- Prize Pool – $1,000
- Deadline – November 30, 2025
- CLICK HERE TO APPLY
The J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction is seeking carefully crafted short stories with vivid characters who encounter grace in everyday settings.
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This prize provides a unique opportunity for writers to share their work with a wider audience while exploring themes of grace and human experience in contemporary life. It encourages both emerging and established authors to submit work that captures moments of transcendence in everyday settings, revealing characters navigating the intersection of the ordinary and the extraordinary.
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The prize offers $700 for first place and $300 for second place, with up to eight honorable mentions receiving publication in the journal along with a one-year subscription. Winners of the J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction will be announced in Spring 2026 and published throughout the subsequent issues that year. There is no reading fee to submit.
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Eligibility:
- Open to emerging and established authors
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