Fiction & Poetry Contest

Submissions for Mikrokosmos's annual Fiction and Poetry Contest are now open! The top three winners in each genre will receive a monetary prize, as well as publication in Mikrokosmos Volume 73.

Click here for contest guidelines or to submit your work!

The Fiction and Poetry Contest is reserved for Wichita State University affiliates only (students, staff, faculty, and alumni). For non-WSU affiliates, check out the Submittable page for our online journal, mojo!

We are delighted to introduce Snowden Wright as our esteemed Fiction Judge!

Snowden Wright is the author of the novel American Pop, a Wall Street Journal WSJ+ Book of the Month and NPR Favorite Book of the Year. He has written for The Atlantic, Salon, Esquire, The Oxford American, and the New York Daily News, among other publications, and previously worked as a fiction reader at The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Paris Review. Wright was the Visiting Writer and Prose Faculty at the 2021 Longleaf Writers Conference, and his debut novel, Play Pretty Blues, won the 2012 Summer Literary Seminars’ Graywolf Prize. Recipient of the Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship from the Carson McCullers Center, Wright lives in Yazoo County, Mississippi. His latest novel is The Queen City Detective Agency.

We are excited to announce Craig Blais as our amazing Poetry Judge!

Craig's first collection of poems, About Crows (University of Wisconsin Press 2013), was a Walt Whitman Award and National Poetry Series finalist before being selected by Terrance Hayes for the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His second poetry collection, Moon News (University of Arkansas Press 2021), was named a finalist for the Miller Williams Prize by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Craig’s poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, The Southern Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Massachusetts and teaches writing at MIT.