The Twin Bill's fourth annual contest for best baseball fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry is open for submissions! Winners will receive $100 and an engraved baseball trophy. Second place in each category will receive $50, and an honorable mention recieves $25. Each will be published in our January 31 issue online and in print.

All submissions are $10 and will be considered for the contest and the All-Star Game issue. No previously published work or AI.

Submissions close on December 15. Please read below for more information on each category.

Sidd Finch Fiction Prize

We are interested in short stories up to roughly 3,000 words. 

We are looking for writing that displays a strong personal style and a connection to the game of baseball. Most of all, we are excited by stories that situate baseball in a broader context, beyond the action of an individual game or at-bat. The more surprising connection to baseball, the better. 

Jackie Mitchell Creative Nonfiction Prize
Creative Nonfiction at The Twin Bill is a place for true stories, boldly told. We're looking for pieces that tell a story and show growth or change, not recapping a game or moment, but putting it into a broader personal context.

E. Ethelbert Miller Poetry Prize
Please send up to five poems. 

Instead of our usual Opening Day issue, we are releasing a World Baseball Classic issue, meant to celebrate baseball around the world. Whether you are an international writer or want to write about international baseball, we would love to see it. We would particularly like to see translated or multilingual works. For this issue, we will only accept pieces that fall into these guidelines. If you are unsure, please don't hesitate to ask, and we can try to offer some guidance. For more, read our general submission guidelines below. We will open for a normal issue for the All-Star Game. Submissions will close February 1.

Fiction

We are interested in short stories up to 3,000 words. Anything we deem significantly over the word count will not be read out of respect for the number of submissions our editors receive.

We are looking for writing that displays a strong personal style and a connection to the game of baseball. Most of all, we are excited by stories that situate baseball in a broader context, beyond the action of an individual game or at-bat. The more surprising connection to baseball, the better. There is a $25 honorarium per short story.

Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction at The Twin Bill is a place for experimental writing on the modern game. We’re looking for contemporary storytellers who make us question our understanding of America’s pastime.

There are no formal requirements or word count.

There is a $15 honorarium per accepted piece.

Poetry

Please send up to five poems per issue. There is a $10 honorarium per poem.

Guidelines

There is a $3 submission fee. We will publish it online and in our print edition. Writers retain all rights to their work. Please send all written submissions as a Word doc along with a short bio and any social media you want us to plug. We are only interested in previously unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if it is accepted elsewhere. We won't make any decisions until after the submission period has closed. Send any questions or ideas to scott@thetwinbill.com. We would love to hear from you.
 

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