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The print anthology will be published
on or before December 1, 2022

Still Time to Enter the
2022 Dillydoun Short Story Prize
Closing October 2

Congratulations to the Winners &
Honorable Mentions

1st Place

BV Lawson
Chrysalis

2nd Place

David Restaino
Light Pollution

3rd Place

Maggie Valley
Strange Beginnings Stranger Endings

Honorable Mentions

(alphabetical order)

Jane Breen
The Deadest Thing Alive

Erika Paterson
The Button Basket

Elyse Ribbons
Fertile Poetry

Mehnaz Sahibzada
Crashing

A.R. Salandy
My Friend the Atheist, Ethereal Illusions, Inner Deception

George Wehrfritz
A Very Barthelme Christmas

Cash Prizes

1st Place – $2,000

2nd Place – $1,000

3rd Place – $500

Honorable Mentions – $50

All winners and honorable mentions will be published in the print anthology,
and will receive one (1) free contributor copy.

All other entries will be considered for publication in a TDR Issue or TDR Daily. All TDR publications are considered at the end of the year for our Best of the Best print anthology. The writer has the right to refuse this offer of publication.

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Winners will be announced by August 31, 2022
The print anthology will be published
on or before December 1, 2022

Still Time to Enter the
2022 Dillydoun Short Story Prize
Closing October 2

Please join us in congratulating the authors who made the
2022 Dillydoun Flash Fiction Prize Shortlist

(alphabetical order)

Ann Barker
Growing Old in Izamal

Jane Breen
The Deadest Thing Alive

Eric Cheung
This is Not Rock Bottom

Noah Cohen-Greenberg
The Little Doll

Blake Donaldson
It’s Time

Ilene Dube
Return Visit

Rose Eggert
Truth or Consequences

Debbie Koenig
You Didn’t Ask for This

BV Lawson
Chrysalis

Kevin McIlvoy
To Be Opened in the Event Of

Erika Paterson
The Button Basket

Paloma M Quevedo
Suiza: Invierno 1973

David Restaino
Light Pollution

Elyse Ribbons
Fertile Poetry

Mehnaz Sahibzada
Crashing

A.R. Salandy
My Friend the Atheist, Ethereal Illusions, Inner Deception

Kevin Sandefur
Swimming in the Late Hereafter

Mary Switalski
A Clean Horizon

Maggie Valley
Strange Beginnings Stranger Endings

George Wehrfritz
A Very Barthelme Christmas

Vironika Wilde
Parasitic

Cash Prizes

1st Place – $2,000

2nd Place – $1,000

3rd Place – $500

Honorable Mentions – $50

All winners and honorable mentions will be published in the print anthology,
and will receive one (1) free contributor copy.

All other entries will be considered for publication in a TDR Issue or TDR Daily. All TDR publications are considered at the end of the year for our Best of the Best print anthology. The writer has the right to refuse this offer of publication.

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Winners will be announced by August 31, 2022
The print anthology will be published
on or before December 1, 2022

Still Time to Enter the
2022 Dillydoun Short Story Prize
Closing October 2

Please join us in congratulating the authors who made the
2022 Dillydoun Flash Fiction Prize Longlist

(alphabetical order)

Ann Barker
Growing Old in Izamal

Penelope Bliss
Lighting the Way

Emma Brankin
Run

Jane Breen
The Deadest Thing Alive

Phoebe Brueckner
A Wee Hannah Tale

Eric Cheung
This is Not Rock Bottom

Noah Cohen-Greenberg
The Little Doll

Lisa Cox
Glazed Over

John Dolan
Forgiveness

Blake Donaldson
It’s Time

Ilene Dube
Return Visit

Rose Eggert
Truth or Consequences

Joshua Evans
The Eye of the Storm

Paul Germano
Faculty Lounge

Geoffrey Graves
The Happiest Ever After

Stephen Haines
Labyrinth

Carolina Hamilton
The Wait

Porter Huddleston
A Letting of Violet

Melinda Keathley
A Solution

Greg Klerkx
Paul’s Walk

Debbie Koenig
You Didn’t Ask for This

BV Lawson
Chrysalis

Paul Luikart
Coop and Louie

Megan Mann
Crime Pays

Kevin McIlvoy
To Be Opened in the Event Of

Eric Morris
Studio Apartment-Warming

Pahasa Mu
Charlie Knipper Takes a Tumble

Caswell T. Munjas
The Retreat

Donna Obeid
Paraiso

Heather Osoy
Nourishment

Erika Paterson
The Button Basket

Elaine Pigeon
Down the Metro

Paloma M Quevedo
Suiza: Invierno 1973

Kevin Joseph Reigle
Everclear Nirvana

David Restaino
Light Pollution

Elyse Ribbons
Fertile Poetry

Mehnaz Sahibzada
Crashing

A.R. Salandy
My Friend the Atheist, Ethereal Illusions, Inner Deception

Kevin Sandefur
Swimming in the Late Hereafter

Winslow Schmelling
Found Grocery List

Alan Sincic
Not For Maggie

Byron Spooner
Recovery Room

Mary Switalski
A Clean Horizon

Maggie Valley
Strange Beginnings Stranger Endings

Francis Walsh
The Light

George Wehrfritz
A Very Barthelme Christmas

Paul Weidknecht
Leviathan

Vironika Wilde
Parasitic

Isabel Wolfe-Frischman
Rosalyn

Cash Prizes

1st Place – $2,000

2nd Place – $1,000

3rd Place – $500

Honorable Mentions – $50

All winners and honorable mentions will be published in the print anthology,
and will receive one (1) free contributor copy.

All other entries will be considered for publication in a TDR Issue or TDR Daily. All TDR publications are considered at the end of the year for our Best of the Best print anthology. The writer has the right to refuse this offer of publication.

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Read Issue 19 Now

Publication day is always a happy day here at The Dillydoun Review. Join me in congratulating the talented authors who contributed work to TDR Issue 19.

Short Story
Larry Burns, K.G. Frempah, Lyndon Nicholas, David Waters

Flash Fiction
Margo Griffin, Derek Alan Jones, David Kesmodel

Poetry
Julie Benesh, Mathieu Cailler, Emmie Christie, Philip Coleman, Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi, Lori Heninger, Bob King, Victoria Nordlund

Prose Poetry
Lynda Gene Rymond

Nonfiction
Robert Brewer

Flash Nonfiction
Divya Alamuri, Ervin Brown, Lane Pybas, Sage Tyrtle, Kyla Wilson

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Read Issue 17 Now

Publication day is always a happy day here at The Dillydoun Review. Join me in congratulating the talented authors who contributed work to TDR Issue 17.

Short Story
Soidenet Gue, Michael McGuire, Max Talley

Flash Fiction
Atom Cheung, Alice Orr, Kylee Webb

Poetry
Tobi Alfier, Jeffrey Dreiblatt, Jess Levens, Lilian McCarthy, Laura Ann Reed, Patrick Wilcox

Prose Poetry
Glenn Armstrong, Emily Kingery, Preeti Talwai

Nonfiction
Shannon Barbour, Matthew William Jeng-Zhe Seaton

Flash Nonfiction
Amanda Barnett, Giuseppina Iacono Lobo, James Morena, Sarahmarie Specht-Bird, Guinotte Wise

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Read Issue 16 Now

Publication day is always a happy day here at The Dillydoun Review. Join me in congratulating the talented authors who contributed work to TDR Issue 16.

Short Story
Haley Glickman, Phoebe Baker Hyde, Byron Spooner

Flash Fiction
Michael Edwards, Kyle Glover, Kevin Joseph Reigle

Poetry
Dale Cottingham, Darren C. Demaree, Jeffrey Dreiblatt, Philip Jason, Jess Levens, Anthony Salandy

Prose Poetry
John Chambers, Kate Sullivan

Nonfiction
Patricia Feinman, Linda S. Gunther

Flash Nonfiction
Kyle Ingrid Johnson, Victoria Lewis, Ashley McCurry, Yelizaveta P. Renfro, Sue William Silverman

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Congratulations to the Winners & Honorable Mentions for the
2021 Dillydoun International Fiction Prize

We’re happy to announce that The Dillydoun Prize Anthology Volume 1 is now
Available to Purchase on Amazon.

If you’d like to read the Winning & Honorable Mentions Online,
click the links/or cover images below.

1st Place
Alejandro de Gutierre
In the Shadow

2nd Place
Kerri Schlottman
A Daytime Moon

3rd Place
Christopher Whyland
The Exit Guide

Honorable Mentions

Nora Studholme
The Scales

Cynthia Singerman
The Most Interesting Man in the World

Alexandra Gowling
After the Siege of Syracuse

Rudy Ruiz
Allegiance

Anna Millard
Mary Oliver Is Dead and I Am Traveling to Paris or How an Atheist Prays

Byron Spooner
The Acrobat Rides the Horse in Sequins

R.w. Meek
The Terrible Degas

Les Zig
The Slush Pile Demolitionist

Ellen Sollinger Walker
Undercover

Emma Gilberthorpe
A Visitation of Swallows


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The following is a projected publishing schedule for monthly issues of The Dillydoun Review in 2022:

  • Issue 12 – January 11
  • Issue 13 – February 8
  • Issue 14 – March 8
  • Issue 15 – April 5
  • Issue 16 – May 10
  • Issue 17 – June 7
  • Issue 18 – July 5
  • Issue 19 – August 9
  • Issue 20 – September 6
  • Issue 21 – October 4
  • Issue 22 – November 8
  • Issue 23 – December 6

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Congratulations to the Winners & Honorable Mentions for the
2021 Dillydoun International Fiction Prize

We’re happy to announce that The Dillydoun Prize Anthology Volume 1 is now
Available to Purchase on Amazon.

If you’d like to read the Winning & Honorable Mentions Online,
click the links/or cover images below.

1st Place
Alejandro de Gutierre
In the Shadow

2nd Place
Kerri Schlottman
A Daytime Moon

3rd Place
Christopher Whyland
The Exit Guide

Honorable Mentions

Nora Studholme
The Scales

Cynthia Singerman
The Most Interesting Man in the World

Alexandra Gowling
After the Siege of Syracuse

Rudy Ruiz
Allegiance

Anna Millard
Mary Oliver Is Dead and I Am Traveling to Paris or How an Atheist Prays

Byron Spooner
The Acrobat Rides the Horse in Sequins

R.w. Meek
The Terrible Degas

Les Zig
The Slush Pile Demolitionist

Ellen Sollinger Walker
Undercover

Emma Gilberthorpe
A Visitation of Swallows


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Please join me in congratulating the writers who made the longlist for the
2021 Dillydoun International Fiction Prize.

Winners will be announced on or before December 31, 2021.

names appear in no particular order

Alejandro de Gutierre – In the Shadow
Kevin Reigle – Early Bird Café – Read the Story Here
Amina Gautier – Simple Care
Porter Huddleston – A View of Bea Benton
Les Zigomanis – The Slush Pile Demolitionist
R.w. Meek – The Terrible Degas
Byron Spooner – The Acrobat Rides the Horse in Sequins
Tyler Kinchen – Two Brothers, Their Father Called Them
Kerri Schlottman – A Daytime Moon
Nora Studholme – The Scales
Rudy Ruiz – Allegiance
Dustin James Gillham – Marcel’s Final Monologue
Brooks Carver – No Visitors, Please
Alexandra Gowling – After the Seige of Syracuse
Ellen Sollinger Walker – Undercover
Stephanie Bousley – Nepali for Duct Tape
Gillian Wiley Rose – Next September – Read the Story Here
Stephen Policoff – Blue Like an Evening Cloud
Sidney Wollmuth – The Child – Read the Story Here
Cynthia Singerman – The Most Interesting Man in the World
Anna Millard – Mary Oliver Is Dead and I Am Traveling to Paris or How an Atheist Prays
LM Wright – Space Bounty – Read the Story Here
Christopher Whyland – The Exit Guide
Emma Gilberthorpe – A Visitation of Swallows
Joshua Levy – Strange Gifts

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Welcome to the 2021 Dillydoun International Fiction Prize

The competition is now closed

We wish all entrants the best of luck!

Winners will be announced by November 30, 2021

Cash Prizes

1st Place – $2,000

2nd Place – $1,000

3rd Place – $500

Honorable Mentions – $50

All winners and honorable mentions will be published in the print anthology,
and will receive one (1) free contributor copy.

All other entries will be considered for publication in a TDR Issue or TDR Daily. All TDR publications are considered at the end of the year for our Best of the Best print anthology. The writer has the right to refuse this offer of publication.

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Please help us welcome The Dillydoun Review’s new Poetry Editor, Patti White. We look forward to working with you Patti!

Patti White is the author of four collections of poems, Tackle Box (2002), Yellow Jackets (2007), Chain Link Fence (2013), and Pink Motel (2017), all from Anhinga Press. Her poetry has appeared in journals including Iowa Review, North American Review, River Styx, Nimrod, DIAGRAM, Forklift Ohio, Missouri Review, Parcel, McNeese Review, Slippery Elm, Vine Leaves, Waccamaw, and New Madrid; her nonfiction in Gulf Coast, Miracle Monocle, and Mulberry Fork Review. Her most recent publication is Particularly Dangerous Situation (Arc Pair Press, 2020), an experimental novella. She lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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We are looking for a group of Regular Contributors (on a volunteer basis) to help diversify TDR Daily.

Currently, we publish fiction, flash fiction, poetry, prose poetry, nonfiction, and flash nonfiction five days a week, and will continue to focus on those categories. But, we’re also interested in developing long-term relationships with writers who are interested in publishing a series of four related articles/essays/reviews/ interviews (insert brilliant new idea here), about 1,000 words each, to be published once a month.

What Are We Looking For?

We are interested in writers who wish to Pitch an idea for a four-part series of related articles on a particular topic.

What Topics Are We Looking For?

Possible topics? Well, what’s your specialty? Your passion? Some topic suggestions (but not limited to):

Race, Gender, Identity, Culture, Academic, Pedagogy
The Craft of Writing, The Art of Reading,
Conversation Between Writers
Conversation Between Artists
Interviews, Reviews, Opinion Pieces
Historic, Scientific, Economic, Technology

This is a new project for us, so we’re sure the idea will evolve over time but this seems like a good start.

If you’re interested in pitching an idea for a series, you may do so here: Pitch It!

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It’s been about six months since we sent out our ‘weekly’ newsletter. I know, right? Finally, it’s here. A lot has changed since the first newsletter. Hope you enjoy catching up with what’s new and what’s on the horizon for TDR.

Read Our Newsletter Here:

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The Dillydoun Review submission categories underwent a massive overhaul today in an effort to address requests from contributors. We want to make the submission process easy and enjoyable while also tailoring it to meet the needs of as many writers as possible.

Submission Categories

Each category now has its own, simplified link on Submittable:

Notice anything different? We added a category! Flash Nonfiction. Several writers have emailed to ask if we accept super short nonfiction submissions and the answer (now) is yes. Yes, we do.

Fast Track / Feedback Changes

We also made some changes to what was previously known as the Fast Track / Feedback option. As many of you know, all the submission categories listed above are free. We never charge a submission fee for regular submissions. However, when the financial reality of trying to keep a growing literary magazine afloat met changing contributor wants and needs… our Fast Track / Feedback option was born.

It’s been a great way for us to get to know many of you and it’s a supremely kind, generous way to support The Dillydoun Review. But, as with many things, the Fast Track / Feedback option wasn’t without its flaws.

We Came Up With an Answer

The old Fast Track / Feedback option has now undergone a bisection! Here are the details:

FAST TRACK OPTION

For Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry –
Receive a Response Within 24 Hours No Feedback Provided – $15

Our typical response time is 12 weeks or more. For those of you who want a response within 24 hours and aren’t interested in feedback, the Fast Track option is for you.

FEEDBACK OPTION

For Fiction and Nonfiction –
Receive Detailed Feedback Within 1 – 3 Days – $25

We tailored the Feedback Option to cater to those writers who are less interested in publication and more interested in in-depth feedback. Sure, there is an option for contributors to indicate Yes (I’m interested in being considered for publication) and No (I just want feedback); but for those who are really interested in someone carefully studying their work and providing a considered response, the Feedback option is for you.

Here’s What We Hope

We hope these custom options allow you to tailor the TDR experience to fit your own creative needs. You told us what you wanted. We listened. And then, we did something about it! So, yay! On the horizon are even more changes. We’re in the process of developing one-on-one, mini-virtual workshops. The idea of meeting you in a virtual safe-space to talk in detail about your work is thrilling (for us and, hopefully, for you).

Thanks so much for your continued interest in The Dillydoun Review!

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Thanks for your patience! I *think* all author bios have been added now. If you are a TDR contributor, either Issues or TDR Daily, your name should be listed. If you don’t see your name (or if there is an error), please send me an email: thedillydounreview@gmail.com.

Also, please feel free to email with updates, future successes, and new publications! I’d love to keep in touch with you and am happy to make future changes.

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