High Desert Journal's 2011 Obsidian Prize in Fiction

The High Desert Journal is announcing it's 2011 Obsidian Prize in Fiction, offering a $1,000 prize plus publication! Submissions are due February 18, 2018 and must not exceed 6,000 words. Entries will be accepted online. There is a $15 entry fee.

The judge for this competition is Gretel Ehrlich, author of This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland, The Solace of Open Spaces, and Heart Mountain. She has also written other works of nonfiction, fiction and poetry.

High Desert Journal is a literary and visual art magazine dedicated to further understanding the people, places and issues of the interior west. Its pages help define this region in literary and artistic terms and represent a collection of work that charts the changes of this distinctive, unique region. It accepts work from residents of the region and from anyone living outside the region creating work with high desert themes and elements.