AndWeWereHungry Submissions

◊ Call for Entries—The Flying Elephants Short Story Prize | Judge :: Award-Winning Author Edwidge Danticat

Grand Prize ($2000) • Three Finalists ($1000 each) • Eight Runner-Ups (publication only) :: Sponsor:  "Ashes & Snow" Artist Gregory Colbert. | Contest Theme or Prompt: "And We Were Hungry....," or "Hunger." • For isn't it, to quote the late Ray Bradbury, "lack that gives us inspiration?" | Consideration for the Grand Prize is limited to short stories that connect the theme to nature. | No-Entry-Fee.

      Flying Elephants Prize Abridged Rules 

• Submit only original, unpublished short stories.
• Your name and contact information MUST NOT appear on any page of your story. 
• Two entries are allowed per person, and If you are submitting two short stories, please submit each entry separately. 
• If you need to withdraw a story, you can do this directly by logging in here.  For complete terms and conditions please visit http://andwewerehungry.org/prize-rules/.

◊ Call for Submissions—The Debut Issue

Fiction • Nonfiction • Essay • Poetry • Art • Photo • Film | Debut Issue Submission Theme: "And We Were Hungry....," or "Hunger." • For isn't it, to quote the late Ray Bradbury, "lack that gives us inspiration?" | No-Reading-Fees • NonPaying Market | For information on our vision, mission and future themes and deadlines please visit http://andwewerehungry.org/name-mission-future-themes-deadlines/.

◊ Call for Submissions—HomePage Features Section 

We accept submissions of short content (up to one-thousand words in prose or sixteen lines of poetry) for our non-themed Homepage Features section on an ongoing rolling basis. | No-Reading-Fees • NonPaying Market.

◊ Rights

If your work is accepted for publication, you retain all rights; we ask only that you credit that it was published here first. For answers to other frequently asked submissions questions, please visit http://andwewerehungry.org/submissions-faq/, which, for your convenience, are also replicated in the Submissions FAQ tabs below.