Opening August 1 through October 31, 2024 you can submit prose up to 3000 words, poetry, and photography to be published in our first anthology Back Roads and Low Tides!

There is no cost for submission. If your work is chosen you will receive a complimentary copy of the e-pub. You can purchase as many copies as you would like at our cost. Please make sure you do not use profanity as it may not be accepted.

We are quite excited about our anthology. The winners and honorable mentions of our Shelby Stephenson Literary Award Contest will be included automatically in the book. Send entries to rose@cushingpublishing.com

And the winners of the Shelby Stephenson Literary Awards are:

Poetry: 1st Place: Pamlico Sound, Sherry Siddall

Poetry Honorable Mentions:

Traveling Light, Elizabeth Solazzo

Solar Eclipse, Sherry Siddall

The Periodic Cicadas, Sherry Siddall

Shape Shifter, Jackie Dove Miller

Rainy Morning Song, Allison Hendrix

Photography 1st Place: Ned, Julia Fisher

Photography Honorable Mentions:

Sunflower, Pamela Whipple

First Light, Donna Campbell Smith

Back Roads and Low Tides

Prose 1st Place: Half Eaten Pie, Joyce Allen

Prose Honorable Mentions:

Ghosts, Christopher Weston

Trade Offs,  Sarah Maury Swan

Missing , Eileen Vorbach Collins  

Charm, Harriet Clifford

Shined and her 59 Buick, Veronica Krug

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