Book Prizes

Guidelines

  1. The Sandeen Prize in Poetry and the Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction are awarded to authors who have published at least one volume of short fiction or one volume of poetry. Vanity press publications do not fulfill this requirement. To submit your work, please include a photocopy of the copyright and the title page of your previous volume.
  2. Although the Sandeen/Sullivan prizes are open to any author who has published at least one book of short stories or one collection of poetry, we will pay special attention to second volumes. Please include a vita and/or a biographical statement which includes your publishing history. We will be glad to see a selection of reviews of the earlier collection.
  3. Please submit two copies of your manuscript and inform us if the manuscript is available on computer disk. Include an SASE for acknowledgment of receipt of your submission. If you would like your manuscript returned, please send an SASE. Manuscripts will not otherwise be returned. A $15 administrative fee should accompany submissions. Make checks or money orders payable to University of Notre Dame. Every contestant will receive a one-year free subscription to the Notre Dame Review.
  4. The volumes of the Sandeen/Sullivan prizes will be published in trade paperback format with a limited signed hardback edition (primarily for libraries). The author will be offered a standard contract with the University of Notre Dame Press. There will be a $1,000 prize, a $500 award, and a $500 advance against royalties from the Notre Dame Press.

The next Richard Sullivan prize submission period will be May 1 - Sept. 1, 2011.
The next Ernest Sandeen prize period is May 1 - Sept. 1, 2012.

Selection of the winners is expected by the end of January following submission. Both the Sandeen and the Sullivan prizes are awarded biannually, but judged quadrennially.

We intend to invite the winners to Notre Dame at the time of publication for a prize presentation and reading.

If you have any further questions, please email creativewriting@nd.edu or write to:

Sandeen/Sullivan Prizes
Attn: Director of Creative Writing
Department of English
University of Notre Dame
356 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN  46556-5639