Fourteen Hills is extending the deadlines for The Gina Berriault Award and The Michael Rubin Book Award to January 31, 2025.

For more information on each award and its specific guidelines, see the categories below or the awards page.

If your submission is accepted for publication in the journal, you will receive two free copies of the issue your work appears in and a year's subscription.

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Beginning June 16th, 2021, our subscription fee will be increased to $16. Subscriptions begin with the next published issue and subscription prices include shipping and handling. All current subscribers are entitled to free online submissions to Fourteen Hills.

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The new version of the Michael Rubin Work-in-Progress Award (MRA) will be awarded to a current SFSU graduate student or recent alum—those who have graduated within the past ten years—for an exemplary work-in-progress (shifting yearly between prose and poetry). The winner will have an excerpt of their winning submission published in the Fourteen Hills journal.

The Michael Rubin Work-in-Progress Award is an annual award open to students and recent graduates of San Francisco State University. Alternating each year between poetry and fiction, manuscripts are gathered in an open competition and read by an independent guest judge. The winner must be an enrolled student or recent graduate at SFSU whose work shows exceptional accomplishment and promise. 


 

  • The 2025 Michael Rubin Work In Progress Award will go to a fiction submission
  • NEW submission deadline: January 31st, 2025
  • Submissions only accepted via Submittable
  • Students currently enrolled or recent graduates at San Francisco State University are eligible
  • Work must be previously unpublished
  • The submission file must be in .doc or .docx format (Microsoft Word or Open Office)   
  • Monetary award of $750 for the selected work
  • If your work-in-progress is accepted for the Michael Rubin Work-in-Progress Award, you will receive two free copies of Fourteen Hills.

    GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: 
  1. You must be currently enrolled as a student at SFSU or have graduated within the past ten years.
  2. The cover letter field must include your name, the title of your Work In Progress, your phone number, mailing address, email, and SFSU student ID number (or graduation year).
  3. Your submission must be at least 25 pages in length, and no more than 75 pages in length.
  4. Your submission document must include a table of contents if there are multiple works within your Work In Progress.
  5. No revisions to the Works In Progress will be accepted after submission.
  6. The Work In Progress must be unpublished. Works In Progress that have been previously self-published are ineligible.
  7. Works In Progress will be judged anonymously. Therefore, the author's name, other identifying information, and publication information must not appear within the Work In Progress. Only your uploaded work is visible to the judge. 

 

$10.00

The Gina Berriault Award (GBA) is a national award given to an emerging prose writer for an exemplary work-in-progress. The winner will have an excerpt of their winning submission published in the Fourteen Hills journal.

The Gina Berriault Award was inaugurated by Peter Orner in conjunction with Fourteen Hills Press to pay homage to the eponymous writer, a former SFSU professor who with every story embodied a certain selflessness and unflinching compassion. The award is given annually to a writer with a similar spirit who has shown a love for storytelling and a commitment to helping young writers.
 

  • NEW submission deadline: January 31st, 2025
  • Submission fee: $10.00
  • Submissions only accepted via Submittable
  • Students currently enrolled at San Francisco State University are ineligible
  • Work must be previously unpublished
  • The submission file must be in .doc or .docx format (Microsoft Word or Open Office)   
  • Monetary award of $1,000.00 for the selected work
  • If your work-in-progress is accepted for the Gina Berriault Award, you will receive two free copies of Fourteen Hills #31. 

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:
 

  1. The cover letter field must include your name, the title of your Work In Progress, your phone number, mailing address, and email.
  2. Your submission must be at least 50 pages in length, and no more than 150 pages in length.
  3. Your submission document must include a table of contents if there are multiple works within your Work In Progress.
  4. No revisions to the Works In Progress will be accepted after submission.
  5. The Work In Progress must be unpublished. Works In Progress that have been previously self-published are ineligible.
  6. Works In Progress will be judged anonymously. Therefore, the author's name, other identifying information, and publication information must not appear within the Work In Progress. Only your uploaded work is visible to the judge. 

 

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