Extra Fiction Contest 2020

IN THE YEAR OF COVID, ALL IS BEYOND REALITY

​Deadline: October 17, 2020

At a time when weird, abnormal, spacey, bizarre, creepy become everyday words to describe the world, writers are even more challenged to tell a really far-out story. In this extra bizarro realdom, the Somos en escrito Extra-Fiction Contest challenges all submitters to go the extra step.

BEYOND THE USUAL

Any unpublished fiction that conveys this extra element is eligible. That means any genre, Spec-Lit, Horror, Sci-fi, Experimental, Magic Realism, Fantasy, Abstract, Slipstream, etc. We seek manuscripts from writers of Indigenous, Mexican, Chicano, Puerto Rican, other Caribbean, Central or South American origin born or living in the U.S.
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Our judge is Ernest Hogan, Father of Chicano Sci-fi and author of Cortez on Jupiter, High Aztech, and Smoking Mirror Blues. 

PRIZES

First prize is $100.
Second and Third Place and two honorary finalists will earn publication and will receive a book donated to Somos en escrito from noted Latino authors.

PREVIOUS WINNERS

2019

First Place
"El Parbulito" by Gloria Delgado
Second Place
"A Story of the Fourth Crusade" by Rosa Martha Villarreal
Third Place
Excerpt from When Corn People Wage War by Tania Romero

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​​2018
(read them here)

First Place
​“Fatherly, dragonly, motherly . . . love, luck and touch” Rudy Ch. García
Second Place
“The Archivist” Ricardo Tavarez
​Third Place
"Sessions In Augmented Reality" Nicholas Belardes ​

TO SUBMIT

Email to [email protected] with “Extra-Fiction 2020” in the Subject Box.

Please format manuscripts in Word format, as .docx or .doc attachments, single-spaced and in 12-point Times New Roman font. Place your name and email address in the upper left hand corner of the first page, and submit a short bio including ethnic background along with an author’s photo in .jpeg format.

We look forward to an even more exciting contest than the previous two years. Good luck to all writers.

—The Editors of Somos en escrito Magazine