Welcome to the SLS submission and application dashboard!

Here you may submit work to our annual Literary Contest and/or fill out an application to attend one of our exciting and innovative literary programs.

For program information, visit sumlitsem.org

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The annual SLS writing contests celebrate and reward great unpublished writing, offering winners and runners-up exciting publication opportunities and full & partial fellowships for innovative SLS programs around the world. 

Send us your best Fiction, Poetry, Essay, Flash Fiction, or First Chapter for a chance to publish, travel, and further develop your craft with Summer Literary Seminars.

We look forward to reading your work!

General Guidelines

• Each submission must be unpublished, and accompanied by a $17 USD submission fee.
• You may submit more than once (and in multiple genre categories) so long as each submission is separate, and accompanied by the $17 USD fee.
• You may attach your work as a DOC, DOCX, or PDF. 
• Your name should not appear anywhere on the document itself, please.

Genre-specific guidelines available in each submission form below, and at www.sumlitsem.org/contests