New Delta Review is excited to announce our very first Experimental Nonfiction Contest. We’re looking for nonfiction pieces that experiment with innovative forms and fresh language. Hybrid texts, lyric essays, non-fiction prose poem series, diagrams, texts that incorporate visual elements, etc. Our definition of experimental is broad. If you see your work as operating outside of traditional definitions of nonfiction, send it our way.

Submit here!

All submissions will be considered for publication.

Final Judge: Candice Wuehle

Prize: $200 & Publication in NDR 11.2

Entry fee: $7*

Eligibility: All entries must be received by March 29, 2021.

All submissions require a $7 entry fee and must be entered as .pdf, .doc., or .docx, through Submittable.

Submitted pieces may be up to 5000 words. Very short pieces are more than welcome.

Multiple submissions are allowed but require separate entry fees. Simultaneous submissions are welcome on the condition that writers notify NDR of another acceptance as soon as possible.
Close friends and current or former students of the judge are ineligible.
Current students and faculty of LSU are ineligible.

About the judge: Candice Wuehle is the author of the novel MONARCH (Soft Skull, 2022) as well as the poetry collections Fidelitoria: fixed or fluxed (2021), Death Industrial Complex (Action Books, 2020) and BOUND (Inside the Castle Press, 2018) as well as several chapbooks. Her writing has appeared in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, The Iowa Review, Black Warrior Review, Tarpaulin Sky, The Volta, and The Bennington Review. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas where she was a 2014-2019 Chancellor’s Fellow.

*NOTAFLOF – If entry fee poses financial hardship, please drop us a line at newdeltarev@gmail.com, and we will arrange an alternative submission method.