Indiana Review currently runs four prizes annually. All prizes have a $20 entry fee, which includes a journal subscription. All entries are considered for publication, and the winner receives publication and a $1,000 honorarium.
Please see our Submittable page for complete guidelines.
Feb 1-Mar 31: Creative Nonfiction Prize & Poetry Prize
July 1-Aug 15: 1/2 K Prize (any genre, 500 word limit)
Oct 15-Nov 30: Fiction Prize
2023: "Jamie Takes the Wand" by Emma Binder, judge Samrat Upadhyay
2022: "Two People" by Ben Francisco, judge K-Ming Chang
2021: “Séance” by Suphil Lee Park, judge Kali Fajardo-Anstine
2020: “Air Hunger” by María José Candela, judge Angela Flournoy
2019: “Revival” by Caroline K. Fulford, judge R.O. Kwon
2016: “Nothing Before Something” by Kimberly King Parsons, judge Aimee Bender
2015: “Be Tanly” by Simon Han, judge Laura van den Berg
2014: “The Passeur” by Erin Lyons, judge Roxane Gay
2013: “Boomerang” by Summer Wood, judge Claire Messud
2012: “Mavak Tov” by CB Anderson, judge Dana Johnson
2023: "Kings County" by Robert Wood Lynn, judge Tommye Blount
2022: "Abecedarian at the End of the World" by Donte Collins, judge Billy-Ray Belcourt
2021: “What Happens Next” by Sarah Burke, judge Zeina Hashem Beck
2020: “I Looked at You and I Said Yes” by Wo Chan, judge Javier Zamora
2019: “[Triangle]” by Bridget O’Bernstein, judge Nuar Alsadir
2018: “Elegy as Conditionality: Hornets Building” by Jan Verberkmoes, judge Gabrielle Calvovoressi
2017: “Apocalypse Dream Again” by Kristen Steenbeeke, judge Ross Gay
2016: “His Father’s Wake” by Alicia Wright, judge Camille Rankine
2015: “Between the Bloodhounds and My Shrinking Mouth” by Caitlin Scarano, judge Eduardo C. Corral
2014: “2006” by Cecilia Woloch, judge Eileen Myles
2013: “The Gun Joke” by Jamaal May, judge Nikky Finney
2012: “The Sublime” by Joshua Gottlieb-Miller, judge Dean Young
2023: "The Sound of Burning" by Kristi D. Osorio, judge Camonghne Felix
2021: "To Speak, To Sing" by Rose Nguyen, judge Anna Qu
2020: “On Desire” by Caitlin McGill, judge Bassey Ikpi
2019: “Lobster Shy” by Keith S. Wilson, judge Hanif Abdurraqib
2015: “Black (in) Time” by John Murillo III, judge Kiese Laymon
2023: "the journalist asks if i’m angry that i’ve never met my father” by Daniel B. Summerhill, judge Jasmine Sawers
2022: “roe” by Sophia Holtz, judge Geffrey Davis
2021: “Not forgetting, but choosing to” by Sanam Sheriff, judge Taylor Johnson
2020: “Maximum Overdrive” by Connor Yeck, judge Tiana Clark
