The Competition:
Momaya Press's Short Story Competition is open to writers of any nationality writing in English, and also offers the opportunity for winners to be published, in the Momaya Annual Review 2008.

The Prizes:
$200 (£110) first
$100 (£55) second
$50 (£30) third
7 honourable mentions

All ten winners will be published in the
Momaya Annual Review 2009.

The Judges:

Lucy Alexander is a writer and researcher at The Times Magazine. She was a PR account manager at Freud Communications before becoming a journalist.

Claire Nozières works at Andrew Nurnberg Associates as a literary agent. Previously she was Foreign Rights Manager at Frances Lincoln, an independent publishing house specialized in high quality illustrated books and children’s books. Claire sells translations rights to France for a wide-ranging list of contemporary US and UK fiction.

Alison Hennessey has worked in publishing for five years, and is now an Editor at Random House. She also works as a freelance reader for a literary consultancy.

The Format:

• Entries may be up to 2,500 words long

• Any subject or style is welcome

• The competition is open to writers from all countries,
   but entries must be written in English

How to Submit:

• Your short story must be submitted via email and payment must be completed.

• You may submit more than one short story

• Every short story must be accompanied by an entry fee of $10 (£6).
   Cheques in British Pounds may be sent via mail by clicking the UK
   flag; otherwise, payment must be made online via credit card.

Need inspiration for your story?
Our theme this year is "Alienation."
Every year the Momaya Annual Review has a different theme. While entries for the short story competition can be on any fictional topic, the review gets its cohesion from stories, poems and artwork focusing on a central theme, interspersed amongst the contest winners' stories. The 2009 Annual Review will feature fiction in a variety of categories from the winners of the Momaya Short Story Competition and winners of Momaya Awards, as well as a stunning collection of photographs, poems and short stories exploring "Alienation".
Read more...

Additional conditions:

• The winning stories must be available for the Review, and therefore
   must not have been published previously. Copyright remains with
   the author. The judges' verdict is final. No correspondence will be
   entered into once work has been submitted. Stories cannot be
   altered or changed after they have been entered. Any story
   submitted may be published in the Momaya Annual Review 2008,
   whether or not they have won.

Read what the judges, authors, and actors have to say about
previous years' Momaya Short Story Competitions and Annual Reviews