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Scott Fitzgerald, Louis L’Amour, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Tyler, and Kurt Vonnegut, among so many others.</p> <p>“This contest is a tribute to the <i>Post</i>’s legacy of featuring the most renowned American fiction writers,” says Steven Slon, former editorial director and associate publisher for <i>The Saturday Evening Post</i>. “Our goal is to continue the tradition of finding and featuring compelling stories and the authors behind them.”</p> <p>The winning story will be published in the January/February 2026 edition of <i>The Saturday Evening Post</i>, and the author will receive $1,000. Five runners-up will each receive $200 and will also have their stories featured online.</p> <h2><b>Submission Guidelines</b></h2> <ul> <li>Stories must be between 1,500 and 5,000 words long.</li> <li>All stories must be previously unpublished (excluding personal website and/or blog publication).</li> <li>No extreme profanity or graphic sex scenes.</li> <li>All stories must be submitted by their author in print or in Microsoft Word or PDF format with author’s name, address, telephone number, and email address on the first page.</li> <li>Entries should be character- or plot-driven pieces in any genre of fiction.</li> <li>Think local. The <i>Post</i> has historically played a role in defining what it means to be an American. Your story should in some way touch upon the publication’s mission: Celebrating America — past, present, and future.</li> <li>All entries must be received electronically or be postmarked by<strong> July 1, 2025</strong>.</li> <li>There is a $10 entry fee, which helps defray a portion of the cost of operating the contest.</li> </ul> <p>Electronic entries are preferred, but we understand that they are not always possible. To enter by mail, send your manuscript, cover letter, and a check for $10 made out the The Saturday Evening Post to</p> <p>The Saturday Evening Post<br /> Great American Fiction Contest<br /> 3520 Guion Road<br /> Indianapolis, IN 46222</p> <p>Manuscripts will not be returned.</p> <p><strong>Read previous years’ winning stories:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/12/2025-great-american-fiction-contest-meet-the-winners/">2025 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/12/2024-great-american-fiction-contest-meet-the-winners/">2024 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/12/2023-great-american-fiction-contest-meet-the-winners/">2023 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/12/2022-great-american-fiction-contest-meet-the-winners/">2022 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/2021-great-american-fiction-contest-meet-the-winners/">2021 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/12/2020-great-american-fiction-contest-meet-the-winners/">2020 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/12/meet-the-2019-great-american-fiction-contest-winners/">2019 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/12/21/in-the-magazine/fiction-in-the-magazine/2018-winners.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2018 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2016/12/22/post-fiction/contemporary-fiction-art-entertainment/meet-2017-great-american-fiction-contest-prize-winners.html">2017 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=112990">2016 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=105532">2015 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=95102">2014 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=95131">2013 Great American Fiction Contest Winners</a></li> </ul> <p><a title="Fiction Contest Anthologies" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=105001" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Get all of the collected works below plus more of the best short stories now.</a></p> <h4>2025 Winners</h4> <h4>Winner:</h4> <ul> <li>“Magic Bus” (COMING JANUARY 3)<br /> by Gary Wadley</li> </ul> <h4>Runners-up:</h4> <ul> <li>“Ruthie’s Garden” (COMING JANUARY 10)<br /> by James M. Kerr</li> <li>“The Breakout” (COMING JANUARY 17)<br /> by Scott Davis Hendrix</li> <li>“The Winds” (COMING JANUARY 24)<br /> by Dana Jaye Cadman</li> <li>“Orion’s Belt” (COMING JANUARY 31)<br /> by Dana Formby</li> <li>“Exasperated Children” (COMING FEBRUARY 7)<br /> by Katrina Hutchins</li> </ul> <h4>2024 Winners</h4> <h4>Winner:</h4> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/12/shanda/">Shanda</a>”<br /> by Sophie Newman</li> </ul> <h4>Runners-up:</h4> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/01/old-growth/">Old Growth</a>”<br /> by Neko Catanzaro</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=1166349">White Horse Running</a>”<br /> by Joyce Donovan</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/01/the-pinch-eyed-dog/">The Pinch-Eyed Dog</a>”<br /> by Joyce Finn</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/01/vj-day/">V.J. Day</a>”<br /> by Gary Wadley</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/02/earle-or-earle-elaborates-on-electrodynamics-and-other-such-ecstatic-evangelisms/">Earle Elaborates on Electrodynamics (and Other Such Ecstatic Evangelisms)</a>”<br /> by Ethan Cunningham</li> </ul> <h4>2023 Winners</h4> <h4>Winner:</h4> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/12/2023-great-american-fiction-contest-winner-shush-shush/">Shush, Shush</a>”<br /> by Michael Mack</li> </ul> <h4>Runners-up:</h4> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/01/daddy-play-that-babalu/">Daddy, Play That Babalu</a>”<br /> by Doug Lane</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=1148117">The Undertaker’s Wife</a>”<br /> by Lisa Lebduska</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/01/the-ripening/">The Ripening</a>”<br /> by Alan Sincic</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/01/scablands/">Scablands</a>”<br /> by Gay Degani</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/02/beast-of-argento/">Beast of Argento</a>”<br /> by Caroline Frost</li> </ul> <h4>2022 Winners</h4> <h4>Winner:</h4> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/12/2022-great-american-fiction-contest-winner-dust/">Dust</a>”<br /> by Dana Fitz Gale</li> </ul> <h4>Runners-up:</h4> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/01/francine/">Francine</a>”<br /> by Ginger Dehlinger</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/01/candle/">Candle</a>”<br /> by Jackson Jodie Daviss</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/01/misquoting-t-s-eliot/">Misquoting T.S. Eliot</a>”<br /> by Pamela McFarland</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/01/cassidy-crook-plays-the-villain/">Cassidy Crook Plays the Villain</a>”<br /> by Mary Liza Hartong</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/02/waiting/">Waiting</a>”<br /> by Kevin Sandefur</li> </ul> <h4>2021 Winners</h4> <p><strong>Winner:</strong></p> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/the-house-on-willow-street/">The House on Willow Street</a>”<br /> by Lynn K. Sheridan</li> </ul> <p><strong>Runners-up:</strong></p> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/the-piney-vista/">The Piney Vista</a>”<br /> by Alan Sincic</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/pipe-dream-paste/">Pipe Dream Paste</a>”<br /> by Robert Morgan Fisher</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/the-kitchens/">The Kitchens</a>”<br /> by Barbara Briggs Ward</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/katianna-milena-bovinich/">Katianna Milena Bovinich</a>”<br /> by Christine Benedict</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/02/the-self-made-man/">The Self-Made Man</a>”<br /> by Jennifer Slee</li> </ul> <h4><a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/12/2020-great-american-fiction-contest-meet-the-winners/">2020 Winners</a></h4> <p><strong>Winner:</strong></p> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/12/thornhope-indiana/">Thornhope, Indiana</a>”<br /> by Jon Gingerich</li> </ul> <p><strong>Runners-Up:</strong></p> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/01/fifty-million-cents/">Fifty Million Cents</a>”<em> </em><br /> by Amanda Irene Rush</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/01/all-happy-families/">All Happy Families</a>”<br /> by Jesse Sherwood</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/01/dont-have-to-be-crying/">Don’t Have to Be Crying</a>”<br /> by Patricia Perry Donovan</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/01/the-silhouette/">The Silhouette</a>”<br /> by Kate Brett Lewis</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/01/a-man-of-few-words/">A Man of Few Words</a>”<br /> by Cathy Mellett</li> </ul> <h4><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/12/meet-the-2019-great-american-fiction-contest-winners/">2019 Winners</a></h4> <p><strong>Winner:</strong></p> <ul> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/12/mount-to-the-sky/">Mount to the Sky</a>“<em> </em><br /> by Michael Caleb Tasker</li> </ul> <p><strong>Runners-Up:</strong></p> <ul> <li>“Charlotte’s Mother” <em><br /> </em>by Jeffrey Ricker</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/01/fishing-for-owls/">Fishing for Owls</a>”<br /> by Aimee Parkison</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/01/parting/">Parting</a>”<br /> by Marlene Olin</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/01/rising-to-the-surface/">Rising to the Surface</a>”<br /> by Rachel Rigolino</li> <li>“<a href="https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/02/immigrant-emigrant/">Immigrant/Emigrant</a>” <em><br /> </em>by James Vescovi</li> </ul> <h4 style="margin-top: 1.125em;"><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/12/21/in-the-magazine/fiction-in-the-magazine/2018-winners.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2018 Winners</a></h4> <h5>Winner:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/12/29/post-fiction/contemporary-fiction-art-entertainment/open-season-cafe-rumba.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open Season at the Café Rumba</a>”<br /> by Julia Rocchi</li> </ul> <h5>Runners-Up:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/into-each-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Into Each Life</a>”<br /> by Benjamin Kilgore</li> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/lloyd-and-mary" target="_blank" rel="no opener noopener noreferrer">Lloyd and Mary</a>”<br /> by Michelle Reiter</li> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/shackled" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Shackled</a>”<br /> by Myrna West</li> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/skyscrapers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Skyscrapers</a>”<br /> by Bari Lynn Hein</li> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/landing-called-compromise" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Landing Called Compromise</a>”<br /> by Donna Baier Stein</li> </ul> <h4 style="margin-top: 1.125em;"><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=119216" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2017 Winners</a></h4> <h5>Winner:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a title="Crack" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=119165" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Crack</a>”<br /> by Myles McDonough</li> </ul> <h5>Runners-Up:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a title="The Awkwards" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=119369" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Awkwards</a>”<br /> by Joyce Barbagallo</li> <li>“<a title="Artist in Residence" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=119701" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Artist in Residence </a>”<br /> by Christine Venzon</li> <li>“<a title="Long Past Time" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=119876" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Long Past Time</a>”<br /> by James Reed</li> <li>“<a title="Getting Home" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=120001" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Getting Home</a>”<br /> by Mark Fabiano</li> <li>“<a title="Sherry at the Knights of Columbus" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=120134" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sherry at the Knights of Columbus </a>”<br /> by Steve Young</li> </ul> <h4 style="margin-top: 1.125em;"><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=112990">2016 Winners</a></h4> <h5>Winner:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a title="Zelda Burning" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=112821" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zelda, Burning</a>”<br /> by Celeste McMaster</li> </ul> <h5>Runners-Up:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a title="The Magic Circle" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=113029" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Magic Circle</a>”<br /> by Ruth Knafo Setton</li> <li>“<a title="A Ring Some Pearls Perhaps a Watch" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=113035" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Ring, Some Pearls, Perhaps a Watch</a>”<br /> by Marlene Olin</li> <li>“<a title="Welcoming Death" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=113040" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Welcoming Death</a>”<br /> by Jake Teeny</li> <li>“<a title="Five in the Fifth" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=113048" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Five in the Fifth</a>”<br /> by Eileen M. Hopsicker</li> <li>“<a title="A Short Ride to Mercy" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=113056" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Short Ride to Mercy</a>”<br /> by Jim Gray</li> </ul> <h4 style="margin-top: 1.125em;"><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=105532">2015 Winners</a></h4> <h5>Winner:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a title="Omeer's Mangoes" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=105441" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Omeer’s Mangoes</a>”<br /> by N. West Moss</li> </ul> <h5>Runners-Up:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a title="Sideshow" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=105517" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sideshow </a>”<br /> by Sarah Gerard</li> <li>“<a title="Party of Two" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=105515" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Party of Two</a>”<br /> by Mathieu Cailler</li> <li>“<a title="Nothing but the Truth" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=105513" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nothing but the Truth</a>”<br /> by Jim Gray</li> <li>“<a title="1939 Plymouth, or The Bootlegger’s Driver" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=105511" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">1939 Plymouth, or The Bootlegger’s Driver</a>”<br /> by Lisa Trank</li> <li>“<a title="The Three of Us" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=105519" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Three of Us</a>”<br /> by Myrna West</li> </ul> <h4 style="margin-top: 1.125em;"><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014-fiction-contest-winners" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2014 Winners</a></h4> <h5>Winner:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/flbk/2014-Fiction-Contest/The_War_at_Home-by_Linda_Davis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The War at Home</a>”<br /> by Linda Davis</li> </ul> <h5>Runners-Up:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/flbk/2014-Fiction-Contest/This_Elegant_Ruin-by_Erin_Bartels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This Elegant Ruin</a>”<br /> by Erin Bartels</li> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/flbk/2014-Fiction-Contest/Auld_Lang_Syne-by_Stephen_G_Eoannou/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Auld Lang Syne</a>”<br /> by Stephen G. Eoannou</li> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/flbk/2014-Fiction-Contest/The_Answer_Box-by_Morgan_Hunt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Answer Box</a>”<br /> by Morgan Hunt</li> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/flbk/2014-Fiction-Contest/The_Talent_Scout-by_Christine_Venzon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Talent Scout</a>”<br /> by Christine Venzon</li> <li>“<a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/flbk/2014-Fiction-Contest/12_Miles_48_Stops-by_Robert_Steven_Williams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twelve Miles, 48 Stops</a>”<br /> by Robert Steven Williams</li> </ul> <h4 style="margin-top: 1.125em;"><a href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/12/18/art-entertainment/contemporary-fiction-art-entertainment/fiction-contest-winners-2013.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2013 Winners</a></h4> <h5>Winner:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a title="2013 Fiction Contest Winner: ‘Wolf’" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/12/17/in-the-magazine/2013-fiction-contest-winner-wolf-bledsoe.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wolf</a>”<br /> by Lucy Jane Bledsoe</li> </ul> <h5>Runners-Up:</h5> <ul> <li>“<a title="The Decline and Fall" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/12/17/post-fiction/contemporary-fiction-art-entertainment/decline-fall.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Decline and Fall</a>”<br /> by PJ Devlin</li> <li>“<a title="The Wolf Boy of Forest Lawn" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/12/17/post-fiction/contemporary-fiction-art-entertainment/wolf-boy-forest-lawn.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Wolf Boy of Forest Lawn</a>”<br /> by Stephen G. Eoannou</li> <li>“<a title="Surface Tension" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/12/17/post-fiction/contemporary-fiction-art-entertainment/surface-tension.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Surface Tension</a>”<br /> by Andrew Hamilton</li> <li>“<a title="The Battle of the Pewhasset Pie Palace" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/12/17/post-fiction/contemporary-fiction-art-entertainment/battle-pewhasset-pie-palace.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Battle of the Pewhasset Pie Palace</a>”<br /> by Cynthia McGean</li> <li>“<a title="A Corner Room at the Y" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/12/17/post-fiction/contemporary-fiction-art-entertainment/corner-room-y.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Corner Room at the Y</a>”<br /> by Marvin Pletzke</li> <li>“<a title="The Conch Shell" href="http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/12/17/post-fiction/contemporary-fiction-art-entertainment/conch-shell.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Conch Shell</a>”<br /> by Caroline Sposto</li> </ul> <p></p> </div> </article> </div> </main> <footer class="site-footer" id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="container"> <div class="cta-signup"> <h3 class="title"> Become a member </h3> <p class="text"> The Saturday Evening Post is a nonprofit organization funded primarily by our members. 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