Coker Fellowship in Fiction

Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award is $1500, two tickets to the SCAA induction (with hotel accommodation if necessary), and a SCAA Induction awards brunch in your honor the following morning. Entry Fee is $20.00, payable online with PayPal (below). There is no restriction on content, but submissions may not exceed 15 pages double-spaced and must be either one original, unpublished short story or one excerpt from a longer, unpublished work.
 
This year’s final judge will be David Joy.

Applicants must be full-time residents of South Carolinaand must not have won this Fellowship the previous three years. To enter:

• upon receipt of payment, please email your poems as a file attachment (Word or PDF) to: scaafictionfellowships@gmail.com
• include a cover page with your name, home address, email, and phone number. Your name should not appear elsewhere in the submission,
• indicate on the cover sheet which contest you are entering (“Coker Fellowship”). 

 

Coker Student Prize in Fiction

Deadline: January 15, 2020

Award is $500, and a SCAA Induction awards brunch in your honor. There is no Entry Fee for the Student Prize; however, the winner may be asked to provide documentation attesting to their full-time enrollment status during fall 2018. There is no restriction on content, but submissions may not exceed 15 pages double-spaced and must be either one original, unpublished short story or one excerpt from a longer, unpublished work.

This year’s final judge will be David Joy.

At the time of submission, applicants must be 18-25, legal residents of South Carolina, and enrolled full-time at a private or public South Carolina institution of higher education. To enter:

• upon receipt of payment, please email your poems as a file attachment (Word or PDF) to: scaafictionfellowships@gmail.com
• include a cover page with your name, home address, email, and phone number. Your name should not appear elsewhere in the submission,
• indicate on the cover sheet which contest you are entering (“Coker Student Prize”). 

 

​David Joy is the author of the Edgar nominated novel Where All Light Tends To Go (Putnam, 2015), as well as the novels The Weight Of This World (Putnam, 2017) and The Line That Held Us(Putnam, 2018), which won the 2019 Southern Book Prize from SIBA. He is also the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey (Bright Mountain Books, 2011), which was a finalist for the Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Ragan Old North State Award.

Joy is the recipient of an artist fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. His latest short stories and essays have appeared in Time, The New York Times Magazine, Garden & Gun, and The Bitter Southerner.

Joy lives in the North Carolina mountains.