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IR Fiction Prize 2016 Twitter Contest!!! #IRrewind

Remember watching VHS tapes rewind? Like when Jack and Rose are alone in freezing waters but are saved by the magically appearing Titanic, which bursts up from the bottom of the sea only to take them back to Southampton. Or like watching the truce between the Montagues and Capulets slowly break apart by the spontaneous re-animations of Romeo and Juliet.

This time, we at Indiana Review are asking for you to not only reverse a story, but also do it in under 140 characters. Take a classic tale and tweet it from finish to start. Remember to always hashtag the title of the work as well as the official hashtag #IRrewind.

Some Examples:

“The story of a jaded boy who leaves his family to go to college and join the fencing team #CatcherintheRye #IRrewind”

 

“A scientist buries different body parts in the cemetery and they all grow into people who live happy lives #Frankenstein #IRrewind”

 

“A teenage wizard is robbed of his magical talent until he must resign himself to living under a family’s stairs #HarryPotter #IRrewind”

 

After the deadline, October 17 @ 12 PM EST, the IR team will pick out our one, favorite rewind, the writer of which will receive free entry into the 2016 Fiction Prize and an IR Prize Pack. While there will only be one winner, we will also be awarding several runner-ups IR Prize Packs as well. This will include the glorious privilege of being re-tweeted and mentioned in future blog posts from Indiana Review.

 

If you aren’t a 90’s kid and can’t remember how to rewind, you can always submit to general submissions or to the 2016 Fiction Prize, judged by the wonderful Aimee Bender! More information can be found on our website: https://indianareview.org/contests/

 

Good luck and remember to be kind and rewind!

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2015 Fiction Prize Twitter Contest!

 

According to Kevin Brockmeier, “The title is the target toward which you hit the arrow of your story.” Well, Indiana Review is giving you the opportunity to test your aim for a shot at some great IR prizes. For this Twitter contest, we’re challenging you to title our story.

And our twitter story is. . .

You were stranded on a desert island with a copy of IR and a newborn piglet. You did the only thing you could do to survive. #IRFictionPrize

To enter this contest, find one of the tweets over at our Twitter account @IndianaReview, “quote retweet” us your most inventive, hilarious, heart-breaking titles to our story. Make sure to include #IRFictionPrize.Twitter Screenshot

Our favorite titles will win free entry to our 2015 1K fiction prize, a grab bag of Indiana Review swag, and a notable mention on our blog! Twitter contest entries are due by October 20, so get to work!

Good luck titling! And don’t forget to submit to our 2015 Fiction Prize judged by the incredible Laura van den Berg. The Prize submission deadline is October 31 at Midnight EST.

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2015 1/2 K Twitter Contest!

A work of art doesn’t have to be long to be good. Our ½ K prize proves that good stories, much like chicken nuggets, come in all shapes and sizes. Below are thirteen novels and epic poems you might have read, or pretended to have read, at some time or another. We want you to choose one and compress the whole thing into a one-tweet synopsis and send it to us @IndianaReview by July 22. Be sure to use the hashtag #IRHalfKPrize, too, so we’ll see it. Here are your options:

  1. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
  2. Ulysses by James Joyce
  3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  4. 1984 by George Orwell
  5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  6. Inferno by Dante
  7. The Odyssey by Homer
  8. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  9. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

We’ll retweet the winners and runners-up, and award prizes. Our top choices will also get to see their tweets in a blog post on our website!

Oh, yeah!

The three most gifted literary shrinkers will receive an IR prize pack of our favorite back issues and official IR beer koozies.

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Good luck with your compressing! And be sure to submit to Indiana Review’s 2015 ½ K Prize.

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2015 Poetry Prize Exquisite Corpse!

Our #IRPoetryPrize Exquisite Corpse is now closed–thank you to all who participated! We’ve enjoyed reading the lines you’ve come up with and seeing how much inspiration you got from that starting line. We’re still accepting submissions for our 2015 Poetry Prize, judged by Eduardo C. Corral, who wrote the line that started our Exquisite Corpse.

Important update! We have extended the deadline for our 2015 Poetry Prize to April 15th, 2015. You can find the guidelines and submit here.

You can read all of the responses on our Twitter, but here are some of our favorites!

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Poetry Prize Twitter Exquisite Corpse!

Our 2015 Poetry Prize is underway! To celebrate, we’re going to play a little game of Exquisite Corpse on Twitter. Exquisite Corpse is a game of collaborative storytelling in which each player contributes one line of a poem at a time. On Twitter, the challenge will be keeping each line within 140 characters.

Here’s how it’ll work: We’ll post the first line of a poem, written by our very our Prize judge Eduardo Corral, on Twitter, with the hashtag #IRPoetryPrize. Then you, our lovely Twitter friends, will reply to that tweet with the next line of the poem, and the next contributor will respond with the next line, and so on. Remember to use the hashtag #IRPoetryPrize so that we know you’re participating!

We’ll retweet your responses, and the best lines will be posted right here on the Indiana Review blog!

So let’s make something. Check out Eduardo’s first line here!