September 4, 2009

The Briar Cliff Review Announces “Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contest”

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar Cliff University’s award-winning literary magazine, The Briar Cliff Review, announces its Fourteenth Annual National “Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contest.”

First-place contest winners in each category will receive $1,000 in addition to publication in the Spring 2010 edition. Manuscript deadline is Nov. 1, 2009. Entries will be judged by the editors of The Briar Cliff Review. The contest entry fee is $20, which includes a copy of the Spring 2010 issue. There is no charge for general submission. Last year, The Briar Cliff Review received 2,250 submissions overall from across the U.S. and around the world.

Writers also are encouraged to submit manuscripts to be considered for publication in the “Siouxland” section of the magazine. Siouxland submissions would be historical and/or contemporary articles or photo-essays concerning the culture or environment of Northwest Iowa, Southeast South Dakota and Northeast Nebraska.

For contest guidelines and back issues of The Briar Cliff Review, please visit www.briarcliff.edu/bcreview.

Send entries to Tricia Currans-Sheehan, Editor, The Briar Cliff Review, Fiction, Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Contest, 3303 Rebecca Street, Sioux City, IA  51104-2100.

Currently a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), The Briar Cliff Review began 21 years ago on the Briar Cliff campus. Since its inception, the literary magazine has published the works of 1,025 writers/artists from 45 states in the U.S. and the countries of Croatia, Madagascar, Vietnam, Japan, Ireland, Great Britain, Norway, Philippines and Taiwan. Among The Briar Cliff Review’s many awards are five Gold Crowns, two Silver Crowns by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and two National Pacemaker awards by Associated Collegiate Press.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 24 states and four countries.  Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care and compassion. For more information, please visit briarcliff.edu.

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