Contests

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Each year, descant offers four awards:

  • the $500 Frank O’Connor Award for fiction (for the best short story in a issue)
  • the $250 Gary Wilson Award (for an outstanding story in an issue)
  • the $500 Betsy Colquitt Award for poetry (for the best poem or series of poems by 
    a single author in an issue)
  • the $250 Baskerville Publishers Award (for an outstanding poem or poems by a single author in an issue)

There is no application process or reading fee. All published submissions are eligible for prize consideration. Simply submit your work with a SASE.