Enter the ‘Best in Rural Writing’ contest

The “Best in Rural Writing” contest is open to everyone in the world. The work can have already been published (or scheduled to be published). By submitting, the author is agreeing to the possibility of the Milk House or the co-sponsor publishing or promoting their submission if it is selected as the top two. After publication, all rights revert back to the author.

Submissions should, in some way, be connected to “the rural.” The manner and extent to which this is done is open to the author and not necessarily limited to rural characters or rural topics.

Contest submissions may be previously published and will be read within three to four months of submitting with an eye towards publication on the site, as well as the forthcoming “Best in Rural Writing” print anthologies. (Note: shortlisting in the contest does not automatically secure a place in the anthology, unless selected as one of the two finalists. The work will be considered by future anthology committees, however).

Submissions may be up to 7,000 words. The contest deadline is Sept. 1. Enter your prose piece by selecting “contest-fiction” or “contest-nonfiction” in the genre dropdown menu in our submission manager. The contest fee is $10. First place will win $500, second place, $200.

Go to themilkhouse.org/contest for more details.