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Our annual $1500 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize is open!
Essay/short memoir must be 5,500 words or less
Entry fee is $20 (includes a copy of Ruminate)
Deadline is Nov. 15th
As with all our submissions, we highly recommend reading a copy of the magazine to better understand the type of work we are looking for.
Download a free excerpt from Issue No. 24 featuring our 2012 Nonfiction Prize winning essay: "Father of Disorder" by Jessica Wilbanks.
Download a free excerpt from Issue No. 24 featuring our 2012 Nonfiction Prize winning essay: "Father of Disorder" by Jessica Wilbanks.
We will announce the finalist judge in the coming months.
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Purchase issues featuring past Nonfiction Prize recipients here:
"Winning the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize is tremendously validating. Having my essay appear alongside the beautiful work in Ruminate is an honor, one that motivates me to continue combing through the hazy but oh-so-rich terrain of personal experience, truth, and spirit."
—Sonja Livingston, winner of the 2017 VanderMey Nonfiction prize.
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The Waking is Ruminate Community's online literary magazine that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. We are interested in short-form and flash prose as well as image-text/hybrid work. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.
We are committed to creating a community that represents the unity and diversity of the human experience by promoting voices that typically aren’t heard, particularly those that belong to individuals from historically marginalized and oppressed groups.
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