Sarabande Books Contests Contest Guidelines Please note that Sarabande Books does not accept electronic submissions. The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction , judged by well-established writers. Guidelines and required entry form are available from November 1 through February 1 each year. We ask that writers query first with a sample of 10 poems, a single story, or a section of a novella, postmarked in September.
Response time is under three months.
If, during this preliminary period, we find your work of interest, we will invite you to submit your entire manuscript. A complete manuscript of poetry must contain 48 pages minimun. Collections of short stories or novellas must fall between 150-300 pages. We do not consider full-length novels, memoirs, collections of essays, or single poems or stories.