Chronogram is sponsoring two writing contests for the upcoming Fall Literary Supplement, to be edited by Mikhail Horowitz and Nina Shengold.

For our annual Fiction Contest, we're seeking outstanding short stories, up to 4,000 words in length. The guest judge will be Valerie Martin, prize-winning author of Property, Mary Reilly, and The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories. The winning story will receive $100 and publication in the Literary Supplement. Honorable Mention stories will be eligible for publication in future issues of Chronogram. All entries must be unpublished; Chronogram requests first publication rights only, with reprint and all other rights to remain with the author. Submission deadline is August 15, 2006. Please send your best work (no more than one story per writer) to fiction@chronogram.com, or by mail to Chronogram Contests, 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401.

For our first Humor Contest, "Joined at the Hip," we invite you to help us eliminate bookshelf clutter by double-booking great works of literature. Please provide a title and one-line concept pitch for a literary twofer, e.g.:

Huckleberry Finnegans Wake. A plucky lad and a runaway slave fall asleep on a raft in the stream of consciousness.

Inherit the Wind in the Willows. A mole, a rat, and a toad are brought to trial by weasels for daring to believe in evolution.

Moby-Dick-and-Jane. "Look, Ishmael! See Dick breach. Breach, Dick, breach!"

Entries will be judged by Shengold and Horowitz (who, contrary to popular belief, are not joined at the hip). Each winner will receive a Chronogram t-shirt. Submission deadline is September 15, 2006. Please send up to three entries to Humor Contest, fiction@chronogram.com, or by mail to Chronogram Contests, 314 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401.