Well Read in the City of Literature 
Hot Tin Roof Writing Contest
Hot Tin Roof is a program to showcase current literary work produced in Iowa City. The series is organized and juried by representatives of three Iowa City-based cultural advocacy organizations: The Englert Theatre, Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature and Little Village magazine.
Contest Overview
Each month a selected piece of creative writing up to 1,000 words will be published in the pages of Little Village, Iowa City’s News and Culture Magazine. The author will receive an honorarium of $100. That’s right, $100, to one writer, every month.
Submission Guidelines
Judges will consider creative work in all genres and formats up to 1,000 words. These might include short fiction, short literary nonfiction, poetry, or even two pages of dialogue from a play or scenes from a graphic novel. Work may be pulled from a larger piece, but it will be judged on its ability to stand on its own. We are only interested in work that has not been published elsewhere–in print, online, or otherwise.
The series is designed to highlight new work produced in Iowa City, so entrants must live or work in the Iowa City area at the time of submission. Please include your current address with your submission.
Submit your work to: htr@littlevillagemag.com. Please attach your work as a Word Document, PDF, or Rich Text file. Your name and contact information will be removed from your entry and it will be judged anonymously. Judges will be Andre Perry (UI Nonfiction MFA graduate and executive director of the Englert Theatre), Hugh Ferrer (associate director of the UI International Writing Program and board member at Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature) and Matt Steele (publisher and managing editor of Little Village magazine).
Past Winners
November 2011 "Agates" By Nickolas Butler
October 2011"Reflective Surfaces" By Nicole Loisi
September 2011 "There is Always Cake" By Amy Butcher
July 2011 "Hermaphrodite in Iowa" By Vi Khi Nao
June 2011 "We Are" By Brennan Bogert
May 2011 "Soft Spot" By Krissy Dallmann
April 2011 "Year" By Denise Behrens
March 2011 "Space Tacos" By Rachel Yoder
February 2011 Excerpt from the Novel, 'The Fourteenth Colony' By Jason T. Lewis
