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Our annual $1500 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize is closed.

Sign up for our emails, and we'll send you updates and deadline reminders:

Essay/short memoir must be 5,500 words or less

Entry fee is $20 (includes a digital copy of Ruminate)

Deadline is Nov. 15th (plus 3-day grace period)
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.
Want to read a full issue?
Purchase issues featuring past Nonfiction Prize recipients:
"Without knowing where this essay would go, without knowing whether anything would ever come of this essay, it found a home in Ruminate. This is a beautiful home. Thank you to Ruminate and to finalist judge Camille Dungy for finding a home for these words. They are happy to be here."
—Jonathan Winston Jones,
winner of the 2018 VanderMey Nonfiction prize for "Bison Clouds" in Issue No. 47: Hauntings
Our annual $1500 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize is open!
Enter Now

Essay/short memoir must be 5,500 words or less

Entry fee is $20 (includes a copy of Ruminate)

Deadline is Nov. 15th
Enter Now!
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.
We will announce the finalist judge in the coming months.
Want to read a full issue?
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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