Contests
Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
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.
Submission Guidelines
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:
- Submissions must be postmarked between December 1, 2008, and March 15, 2009.
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:
- Prose up to 8,000 words.
- Novel excerpts up to 8,000 words are accepted.
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- Work may be under consideration elsewhere, but must be withdrawn from the competition if accepted for publication.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:
Tobias Wolff
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.
Past Winners
| Final Judge | Peter Rock |
| 1st Place | Natalie Diaz, of Norfolk, VA |
| Runners-Up | Meaghan Mulholland |
| Finalists | Matthew Goldberg, Anne McPeak, Margaret Luongo, Dana Schwartz, Robert Drummond, Hannah Huber |
| Final Judge | Claire Davis |
| 1st Place | Mark Wisniewski, of Lake Peekskill, NY |
| Runners-Up | Angela Kelly |
| Finalists | Wendy Marcus, Linda Brewer, Steven Cantwell, Douglas Danoff, Kami Westhoff |
| Final Judge | Bret Lott |
| 1st Place | Vicky Mlyniec, "I Ride Along" |
| Runners-Up | A.G. Harmon |
| Finalists | Amalia Gladhart, Linda McCullough Moore, Lonnie Busch, Amy Carson, Kami Westhoff |
| Final Judge | Rosina Lippi |
| 1st Place | Bernadette Smyth, "Kissing" |
| Runners-Up | Christine Byl |
| Finalists | Anthony Varallo, Robin Antalek, Lynn Knight, Carol Roh-Spaulding |
| Final Judge | Rebecca Brown |
| 1st Place | Natalie Serber, "A Whole Weekend of My Life" |
| Runners-Up | Guy Marco, Amy Boutell |
| Finalists | Amalia Gladhart, Alan Mallach, Ilene Miele, Sharon Moshavi, Benjamin Percy |
| Final Judge | Laura Kalpakian |
| 1st Place | Morgan McDermott, "Clear Coat" |
| 2nd Place | Erin Gieschen, "What Magically Appears" |
| 3rd Place | Hilary Orbach, "Touch" |
| Finalists | Bob Levy, David Lobenstine |
| Final Judge | Lan Samantha Chang |
| 1st Place | John Tait, "Heavy Metal Love" |
| 2nd Place | Kristi Gedeon, "In Her Shoes, I Would" |
| 3rd Place | Douglas Clement, "Body Without Soul" |
| Finalists | Peter Chilson, Alma Garcia, Alan Gerston, Susan Lester, David Warren Paul, Margot Singer, Rebecca Taylor |