The Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize
Deadline: March 7, 2025
The 2025 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize will be judged by Ottessa Moshfegh, author of Lapvona and My Year of Rest and Relaxation. The winning work will be performed by an actor in spring 2025 and published on Electric Literature. The winning writer will receive $1,000 and a free 10-week course with Gotham Writers.
- Entries should be 750 words or fewer.
- Stories can be on any theme.
- Fee: $25 per entry.
- Writers of all ages and nationalities are eligible.
- We do not accept work that has been previously published in print, online, or any other medium.
The Prize is sponsored by the stage and radio series Selected Shorts. This long-running series at Symphony Space in New York City celebrates the art of the short story by having stars of stage and screen read aloud the works of established and emerging writers. Selected Shorts is recorded for Public Radio and heard nationally on both the radio and its weekly podcast.
Read the 2024 contest winner, "What I Could Have Given" by Esther Hayes.
