Idaho Review Contest Winners To Be Announced in September

The Earialist by Bill Carmen

The Idaho Review Fiction Prize is now closed for submissions. Winners will be announced in September 2013. Thank you to all writers who submitted to our contest.

Please note that we are currently closed for regular submissions. Our reading period will reopen on September 15, 2013.

Stories and poems from The Idaho Review have been reprinted in The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Pushcart Prize, New Stories from the South, and Best of the West. Past contributors include Ann Beattie, Richard Bausch, Joy Williams, Rick Bass, and Pam Houston.

 

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Story of the Week

April 1858

by Madison Smartt Bell

an excerpt from the novel Devil’s Dream

Poem of the Week

Mrs. Snow White

by Michael Waters

She missed the dwarfs, those stunted penises, For whom she perfected each domestic Art, whistling while she stirred the soup, waltzing The broom round the floor once they’d left for work. Now servants ghost on tiptoe past her room. Why had she bitten that old crone’s apple Only to awaken flushed and lonely, To bid … Continue


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    Frequent contributor Rick Bass had a book released this September. A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country can now be purchased on Amazon. Look for Rick’s story “How She Remembers It” in the upcoming issue of Idaho Review.

    Need inspiration? Check out 2012 contributor Madison Smartt Bell's interview in the Writeliving blog.