Deadline Extended! $1200 Prizes!

That’s Right, our flagship summer Writing contest judges are giving you an extra 11 days to polish those stories and poems so you can enter.

New Deadline  8/31/21

What you get

(if you win)

$1200 and publication in The Ocotillo Review. $100 and publication for the runner-up!

(if you don’t win)

1. Everyone who enters will receive a copy of The Ocotillo Review with the winning entries
2. Consideration for publication (and our standard paid contract)! We usually publish the runner up and a few of the finalist’s stories and poems.
3. The satisfaction of knowing that half of the revenue generated will be donated to a nonprofit supporting medical research. The Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize supports treatment and cure of Breast Cancer through the M. D. Anderson Foundation and the Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Prize supports treatment and cure of Parkinson’s Disease through the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

Watch this space for more news coming next week.