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The Results of the 2022 Landmark Prize for Fiction

Winner (tie): 

  • Songs on the Water by Jackson Culpepper
  • Michikusa House by Emily Grandy

Finalists

  • Dust Country: A Novel by Claire Anderson 
  • The Irish Connection by Norma Jennings
  • Animals in Motion by Benjamin Yeager 
  • Marjorie by Jeffrey May 
  • The Atlas of Remedies by Paul Jaskunas 
  • The Islander by David Berner 
  • Slack Tide by Sarah Shellow

Winners have been contacted via email and will be offered a publishing contract!

Thank you to everyone who submitted and for giving us the extra time to decide on the ultimate winner(s)!

With Gratitude
-The Homebound Publications Editorial Staff

 

how to submit

Homebound Publications’ 2023 Landmark Prize for Fiction is OPEN.

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At Homebound Publications, we publish books written by independent voices for independent minds. Our titles focus on a return to simplicity and balance connection to the earth and each other, and the search for meaning and authenticity. As an independent publisher we strive to ensure, “That the mainstream is not the only stream.”

Deadline for entries is February 1st, 2023. On APRIL 30, 2023 we will announce one winner as well as and honorable mentions, (some or all of which may be offered publication). The winning author will be offered a publishing contract for the 2024 season.

The winning manuscript will be published worldwide. Our books are distributed via INGRAM and are available through wholesalers such as Ingram and Baker & Taylor as well as retail outlets such as Amazon, B&N, Target and Indie Bookstores across the country.

Across all our imprints, we are deeply invested in reading and publishing diverse voices spanning across different religions, ethnicities, and marginalized communities. We strongly welcome submissions from of writers within the BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities, writers living with a disability, writers living with refugee status, and Native American voices . . . to name a few. Writers from all backgrounds and communities should consider our press a safe space.

 

Entry Guidelines & Eligibility

 

  • To enter, the manuscript must be previously unpublished.
  • There is a $30.00 non-refundable reading fee.
  • All entries will be considered for publication.
  • Manuscripts must be in English.
  • A limited number of selections from the book may have appeared in print or online but the writer must hold sole rights to the work.
  • Multiple entries by a single author are wel­come but a sep­a­rate entry forms and fees must be paid for each entry.
  • Employees of Homebound Publications are not eligible.

 

Entry by Post Mail

(Editor’s Note: While we are aware of the extra packaging required when sending via post, at this time we prefer entrants to send their submissions to us via USPS. When we complete our review of your materials, all packaging materials and paper is recycled.)

For those of you entering by post mail please include the fol­lowing in your entry:

  1. The full manuscript
  2. A brief bio­graph­ical state­ment
  3. Check made payable to: Homebound Publications
  4. Self-address stamped post­card (Should you desire con­fir­ma­tion of receipt of your entry.)

Post entries should be sent to: Homebound Publications. Attn: Landmark Prize, PO Box 1442, Pawcatuck, CT 06379, United States of America

[Please note:] Manuscripts sub­mitted to the con­test via post mail will not be returned. Please do not send us the orig­inal copy of your man­u­script.

 

Entering Online

To enter online, you may submit your manuscript and payment via our secure submission platform here: homeboundpublications.submittable.com/submit

  1. Please send us the full man­u­script
  2. Brief biographical statement.
  3. You will be able to pay the $30.00 entry fee via Submittable’s platform. *For the first time in 10 years, we have raised our reading fee from $25 to $30 to reflect the post-pandemic economy we live in. Thank you for your continued support of indie publishing. 

While never done in the history of our press’ contests before, Homebound Publications does reserve the right to not choose a winner in any given year should the submissions received not meet our expectations.

 

Past Winners

Mark Daniel Seiler

Mark Daniel Seiler

Winner 2017

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Winner 2018

Aimée Medina Carr

Aimée Medina Carr

Finalist 2018

KARINA LUTZ

KARINA LUTZ

Winner 2019

Kip Robinson Greenthal

Kip Robinson Greenthal

Winner 2020