SC Academy of Authors Sponsors Jasper's Combahee Prize for a SC Writer of Color in this year's Fall Lines

The Jasper Project is delighted to announce that the South Carolina Academy of Authors will be the sponsor of the 2023 Combahee Prize for a SC writer of color in this year’s Fall Lines – a literary convergence journal.

Founded in 1986, the South Carolina Academy of Authors (SCAA) is a nonprofit organization which recognizes distinguished South Carolina writers, living and deceased, through induction into the Academy. It also supports developing writers with its Coker Fellowships and Student Prizes in Poetry and Short Fiction. 

"The SCAA is very pleased to join with The Jasper Project in supporting the Combahee River Prize,” says Marybeth Evans, chairman of its Board of Governors. “The Academy is dedicated to nurturing and supporting South Carolina’s literary talent. It deeply values the multicultural diversity displayed in the work of all the extraordinary writers in our state."

The SC Academy of Authors joins the Friends of Richland Library in sponsoring these three prizes: the Broad River Prize for Prose, the Saluda River Prize for Poetry, and the Combahee River Prize for a SC Writer of Color in Poetry or Prose. Each prize offers $250 cash and publication in Fall Lines - a literary convergence, volume X.

The deadline for submitting your work for consideration in this year’s Fall Lines - a literary convergence is July 31, 2023.

Submit to Fall Lines volume X here.

Call for Poetry, Essay, and Short Fiction Submissions for anthology, "A Sense of the Midlands"

The smell of powdered sugar on elephant ears at the State Fair ...

The sound of rain dancing on your grandmother's tin roof ...

The taste of a sun-warmed strawberry picked and eaten straight from the vine ...

The sight of the mist that folds into clouds over the conjunction of the Broad and Saluda Rivers ...

The tickle of summer sweat as it skittles down your back on a famously hot Columbia day ...

All these sensations and more make us realize how unique and delicious living in the South Carolina Midlands is.

Call for Submissions

Muddy Ford Press

is accepting submissions of poetry, essays, and short fiction exploring the

sensory world of the South Carolina Midlands

for an anthology tentatively titled

A Sense of the Midlands

Taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell

Submissions should deal with how the sensory experiences of living in the

South Carolina Midlands

grounds, changes, challenges, and enriches us

Submission is open to residents of

Richland, Lexington, Newberry, Fairfield, Calhoun, Saluda, Orangeburg, and Kershaw Counties

  • Short fiction – no more than 2500 words
  • Essays – no more than 1200 words
  • Poetry – no more than 5 pages

Submit in a standard 12 pt. Word document to Publisher@MuddyFordPress.com & include a cover sheet with your name, address, email, phone, & the title of your work

Deadline is October 1, 2012

Questions? Contact editor@JasperMagazine.com