Guest Fiction Judge: Shann Ray
Submit to Crab Creek Review's 2012 Fiction Contest (Sept. 15 - Dec. 15)
Guest Judge: Shann Ray
- Email Submissions Only
- Submit up to 3,000 words of previously unpublished fiction
- $10 submission fee
- All submissions considered for publication
- Winner receives $200 and publication in Crab Creek Review
- Please visit our Contest Page for complete guidelines
Shann Ray’s collection of stories American Masculine
(Graywolf Press), named by Esquire as one of Three Books Every Man Should Read
and selected by Kirkus Reviews as a Best Book of 2011, won the Bread Loaf
Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize and was the winner of an American Book Award
in 2012. Sherman Alexie called it “tough, poetic, and beautiful” and Dave
Eggers said Ray's work is “lyrical, prophetic, and brutal, yet
ultimately hopeful." Ray is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow
and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities,
Research Division. Ray's book of creative nonfiction, leadership and
political theory Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity (Rowman
& Littlefield), was named an Amazon Hot New Release in War and Peace in
Current Events, and engages the question of ultimate forgiveness in the
context of ultimate violence. The winner of the Subterrain
Poetry Prize, the Crab Creek Review Fiction Award, the Pacific
Northwest Inlander Short Story Contest, and the Ruminate Short Story
Prize, his work has appeared in some of the nation’s leading literary
venues including Poetry, McSweeney‘s,
Narrative, Story Quarterly, and Poetry International.
Shann grew up in Montana and spent part of his childhood on the Northern
Cheyenne reservation. He lives with his wife and three daughters in
Spokane, Washington where he teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at
Gonzaga University.
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