Competitions

Miracle Monocle publishes the results of the annual Calvino Prize, an award recognizing outstanding fiction in the fabulist mode, in its Spring issues. This award is facilitated by the University of Louisville and comes with a $2,000 prize. To enter to win this competition, please follow the submission guidelines published here.

We welcome submissions to our Award for Innovative Writing in the Fall. The intent of this award series is to celebrate literary experiment and includes publication of the winning piece in an upcoming issue of Miracle Monocle, an official award letter, an audio recording of the piece and/or an interview feature to run concurrently with the winning piece in the journal, and a $200 prize. This award is facilitated through our Submittable account. 

We welcome submissions to our Award for Young Black Writers in the Spring. The intent of this award series is to celebrate the literary excellence of writers in an historically under-represented category and includes the publication of the winning piece in an upcoming issue of the journal, an award letter, and a $200 prize. This award is facilitated through our Submittable account.