Thank you for your interest in the Literary Traveler 25th Anniversary Writing Award. Please note by submitting your work you acknowledge reading and accepting these rules.
Rules for the Literary Traveler 25th Anniversary Writing Award
Entry Period: March 29th, 2023 – September 29th, 2023
Deadline: September 29th, 2023
Results: Announced October 20th, 2023
Prize: $2,500 grand prize
Judges: Literary Traveler founding editors and guest judges
Submit through Submittable
Guidelines
Please visit our award submission page on submittable to properly format your work for submission. This page will elaborate on the types of submissions we are looking for.
Please review our current and past articles.
We will announce the winner publicly on October 20th, 2023. We will notify participants about the contest results through email and / or their Submittable account, so please wait to hear from us. We receive many submissions and we are unable to offer personalized feedback on submissions and may not respond to all inquiries. The judges’ decisions are final and are based on merit and the judgment of our editors.
Eligibility
Please submit your work in English. You must be 18 years or older to submit.
We are unable to offer refunds for contest submissions, so please read these guidelines and choose your submission carefully. You are allowed multiple submissions but must pay the submission fee for each separate submission.
Current and past staff members of Literary Traveler are not eligible to submit. Current and past writers are welcome.
Any work previously submitted to Literary Traveler for publication is not eligible.
We accept, and encourage, simultaneous submissions and only ask that you notify us if your piece(s) have been accepted elsewhere, this will have no bearing on our decision and unfortunately if you decide to withdraw your submission you will not receive a refund of your submission fee.
We will consider previously published work. We reserve the right to publish your piece on Literary Traveler, We reserve the right to discuss submissions, finalists, and winners in social media posts, podcasts, text, videos, and marketing materials, publicity, news, advertising, promotional purposes, trade, and so forth, without any further notice, review, consent, compensation or remuneration.
Submission and reading fees will NOT be refunded under any circumstances.
We will require a photo of the winner and will need to use the winner’s name and photo in promotional materials without further compensation.
Agreement to the Rules. By submitting your work, you confirm that this is your own original work, you have read the following rules and you acknowledge that you agree to abide by the rules and accept the judges decision as final and binding.
We reserve the right to refuse, withdraw, or disqualify entries at our sole discretion.
Any fraudulent entries, or plagiarism will disqualify your entry. By submitting you agree that your work is original and you hold all rights to the work. The consequences for entries that infringe upon the rights of others (will result in disqualification of the participant) and any claims that arise as a result of infringement (“Entrant shall defend or settle against such claims at their sole expense, and Entrant shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless Literary Traveler from any suit, etc.)
It is Entrant’s responsibility to ensure that they are reachable during the time period after the award is announced by maintaining the email address and phone information used when submitting their work. In the event they are unreachable an alternate will be chosen.
Literary Traveler will hold non exclusive rights to republish the work and potentially include it future publications.
Literary Traveler is a Registered Trademark and can’t be used without express permission.