Wow! Paper Darts scores Roxane Gay as a competition judge.

Submit your short fiction by April 15, win $500--and kudos from the prolific and beloved Gay.

March 14, 2016 at 4:07PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Roxane Gay.
Roxane Gay. (Kevin Nance/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

I'm not entirely sure how they swung this, but the good folks behind the Twin Cities literary journal Paper Darts have scored a major coup, enlisting Roxane Gay to judge their spring competition.

The six-year-old journal publishes short (very short) fiction, and the competition has a word limit of 1,200 words. There's an entry fee of $5. The deadline is April 15. Roxane Gay is the judge. Need I say more??

The guidelines for submitting are online here. You can submit as many stories as you like (each submission requires a fee).

Gay is the author of "An Untamed State," "Bad Feminist," and two new books coming out this year.

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