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Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize
Competition opportunity. Deadline: 2026-11-01
- Type
- Award
- Organizer
- Fiction Collective Two
- Deadline
- 1 November 2026
- Where
- Online
- Compensation
- $15,000 and publication
- Disciplines
- fiction, novel writing, short story writing, novella writing
About this opportunity
The Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize is an annual competition offering a $15,000 prize and publication by Fiction Collective Two, an imprint of University of Alabama Press. Open to U.S. writers with at least three published books, submissions for novels, story collections, or novellas are accepted online with a $25 entry fee by November 1, 2026.
Who can apply
- Writers who are from or are residing in the United States and who have published at least three books are eligible.
How to apply
The application link and the full call are available to members, together with every other open opportunity ranked around your practice.
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