Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize

We encourage creative nonfiction submissions without constraints on content or form. Send your best essays our way: lyric essays, personal essays, memoir, literary journalism, or hybrid work (up to 10,000 words.) The contest fee is $15.00 per essay and submissions will close April 15, 2025.

Judge: Sarah Minor
 

First prize: $1000 and publication in Passages North. One or more honorable mentions may also be selected and published.
 

All entrants receive a copy of the contest issue. (Students of Northern Michigan University and close friends of the Passages North staff or the contest judge are not eligible.)