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Selected Shorts
The Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize is a writing competition sponsored by the stage and radio series Selected Shorts.
This long-running series at Symphony Space in New York City celebrates the art of the short story by having stars of stage and screen read aloud the works of established and emerging writers. Selected Shorts is recorded for Public Radio and heard nationally on both the radio and its weekly podcast.
The 2025 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize will be judged by Ottessa Moshfegh (My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Lapvona). The winning work will be performed by an actor in spring 2025 and published on Electric Literature. The winning writer will receive $1000 and a free 10-week course with Gotham Writers.
Submit your work here.
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Death in Her Hands, her second and third novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and the novella McGlue. Her most recent novel, Lapvona, was published in June 2022.
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