Announcing Omnidawn’s First Annual Fiction Chapbook Contest!

Omnidawn is pleased to introduce our first annual

Submissions are currently open now through September 30 to any author writing in English.




Winner receives $1,000, publication, and 100 copies.
Entry fee: $15.00
Accepting electronic & postal submissions
August 1 – September 30, 2012.

Jeff VanderMeer will judge.



Award-winning writer Jeff VanderMeer’s final novel in his Ambergris Cycle, Finch, has just been published in the the UK from Atlantic’s Corvus imprint. His writer guide Booklife and associated Booklifenow website focus on sustainable creativity. Forthcoming books include The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities and The Steampunk Bible. His short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales, and several year’s best anthologies. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post Book World, Omnivoracious, The New York Times Book Review, the B&N Review, and many others.



All entrants with a U.S. mailing address who pay an extra $2 to cover shipping costs will be mailed any current Omnidawn fiction title of their choice, or a copy of the winning chapbook when it is published.
A complete list of all current Omnidawn fiction titles is available here.

For full details about this contest, click here.