Bellingham Review: Contests

Contests

1st Prize: $1,000

Final Judge: to be announced

First place winners will be published in the Bellingham Review. Second and third place winners and finalists may be considered for publication.

1. Entry Fees:

$18 for the first entry (one short story).
Each additional entry is $10.
Please make checks payable to: The Bellingham Review.
Everyone entering the competition will receive a complimentary two-issue subscription to Bellingham Review.
International Submissions: The Bellingham Review is only able to process international money orders made out in US dollars. Please include an extra $10 to cover the cost of mailing a subscription overseas. If you would like to enter the contest without receiving an international subscription, let us know, and you will owe only the $18 entry fee.

2. Deadline:

3. For each entry, submit the following:

3" x 5" index card stating the title of the work, the category (fiction), the author's name, phone number, address and email. Please make sure the writing is legible on this card. The author's name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript; the index card will serve as the only record of your entry.
A check made out to The Bellingham Review.
A self-addressed stamped envelope for announcement of winners. The author's name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript.

4. Maximum length:

5. Restrictions:

No previously published works, or works accepted for publication, are eligible.
Work may be under consideration elsewhere, but must be withdrawn from the competition if accepted for publication.
Current students, faculty, or staff of WWU are not eligible to enter the contest.

6. Send entries to:

49th Parallel
Bellingham Review
Mail Stop 9053
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225

7. Manuscripts will not be returned. Winners will be announced by July 2009.

8. Download a printer-friendly, Microsoft Word version of the Contest Submission Guidelines.

**2007 Winners**
Final Judge	Carolyne Wright
1st Place	Luisa A. Igloria, of Norfolk, VA "The Clear Bones"
Runners-Up	Lina Chern
Finalists	Rae Gouirand, Carol Quinn, Lorraine Healy, Greg Rappleye, Charity Ketz, Vandana Khanna, Elizabeth McLagan, Susanna Childress, Courtney Jo Good

**2006 Winners**
Final Judge	Timothy Liu
1st Place	Maya Pindyck, of Brooklyn, NY “So Much Went Into”
Runners-Up	Marika Ismail
Finalists	Aleda Shirley, Sarah Jefferis, Susan McCabe, Holly Hughes, Jennifer Militello, Kathy Dull, Aaryn Richard, David Keplinger, Rae Gouirand

**2005 Winners**
Final Judge	Peggy Shumaker
1st Place	Jennifer Perrine, "My Mother Learns the Language of Pregnancy"
Runners-Up	Margaret Hoehn, Mary Cornish
Finalists	Charity Ketz, Rebecca Dunham, James R. Marshall, Ava Haymon, Beth Martinelli, Rosalyn Driscoll, Elizabeth Krajeck, John Pursley III, Alice George, Margaret Wycisk, Joshua Wilkinson

**2004 Winners**
Final Judge	Lucia Perillo
1st Place	Christopher Bursk, "E Pluribus Unum"
Runners-Up	Matthew Frank, Allen Braden
Finalists	Richard Wollman, Kathryn Ugoretz, Jennifer Perrine, Maureen Clark, Amy Uyematsu, Patricia Murphy, Kristina Martinez, Kate Umans, Megan Kruse, Regina O'Melveny, Nicole Walker, Otis Rubottom

**2003 Winners**
Final Judge	Robert Wrigley
1st Place	Simone Muench, "Window"
Runners-Up	Elizabeth McLagan, Susanna Childress
Finalists	Krista Kay Feakes, Valerie Free, Jennifer Militello, Rusty Morrison, Veronica Patterson

**2002 Winners**
Final Judge	Mark Doty
1st Place	Kerri Webster, "Winter, Noun"
2nd Place	Kathryn St. Thomas, "Coming to Terms"
3rd Place	David Roderick, "The Point"
Finalists	Rosalyn Driscoll, M.S. Eisele, Sarah Kennedy, Cheryl Anne Latuner, Rennie McQuilken, Simone Muench, Jonathan Powers, Catherine Harnett Shaw, A.F. Thomas

**2001 Winners**
Final Judge	David Lee
1st Place	Don Judson, "Field Guide"
2nd Place	Ryan Van Cleave, "Dear Theodore Roethke"
3rd Place	Joshua Poteat, "Documenting the Birds: Office Park"
Finalists	Janée Baugher, Cal Bedient, Karen Carcia, Matt Donovan, David Hernandez, Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, Kip Irwin, Richard Lyons, Erika Meitner, Simone Muench, Joan Mitchell, Shari Diane Willadson