the tsr nonfiction prize
(Formerly the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize)
SUBMIT
(Prize on hiatus until 2025)
$1000- First Prize
$500 - Second Prize
Winning stories will be published in the Winter/Spring issue.
Everyone who submits will receive a copy of the issue in which the winning entries are published.
• 4,500 words max
• $15 per submission
• submission must be unpublished
• submission must be memoir
• one submission per author
• author name should not appear on submission
Make us laugh. Make us cry. Most importantly, tell us a story.
2020
“25 Fragments at 24” | Matthew Hawkins
“Holy” | Rosanna Staffa
2019
“Baab” | Isabel Seabeck
“Urumqi mon amour” | Massoud Hayoun
2018
“Backtracking” | April Sopkin
“Orlando” | Laurel Dixon
2017
“Delivering” | Suzy Vitello
“Sounds Kept in the Valley of the Tongue” | Sarah Cadorette
2016
“Spring, Miss Nelson's Class” | Scott Latta
“Black Sugar” | Elizabeth Robertson Laytin