$10 ENTRY FEE. Deadline July 11, 2022.
Submit an original story or poem of up to 2,000 words of any genre and in any style. Here’s the catch: they provide your opening and closing lines chosen from a classic work of literature. You provide the rest. Classics are from Agatha Christie, Langston Hughes, A. A. Milne, and Edgar Allan Poe. Winners will receive a USD $500 cash prize and a complimentary copy of the forthcoming 2022 Literary Taxidermy Anthology. Runners-up will receive a USD $50 cash prize, and both the winner and runners-up will be published in the forthcoming 2022 Literary Taxidermy Anthology. Honorable-mention authors will receive personal feedback on their stories and poems and will have their name included on a special page in the anthology.