Bucks County Community College has issued a call for entries for its short fiction contest for adults who live in Bucks County. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, Oct. 10, at noon.
The top three winners in the contest will receive gift cards of $200, $100 and $50, respectively, and will read from their work at a celebration on Saturday, Nov. 9, at the college. They will be joined by writer C.J. Spataro, who is the final judge.
Adults aged 18 and older, who are residents of Bucks County, may submit one story of up to 15 typewritten pages (double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 point). Stories must be previously unpublished, including in online formats. For complete rules and to access the online submission system, visit bucks.edu/short-fiction-contest.
Entrants may not be full- or part-time employees of Bucks County Community College, although work-study students at the college may enter. A separate contest for high school students will be held in spring 2025.
Spataro directs the MFA in Creative Writing and the MA in Publishing programs at Rosemont College, and is a founding partner of Philadelphia Stories. She is an award-winning short fiction writer. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Taboos & Transgressions, Iron Horse Literary Review, december, Sequestrum and Exacting Taboos & Transgressions. Her debut novel More Strange Than True was published by Sagging Meniscus Press in June 2024.
This event receives support from the Department of Language and Literature. For more information, email contest coordinator Professor Elizabeth Luciano at Elizabeth.Luciano@bucks.edu.
