Novel Contest
Winner receives a $1000 cash prize and publication. Finalists may also
be offered publication. Open for submissions February 15 – April 15.
Nonfiction
Winner receives a $1000 cash prize and publication. Finalists may also
be offered publication. Open for submissions October 1 – December 1.
Poetry Chapbook
Winner receives a $500 cash prize and publication. Finalists may also
be offered publication. Open for submissions October 1 – December 1.
Poetry Book
Open for submissions October 1 – December 1.
Short Story or Essay Compilation
Winner receives a $1000 cash prize and publication. Finalists may also
be offered publication. Open for submissions February 15 – April 15.
welcome!
Why open a small press?
Someone once told me, “The greatest story ever told was probably never finished.” The idea might have manifested itself on the page, but for one reason or another never made it to publication.
I want to give those writers who have a great story to tell or stellar poems to share an outlet for their voice. I want to publish authors I believe in.
V Press is small. I like it that way. There’s more flexibility. I can publish works that are fresh and original, works that empower, educate, encourage or inspire–the best works are those that get into the bones. And I look forward to reading pieces that will live inside my marrow.
—Torie Amarie Dale, Director & Managing Editor
latest news
“Change”
Collaborative Poem by Room 230 entitled, “Change.” Performed on stage at Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center’s September “ReVIEWING” conference at the University of North Carolina at Asheville by Lee Lawson Stockdale, Chris Kamm, Allen Guest, Torie Amarie Dale and Molly Lena Silverstein.
Queens Alumni Professional Development Weekend. Torie Amarie Dale taught Queens University of Charlotte’s MFA Alum how to write the sex scene and participated in a panel discussion along with April Ford, Wendi Berry, Mimi Milan, and Cliff Garstang on continuing education after the MFA and transitioning between genres.
HELGA F. our authorWriters, this is where your photo will be. Winners of our contests will be highlighted on the front page.
New Releases
Books coming 2019.