The Brooklyn based, independent publisher, Radix Media is currently accepting personal essay collections from emerging writers of color for this annual contest. The recipient of The Megaphone Prize will receive a $1000 reward, 20 author copies, and a publicity cycle dedicated to their debut. Author Hanif Abdurraqib will serve as this year’s judge, selecting only one winner. Radix Media has existed as a worker-owned, union printer and independent publisher since 2018. Follow this link to submit your work before the November 15 deadline!
From the publisher:
The Megaphone Prize is an annual contest from Radix Media dedicated to the discovery of timely, urgent, and interrogative collections from emerging writers of color. In 2020, we opened submissions to poetry chapbooks; guest judge Aria Aber chose the collections, There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife (2020) by JinJin Xu and BINT (2021) by Ghinwa Jawhari which were published to great acclaim. In 2021, we opened submissions to short story collections; guest judge Deesha Philyaw picked Zein El-Amine’s Is This How You Eat a Watermelon? which is set to arrive next week.
Emerging writers yet to publish a full-length book in the genre of submission can submit essay collections between 30,000 and 80,000 words for this prize. We like collections where the essays are bound thematically, where there is a strong intention in their curation—where a single pulsating heart beats through the entire manuscript. All submissions can be made via Submittable.