The Third Annual Donald Barthelme Prize for Short Prose Is Now Open to Submissions! The third annual Donald Barthelme Prize is now open! This year's prize will award $1,000 and publication to one prose poem, micro-essay, or short story of five hundred words or less. Our judge this year will be poet and essayist Joe Bonomo, author of the 2007 National Poetry Series winner Installations, as well as numerous nonfiction books. Entries will be open until August 31st. You can read last year's winner (Matthew Yeager's "Property of Alvin Flover") and honorable mentions (Tracy Guzeman's "Einstein" and Joseph Holt's "Your Nightmare") in Gulf Coast issue 22.2. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING: To enter online (preferred), visit the online submissions manager and be sure to choose "Barthelme Prize for Short Prose" as your genre. Upload up to three previously unpublished prose poems, short stories, or micro-essays, each no more than five hundred words in length, all together in a single file. Do not include a cover letter, your name, or contact info of any kind in your uploaded document; please put this information in the "comments" field. Once you've clicked "submit," you will be redirected to PayPal to authorize your $18 online reading fee, which also gets you a one-year subscription. You won't need a PayPal account, only a credit card. Multiple submissions are acceptable, but you must pay the fee for each entry, and you will only receive a single one-year subscription or renewal regardless of how many entries you submit. All entries will be considered for publication, though only one will receive our $1,000 prize. We'll contact you if there are any problems with your payment; please do not email us to confirm whether payment was received. To enter by mail, send up to three previously unpublished prose poems, short stories, or micro-essays, each no more than five hundred words in length. Your name and address should appear on the cover letter only. All entries will be considered for publication, though only one will receive our $1,000 prize. Include an SASE for results. Manuscripts will not be returned. Your $15 postal reading fee, payable to "Gulf Coast," will include a one-year subscription. Multiple submissions are acceptable, but you must pay the fee for each entry, and you will only receive a single one-year subscription or renewal regardless of how many entries you submit. Send Postal Entries to: Gulf Coast Donald Barthelme Prize Department of English University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-3013 Mark Doty Thisbe Nissen Eula Biss The Entry Period Is Now Closed for the 2010 Gulf Coast Prizes in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction: The 2010 Gulf Coast Prizes, awarding publication and $1,000 each in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction, have been judged! Mark Doty chose "Flower Sonnet" by Anne Marie Rooney of Ithaca, NY as the poetry winner, with an honorable mention to Farah Marklevits of Davenport, IA for "Newborn." Thisbe Nissen chose "Cleavage" by Sara Batkie of Brooklyn, NY as the fiction winner, with honorable mention going to Janet Hilliard-Osborn of Long Beach, CA for "Easter, 1954." In nonfiction, Eula Biss selected "Happy Families" by Judith Kroll of Austin, TX as winner, with an honorable mention to "Woman of the Year: A Gay Man's Meditation on Marriage" by Nicholas Maistros of Fort Collins, CO. Honorable mentions in each category receive a $250 second prize. Congratulations to this year's winners! Look for their work in issue 23.1, due out this October. The 2011 Gulf Coast Contests will open on October 1, 2010. Judges and deadlines will be posted at that time. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING AFTER OCTOBER 1, 2010: To enter online (preferred), visit the online submissions manager and be sure to choose "CONTEST: Fiction," "CONTEST: Poetry," or "CONTEST: Nonfiction/Lyric Essay" as your genre. Upload one previously unpublished story or essay (25 double-spaced pages max) or up to five previously unpublished poems (10 pages max). Do not include a cover letter, your name, or contact info of any kind in your uploaded document; please put this information in the "comments" field. Once you've clicked "submit," you will be redirected to PayPal to authorize your $23 online reading fee, which also gets you a one-year subscription. You won't need a PayPal account, only a credit card. Multiple submissions are acceptable, but you must pay the fee for each entry. We'll contact you if there are any problems with your payment; please do not email us to confirm whether payment was received. To enter by mail, send one previously unpublished story or essay (25 double-spaced pages max) or up to five previously unpublished poems (10 pages max) to the address below. Indicate your genre on the outer envelope. Your name and address should appear on the cover letter only. Include a SASE for results. Your $20 postal reading fee, payable to "Gulf Coast," will include a one-year subscription. Manuscripts will not be returned. Send Postal Entries to: Gulf Coast Prize in [Genre] Department of English University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-3013