2024 Columbia Journal Online Contest – Deadline Extended – March 21, 2024
2024 Columbia Journal Online Contest – Submissions Open from February 21, 2024 to March 6, 2024 March 21, 2024
The Columbia Journal is delighted to announce that the 2024 Online Contest will accept submissions in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from February 21 through March 6 March 20, 2024. Our judges this year are Jonas Eika (fiction), Jeanna Kadlec (nonfiction), Megan Fernandes (poetry), and Mónica de la Torre (translation).
The four first place winners of the Online Contest will be published online in Spring 2024 and will receive a $250 cash prize each. In addition, up to two finalists may be selected and published per genre.
Starting February 21, all entries will be accepted via Submittable for a $10 fee per submission. The deadline to submit is March 6 March 20, 2024.
DATES:
Our submission window will be open from February 21 to March 6 March 20, 2024.
FEES:
Entry to the 2024 Print Contest will be accepted via Submittable and requires a $10 entry fee, which helps subsidize the contest and our magazine at large.
COMPLETE GUIDELINES:
The four winning artists will receive $250 and have their work published online in Spring 2024. Some finalists may also be published online.
One story per submission. Multiple submissions welcome. Submissions with more than one story per document cannot be considered.
Fiction and nonfiction submissions must not exceed 5,000 words. Poetry submissions must not exceed 5 pages, and must not exceed three poems.
The contest entrant’s name should not appear anywhere on the submitted file. In addition, because we share files electronically, it is the entrant’s responsibility to ensure other identifying notations, including references in the document’s properties and title, are not present.
Contest finalists are blind judged to select prize winners.
All work must be submitted through Submittable. We will not accept mailed or emailed submissions.
All work must be original and previously unpublished in any form.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Submissions may not be modified after entry. The Columbia Journal, however, reserves the right to suggest edits to the winning story as well as to finalists’ and semi-finalists’ work that they are interested in publishing.
Contest entrants cannot have studied or taught at the Columbia University Writing Program at any time in the past three years.
If you have questions, please email us at publisher.columbia@gmail.com.
ABOUT OUR JUDGES:
FICTION: Jonas Eika
Jonas Eika is a Danish writer and translator whose first novel, Marie House Warehouse (Lageret Huset Marie), won the 2016 Bodil og Jørgen Munch-Christensen Prize. Their next book, the short story collection After the Sun (Efter Solen), won the 2019 Nordic Council Literary Prize and was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022. Eika lives in Copenhagen.
NONFICTION: Jeanna Kadlec
Jeanna Kadlec is the author of Heretic: A Memoir and the creator of the New York Times featured newsletter Astrology for Writers. She's a writer, astrologer, former lingerie boutique owner, and recovering academic. Her writing has appeared in ELLE, NYLON, O the Oprah Magazine, Allure, Catapult, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, and more. A born and bred Midwesterner, she now lives in New York City.
POETRY: Megan Fernandes
Megan Fernandes is a writer living in New York City. Fernandes has published in The New Yorker, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, among others. Her third book of poetry, I Do Everything I’m Told, was published by Tin House in June 2023. Fernandes is an Associate Professor of English and the Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College where she teaches courses on poetry, environmental writing, and critical theory. She has received scholarships and fellowships from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, the Yaddo Foundation, the Hawthornden Foundation, etc. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University.
TRANSLATION: Mónica de la Torre
Mónica de la Torre is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat Books, 2020), and a translation of Defense of the Idol (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) by Chilean Modernist Omar Cáceres. De la Torre coedited, with Alex Balgiu, the anthology Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 (Primary Information, 2020) and with Michael Wiegers, the collection Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2002). She also translated the volume Selected Poems by Gerardo Deniz (Lost Roads, 2000), and has translated numerous other Spanish-language poets.
In 2022, de la Torre received the C.D. Wright Poetry Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a Creative Capital grant. She lives in New York City and teaches at Brooklyn College.