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2024-25 Judge: Roberto Cantu • DEADLINE: January 31, 2025

​​The Eliud Martínez Prize was established to honor the memory of Eliud Martínez (1935–2020), artist, novelist, and professor emeritus of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside. One prize of $1,000 and book publication through Inlandia Books will be awarded for a book of fiction or creative nonfiction by a writer who identifies as Hispanic, Latino/a/x, or Chicana/o/x.

Our literary expression occupies a place within our American national literature, and among the literatures of the world.

—Eliud Martínez

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

  • Submissions accepted only from writers who identify as Hispanic, Latino/a/e/x, or Chicana/o/x.
  • Manuscripts can be fiction or creative nonfiction, including memoir, essays, stories, and multi-genre or hybrid works.
  • At this time, only submissions written primarily in English will be considered. 
  • Manuscripts must be submitted anonymously. Do not include any identifying information on the manuscript itself, in the file name, or headers/footers.
  • $15 entry fee per manuscript. Multiple entries accepted. Needs-based fee waivers available upon request.
  • Manuscripts can be under consideration by other publishers, but the winning writer must agree to withdraw their entry from consideration by other publishers. There will be no refunds of entry fees. 

MANUSCRIPT FORMATTING

  • 150 to 300 typed pages in 12-point Times New Roman, 1-inch margins, double-spaced, page numbering in upper-right corner.
  • Submit as a PDF but have the full manuscript available as a Word document on request.
  • Longer works of up to 500 pages may only be submitted in proposal form: excerpt, table of contents, and synopsis. 
  • All manuscripts must be complete to be considered. Do not submit works-in-progress. 

ELIGIBILITY

  • Any writer residing in the U.S. or its territories of Hispanic, Latino/a/e/x, or Chicana/o/x descent may enter the contest, with the exception of current colleagues and/or students, close friends, or family of the judge. Additionally, anyone currently serving in the Inlandia Institute in the last two years, either as an employee or on the Inlandia Institute Board of Directors, or is a close family member, is not eligible.

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Inlandia Institute abides by the CLMP Contest Code of Ethics, as written by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses: “The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. Intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest.”

Roberto Cantú is Emeritus Professor of Chicano Studies and English at California State University, Los Angeles, author of Critical Perspectives on Rudolfo Anaya (2016), and editor of An Insatiable Dialectic: Essays on Critique, Modernity, and Humanism (2013); The Willow and the Spiral: Essays on Octavio Paz and the Poetic Imagination (2014); and The Reptant Eagle: Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel (2015). He received the President’s Distinguished Professor Award at California State University, Los Angeles, in 2010.

The Inlandia Institute is a literary nonprofit and publishing house based in Inland Southern California dedicated to celebrating the region in word, image, and sound.