ROSEMARY DANIELL FICTION PRIZE
“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”
—Carolyn See
Minerva Rising is seeking short story collections, novellas and novels from women writers. Just as the Goddess Minerva represented creativity, wisdom, medicine, commerce, arts and education, our press provides the opportunity for women artists to share their diverse experiences and talents.
We are particularly seeking stories that give voice to the marginalized and underrepresented. We are interested in themes that address current social issues and/or mental health, such as racial injustice, climate change and environmental impact on communities, sexuality, life transitions, aging and grief.
Submission Details:
- Submit a completed, polished manuscript of 40,000 to 70,000 words, double-spaced, paginated, 1-inch margins along with a one-page synopsis.
- Genre — literary, romance, historical fiction, mystery/suspense, speculative, hybrid.
- Prize — $1,000 and 10 copies
- Entry fee — $30
- Submit online via Submittable
Submission Dates: August 10 – October 10
Our Judge: Kristiana Kahakauwila
Our Judge: Kristiana KahakauwilaKristiana Kahakauwila is a writer of Kanaka Maoli, German, and Norwegian descent. She makes her home on the island of O‘ahu.
Kristiana is the author of This is Paradise: Stories (Hogarth 2013), a collection of literary fiction, and Clairboyance (HarperCollins 2024), a middle grade novel. At the heart of both books are the people and landscapes of contemporary Hawai’i.
Kristiana has also published short fiction and essays in journals and magazines such as Kartika Review, Hunger Mountain, Red Ink, Mistake House, and GEO. Her prizes include the Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellowship in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as well as national and international artist residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Hedgebrook, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Ledig House/ Art Omi, and the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. In 2015-16 she was the Lisa Goldberg Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study.
Kristiana earned a BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Michigan. As a magazine editor, she worked for Highlights for Children and Wine Spectator. Since then, she has served as faculty at Western Washington University, the Low-Residency MFA at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), and Kundiman. Today, she teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa where she is the Director of the Creative Writing Program.
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***Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
***Unfortunately we cannot accept previously published material in its entirety, however we will accept manuscripts if an excerpt has been previously published. Please note previous publications in the acknowledgments.
MINERVA RISING PRESS publishes thought-provoking and insightful stories and essays written by a diverse collective of women writers to elevate women’s voices and create a more compassionate world.