Meridian is Temporarily Closed to Fiction Submissions

Due to a large backlog, Meridian is now closed to fiction submissions through our online submission system, at least through July. We’ll update you as soon as that changes.

We will continue to accept poetry submissions through ManuscriptHub.

(As a reminder, we can’t accept paper submissions of any kind between April 15 and September 15.)


2010 Editors’ Prize Winners

Thank you to everyone who entered the contest. It was a strong year for poetry and fiction. We hope you’ll submit again in the fall.

POETRY
WINNER: Josephine Yu, “Why the Lepidopterist Lives Alone”

FICTION
WINNER: Allis Hammond, “The Faces”

Both winners will receive a $1,000 prize, and their pieces will be published in our May 2010 issue.


Meridian Issue 24 Launch Party

The launch of the newest issue of Meridian will be feted with a reading during which contributors from across the nation will converge at the Bridge PAI for an evening of poetry, fiction, a dramatic interpretation of a creative non-fiction by Lisa K. Buchanan and previously unpublished poems by Breece D’J Pancake.

The slate of readers [...]


Meridian Pushcart Nominations

Last year’s Meridian fiction and poetry editors, Aja Gabel, George David Clark, and Paul Legault, have made their Pushcart nominations for the forthcoming edition. Of course, hundreds of other literary magazines are doing the same thing … but we wish our authors good luck in making the final cut:

Poetry Nominations:

Alice Notley, “Diary Entry,” Issue 23
Carl [...]


2010 Editors’ Prize Contest Now Open

We’re excited to announce that we are now accepting entries for the 2010 Editors’ Prize Contests in Fiction and Poetry. Deadline December 15, 2009.

For a $16 entry fee, you receive a chance at a $1,000 prize and a one-year subscription to Meridian (entries from outside the U.S. will receive only the prize issue due [...]


We’re Looking for Nonfiction

Meridian is currently looking for exceptional nonfiction pieces.

From our nonfiction editor, Hannah Holtzman: “For non-fiction, we are particularly interested in essays that go beyond memoir to engage the larger world.”

So hold on to that essay about the time your Aunt Sally took you on the tea cup ride at Disney World. Or the time [...]