Judge: Rachel Arndt

Deadline: April 2, 2019 at 11:59 pm

Prize: $500 and publication in phoebe 48.2 (online issue)

Entry Fee: $9

Submission Size: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words

Rachel Z. Arndt is the author of the essay collection Beyond Measure (Sarabande, 2018). She received an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in nonfiction from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and nonfiction editor of the Iowa Review. Her writing has appeared in Popular Mechanics, Quartz, The Believer, Fast Company, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago.