2021 MERIDIAN SHORT PROSE PRIZE Submission Period: July 1 – August 31 Anything goes! Send us your micro fiction, hybrid bits, lyric essaylets, prose poems, short-short stories…whatever you call it, we want to read your vibrant, electric writing. The winner of the 2021 Meridian Short Prose Prize will receive $250.00 and publication in our print magazine. All submissions, including those selected… Read more →
A Conversation with C Pam Zhang by Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada Rarely is a debut novel received with as much anticipation and praise as C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Set in the aftermath of the California gold rush, the land ravaged and depleted of gold, the novel follows siblings Lucy, twelve, and Sam, eleven, who are left… Read more →
The Meridian staff send out our best wishes for everyone’s health and safety during this difficult time. If you are still waiting for your copy of Issue 44, we want to let you know that coronavirus has interfered with our mailing, but that we are working on solutions. We hope to mail copies out as soon as it is safe.… Read more →
Verge by Lidia Yuknavitch Published by Riverhead Books Feb 04, 2020 | 208 Pages Review by Raisa Tolchinsky “…I wrote story after story. There was no inside out. There were words and there was my body, and I could see through my own skin. I wrote my guts out. Until it was a book. Until my very skin made screamsong,”… Read more →
We are delighted to announce the winners of our Editors’ Prizes in Poetry and Prose! The winner of our Editors’ Prize in Poetry is “Vellum” by Bruce Bond. The winner of our Editors’ Prize in Prose is “Forever is a Moist, Dark Pipe” by Jacob Appel. Each of our winners will receive a prize $1,000 and publication… Read more →
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Meridian Short Prose Prize is “Tiny Baba,” by Steph Karp! Steph will receive publication in Meridian and a $250 prize. Here’s what our editor has to say: “In this strange and unforgettable piece of micro-fiction, Steph Karp uses the possibilities of the short form to maximal effect, crafting a… Read more →
We are pleased to announce this year’s Pushcart Prize Nominations: Alyssa Quinn: “Transcendence: A Schematic” Michael Pontacoloni: “The Last Diving Horse Show in America” Emma Windsor Wood: “Living” Dara Passano: “Fellowship” Chris Stuck: “Every Time They Call You N*****” Brenna Lemieux: “We Were Happy” Congratulations on your brilliant work. We wish we could nominate more–we’ve had the… Read more →
The Winner of the Meridian Short Prose Prize will receive $250.00 and publication. Two Runners-Up will also be published in our print magazine, and all submissions will be considered for publication. Anything goes! Send us your hybrid bits, lyric essaylets, prose poems, flash fiction, microessays, short-short-stories…whatever you call it, we want to read your vibrant, electric words. We will… Read more →
Thanks to everyone who submitted to our 2019 Editors’ Prize contest. This year, we received over 200 submissions in each genre, which our dedicated team of readers read with attention and great interest. After much deliberation, we’ve decided on our winners: In prose, congratulations to Alyssa Quinn for her essay “Transcendence: A Schematic.” In poetry, congratulations to Michael Pontacoloni for… Read more →
Thank you to all those who submitted for allowing us to consider your work for the Editors’ Prizes. This year, we received over 300 submissions in each genre, and our team of readers pored over every page. While the high quality of submissions this year meant our decision was difficult to make, we have at last decided on two winners.… Read more →
