(The information below has been copied from the New Ohio Review‘s website.)

Deadline: January 14, 2025

We are happy to announce the opening of the 2025 Ellis Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.

NOR will award $750 for a poem or series of poems, a short story, and a piece of creative nonfiction submitted in each genre. The contests will be judged by alumni of the Ohio University Creative Writing program—E. M. Tran for Fiction, Zoë Bossiere for Nonfiction, and Jaswinder Bolina for Poetry.

Pieces that are not selected by our judges will still be considered for publication in our print issues (and our online editions). Judging for the contest will be concealed, meaning NOR staffers and contest judges will not know the identities of the entrants. Please exclude your contact information—including name, email address, and mailing address—from your actual submission.

The $21 entry fee comes with a 1-year subscription. You may submit up to 6 single-spaced pages of poetry or 20 pages of prose per submission entry.  

The contest will run from November 16th until January 14th.

To submit, please visit our submission page on Submittable. Good Luck!