Prize

$1,000 and publication **NOTE: Our book contests are on hiatus while we process our current poetry contest and train our new managing editor.**

Guidelines

One copy of your manuscript (around 120-250 pages).
An acknowledgments page may be included.
$25.00 reading fee made payable to Zone 3 Press.

Submitting

This award is biennial.
Submissions to the 2023 Creative Nonfiction Book Award will open TBD.
Please include one title page with the title only (no personal identification) in your document. Dates and deadlines can be found on the Submittable page linked below.

Eligibility And Additional Considerations

The competition is open to all authors writing original works in English. Manuscripts that embrace creative nonfiction’s potential by combining lyric exposition, researched reflection, travel dialogues, or creative criticism are encouraged. Memoir, personal narrative, essay collections, and literary nonfiction are also invited.
The final judge will be announced.
In order to ensure the integrity of this award, current and former students and faculty of APSU are not eligible to enter. In addition, Zone 3 Press will not accept manuscripts from contestants who have previously studied with or have a personal relationship with the announced judge.
The winner will be notified by e-mail or telephone.
The judge may choose no winner if she finds no manuscript that, in her estimation, merits publication and the award.
Questions should be addressed to Raymond Deeren (zone3@apsu.edu).