Ruminate Magazine

We invite you to enter our annual Short Story Prize.  Entry fee is $15 (this includes a free copy of the Spring 2010 issue). $500 and publication in the Spring 2010 issue will be awarded to the winner and publication in the Spring 2010 issue to the runner-up. The deadline is midnight, October 15th. 

You may submit one short story per entry and it must be 7000 words or less. There is no entry limit. Please remove name and contact info from the document. All submissions will be read by a blind panel of readers. Each entrant will receive a free copy of the Spring 2010 Issue and all work submitted will also be considered for publication in the Spring 2010 Issue. 

Submission is a two step process:

You must first pay the submission fee by selecting the "Pay Now" button below. A new window will open at the Paypal website where you can either pay by credit card (you do not need a Paypal account for this option), or with your Paypal account if you have one.

After paying the submisison fee you can fill out the submission form by selecting the link below.

Submission Form 

*You may also pay by mail. Upload your work using the above submission form and then mail a check made payable to RUMINATE MAGAZINE, attention Short Story Prize at 140 N. Roosevelt Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80521.  Along with your entry fee, please let us know the title of the piece you have submitted and make sure your entry fee is postmarked by October 15th, 2009.