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 →
Category: Meridian News
Announcing our Editors’ Prize Winners!
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 →
Announcing Our Meridian Short Prose Prize Winner: Steph Karp!
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 →
Announcing our 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations
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 →
Announcing the MERIDIAN SHORT PROSE PRIZE
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 →
Editors’ Prize 2019 Winners
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 →
Editors’ Prize 2018 Winners!
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 →
Meridian’s 2018 Editors’ Prizes
Editors’ Prize submissions are now open! Deadline: January 26, 2018 $1000 Prize for Winners in Poetry and Fiction POETRY submissions may contain up to four poems that do not exceed ten total pages. Please put all the poems in one document. FICTION submissions should not total more than 10,000 words. You may only submit two entries per genre–no more than two fiction submissions… Read more →
Announcing the winners of Meridian’s Borders Contest!
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our Spring 2017 contest in poetry and prose on the theme of Borders. We received over 500 entries to the contest and were heartened to see how many of you made donations to the International Rescue Committee or other organization in lieu of an entry fee. Thank you from all of us… Read more →
Review: My Private Property, by Mary Ruefle
“It is sad, is it not, that no one today displays any interest in the art of shrunken heads,” begins Mary Ruefle’s title poem from My Private Property, a collection of deft prose poems that present both close and distant observations of the world, characters, and the self through Ruefle’s wit and originality. In the first poem, “Little Golf Pencil,”… Read more →