Free contest, Mary Steinbeck Dekker Award in Fiction, prize: $2,000 (Stanford University)

Deadline: 14 April 2011

An annual award of $2000 (two thousand dollars) for a short story submitted by a Stanford undergraduate in their senior year. The award will be adjudicated by Creative Writing faculty. This award is made possible through the generosity of David B. Heyler, ’49, JD ’51, and Joan D. Heyler, ’50. It honors Mary Steinbeck Dekker, Mrs. Heyler’s mother, who was herself a gifted writer and the sister of John Steinbeck. Both John and Mary Steinbeck adhered to the strongest values of engaged writing – communal, aware and challenging. We invite the senior applicants to this award to continue this tradition in their submissions.

Guidelines:

Entries must received by Thursday, April 14, 2011, 4:00 p.m., Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 223. Seniors only. 8,000-word maximum. Include a cover sheet with a title, your name, year in school, email, telephone number, and name of the prize (“Mary Steinbeck Dekker Award”). Include a title on the first page of your manuscript, as the cover page will be removed for judging. Please do not include your name on your manuscript. Hard copies only (except for students not currently in residence at Stanford). No submissions will be returned. If you wish to submit to the Bocock/Guerard contest and the Mary Steinbeck Dekker Award, please do not use the same work for both. The prize winner will be announced in May and will be invited to read from the winning story on Tuesday, May 24 at 7pm.

For more information contact Christina Ablaza at cablaza@stanford.edu.

More information here.