Book Contests
2024/2025 Fiction and Memoir Contest
Memoir and Fiction Contest featured on Reedsy.com, in Poets & Writers Magazine March/Apr, Sept/Oct 2023, in New York Review of Books May 11, 25 and June 8, 2023, in Writer’s Digest Sept/Oct, and in kindlepreneur.com 2022.
We are a boutique publishing company that is dedicated to amplifying the voices of contemporary writers who are nomads and explorers of language, form, and the psyche. High-quality “unpublished” manuscript submissions of memoir, fiction and non-fiction entrusted to us will be read, sorted and pondered by our esteemed author, Jacqueline Gay Walley
Entry Requirements for 2024/2025 Contests: 50 pages double spaced + a 1-page synopsis of story via email at “Enter here”
Entry Fee: $35
Deadline: October 1, 2024
Award: $1000 + *possible book publication/distribution in ebook and paperback formats
or Send your document to hello@imlpublications.com
or Pay through ZELLE to hello@imlpublications.com
or mail check to:
IML Publications c/o Gay Walley, 182 Second Avenue, NY NY 10003 USA
Announcing 2023/2024
Winner of
Fiction and Memoir Contest
WINNER: Bromme Cole’s When Soft Voices Die
HONORABLE MENTION: Dawn Yackzan
FINALISTS: (in alphabetical order)
NOVEL:
Barbara de la Cuesta’s The Twenty and One Nights
Lisa Friedlander’s The Bird Lover
James Makor’s Lightning in the Draught
Eliza Mood’s Under the Forbidden Tree
Osman Njai’s Before We Became Men
Dawn Yackzan’s The Grasshopper Girls
MEMOIR:
Michael Bauer’s Born Without a Race
Molly Gandour’s Vertigo: Sexual Assault Aftermath
Alyssa Osvog’s Stay: Connecting with Energy in Recovery
Dawn Service’s Not My Shame
Mike Shangkuan’s The Good Chinese Son: from the Ivy League to the Berlin Dungeons
Dawn Yackzan’s Precious Crazy
Announcing:
Memoir and Fiction Winners and Finalists 2022
We are a boutique publishing company that is dedicated to amplifying the voices of contemporary writers who are nomads and explorers of language, form, and the psyche. High-quality manuscript submissions of memoir and fiction entrusted to us have been read, sorted and pondered by our esteemed author, Jacqueline Gay Walley, and are now aligned into the winners and finalists. Thank you to all the contestants for joining us!
Memoir Winners:
IML’s Nomad Motif: Sandra Botnen’s Anything is Possible: A Woman’s Life Before, During and After the Circus
Grace in Writing Style: Victoria Adler’s When We Knew Nothing
Finalists in Alphabetical Order:
Demetrius Butler’s Hoes Don’t Exist Monsters Do
Barbara de la Cuesta’s A Certain Height Above the Earth
Olivia Harris’s I’m Not Ready Yet
Jacqueline Monteath’s America Unmapped
Alysa Osvog’s Traipsing Down a Warpath of Addiction
Dawn Yackzan’s Precious Crazy (First Alternate)
Fiction Winner: Khaak by Mahdi (due to it’s indigenous content, to be published jointly with IML and Global Voice Foundation)
Finalists:
Eliza Mood’sVolcano Letters
Alysa Osvog’s Unforgettables
Katarzyna Janicka’s Maya
Annie Dawd’s Paradise Undone
Martha Novak Burgess’s Blood Mountain
Marcia Peck’s The Unattended Moment (First Alternate)