Submissions are currently open for the 2018 Blue Lights Book Prize. An award of $2,000 and publication by Indiana University Press will be given for a collection of short fiction.

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The winner will also receive travel expenses to read at the 2019 Blue Light Reading in Bloomington, Indiana. Short story writer and novelist Samrat Upadhyay [1] will judge.

Using the online submission system [2], submit a manuscript of 35,000 to 45,000 words with a $20 entry fee by February 9.

Cosponsored by Indiana Review and Indiana University Press, the Blue Lights Book Prize is given in alternating years for a collection of poetry or a collection of short fiction. The 2017 winner in poetry was Jennifer Givhan for her collection, Girl With Death Mask [3], selected by Ross Gay; the 2016 winner in fiction was Andrea Lewis for her collection, What My Last Man Did [4], selected by Michael Martone.

Visit the Indiana Review website [2] for complete guidelines, and check out the Poets & Writers Grants & Awards database  [5]and Submission Calendar [6] for more upcoming contests in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.