This year we had an unexpectedly large number of entries and many of the entries we received were intriguing and well written. We have accepted one winner for the prize and publication, and we will publish three additional entries from the manuscripts submitted. The winner of the 2023 Joshua Tree Novel Prize contest is WIND-IN-TREES […]
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) […]
Contest Judge, Chip Dameron, has selected The Winner, Runner up, and two Honorable Mentions from over 640 poems entered in the 2020 Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize. All four poets will receive prize money and publication in The Ocotillo Review Volume 5.1 releasing on February 8, 2021. Top Honors go to Partridge Boswell of Woodstock, Vermont for […]
Kallisto Gaia Press is pleased to announce Gordon Brown as the winner of the Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Contest. His story, Some Kind of Animal, will be published in the winter 2020 edition of The Ocotillo Review. Mr. Brown will receive $1000 and a two year subscription to Duotrope. Michael Noll judged and […]
The Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize and The Chester B. Himes Memorial Fiction Prize will now close for submissions at midnight on August 31, 2019 We know it’s summer. It’s HOT! Everyone is moving a little slower. Here’s an idea! Stay in and air conditioned space of your choice and finish that mind-blowing story or […]