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Selected Shorts
The Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize is a writing competition 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.
The 2020 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize will be judged by Nicole Chung. The winning work will be performed and recorded live at a Selected Shorts performance at Symphony Space on June 10, 2020, and published on Electric Literature. The winning writer will receive $1000 and a free 10-week course with Gotham Writers
The contest is now closed, the winner will be announced in Spring 2020. Thank you to all who entered.
Nicole Chung is the editor in chief of Catapult magazine and the former managing editor of The Toast. Her first book, All You Can Ever Know, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and named a Best Book of the Year by nearly two dozen outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, NPR, TIME, Newsday, Library Journal, Real Simple, Goodreads, and Chicago Public Library. Nicole has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, GQ, Longreads, The Cut, and Hazlitt, and many other publications, and has taught classes and writing workshops for Kundiman, Catapult, and the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program. nicolechung.net / @nicole_soojung
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