The Southampton Review to Host First Robert Reeves Comic Fiction Contest

Stony Brook Southampton announced this year they will be offering The Southampton Review’s first Robert Reeves Comic Fiction Contest.

Contestants can submit their short comedic fiction (no more than 5,000 words) to Stony Brook Southampton’s literary journal, The Southampton Review.

“The comic impulse is so widely and variously expressed in fiction that it resists definition. But if your comic muse has led you to a story that you consider a match, throw caution to the wind and send it to us,” reads a statement on the school’s website.

The entry fee is $15 per submission. Winners will be notified on or before January 15, 2015, and will be honored at the Manhattan launch of The Southampton Review’s Spring 2015 issue.

Submission period will end on Friday, Oct. 31.

1st Place: $1000 and publication in the Spring 2015 issue of TSR: The Southampton Review.

Finalist stories will be considered for publication in TSR Online.

Notably irreverent contest judge Daniel Menaker has been the fiction editor at The New Yorker, and executive editor of Random House. He is the author, most recently, of the memoir My Mistake.

Author of many works, including the comic novels Doubting Thomas and Peeping Thomas, Robert Reeves is the founder of the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook Southampton.