to first publication rights.
Deadline: May 31, 2008
Submission Instructions
Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email your entry as an MS Word, WordPerfect, or RTF file attachment to
contest@mormonletters.org In the subject line, please write "2008 Fiction Contest." Include your name, the title of your submission, and your contact information, including address and phone number, in the body of the email.
To facilitate blind judging, no identifying information should appear in the story itself other than the title of the manuscript, which should appear as a header on each page.
Winners will be announced by August 31, 2008.
The Irreantum Fiction Contest is funded through a grant from the Utah Arts Council.
With no official connection to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Irreantum and the Irreantum Fiction Contest are supported by a grant from the Utah Arts Council.
