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The Letter Review Prize is an internationally celebrated event, offered every three months in the categories of Short Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Books. We publish our winners, maintain shortlists, submit to The Pushcart, and award over $16,000 USD annually to writers, meaning our prize is among the highest paying literary prizes administered by a literary journal in the world.
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Writers’ Insight: Interviews
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Christine Harapiak, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry
Once I left the judicial robes behind the things I was permitted to engage with exploded. I regained my intellectual agency, and my words just came back to me one day. I am drifting towards protest poetry and replanting the Greek myths in prairie landscapes at this stage in my long-delayed writing career. Would you…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Yi Li, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction
Write down the bright ideas as soon as they appear. Don’t save them for later. Don’t worry about word count. Just write. Would you please tell us a little about your writing process? Usually, an idea drifts down from the sky, and I catch it and keep it safe in my heart. Day by day,…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Michael Haiden, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Short Fiction
You can spend morning to evening on the couch reading novels and still feel like you had a productive day. Would you please tell us a little about your writing process? I usually write in the early morning. I work in short, intense bursts of energy, with long periods of reflection between them. When I’m…
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Writers’ Insight: Interview with Teodora Vamvu, Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction
I have recently experienced an evening that I am slowly starting to understand affected me in more ways than I initially thought. So, my instinct was to write a piece of creative non-fiction about it, to excise it, to exorcise it. And that’s exactly what I did. Nearly 1,500 words later, I’m a little more…
Community Comments
I just wanted to thank The Letter Review Prize for short listing my unpublished book Unimaginable Hardship. The recognition contributed to having my chapbook Hidden, A sequence of poems addressing the war in Ukraine, recently published by Bottlecap Press. Thank you!
J. A. (John) deSouza (Shortlist of The Prize for Books)
Thank you so much for your positive and thorough notes. After implementing some easy changes and taking wonderful advice where needed, my novel will be published in May, 2024. I will keep The Letter Review posted with the book’s progress. Thank you again for all you do for writers! Update: Feral Maril & Her Little Brother Carol just won a Literary Titan Award, and placed as Finalist in the Chanticleer International Book Awards as well as the Santa Fe Literary Competition! You can purchase it here: https://www.amazon.com/Feral-Maril-Little-Brother-Carol-ebook/dp/B0CZJ8DP4F?ref
Leslie Manning (Longlist of The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Books & Feedback Recipient)
The Letter Review emerges as a hallowed space where words bleed, mend, and soar. Within its pages, we find not just tales, but the delicate pulse of memories, interwoven with the age-old craft of storytelling and vulnerability. To have my voice cradled in such a sacred place is a serenade to the moonlit hours where prose meets poetry. A profound honor.
Frederick Joseph: two-time New York Times bestselling author, activist, philanthropist, and poet (First Place in Letter Review Prize for Poetry)