The 2026 Editor's Choice Publishing Awards

The 2026 Shadow Dog Press Editor’s Choice Publishing Awards for Novellas & Collections CLOSED for submissions on November 10th, 2025.

Collections

Details:
We aim to award transparent publishing contracts with competitive royalties and varied advances, plus 25 copies to 4 exceptional collections per year, and provide a dedicated launch team to craft a tailored, robust launch and marketing campaign.

Eligible Manuscripts:
Eligible Manuscripts include previously unpublished poetry collections, collections of flash fiction, and collections of essays and flash creative/literary nonfiction totaling 50-150 manuscript pages. Individual pieces that have been previously published may be included, provided you hold the rights and proper acknowledgments are made, though we ask that the majority of your manuscript be made up of previously unpublished pieces.

Please read through the manuscript eligibility requirements and full submission guidelines before submitting.

Novellas

Details:

We aim to award transparent publishing contracts with competitive royalties and varied advances plus 25 copies to 2 exceptional novellas per year and provide a dedicated launch team to craft a tailored, robust launch and marketing campaign.

Eligible Manuscripts:

Eligible Manuscripts include previously unpublished novellas of around 10k-35k words. Word cap: 45k.

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