JUDGES: Jessica Falcone, Rachel Newcomb and John Colman Wood
The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual fiction competition to encourage anthropologists to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns associated with the four fields of anthropology. Stories should not exceed 20 pages typed double-spaced. There is a limit of one story per submission.
Please email your entry to shafictioncompetition@gmail.com without the author’s name (anonymized), along with a separate cover page with your full name, title of your submission, address, email address and institutional affiliation by May 1, 2014. There is no entry fee for this competition.
Winning entries and honorable mentions will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington DC, December 3-7, 2014. The winning story will be published in the Society’s journal, Anthropology and Humanism. The winner(s) will receive a certificate and award of $100.
All inquiries concerning any of the writing prizes should be addressed to Billie Jean Isbell, President of SHA, at bji1@cornell.edu
