Friday, April 10, 2015


We are pleased to announce that submissions for the 2015 Tamale Hut Cafe Short Story Contest are now open! The authors of the top five submissions will be reading at  Tamale Hut Cafe Presents. THC is home to a diverse, intelligent crowd of listeners, and for our annual contest, we're looking for complete stories of 3000 words or less that will make the audience laugh, cry, gasp, or stare in fascination. Genre is wide open. Show us whatever it is that you do best. 

To win you must be able to attend the Tamale Hut Cafe Presents event in November (date to be announced, but it will be on a Saturday night), where our final five finalists will be awarded the following prizes:
1st-  $300

2nd- $200

3rd-  $100

Two (2) Honorable Mentions- $25 each

Send stories to our Submittable page in standard manuscript format. Submissions for the contest end on July 10th, 2015. We can't wait to see what you've got!

(Quick note: the fine folks at THC Presents are hosting the contest, but are not running it themselves! So if you've got any questions about the contest, contact us through Submittable or by leaving a comment on this page.)