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Gival Press Poetry Award http://www.givalpress.com/Deadline: December 15, 2009 (postmarked). Our dates never change, if the date falls on a Sunday, then Monday becomes the default postmarked date.Guidelines: Theme: Completely open. Eligible Poets: Open to all, national and international poets. Language: English. Forms or Style of Poetry: Original work, not a translation of someone else’s poetry. Open to any form or style; simply good poetry. Length of Manuscript: At least 45 typed pages of poetry, on one side only. Status of the Winning Manuscript: The manuscript as a whole shall not have been published before. However, include an acknowledgment sheet to indicate any previously published poems in the collection (poem/journal/date). It is the responsibility of the poet to secure the right to publish previously published poems. Format for Submittal: Include a separate cover sheet with name, title of manuscript, address (street, city, state, electronic mail), and phone number. The poet’s name should not appear on the pages of the ms. The numbered pages should be clipped together. If the manuscript wins, the poet must make the manuscript available to Gival Press on an IBM-compatible disk or CD in Rich Text Format (RTF)—this refers to how one saves the document on one’s computer disk. A short bio should be included. Always keep a copy of your manuscript; materials will not be returned and will be recycled after the judging. Reading Fee: $20.00 (USD) by personal check or USA money order payable to: Gival Press, LLC. International entrants must send a check drawn on a USA bank routed through a USA address, such as Bank of America; no international money orders are acceptable. Please note that Gival Press can also accept the entry free by major credit card; however, we only take credit card information by phone (703.351.0079). Mail to: Robert L. Giron, Editor Gival Press Poetry Award Gival Press, LLC P.O. Box 3812 Arlington, VA 22203. Notification of the Winner: Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) for notification of the winner or visit our website (http://www.givalpress.com), where the winner and finalists will be announced. We try our best to announce the winner by mid spring. Unfortunately, it takes time to read and judge the entries and to contact the individuals involved. Prize: The winner will receive $1,000.00 (USD) and his/her book of poetry will be published by Gival Press. The winning poet will receive 20 copies of the publication. A standard publication contract is offered. Judging: The manuscripts are judged anonymously. The winner for the previous award will be the judge for the following year. The decision of the judge will be final.       ABOUT THE 9th Annual A. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZE http://www.boaeditions.org/submissions/A_Poulin_Prize.html The A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize is awarded to honor a poet’s first book, while also honoring the late founder of BOA Editions, Ltd., a not-for-profit publishing house of poetry and poetry in translation. Contest Entry Form at http://www.boaeditions.org/submissions/entry_form.html FINAL JUDGE: Tony Hoagland Click [Here] for the judge’s bio. WINNER RECEIVES: A $1,500 Honorarium, paid in March 2010, and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in March, 2011, in The A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series. ELIGIBILITY: Entrants must be a citizen or legal resident of the United States. Poets, who are at least 18 years of age, who have yet to publish a full-length-book collection of poetry. Translations are not eligible. Individual poems from the manuscript may have been published previously in magazines, journals, anthologies, chapbooks of 32 pages or less, or self-published books of 46 pages or less, but must be submitted in manuscript form. Published books in other genres do not disqualify contestants from entering this contest. Employees, volunteers and board members of BOA Editions, Ltd., or their partners or spouses, or their immediate families, or immediate family of the judge are not eligible. As per the Publishing Contest Ethics, as advanced by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), any person who has studied poetry in a formal program with the Final Judge — through a college, university, community program, residency, or private tutorial, within the last two years — is not eligible to submit a manuscript to this contest. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES REQUIREMENTS: Send one copy of the manuscript, our entry form, and the $25 entry fee, to BOA Editions, Ltd., between August 1, and November 30, 2009, at the address listed below. Make check or money orders payable to BOA Editions. Do not pay by credit card. MANUSCRIPT FORMAT: Minimum of 48 pages, maximum of 100 pages of poetry. Manuscript should be 1 1/2 or double spaced. At least 11pt. font. Name address and telephone number must appear on the title or cover page of the manuscript. Do not send artwork or photographs. Typed or word-processed on standard white paper, on one side of the page only. Paginated consecutively with a table of contents. Bound with a spring clip (no paperclips, please). Attach publications acknowledgments if any. Include a stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification of receipt of manuscript. Do not send by FedEx or UPS. Electronic and fax submissions will not be accepted. Neither late nor early manuscripts will be accepted. Contestants may submit the manuscript elsewhere simultaneously, but must notify BOA Editions immediately, by mail in an envelope, (not a postcard or email), if a manuscript is accepted by another publisher. Once submitted, manuscripts cannot be altered. Winner will be given the opportunity to revise before publication. Contestants may submit more than one manuscript, but a separate entry fee and entry form must accompany each manuscript. Manuscripts mailed from foreign countries risk not being received before final selections have been made. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES SUGGESTED: Send manuscript in a plain or padded envelope. Please no boxes. For notification of competition results, include a business-size SASE. Keep a copy of your manuscript, as manuscripts will not be returned. We advise that you send your manuscript by first class or priority mail. ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: The winner will be announced in March 2010. Honorarium will be awarded within two weeks of a signed contract between the winner and BOA Editions.. Winning manuscript will be published in March 2011, in an original paperback edition in the [A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series]. The winner will retain full copyright of his or her work. The paper from all manuscripts will be recycled after the winner is announced. BOA Editions assumes no responsibility for loss of manuscripts. Send manuscripts, postmarked between August 1, and November 30, 2009, to: BOA Editions, Ltd. PO Box 30971 Rochester, NY 14603       Calling all writers: Columbia has launched its 2010 contest In fiction, nonfiction and poetry. We’re awarding up to $1,500 in prizes, plus publication in the print journal. The top works in fiction will be judged by Joshua Ferris (Then We Came to the End). Meghan Daum (My Misspent Youth) will judge nonfiction, and Dan Beachy-Quick (Mulberry) will judge poetry. Judges will select a first-place winner from among the ten finalists in each genre. The finalists are chosen by Columbia journal staff. Online contest entry at http://www.columbiajournal.org/contests.htm First-place winners in each genre will receive a $500 prize, and their work will be published in Issue 48 of the journal (Spring 2010). Winners and runners-up may be considered for publication on the journal’s website. The deadline for entry is January 1, 2010. The entry fee is $12. Contest submissions in fiction and nonfiction must be no longer than twenty double-spaced pages. Poets may send up to five individual poems for consideration, but they must be combined in a single document. Please note: judges have full discretion and may choose not to award a first-place prize. Judges also may request edits of winning works. The contest is not open to current Columbia University students or those who have graduated within the last five years      “Discovery”/Boston Review 2010 The Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes http://www.92y.org/content/pdf/Guidelines.pdf Now in its fifth decade, the “Discovery” Poetry Contest, formerly “Discovery”/The Nation, is designed to attract large audiences to poets who have not yet published a book. For the third year, the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center is proud to partner with Boston Review. Four winners are awarded a reading at the Poetry Center (set for Monday, May 10, 2010, at 8:15 pm), publication in Boston Review and $500 each. Timothy Donnelly, poetry editor at Boston Review, coordinates the contest, and three leading poets are invited to judge. Nick Flynn, Susan Howe and Claudia Rankine will judge in 2010. Many winners of this contest have gone on to distinguished careers as poets, among them Marilyn Hacker, Katha Pollitt, Mary Jo Salter and Mark Strand. Guidelines: 1. The contest is open to poets who have not published a book of poems (chapbooks and self-published books included). Those who have a book contract at the time of submission or who are subsequently awarded a book contract are not eligible for the contest if their book is scheduled for publication before fall 2010. Individual poems that have been or will be published in periodicals or anthologies may be submitted; however, at least two of the submitted poems must be unpublished and under two pages in length. 2. Submit four identical sets of a typed ten-page manuscript. Each set is to contain the same ten pages in the same order. Include no more than one poem per page. NO personal identification should appear on any of the poems; no copyright attributions for previously published poems should appear on the poems. 3. Photocopied manuscripts are acceptable. However, in the case of previously published poems, do not send photocopied pages of the periodical or book in which the poem(s) originally appeared. 4. Please staple each manuscript; do not use paper clips. 5. Enclose ONE cover letter including your name, address and day and evening telephone numbers, as well as a list of the submitted poems in the order in which they appear, with copyright attributions for published poems. Do not attach this cover letter to the manuscripts. 6. An entry fee of $10.00 must accompany the submission. Please make checks (drawn on U.S. banks only) or money orders (in U.S. currency only) payable to the 92nd Street Y, and attach them to your cover letter. DO NOT SEND CASH. 7. All poems must be original and in English (no translations). 8. No contestant may submit more than one entry. No corrections can be accepted after receipt of the contest submission. 9. Entries must be received by Friday, January 15, 2010. If you wish to receive confirmation of receipt of your manuscript, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard (not envelope) and allow several weeks for its return. Due to the large number of submission received, manuscripts cannot be returned. Winners will be contacted by telephone in early March 2010; all contest entrants will be mailed the names of the winners shortly thereafter. 10. No phone queries can be taken, either to inquire about contest guidelines, the status of your entry or to request the names of winners. If you wish to hear a recording of the guidelines, or to receive another set of these guidelines in the mail, call 212.415.5759. These guidelines are also available at: www.92Y.org/Poetry. Mail contest submissions to: “Discovery”/Boston Review 2010 Unterberg Poetry Center 92nd Street Y 1395 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10128     2009 Anderbo Poetry Prize For up to six unpublished poems Winner receives: $500 cash Publication on anderbo.com Judged by William Logan 2009 Contest Assistant: Anderbo Poetry Editor Charity Burns Guidelines: –Poems should be typed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with the poet’s name and contact information on the upper right corner of each poem –Entries must be postmarked by November 2, 2009 –Limit six poems per poet –Entrant must not have been previously published on anderbo.com –Entrant must not be a current or former student of William Logan –Mail submissions to: Anderbo Poetry Prize, 270 Lafayette Street, Suite 1412, New York, NY 10012 –Enclose self-addressed stamped business envelope to receive names of winner and honorable mentions –All entries are non-returnable and will be recycled –Total reading fee is $10. Check or money order payable to RRofihe –Winner and honorable mentions will be published on anderbo.com in February of 2010 William Logan 2009 Poetry Prize Judge William Logan was born in Boston in 1950. He attended Yale, where he studied American history and literature, though he had a long flirtation with game theory. He was a rock critic of no great distinction, though he squandered a good many weekends at the Fillmore East in New York. After taking his MFA at the University of Iowa, he spent a peripatetic six years following his sweetheart to Massachusetts, Virginia, and California. They then spent two years in England, where they held successive Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarships. He is the author of eight volumes of poetry, most recently Strange Flesh (2008). He has also published five books of poetry criticism, including Our Savage Art (2009). He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in criticism, which was awarded to The Undiscovered Country (2005). Among his other honors are the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, the 1988 Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle, the Allen Tate Prize, the Corrington Medal for Literary Excellence, and the inaugural Randall Jarrell Award in Criticism. Charity Burns 2009 Anderbo Poetry Prize Contest Assistant Charity Burns, Anderbo’s Poetry Editor, earned her MFA in poetry from the University of Florida. Her poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Madison Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and West Branch. Charity’s days are spent as the Managing Editor of the iFashion Network, a website for emerging fashion designers. She lives in New York City.      Central Coast Writers http://centralcoastwriters.org/2010-contest-rules.htm The two winners of the Central Coast Writers Branch 2010 writing contest will each receive $500 and have their work published (print and online) in the Spring 2010 Homestead Review produced by Hartnell College.* Winning entries also will be published on this Web site. Finalist judges will be Maria Garcia Teutsch and Dr. Jessica Breheny (published authors in their respective genres of poetry and fiction). Contest Rules Eligibility: Open to all work not previously published. Simultaneous submissions allowed, but you must notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Our contest is open to all writers—you do not need to be a member of CCW to enter. Entry Fee: Short stories: $15 per story. Poetry: $5 per poem. Multiple Entries: Enter as many times as you wish, with separate fee for each entry. Maximum Length: Short story: 4,000 words. Poetry: no restriction. Submission Period: September 15, 2009 through January 15, 2010 (by postmark). Note: Entries postmarked before or after submission period will be returned. Submit to: CCW Writing Contest, P.O. Box 51805, Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Make your check payable to Central Coast Writers. Please note: Entries will not be returned. Format: Typed, white 8½ x 11 paper, single-sided, numbered pages, with title only (not your name) on upper left corner of all pages. Short stories must be double-spaced. Poetry should be formatted as you want it to appear. We prefer staples over paper clips for stories and for poems longer than a page. Include a separate, single cover sheet for short stories and a single cover sheet for poetry. The cover sheet(s) must include the title(s) of your entry, your name, address, email address, phone number, and word count for short stories. On your cover sheet, please let us know how you heard about our contest (website, magazine ad, newsletter, flyer, friend, etc.). Notification: Winners will be notified by March 31, 2010 and announced in Scribbles, the Central Coast Writers’ newsletter. * Note: All contest entries will be considered for publication. Questions: E-mail ccw-contests@comcast.net The Wisconsin People & Ideas / Wisconsin Book Festival 2010 Short Story and Poetry Contests Have Begun! http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/magazine/index.php?category_id=3755 Wisconsin People & Ideas is the only quarterly magazine in the state that regularly highlights Wisconsin poetry and fiction and is the proud host of an annual poetry and short story contest. Annual contest winners will receive cash and publication in Wisconsin People & Ideas. First-place winners will receive a one-week stay at Edenfred creative arts residency in the Madison Highlands, courtesy of the Terry Family Foundation. Winners are also invited to read their work at the Wisconsin Book Festival and at other local venues. The first-prize short story contest winner also receives a private manuscript review by a literary agent of national note. About the Short Story Contest Winners will receive prizes of $500 (first place), $250 (second place), and $100 (third place). Their works will be published serially beginning with the first-prize story in the summer issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas. The first-place story will be reviewed by a noted literary agent, and the author will receive a one-week stay at Edenfred, a creative arts residency owned by the Terry Family Foundation. About the Poetry Contest Winners of the Wisconsin People & Ideas / Wisconsin Book Festival Poetry Contest receive cash awards of $500 (first place, the John Lehman Poetry Award), $100 (second place), and $50 (third place). Winning poems by the top three winners appear in the spring 2009 issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas, with 10 runners-up in the summer 2009 edition. The first-prize poet receives a one-week stay at Edenfred and a three-hour CD recording/editing session at Abella Studios. The top three winners of both contests will be invited to read their work at a special event at the Wisconsin Book Festival. The Wisconsin People & Ideas / Wisconsin Book Festival Short Story Contest is supported by the Wisconsin Humanities Council, Avol’s Bookstore, and Wisconsin Public Television. CONTEST RULES The deadline for both contests is December 15, 2009, at 5:00 pm. Short Story Authors must reside in or attend school in Wisconsin. Stories must be between 2,500 and 5,000 words in length. Authors must submit three copies of a story (photocopies are fine). Each story must be accompanied by a $20 entry fee (non-Academy members) or $15 (Academy members, including those who join while submitting an entry) payable to Wisconsin People & IdeasShort Story Contest. Writers may submit more than one entry, but each story must be mailed in separately with its own cover letter (see Rule 9) and entry fee. Entries must be postmarked on or before December 15, 2009. Entries may be hand-delivered to the Wisconsin Academy (1922 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53726) by 5:00pm on December 15. Entries postmarked after the deadline will not be considered and the entry fee will be retained to cover handling. Previously published stories (online or in print) are not eligible. Each manuscript must be typed, double-spaced, in standard 10- or 12-point type. Each page must include the title of the story as a header. All pages must be numbered with both an individual page number and the total number of pages (e.g., Stormy Night, page 1/15, Stormy Night, page 2/15, Stormy Night, page 3/15, etc.). The author’s name may not appear anywhere on the manuscript itself. The manuscript must be accompanied by a letter bearing the story title; the author’s name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address (if available); and the story word count. Every contestant must be able to provide an electronic version of the story if needed, either on disk or via e-mail. Keep a copy of your manuscript. Manuscripts will be recycled, not returned. Do not send an SASE. Contest winners will be announced on www.wisconsinacademy.org and notified by the end of March 2010. The three winners will be published in the summer 2010, fall 2010, and winter 2011 issues of Wisconsin People & Ideas. Poetry Poets must reside or attend school in Wisconsin. Poets may submit up to three poems per entry. No poem may be longer than one page. Each entry must be accompanied by an entry fee of $10 (non-Academy members) or $8 (Academy members, including those who join while submitting an entry), payable to the Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest. A poet may enter more than one submission of up to three poems each, but additional submissions must be accompanied by a separate entry fee and cover letter. (See Rule 7.) Contest deadline is December 15, 2009. Entries may be hand-delivered to the Wisconsin Academy (1922 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53726) by 5:00pm on December 15. Entries postmarked after the deadline will not be considered and the entry fee will be retained to cover handling. Previously published poems (online or in print) are not eligible. All work must be original. Any style or theme is welcome. The poet’s name or address may not appear anywhere on the poems. Poems must be accompanied by a cover letter bearing the poem title/s, the poet’s name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address (if available). Keep a copy of your poems. Entries will be recycled, not returned. Do not send an SASE. Contest winners will be announced on www.wisconsinacademy.org and notified by the end of February 2010. Top three winners will be published in the spring 2010 issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas, which appears at the end of March 2010, in time for National Poetry Month (April). Ten runners-up will be published in the summer and fall 2010 issues of the magazine.   The 2010 Artsmith Literary Contest is open for submissions now until January 1, 2010. Email org a previously unpublished, one-page work of poetry or prose in the theme “Transitions” to <contest(at) orcasartsmith> (replace (at) with @).  A PayPal payment of $5 can be made at the Arstmith website: http://www.orcasartsmith.org/contest.html. The winner will receive fifty percent of the proceeds, 25% will go to the judge, and the other 25% will help support Artsmith events such as our weekly literary salon series. The winner and finalists will be announced in March 2010. They will then have the option of having their work published on the Artsmith website, or reserving it to be published elsewhere. This year’s judge is award-winning writer Sherry Simpson, author of The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska, and the Chinook prize winner The Way Winter Comes. Smalls Books Poetry Book Contest $500 and publication for winning manuscript. Gerry LaFemina, judge. Deadline: Nov 1. Submit 48-72 pages, with contact and title page, an SASE, and a $15 reading fee (or $25 and get winning book). Make checks payable to Smalls Jazz Club and send to: Smalls Poetry Contest, Smalls Jazz Club, 183 West 10th St, NYC, NY 10014.   2010 Fiction Contest: Creative Loafing Atlanta Submit a manuscript of no more than 3,000 words either as a hard copy to our offices or online. All works of fiction must in some way incorporate the word “slip” — as a theme, a metaphor, whatever. You can use the word as any way you like; just use it well. Originality is encouraged, and the word count is enforced. Deadline: November 20, 5 p.m. 1st place, $1,000 2nd place, $250 3rd place, $100 Winners will be published in Creative Loafing and honored at an awards ceremony. Submit story at http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/fiction_contest/page?oid=645954   Sandra Caron Young Adult Poetry and the Rita Williams Young Adult Prose Prize are for writers in grades 9-12 or equivalent age thereof. Up to three poems for Poetry category and up to 3,000 words for Prose. Cash Prizes. Deadline November 30, 2009. Rules: www.SoulMakingContest.us   8th Annual Department of Theatre Arts New Play Reading Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:00 p.m. The Movement Studio Lumpkin Family Theatre Wing – Doudna Fine Art Center Playwrights interested in having scripts considered for a table reading and possible future production should submit scripts to: NEW WORKS Department of Theatre Arts Eastern Illinois University 600 Lincoln Ave. Charleston, IL 61920 In order to be considered, scripts should be a complete ONE ACT PLAY that has not been produced. Scripts should be prepared in standard format that includes a complete list of characters, their description, an outline of each scene and its setting, and a brief biography of the playwright. Play scripts must be received by the Department of Theatre Arts by October 30, 2009. For more information contact the Department of Theatre Arts (217) 581-3121. Black River Chapbook Fall 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition deadline is October 31. Twice each year Black Lawrence Press runs the Black River Chapbook Competition for an unpublished chapbook of poems or short stories. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $500 cash award, and twenty-five copies of the book. http://blacklawrence.com/chapbook.html Black Lawrence Press recently named the winner of the Spring, 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition. Congratulations to David Rigsbee, for winning the contest with his poetry chapbook The Pilot House! Congratulations also go to Mary Biddinger whose poetry chapbook Saint Monica was named as a finalist for the competition and was also selected for publication. For more information on the Black River Chapbook Competition, instructions on how to submit your work, information on purchasing chapbooks that have won the competition, and lists of previous winners and finalists, please visit blacklawrence.com/chapbook.html. Shady Side Review Call for Submissions: shady side review is seeking prose under 1,000 words and poetry of any length for Volume 2. shady side review seeks work that exhibits the gritty side of life: cigarette butts that litter sidewalks, a half-drunken bottle of whiskey left on the porch,the empty corridors of a dead mall – work that encompasses the underbelly of society, whether it be rural or urban. shady side review publishes both upcoming and previously published writers. Please visit the website for more details: http://www.shadysidereview.com Black Lawrence Press This is a friendly reminder that the Fall, 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition deadline is October 31. Twice each year Black Lawrence Press runs the Black River Chapbook Competition for an unpublished chapbook of poems or short stories. The winner of this contest will receive book publication, a $500 cash award, and twenty-five copies of the book. Black Lawrence Press recently named the winner of the Spring, 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition. Congratulations to David Rigsbee, for winning the contest with his poetry chapbook The Pilot House! Congratulations also go to Mary Biddinger whose poetry chapbook Saint Monica was named as a finalist for the competition and was also selected for publication. For more information on the Black River Chapbook Competition, instructions on how to submit your work, information on purchasing chapbooks that have won the competition, and lists of previous winners and finalists, please visit blacklawrence.com/chapbook.html. Happy Fall! Diane Goettel Executive Editor, Black Lawrence Press Stella Kupferberg Memorial  The 2010 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize with guest judge Nathan Englander http://www.symphonyspace.org/shorts/writing_contest The winning submission, selected by Nathan Englander, will be read as part of the Selected Shorts performance at Symphony Space on April 7, 2010. The story will be recorded for possible later broadcast as part of the public radio series. The winner will receive $1000. Story requirements Submit a single short story that addresses the theme, Apartments and Neighbors Your story must have a title. Make sure your name and contact information appear on the first page of your story. If you are submitting by online, this information needs to appear on the first page of the attached Word document. Include page numbers. Your story must be no more than 2 double-spaced typed pages in length (Times New Roman, 12pt font) and no more than 750 words. Deadline All submissions must be received by January 29, 2010. To be specific, online submissions must be submitted by 5pm Eastern Standard Time. Mailed submissions must arrive with the day’s mail. (Entries postmarked on January 29 will NOT be accepted.) Where to submit your story Submit your submission online at http://www.symphonyspace.org/shorts/writing_contest OR: Mail to CONTEST, Selected Shorts Symphony Space 2537 Broadway New York, NY 10025. Mailed submissions must also include a check for $25, written to Symphony Space. Online submissions must give credit card information to submit. Stories will not be accepted without payment of the $25 fee. Please do not send duplicate copies (online or snail-mail is sufficient). We cannot allow revisions to your story once we have received it. Due to the high volume of submissions and the small size of our office, we will not be able to notify you when we receive your story. The winner will be selected by Nathan Englander and notified by mid-March. As soon as the winner is selected, his or her name will be posted to this page. Note Contestants who submit by online or provide their email address will be added to the Selected Shorts email list – please let us know if you do not wish to receive email about upcoming programs. The Prize $1000 and two tickets to the April 7th Selected Shorts at Symphony Space, when the prizewinning story will be read. About this year’s guest judge Nathan Englander is the author of the PEN/Malamud Award and American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Sue Kaufman Prize-winning short story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases, winner of The Harold U. Ribalow Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic Monthly, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. Englander has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and was selected as one of “20 Writers for the 21st Century” by The New Yorker.   damselfly press  damselfly press, an online literary journal for women selected as Best of the Web 2009 by Dzanc Books, is pleased to announce the publication of our ninth issue and call for submissions for the tenth issue. We are seeking electronic submissions of original fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by female writers slated for online publication in January 2010. As always, we welcome a myriad of women’s voices from new and experienced writers. The deadline to submit for the tenth issue is December 15th, 2009. These are the e-mails per genre editor: Fiction- jennifer(at)damselflypress.net (replace (at) with @) Poetry- lesley(at)damselflypress.net Nonfiction- nonfiction(at)damselflypress.net Visit the damselfly press website: http://damselflypress.net to read the latest issue and learn more about the journal   Think Journal  Think Journal Call for Submissions Christine Yurick, editor / Think Journal contact email: <thinkjournal(at)yahoo.com> (replace (at) with @) website: http://web.me.com/christineyurick/Think_Journal/ Think Journal is a quarterly review of poetry, short stories, novel excerpts, and essays. Cover letter and brief biography preferred. Please include your email address and mailing address. Response time is two to three months. Pays one contributor copy. No previously published work; no simultaneous submissions. Acquires one time rights, rights revert to author upon publication. Electronic submissions: Please include the following in the body of an email: Name, mailing address and email address, a brief biography and your submission. No attachments will be accepted. Print submissions can be sent to: Think Journal Christine Yurick, Editor P.O. Box 454 Downingtown PA 19335 Poetry Submit three to five poems, no restrictions on length. Submissions of long poems are encouraged. Define what exactly you are looking for in a poem Inclined to publish formal work, i.e., work that exhibits knowledge of the traditional characteristics of poetic craft, including but not limited to, form, meter, rhyme, and other poetic techniques. Clarity of voice is key. The most important traits that will be considered are form, structure, clarity, content, imagination and style. Short stories Submit one or two stories, 2,000-3,000 words. Craft and content are important. There should be some discernible conflict and resolution, well defined characters, depth, meaning to what is happening, something beyond a scene or a moment in time, a structured plot and the portrayal of some type of value. Novel excerpts Please query first. Will consider excerpts in 3,000 + words. Essays Submit one or two essays, under 2,500 words on any topic; especially interested in topics whose focus is literature and/or literary criticism. Please query. Art work Black and white only. Please mail a query letter first with samples. Subscriptions Regular subscriptions can be purchased for $20.00 a year (four issues). A single issue is $7.00, a sample issue, or back issue, is $6.00. (International please add $3.00 for a single issue, $10.00 for a subscription.) Make checks payable to: Christine Yurick or purchase online via PayPal.    The Broad River Review  Call for Submissions: The Broad River Review 2010 The Broad River Review, the literary magazine of Gardner-Webb University, welcomes submissions of original and unpublished fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for its next annual issue to appear in May 2010. The submission deadline is November 15, 2009. Our publication is about 120 pages, perfect bound, with a full-color cover and an eight-page color art insert. At this time, we do not publish online. Interested writers may submit up to 5 poems (up to 10 pages), one short story (up to 4,000 words), or one nonfiction piece (up to 4,000 words). Writers may submit in multiple genres, but please do not submit multiple times in any particular genre. Simultaneous submission are acceptable, as long as we are notified immediately should the submitted work be placed elsewhere. Writers may submit by regular mail or by email, although we prefer email. In a cover letter, please include a brief biographical entry, as well as titles and genres of all submitted works. If submitting by email, please attach Microsoft Word or Rich Text files only. Our mailing address: The Broad River Review P.O. Box 7224 Gardner-Webb University Boiling Springs, NC 28017. Our email address is <broadriverreview(at)gardner-webb.edu> (replace (at) with @) For additional information or to ask questions, please email us or call (704) 406-3222.   Per Contra Per Contra: the International Journal of Art, Literature and Ideas has re-opened submissions for short fiction up to 3000 words. Per Contra publishes quarterly at www.percontra.net See the journal for complete guidelines. ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED FICTION IN ENGLISH We publish only work that has not been published before, either online or in print. We are a paying market and purchase first rights. The author retains the copyright. If you submit a translation, you must have permission from the author and original publisher. Hot Metal Bridge  The University of Pittsburgh’s creative writing journal, Hot Metal Bridge, <http://hotmetalbridge.org/> is seeking submissions in all genres, but particularly poetry! See our submission guidelines here: http://hotmetalbridge.org/?page_id=915 Submit by Nov. 11 to be considered for our Fall issue! Firewheel Editions announces the second Sentence Book Award and the fourth Firewheel Chapbook Award. The Firewheel Chapbook Award is given to a collection of no more than 20 manuscript pages in any genre. Preference is for innovative work (liberally interpreted), work that crosses genres, work that combines images and text, work in formats other than the traditionally bound book, or work that may have difficulty finding publication elsewhere due to the nature, typography, or format of the work. The recipient of the award will receive 50 copies out of a limited edition. Entry fee: $15 by check to Firewheel Editions or by PayPal at http://firewheel-editions.org. Checks and submissions may be mailed to Firewheel Chapbook Award, Box 7, WCSU, 181 White St., Danbury, CT 06810. Electronic submissions may be sent to <chapbook(at)firewheel-editions.org> (replace (at) with @). Postmark/Timestamp Deadline for submissions and fees: November 17, 2009, 11:59 pm PST. The Sentence Book Award will be given to a book-length manuscript of prose poems or a book-length manuscript consisting substantially of prose poems (for example, a book that is half prose poems and half free-verse, or a book-length sequence that mixes passages of prose poetry with other modes). The recipient of the award will receive publication in a trade paper edition with a standard royalty contract and 50 copies of the book. All entrants will receive Sentence #7 (entrants who are already subscribers will have their subscription extended by one issue). Entry fee: $25 by check to Firewheel Editions or by PayPal at http://firewheel-editions.org. Checks and submissions may be mailed to Sentence Book Award, Box 7, WCSU, 181 White St., Danbury, CT 06810. Electronic submissions may be sent to  <sentence(at)firewheel-editions.org> (replace (at) with @). Postmark/Timestamp Deadline for submissions and fees: November 17, 2009, 11:59 pm PST. Firewheel Editions subscribes to the CLMP Code of Ethics: “CLMP’s community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to 1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors; 2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and 3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public. This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.”  The recipient of the Sentence Award will be selected by Brian Clements, Editor of Sentence and Firewheel Editions; the recipient of the Firewheel Chapbook Award will be selected by Brian Clements and Tom Nackid, Design Manager for Firewheel Editions. In the event that no recipient is chosen for either award, entry fees will be returned to all of the award’s entrants. Authors who have published a chapbook or book with Firewheel Editions, authors who have served on the Board of Contributing Editors of Sentence, graduate or undergraduate students and relatives of Brian Clements and Tom Nackid, and all past and current staff members of Sentence and Firewheel Editions are ineligible. All manuscripts will come to the editors anonymously after screening and preparation by Firewheel staff. Submission guidelines: Chapbook Award entrants must explain any special production requirements for their projects in the cover letter.  All entrants must provide email address or SASE for Award results.  Unless SASE with sufficient postage for return is included, manuscripts will be recycled. Multiple submissions are acceptable with an entry fee for each submission. Translations are acceptable with proof of permission to publish translations. Electronic submissions must be sent as a single attachment in .rtf (preferred for text-only submissions), .doc, or .pdf format. All submitted manuscripts must include a one-page cover with author’s name, title, author’s email address, and name of Award (Chapbook or Sentence); also include a second title page with title only. The author’s name should be recognizable nowhere in the manuscript other than on the cover page. For more information on Sentence and Firewheel Editions, visit http://firewheel-editions.org THE YALOBUSHA REVIEW is now accepting submissions for its annual Yellowwood Poetry Contest.  Send up to 3 unpublished poems along with a cover letter stating your contact information and the names of your poems. Your name should not appear anywhere on the poems. Each submission must be accompanied by $10 reading fee (check or money order payable to the University of Mississippi) and SASE for response only. All submissions will be read blind. http://www.olemiss.edu/yalobusha/  Winner will be notified by December 15, 2009. Winner receives $500 and publication in the 2010 issue, exclusive publication on our web site, and two contributor’s copies. We retain first North American rights. Postmark Deadline: November 15, 2009 Judge: Beth Ann Fennelly Please send submissions to:   The Yalobusha Review ATTN: Yellowwood Poetry Contest Department of English University of Mississippi P.O. Box 1848 University, MS 38677-1848     Potomac Review                                                                                                      Potomac Review is changing their Poetry Contest First Prize money from $500 to $1,000. Second Prize and Third Prize are still $250 and $125, and the entry fee is $18. All entrants receive a one-year (2 issues) subscription to Potomac Review. Send up to 3 unpublished poems (5 pages max). Deadline is February 1st. We are also offering one more wrinkle to our contests: you can submit your poems electronically. Under the genre on our online submission website, choose “contest.” You will still have to send us the entry fee through snail mail to be considered for the prize contest. Check our website for guidelines. The final judge will be Nancy Naomi Carlson, an editor for Tupelo Press and an instructor at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. Online submission is at www.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview and click on “Submit Electronically.”   ELLDAY POETRY PRIZE $2,000 PRIZE TO WINNING POET http://www.belldaybooks.com/contest.html SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2010 CONTEST FINAL JUDGE: LUCIA PERILLO Lucia Perillo has published five books of poetry, including Dangerous Life (1989), The Body Mutinies (1996), The Oldest Map with the Name America (1999), Luck is Luck (2005) and Inseminating the Elephant (2009). She has also published one book of essays, I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing (2005). She has taught at four universities and was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. Bellday Books will publish the winning book and award $2,000 and 25 copies of the book to the winning author. CONTEST RULES · Submit a manuscript of 60-90 pages of original poetry in any style in English. The manuscript must not have been published in book or chapbook, but may contain poems that have appeared in print or on the Internet. Entries may consist of individual poems, a book-length poem or any combination of long or short poems. · Submitted manuscript must contain 2 title pages: Name and contact information should appear on first title page only. Name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript. Include a table of contents page, but do not send an acknowledgements page. · Manuscript must be typed single-spaced, paginated and bound with a spring clip. · Enclose an SASE for announcement of the winner. Manuscript cannot be returned. · Postmark deadline: March 15, 2010. · Include a check or money order for $25 reading fee, payable to BELLDAY BOOKS. · Bellday Books reserves the right not to select an award winner, in which case all reading fees will be refunded. CONTEST MAILING ADDRESS Bellday Books, Inc. P.O. Box 3687 Pittsburgh, PA 15230   Call for Submissions for new Anthology http://www.press53.com/whatdoesntkillyou.html What Doesn’t Kill You… a new anthology coming from Press 53 in Spring 2010 is looking for stories of struggle—real or imagined, physical or mental. Contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the anthology plus the opportunity to buy unlimited copies at a discount. Contributors will also have one page in the back of the anthology for his or her bio, photo, and story comments. We’re looking for eight stories to run alongside the seven we have already requested from some of today’s top award-winning writers. Stories can be fiction or nonfiction, from 100-10,000 words. There is NO reading fee. Please limit your submission to one story. Previously published works are acceptable, so long as the author holds all rights and no previous publication agreement is violated. DEADLINE: Submissions will be accepted until the New Year rings in at midnight December 31, 2009. Send your submission via email attachment to co-editor Murray Dunlap at <murraydunlap(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @). If you have any questions, please email Kevin Morgan Watson at <kevin(at)press53.com> (replace (at) with @)   PARENTHOOD?!  http://www.cityworkspress.org/submit.html City Works Press seeks poetry, fiction, prose and art on motherhood and/or fatherhood for our upcoming anthology.  Give us your moments of sublime joy as well your dark nights of the soul. Talk about birth, nursing, relationships, adoption, same-sex parenting, high tech conception, loss, etc. Tell us what it means NOT to have children. Limit 2,500 words for fiction/prose or 4 poems. Attach short bio.  Send email or hard copy submissions by JANUARY 4, 2010 to: City Works Press  ATTN: Mamas and Papas San Diego City College 1313 Park Blvd  San Diego, CA 92101 <MammasPappas(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @) www.cityworkspress.org   Wag’s Revue  Wag’s Revue invites you to enter its winter contests in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Submissions of electronic writing are also encouraged in any of the above genres. First prize in each category receives $500 and publication in Wag’s Revue issue 4, and all submissions are considered for publication. There is no limit to the number of entries an author may submit. The contest deadline is Nov 30, and winners will be announced Dec 21. The submissions fee is $20.  Entry guidelines at http://www.wagsrevue.com/submit.php   Narrative 30 Below Story Contest This year’s *Narrative 30 Below Story Contest* is now under way, and we invite young writers, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers to tell us a story. We’re looking for both fiction and nonfiction and for the many forms narrative takes: the word and the image, the traditional and the innovative.    The contest offers over *$3,500* in prizes. All entries will be considered for publication.  All entries are also eligible for the annual *$5,000 Narrative Prize* for 2010 and for acceptance as a *Story of the Week*. The prize winners and finalists will be announced in /Narrative/ and featured at an annual event. Last year’s winners were presented on stage with /Narrative/ authors Tobias Wolff, Robert Stone, and Jennifer Egan.  The *Contest Guidelines* and works by prior winners can be viewed at http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/915  <http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/915>.  We welcome entries from one and all between the ages of eighteen and thirty. And for those writers and artists who are older, we have many ongoing awards and categories in which we accept submissions. Our overall guidelines can found at http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/182  <http://www.narrativemagazine.com/node/182>.    Narrative Magazine <http://www.narrativemagazine.com>  Bringing great literature to the world. Online. For free.    Anderbo Poetry Prize  http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/anderprize2009.html For up to six unpublished poems  Winner receives: $500 cash Publication on anderbo.com Judged by William Logan 2009 Contest Assistant: Anderbo Poetry Editor Charity Burns  Guidelines: –Poems should be typed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper with the poet’s name and contact information on the upper   right corner of each poem –Entries must be postmarked by November 1, 2009 –Limit six poems per poet –Entrant must not have been previously published on anderbo.com –Entrant must not be a current or former student of William Logan –Mail submissions to:   Anderbo Poetry Prize,   270 Lafayette Street,    Suite 1412,   New York, NY 10012 –Enclose self-addressed stamped business envelope to receive names of winner and honorable mentions –All entries are non-returnable and will be recycled –Total reading fee is $10. Check or money order payable to RRofihe–Winner and honorable mentions will be published on   anderbo.com in February of 2010   Indiana Review’s 2009 Fiction Prize Guidelines $1000 Honorarium and Publication Final Judge: Ron Carlson http://www.indianareview.org/general/prizes/fictprizeguidelines09.html visit website for entry fee and online payment information Ron Carlson currently serves as the director of the MFA program in fiction at UC Irvine. He has published four short story collections, three novels, including the recently praised Five Skies(Viking). Carlson’s short stories have been anthologized in dozens of collections, including The Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. He has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, and a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award. POSTMARK DEADLINE: OCT. 15, 2009 Reading Fee: $15 Includes a one-year subscription All entries considered for publication. All entries considered anonymously. Send only one story per entry, 35 double-spaced pages maximum, 12 pt. font. Entry form must include name, address, phone number, and title. Entrant’s name should appear ONLY on the entry form. Previously published works and works forthcoming elsewhere cannot be considered. Simultaneous submissions okay, but fee is non-refundable if accepted elsewhere. Multiple entries okay, as long as a separate reading fee is included with each entry. Further,IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University or the prize judge. If desired, include a self-addressed stamped envelope for notification. Manuscripts will not be returned. Make checks payable to Indiana Review. Each fee entitles entrant to a one-year subscription, an extension of a current subscription, or a gift subscription. Please indicate your choice and enclose complete address information for subscriptions. Overseas addresses, please add $12 for postage ($7 for addresses in Canada). Please note that we cannot accept money orders or checks from foreign banks. http://www.indianareview.org/general/prizes/fictprizeguidelines09.html. SEND ENTRIES TO: Fiction Prize Indiana Review Ballantine Hall 465 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47405-7103   QUERCUS REVIEW POETRY SERIES ANNUAL BOOK AWARD 2009 $1000 Stipend, Book Publication,  & 50 Author Copies.  Include brief cover letter that includes author’s name, address, phone number, email address, book title, and brief biography; an acknowledgments page listing previously published poems; table of contents; 48–96 pages of original poetry; and an SASE for reply or return of manuscript (as requested). Manuscripts should be unbound, typed, & page numbered. Clear photocopies acceptable. Will consider sim subs with notification. Open to all poets, with or without previous book publication.  New and emerging writers are especially invited to submit.  No restrictionson content, style or subject matter. $20 reading fee, for $25 enter and receive winning book.  Make checks payable to “MJC (QR).”  Send submissions to Quercus Review Press, MJC English Dept., 435 College Ave. Modesto, CA 95350 http://tinyurl.com/yd59ry8 Deadline:  Postmarked by Oct. 16, 2009 2009 Wabash Prize for Poetry http://www.sycamorereview.com/contest/ Final Judge: MARK DOTY First Prize: $1000 and winning entry published in Winter/Spring 2010 issue Entries of honorable mention also published in Winter/Spring 2010 issue Guidelines for Contest Submissions Deadline: Entries must be received by October 16, 2009. This is NOT a postmark deadline. Entries received after October 16, 2009 will be returned unread. 1. Submit up to three (3) poems. Each poem should appear on a separate piece of paper and poems longer than a page should be clearly numbered. For each additional poem a three dollar ($3) reading fee is required. 2. A $10 reading fee payable to Sycamore Review must accompany each entry (up to three poems). Do not send cash. When sending more than one entry, additional reading fees must also be included. 3. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable only if Sycamore Review is notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. 4. All entries must be typed and must include a cover letter with author’s name and contact information (address, telephone, and email address) as well as the titles and word counts of all entries submitted. The author’s name or any identifying information should not appear on the manuscript itself. 5. Manuscript pages should be numbered and should include the title of the piece. 6. Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard if you wish to be notified upon receipt of your manuscript. 7. Manuscripts will not be returned. Winners will be ann ounced by December 30, 2009. For information on winners and runners-up, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with entry. 8. All contest submissions will be considered for regular inclusion in Sycamore Review. 9. All poems must be previously unpublished. 10. Questions may be directed to Anthony Cook, Editor-in-Chief, at <sycamore(at)purdue.edu> (replace (at) with @). Send 2009 Wabash Prize for Poetry submissions and reading fee to: 2009 Wabash Prize for Poetry Sycamore Review Department of English 500 Oval Drive Purdue University West Lafayette , IN 47907 Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers http://www.richardburgin.net/1boulevardsfcontest.htm $1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.   RULES All entries must be postmarked by December 31, 2009.  Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but previously accepted or published work is ineligible.  Entries will be judged by the editors of Boulevard magazine. Send typed, double-spaced manuscript(s) and SAS post card for acknowledgement of receipt to: Boulevard Emerging Writers Contest, PMB 325, 6614 Clayton Road, Richmond Heights, MO 63117.  No manuscripts will be returned. Entry fee is $15 for each individual story, with no limit per author.  Entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Boulevard (one per author).  Make check payable to Boulevard. There is no maximum length.  Author’s name, address, and telephone number, in addition to the story’s title and “Boulevard Emerging Writers Contest,” should appear on page one.  Cover sheets are not necessary. The winning story will be published in the Spring or Fall 2010 issue of Boulevard. Include a 3 x 5 inch index card with your name, address and title of your submission(s). These are the complete guidelines.   Saturday Writers 8th Annual Short Story Contest 2009 Guidelines (Short stories only. no essays, poems, or articles) Deadline: November 1, 2009 (postmarked)               Word Limit: 2009 http://saturdaywriters.org/contest.htm Contest is open to EVERYONE. Open subject, open genre. (No pornography or gore.) Entry fee: Members of Saturday Writers, MWG, or other MWG Chapters: $5 per story.  (MWG or MWG Chapter Membership will be verified by Contest Chair.) All others: $7 per short story.  Maximum of three entries per person. Checks payable to: Saturday Writers. Prizes: 1st place – $100, 2nd place – $50, 3rd place – $25. 4-10th Place receive a certificate.    Short stories must be in English, unpublished at the time of submission, and the original work of the contestant.  Contestants retain all rights to their stories. Standard manuscript format: 8 1/2 x 11 paper, typed and double-spaced on one side of the paper, pages numbered, title of entry on every page, 12 point Times New Roman. Paper clip pages together; do not use staples. No name or other identifying information should appear anywhere on entry. Attach a separate cover sheet and include: story title, contestant’s name, address, e-mail, phone number, and MWG chapter name (if applicable).   Mail entry fee and two copies of each entry, flat, not folded, by November 1 (postmark) to:  Saturday Writers 8th Annual Short Story Contest c/o Donna Volkenannt 32 Country Crossing Estates Drive St. Peters, MO  63376    Do NOT send by certified mail! Stories exceeding word limit, not having adequate postage, or not adhering to contest guidelines will be disqualified and entry fee will not be returned. Decision of judge is final. Not responsible for lost or misdirected entries. Keep a copy of your entry because stories will not be returned.   For a list of winners, visit the CONTESTS page of our website in December 2009: www.saturdaywriters.org Certificates and prizes will be mailed by the end of December. Lynn Carney from Fayetteville, Arkansas, will judge the Saturday Writers 8th Annual Short Story Contest. Carney has been nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize for literary excellence for a short story and has received many awards for her fiction, including two Dan Saults Awards from OWL; three Crème De la Crèmes from OWFI and Johnson County Texas Writers; a Mainstream Literary award from the 73rd Annual Writer’s Digest Competition for a short story, and others.  She is a member of Ozarks Writers League and the Northwest Arkansas Writers’ Workshop. She is owner and webmaster of  http://writerscozycabincompanion.com, a resource site for writers. Visit her on her official website http://lynncarney.com. She is also on Author’s Den, Facebook, and Twitter.   Benu Press Benu Press is accepting completed manuscripts for the Social Justice and Equity Award in Creative Non-Fiction. Contest dates: October 5, 2009 through November 9, 2009. Notification by December 18, 2009. Benu Press is a small, independent press committed to publishing creative non-fiction, poetry and fiction. We believe in the transformative power of literature. To that end, we seek to publish inspiring and thought-provoking books about the practical dimensions of social justice and equity. Writing Competition Rules and Guidelines Entries must include a reader’s fee as well as the entry form. There is an early bird discount: $15.00 before Oct. 11th, and it will be $25 after. See electronic payment and submission form at http://www.benupress.com/submissions.html The author’s name should not appear beyond the cover sheet. Title of book should appear on all pages of the manuscript. Manuscript must be 144 – 350 pages and spring clipped (not spiral bound) unless you are doing an electronic submission. The contest readers will perform a blind review of each entry. Winning entry will be published by Benu Press and the author will be awarded $1,000 in addition to 17% royalties. The initial run will be 1,000 copies. The winner will also receive 20 copies of the book. Benu Press will sell books to authors at a 35% discount, and these copies may be sold directly to customers at readings and events. Benu Press will not sell books to authors on a sale or return basis. Manuscript must be written in English, and must not contain excessive adult language or exploitive themes. Manuscripts will NOT be returned. Benu Press is not responsible for lost manuscripts. Unsuccessful submissions will be shredded and recycled. Books that have been previously published are not eligible. All work must be original work by the author. Should any part of the entry be discovered to be copied or plagiarized, both writer and entry will be disqualified. Author must submit one (1) hard copy of the manuscript OR an RTF file (burned on a disk) OR submit electronically (see below) for review. Entries must be sent to: Benu Press Writing Competition, PO Box 5330, Hopkins, MN, 55343. Questions can be directed to: <sales(at)benupress.com> (replace (at) with @), subject: Competition. Any entry that is not complete or does not follow guidelines will be disqualified.   EDGE IV http://www.tahoewritersworks.com/EDGE-poetry-contest.html the details Who: The judge for the 2010 EDGE Poetry Contest is poet Suzanne Roberts, author of the collections “Nothing to You” and “Shameless.” What: Submit your best work exploring the edge: life on the edge, or what keeps you from going over. When: Deadline: November 15th, 2009 Why: The winner will receive $500 and publication in EDGE IV. Five honorable mentions will be listed, and will receive a copy of the journal. How much: The entry Fee is $15 for three poems submission guidelines Edge is a literary journal published each winter featuring provocative fiction, poetry, essays, and art. We appreciate a variety of styles and our tastes are very eclectic. We strongly recommend reading a past issue of EDGE. • Submissions accepted through November 15, 2009 • Send up to three poems • Contributors receive one issue of the journal • Simultaneous submissions are okay; please label as such and let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere • We are currently accepting submission via email ONLY. Please identify “EDGE Poetry Award Submission” in subject line • Submissions must be attached as a Word doc • Winners will be announced December 1, 2009 payment & submission Submit your work to: <Submissions(at)LakeTahoeWritingClub.com> (replace (at) with @) Make your $15 payment to our PayPal account: visit http://www.tahoewritersworks.com/EDGE-poetry-contest.html for PayPal instructions    Western Humanities Review Presents The  17thAnnual Utah Writers’ Contest http://www.hum.utah.edu/whr/index.html CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Western Humanities Review (WHR), a triannual literary magazine published by the University of Utah, is calling for entries to its seventeenth annual competition for Utah writers.  Prizes are awarded in poetry and prose. Each winner will receive $500 and publication in the Winter 2009/10 issue of WHR. The entry fee is $10 and includes an annual subscription to WHR.   Submissions must be postmarked by Thursday, October 15th, 2009. Poetry submissions should not exceed 10 pages or 5 poems.  Prose submissions may be fiction or nonfiction and should not exceed 25 pages in length. You may submit more than one submission, but each must be accompanied by the $10 contest fee. Writers must be living in Utah at the time of the competition, and the material submitted must be previously unpublished.  Previous winners of the competition may not re-enter in the category for which they won.  Past judges have included Edward Hirsch, Allison Hagy, Ron Carlson, Stuart Dybek, Scott Cairns, Brian Evenson, T.R. Hummer, David Lehman, Ben Marcus, Marie Ponsot, Bob Shacochis, Timothy Donnelly, and David Shields.   We are pleased to announce this year’s judges: Prose—Kate Bernheimer Poetry—Brenda Shaughnessy   Entries should indicate which genre you are entering and should be mailed to: Utah Writers’ Contest Western Humanities Review University of Utah English Department 255 S. Central Campus Drive, Room 3500 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0494 The writer’s name, address and phone number should appear on the cover sheet only. An SASE should be included for notification of contest results. Manuscripts will not be returned.  Checks for $10 should be made out to Western Humanities Review. For more information, please e-mail questions to whr@mail.hum.utah.edu   Tarpaulin Sky Press  During the month of October, Tarpaulin Sky Press (www.tarpaulinsky.com) will be reading full-length manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and cross-genre work. Manuscripts should be postmarked between October 1 and October 31, 2009. There is no need to query first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below. Tarpaulin Sky Press publishes paperbacks as well as a literary journal that appears in online and paper editions. Our trade paperbacks are available though major retailers and independent booksellers alike, and are distributed by Small Press Distribution–where the majority of our full-length titles have appeared on the distributor’s “Best Sellers” lists, sometimes for several months. In addition to being included in “Ten Great Titles from Underground Presses” in Time Out New York, Tarpaulin Sky Press and its titles are featured and reviewed in places such as Poets & Writers, American Book Review, Rain Taxi, Bloomsbury Review, and Bookslut, among others.  TO SUBMIT: Send one copy of your manuscript along with two copies of the title page (note: the reading process is not “blind”–we ask for two title pages only so that we may keep one with the manuscript, and the other for reference/notes, etc). Be sure that your title pages include your name, address, telephone number, and email address. Cover letters are read with interest. We like to know who your are, what you’re up to, and where we can read more of your work. We do accept simultaneous submissions but a sk that you let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Individual pieces from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies, and short-run chapbooks, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Manuscripts will not be returned. Please do not send us your only copy. Writers who have not been published in our literary journal should include a $20 reading fee in the form of a check or a money order made payable to Tarpaulin Sky Press. Past contributors to Tarpaulin Sky may submit their manuscript with a $10 reading fee. Current subscribers to Tarpaulin Sky Press do not need to include a reading fee (you’ve already done plenty to support the press–thank you). Everyone submitting a manuscript is welcome also to choose from any TSky Press trade paperback (sorry, no chapbooks)–just let us know which title you would like, and enclose with your submission packet a 9×12, self-addressed, stamped envelope with $2.64 in postage. We will ship the books separately from your notification SASE. Mail your submission to Tarpaulin Sky Press PO Box 189 Grafton, VT 05146 For notification of decisions, include a business-size SASE. If you would like to receive acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, please include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Notification of decisions will be made in February 2010. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in 2010 & 2011. If you are not familiar with our press and the type of books that we publish, we encourage you to20explore our work before submitting, by purchasing one of our titles.    Seventeenth Annual Short Story Contest http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/ Deadline: October 1, 2009 Judge: Chang-Rae Lee First Prize: $1,500 Complete guidelines: The winning author will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in Boston Review, the summer of 2010. Stories should not exceed 4,000 words and must be previously unpublished. Manuscripts should be submitted with a cover note listing the author’s name, address, and phone number; names should not appear on the stories themselves. Note that simultaneous submissions are not eligible. Any author writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current student, former student, or close personal friend of the judge. A $20 entry fee ($30 for international submissions), payable to Boston Review in the form of a check or money order, must accompany each story entered. Entrants will receive a one-year print subscription to the Reviewbeginning with the summer 2010 issue. Submissions must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2009. Manuscripts will not be returned. The winner will be announced no later than May/June, 2010, on the Boston Review Website. Mail submissions to: Short-Story Contest, Boston Review, 35 Medford St., Suite 302, Somerville, MA 02143     Yalobusha Review Announcing the 2010 Barry Hannah Fiction Contest for the Yalobusha Review. This year’s contest will be judged by Jack Pendarvis, author of Awesome, The  Mysterious Secret and The Valuable Treasure, and My Body is Changing.  All submissions postmarked by November 15, 2009. No limit on number or length of submissions. Each submission must be accompanied by $10 reading fee (check or money order payable to the University of Mississippi.) Include a cover letter with the title of your story. Your name should not appear anywhere on the story itself. Include SASE with submission for notification of results. Winner will be notified by December 15, 2009. Winner receives $500, publication in the 2010 Yalobusha Review, exclusive publication on our website, and two contributor’s copies. We retain first North American rights. Send all entries to:    Yalobusha Review  Barry Hannah Contest Department of English University of Mississippi P.O. Box 1848 University, MS 38677-1848 Phone: (662) 915-3175   Call for food writing: Connotation Press http://connotationpress.com/index.php/from-plate-to-palate The online arts and literary magazine Connotation Press is seeking food writing from the creative writer’s perspective. If you’re a creative writer in any genre who is also interested in food writing or who is currently involved in food writing, please submit your tasty morsels to Amanda McGuire, the Food and Wine feature editor at Connotation Press <amandamcguire(at)connotationpress.com> (replace (at) with @). Bon Appetit!   Gulf Stream Call for submissions http://w3.fiu.edu/gulfstream/guidelines.asp Gulf Stream is now accepting submissions for Issue No. 2 of Gulf Stream Online.  This is a special issue for us–it’s our twentieth anniversary!  Come be a part of South Florida’s premier literary journal.  We are currently reading submissions until December 15.  Submit online only at http://fs8.formsite.com/gulfstream/form385843734/index.html We publish poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.  Past contributors include Sherman Alexie, David Kirby, Richard Blanco, Dennis Lehane, Ha Jin, Ann Hood, Susan Neville, Naomi Shihab Nye, Virgil Suarez, Catherine Bowman, Maureen Seaton, Jim Daniels, Stuart Dybek, Len Roberts, Peter Meinke and Jill Bialosky.  For further information and submission guidelines, please visit our website at http://w3.fiu.edu/gulfstream/guidelines.asp     Crab Creek Review Annual Fiction Contest (Sept. 15 – Nov. 16): Award winning writer, Kathleen Alcala will be the contest judge.  Submit your original, unpublished fiction (up to 3,000 words) and win $100 and publication in Crab Creek Review. All contest submissions will be considered for publication. $10 entry fee. Please read the complete contest guidelines: http://www.crabcreekreview.org/contest.htm   Texas Christian University  The Department of English invites applications for a tenure-track, assistant professor in creative writingwith a specialization in poetry, contemporary literature, & creative nonfiction. In a PhD-granting department offering courses at the undergraduate & graduate levels in literature, rhetoric, & writing, commitments to teaching excellence & to sustained research/creative work & publication are expected. Candidates must have a substantial publication record & be prepared to facilitate & develop undergraduate activities (student events, a literary journal, writing awards, & scholarships). Competitive teaching load, salary, & support for research, travel, & creative activity. PhD or MFA required by August 2009. Minority applicants are encouraged to apply. Please send letter of application & vita to: Brad Lucas, Chair, Department of English, Texas Christian University, TCU Box 297270, Fort Worth, TX 76129. Review of applications begins November 1; those received by November 19 will be considered for MLA interviews. AA/EOE. (MLA)   A Face to Meet the Faces:  An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry.      The editors are pleased to announce a call for submissions for  We are seeking poems that work within the literary tradition of persona poetry: poems written as dramatic monologues, whose speakers employ masks, or whose character and voice are different from the poet’s own. Please submit up to 5 unpublished poems.  We will also consider poems whose rights have reverted back to the author. All submissions will be accepted electronically.  Please send an email to the editors at <facesanthology(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @) with the poet’s name and “Submission for Persona Anthology” as the subject line, with the poems as an attachment. Submissions will be accepted October 1, 2009 through January 1, 2010.    Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes for 2009 http://www.dorothyprizes.org/ These prizes have been established by Marvin Rosenberg in memory of his late wife, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg. The intent is to encourage the work of new, young poets. Several prizes varying from $1,000 up to as much as $25,000 will be awarded for the finest lyric poems celebrating the spirit of life. The competition is open to any writer under the age of 40 on November 6, 2009. All poets, published or unpublished, are welcome to enter, but only previously unpublished poems are eligible for the competition. Each entrant may submit one to three separate poems. Submissions must be in English, the original work of the entrant, and previously unpublished. Poems should express the personal experience of the entrant, so please no translations! Brevity will be appreciated: if more than one poem is submitted, only one of the submitted poems may be more than thirty lines in length. Entries must be received no later than October 17, the third Saturday in October, 2009. Entries should be submitted by mail to: Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes PO Box 2306 Orinda, California 94563 Each poem must be printed on a separate sheet. Please submit two copies of each poem, with your name and address clearly marked on each page of one copy only. Please include an index card with your name and address, phone number, e-mail address and the title(s) of your poem(s). Poems submitted will not be returned. An entry fee of 10 dollars is required for submissions mailed in the United States: Checks should please be made out to Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. Foreign entries are exempted from the entry fee because of the hassles of international payments. Click here for a printer friendly version. Prizes ranging from $1,000 up to as much as $25,000 will be awarded for the finest lyric poems celebrating the human spirit. Entrants must be under the age of 40 on November 6, 2009. The contest is open to all writers, published or unpublished. Winners may continue to enter until their prizes total in excess of $25,000. Submissions must be in English: no translations, please.Each entrant may submit one to three separate poems.Only one of the poems may be more than thirty lines in length.All poems must be original and previously unpublished.Each poem must be printed on a separate sheet. Submit two copies of each poem. Write your name, address, phone number and email address clearly marked on each page of one copy only. Include an index card with your name, address, phone number, email address and the titles of your submitted poems.Include a $10 entry fee payable to the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. (This fee is not required for entries mailed from abroad.) In summary, send two sets of copies of your poems, with your name on one set only; plus an index card with your contact informat ion; plus a $10.00 fee if you reside in the U.S. Mail entries to:  Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes PO Box 2306 Orinda, CA 94563 Deadline: Entries must be postmarked on or before October 17, the third Saturday in October, 2009. Poems will not be returned. Include a stamped addressed envelope if you wish us to acknowledge the receipt of your entry. Notice of prize winners will be published on our website on February 5, 2010 together with a selection of the winning poems.Winners will be contacted shortly before that time.   The Ledge 2009 Poetry Chapbook Competition PRIZE: Winning poet will receive a $1,000 cash award and 25 copies of the published chapbook. SUBMIT: 16-28 pages of original poetry with title page, biographical note and acknowledgements, if any. Please include your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number (optional). Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but we ask that you notify us if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Poets may enter more than one manuscript. ENTRY FEE: $18. All entrants will receive a copy of the winning chapbook upon its publication in the fall of 2010. NO RESTRICTIONS on form or content. The Ledge Press is open to all styles and forms of poetry. Excellence is the only criterion. PLEASE include a SASE for the competition results or manuscript return. The winner will be announced in March 2010. POSTMARK DEADLINE: October 31, 2009. SEND ENTRIES TO: The Ledge 2009 Poetry Chapbook Competition, 40 Maple Ave., Bellport, NY 11713   3rd Annual Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition  Judge: Pauls Toutonghi http://burnsidereview.org/contests.php Guidelines Contest runs September 15th-December 31st. —Up to 10,000 words of fiction. This can be one longer story or multiple shorter pieces. The writer’s name should appear nowhere on the manuscript. —2 cover sheets, one with the title of the manuscript, your name, telephone number, and address. The second cover sheet should list only the title of the manuscript. —A page acknowledging previously published work. IF BY POST: Include a self addressed stamped envelope and a check or money order for $15- made out to Burnside Review. Entry must be postmarked by December 31st to: Burnside Review Fiction Contest, P.O. Box 1782, Portland OR 97207. IF BY ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: E-mail all of above a single Word file to contests@burnsidereview.org. Send $16- by Paypal to  <sid(at)burnsidereview.org> (replace (at) with @). Fee and entry must be submitted within 24 hours of each other. Receipt of entry will be send after both arrive. (This method will save money and trees.) The initial readers of the manuscripts will be Burnside Review staff members. They will choose between five and ten manuscripts as finalists to be passed on to the judge for selection of the winning collection. We ask that former students or colleagues of the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest’s judge—as well as any writer wh ose relationship with the judge constitutes an unfair conflict of interest—refrain from entering the contest. The Burnside Review staff reserves the right to disqualify entries deemed conflicts of interest and will return those entry fees. At no time will the judge have the names of the finalists. Winner will receive 25 copies of the chapbook printed by Burnside Review Press and a cash prize of $200-. All questions happily answered by e-mail : <sid(at)burnsidereview.org> (replace (at) with @) Pauls Toutonghi was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1976. His first novel, Red Weather, was published by Random House in 2006. He teaches at Lewis and Clark College. Hawk & Handsaw wants to know what “creative sustainability” means to you. Send us your reflections and art. Tell us about your greatest triumphs and most frustrating failures. Challenge our definitions-and those held by our readers. We know that you know which way the wind blows. That a sustainable lifestyle can be as messy as it is meaningful-that it requires reflection, deep philosophical commitment and, more often than not, a good sense of humor. Hawk and Handsaw celebrates this kind of thinking. Each issue, we offer works from established and emerging artists and writers, as well as a broadly reaching accounts of what it means to be sustainably creative-and, of course, creatively sustainable. Hawk & Handsaw is published annually. Our reading period for the 2010 issue is 1 August- 1 November. We welcome text and images from every genre and are particularly interested in those works that challenge conventional notions both of artistic form and environmental sustainability. Please send submissions (Word, .jpeg, or .pdf files preferred) to <hawkandhandsaw(at)unity.edu (replace (at) with @). For more information about the journal, including full submission guidelines and samples of previous issues, you may visit our website: www.unity.edu/hawkandhandsaw. Queries may be sent to the journal’s editor, Kathryn Miles <kmiles(at)unity.edu> (replace (at) with @).   GLIMMER TRAIN Guidelines for the FAMILY MATTERS category: We are interested in reading your original, unpublished short stories about family! We don’t publish stories for children, I’m sorry. It’s fine to submit more than one story or to submit the same story to different categories. When we accept a story for publication, we are purchasing first-publication rights. (After we’ve published it, you can include it in your own collection.) To make a submission: Please send your work via our new online submission procedure. It’s easy, will save you postage and paper, and is much easier on the environment. Just click the yellow Submissions button above to get started! Dates: The category will be open to submissions for one full month, from the first day through midnight (Pacific time) of the last day of the month. Results will be posted at www.glimmertrain.org. April. Results will be posted on June 30. October. Results will be posted on December 31. Reading fee: $15 per story. Prizes: 1st place wins $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue. 2nd-place: $500 3rd-place:$300 Other considerations: Open to all writers. Stories–about family–not to exceed 12,000 words.(No minimum, though it’s rare for a piece under 500 words to read as a full story.) This category has stimulated lots of questions about fiction/non-fiction/creative nonfiction, since many people have significant real-life stories they want to write. It seems to us that a substantial proportion of fiction submissions are heavily rooted in actual experience, which is entirely fine with us, but we do want stories to READ like fiction and anything we publish is presented as fiction. (Also, sticking too tightly to “truth” can limit the larger truth that fiction is able to reveal.) I would certainly recommend changing details that would allow the real-life people to say, Hey, that character is–without a doubt–me. I hope that makes sense. We look forward to reading your work!   Crab Creek Review’s Short Fiction Prize Submission Dates: Sept. 15th, 2009 – Nov. 16th, 2009 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Original, previously unpublished fiction up to 3,000 words, double spaced. Name and contact info must NOT appear on any pages of the fiction piece. Please include a cover letter with your name, address, telephone number, email address, and the title of your story with a brief bio. Please include a $10 entry fee (check made payable to Crab Creek Review) and a SASE. Postmark deadline is Nov. 16th, 2009. Mail submissions to: Crab Creek Review Fiction Contest c/o 7315 34th Ave NW Seattle, WA 98117 Winner will receive $100 and publication in Crab Creek Review. All contest submissions will be considered for publication. Contest judge TBA. Thank you for your support of Crab Creek Review.  This contests help support our journal and the literary arts.  We so appreciate your submissions.    For more info on Crab Creek Review, visit our website at:  www.crabcreekreview.org   THE POETRY CENTER AT  PASSAIC COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE  is pleased to announce a contest to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its founding  The American Voice in Poetry: the Legacy of Whitman, Williams, and Ginsberg  We are looking for poems rooted in the literary tradition that honors place, voice, and specificity.   The winners will be invited to read their poems at a book launch for the anthology of winning  poems to be held on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at the Poetry Center.   Contest Rules:  1. Two poems per person will be accepted for consideration.  Two copies of each poem should be submitted with name, address, phone number, and email on one copy of each poem. Poems should be no more than two manuscript pages.     2. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT POEMS THAT IMITATE POEMS BY WALT WHITMAN, ALLEN GINSBERG AND WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS.   3. Only unpublished poems may be submitted to this contest.   4.    Deadline: November 15, 2009.    5.    Please include SASE for list of winners.   6.    Winners will be contacted by email or by phone, if email is not available.   Please do not call our office in reference to the contest. Send poems to:   Maria Mazziotti Gillan  Executive Director  Poetry Center  Passaic County Community College  On College Boulevard  Paterson, New Jersey 07506.  www.pccc.edu/poetry  We at Black Lawrence Press are proud to offer a range of competitions that honors work from a variety of genres and also offers accolade to both unknown, emerging, and established writers. We are also proud to be an imprint of Dzanc Books, which also offers two prizes: The Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest and The Dzanc Prize. Below you will find information about both of these prizes offered by Dzanc Books. Best Regards and Happy Writing! Diane GoettelExecutive Editor, Black Lawrence Press   The Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest Dzanc Books is a publisher doing everything it can to preserve and push the short story form.  In 2008 and 2009, Dzanc published seven full collections, as well as another eight between its imprints during that span.  Three of these collections were named to the Kansas City Star’s top ten story collections of 2008.  Last year Dzanc held its first Short Story Collection Contest and David Galef’s My Date With Neanderthal Woman was selected the winner out of hundreds of entries. Having received many fantastic manuscripts last year, Dzanc has elected to run another Short Story Collection Contest this year, and the winning manuscript will receive a publishing contract with a $1,000 advance, and see the collection published in late Spring/early Summer 2012. Entry to the Dzanc SSC Contest will require a $20 reading fee, and a full manuscript sent via email to ssc@dzancbooks.org. The entry fee can be made either via check made out to Dzanc Books, mailed to 1334 Woodbourne St., Westland, MI 48186 or via paypal by clicking on the button at the following link. The contest deadline is December 31, 2009. http://www.dzancbooks.org/submissions.html Questions? Send an email to info@dzancbooks.org.   The Dzanc Prize Instituted in  2007, to further its mission of fostering literary excellence, community involvement, and education, Dzanc Books created the Dzanc Prize, which provides monetary aid in the sum of $5,000, to a writer of literary fiction. All writers applying for the Dzanc Prize must have a work-in-progress they can submit for review, and present the judges with a Community Service Program they can facilitate somewhere in the United States. Such programs may include anything deemed “educational” in relation to writing. Examples would include: working with HIV patients to help them write their stories; doing a series of workshops at a drop-in youth homeless center; running writing programs in inner-city schools; or working with older citizens looking to write their memoirs. All community programs under the Dzanc Prize must run for a full year.  They must truly serve a literary community in need. The submissions for the Dzanc Prize are reviewed by, and the prize will be awarded by, a panel of Steve Gillis, Dan Wickett, and Steven Seighman. All writers, including friends and associates of the panel, are eligible for the prize. The integrity and objectivity of Dzanc Books will not be compromised and, given our vast connections to so many great writers, exclusion of any kind would be impossible. The 2009 winner will be notified in January 2010. Any questions can be submitted to prize@dzancbooks.org. Guidelines Those submitting should send to prize@dzancbooks.org, the following: an MS Doc file of their work in progress (25 to 50 pages) an MS Doc file of their Literary Community Service – this plan should be in as great detail as they can provide, including sign-offs from personnel where they believe it will be necessary (for instance, if the LCS is to work in a retirement home – we’d like to know the specific retirement home and that they have somebody’s approval to set up such a program) an MS Doc file of their latest cv/resume  The deadline for this prize is November 01, 2009. The 2010 Third Coast Fiction & Poetry Contest http://www.thirdcoastmagazine.com/contests/ Fiction Prize: $1,000 & Publication Poetry Prize : $1,000 & Publication Final Judges Fiction: Ann Beattie Poetry: David Wojahn Complete Guidelines Deadline: Entries must be received by December 1, 2009. This is NOT a postmark deadline. Entries received after December 1, 2009 will be returned unread. 1. Submit one previously unpublished story of up to 9,000 words or three (3) previously unpublished poems with a $15 reading fee payable to Third Coast. Please send each entry separately and clearly mark whether it is a poetry or fiction entry. Send entries and reading fee to: Third Coast 2010 Fiction or Poetry Contest Department of English Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331 2. Each $15 entry fee entitles entrant to a 1-year subscription to Third Coast, an extension of an existing subscription, or a gift subscription. Please indicate your choice and enclose a complete address for subscription. 3. All manuscripts should be typed (fiction entries should be double-spaced), and accompanied by a cover letter with the author’s name, contact information (address, telephone, and email address), and entry title(s). Please include entry title(s) and page numbers on all manuscript pages. The author’s name and identifying information should only appear on the cover letter; identifying information must not appear anywhere on the manuscript itself. 4. Simultaneous submissions are permitted; if accepted elsewhere, we ask that they be withdrawn from the contest immediately. If a poem or story is chosen as a finalist, Third Coast requires that it be withdrawn from any other publication considerations until the winner is selected. If the poem or story is scheduled to be published elsewhere before September 2010, please do not submit it. 5. Winners will be announced in February 2010 and published in the Fall 2010 issue of Third Coast. All contest entries will be considered for regular inclusion in Third Coast. 6. Writers associated with the judges or Third Coast are not eligible to submit work to the contest. 7. No money will be refunded. Submissions will not be returned; send SASE for results only. About the Judges Fiction judge Ann Beattie received the 2000 PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story. Called “one of our era’s most vital masters of the short form” by The Washington Post, Beattie is author of several short story collections and novels, including, most recently, Follies: New Stories (2005). Poetry judge David Wojahn is author of seven books of poetry and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Wojahn’s Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004 was one of two finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.   Deadline for O‘Connor Work Extended to October 31, 2009 http://www.wlu.edu/x33932.xml Shenandoah announces a special issue centering on the works of Flannery O’Connor in celebration of the journal’s 60th anniversary. The editor seeks essays, poems, short stories, reviews, photographs and other artwork about, related to or in honor of the fiction and life of Ms. O’Connor. Any queries about particular submissions should be directed to <rodsmith(at)wlu.edu> (replace (at) with @). A prize of $1,000 will be awarded to the best O’Connor-related work published in the issue, which is planned for Fall, 2010. Materials should be addressed to: O’Connor Issue Shenandoah Mattingly House / 2 Lee Avenue Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 2 4450-2116   Philadelphia Stories is pleased to announce the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction  http://www.philadelphiastories.org/fiction-contest Award $1,000 Judge: Elise Juska, author of One for Sorrow, Two for Joy; The Hazards of Sleeping Alone; and Getting Over Jack Wagner. Special Contest Submission Guidelines: Previously unpublished works of fiction up to 8,000 words. There is a $10 reading fee for each story submitted (all entrants will receive a one-year subscription to Philadelphia Stories). Multiple submissions will be accepted for the contest only. Simultaneous submissions are also accepted, however, we respectfully request that we be notified immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Authors currently residing in or originally from the United States are eligible. Submission period: June 15, 2009 to October 15, 2009.  To submit your story, go  to<http://www.philadelphiastories.org/node/add/contest>  The winning story will be published in the Winter 2009/2010 issue of Philadelphia Stories. Submissions will only be accepted via the website. Philadelphia Stories complies with the ethical guidelines for contests set forth by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. All entrants will receive a complimentary one-year membership to Philadelphia Stories.   UPCOMING THEME: Animals postmark deadline Nov. 13, 2009 http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/submittocnf.htm For an upcoming issue, we’re seeking new essays about the bonds–emotional, ethical, biological, physical, or otherwise–between humans and animals. We’re looking for stories that illustrate ways animals (wild and/or domestic) affect, enrich, or otherwise have an impact on our daily lives. Essays must be vivid and dramatic; they should combine a strong and compelling narrative with a significant element of research or information, and reach for some universal or deeper meaning in personal experiences. We’re looking for well-written prose, rich with detail and a distinctive voice. Creative Nonfiction editors will award one $1000 prize for Best Essay and one $500 prize for runner-up. Guidelines: Essays must be: unpublished, 5,000 words or less, postmarked by November 13, 2009, and clearly marked “Animals” on both the essay and the outside of the envelope. There is a $20 reading fee (or send a reading fee of $25 to include a 4-issue CNF subscription); multiple entries are welcome ($20/essay) as are entries from outside the U.S. (though subscription shipping costs do apply). Please send manuscript, accompanied by a cover letter with complete contact information, SASE and payment to: Creative Nonfiction Attn: Animals  5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202 Pittsburgh, PA 15232   CONTEST: End of Life Stories postmark deadline Dec. 31, 2009 http://www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/submittocnf.htm#EndofLife We’re seeking new essays that explore death, dying, and end of life care, for a collection to be published by Southern Methodist University Press. We’re looking for stories that transcend the “I” and find universal meaning in personal experiences. We hope to include stories representing a wide variety of perspectives—from physicians, nurses, hospice workers, social workers, counselors, clergy, funeral directors, family members, and others. We want narratives that capture, illustrate and/or explain the best way to approach the end of life, as well as stories that highlight current features, flaws, and advances in the healthcare system and their impact on professionals, patients, and families. Essays must be vivid and dramatic; they should combine a strong and compelling narrative with a significant element of research or information. We’re looking for well-written prose, rich with detail and a distinctive voice. Creative Nonfiction editors will award one $1500 prize for Best Essay, and two $500 prizes for runners-up. Guidelines: Essays must be: unpublished, 5,000 words or less, postmarked by December 31, 2009, and clearly marked “End of Life” on both the essay and the outside of the envelope. There is a $20 reading fee (or send a reading fee of $25 to include a 4-issue CNF subscription); multiple entries are welcome ($20/essay) as are entries from outside=2 0the U.S. (though subscription shipping costs do apply). Please send manuscript, accompanied by a cover letter with complete contact information, SASE and payment to: Creative Nonfiction Attn: End of Life Stories 5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202 Pittsburgh, PA 15232   River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Contest http://www3.ashland.edu/academics/arts_sci/english/riverteeth/guidelines.htm River Teeth’s editors and editorial board conduct a yearly national contest to identify the best book-length manuscript of literary nonfiction. The winner will be announced in March of the prize year.  The winner will receive $1,000 and publication by the University of Nebraska Press. General Guidelines: 1.     Manuscripts must be between 150-400 pages long 2.     Manuscripts must be double-spaced 3.     Include a title page with title only 4.     Include a cover page with title and contact information 5.     Include a $25 contest fee 6.     Postmark Deadline is December 31 , 2009. 7.     Mail entries to:  RIVER TEETH Ashland University 401 College Ave. Ashland, OH 44805   Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award, 2009 ($1000 Stipend, Book Publication, & 50 Author Copies) GUIDELINES http://www.quercusreview.com/QR%20POETRY%20BOOK%20AWARD.htm MANUSCRIPTS should include a brief cover letter that includes author’s name, address, phone number, e-mail address, book title, and brief biography; an acknowledgments page listing previously published poems; table of contents; 48–96 pages of original poetry; and an SASE for reply or return of manuscript (as requested). Manuscripts should be unbound, typed, & page numbered. Clear photocopies are acceptable. We will consider simultaneous submissions, but we ask that you notify us if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.  ELIGIBILITY: Open to all poets, with or without previous book publication.  New and emerging writers are especially invited to submit.  No restrictions on content, style or subject matter. We are simply looking for the best poetry we can find. PRIZE: Winner receives $1000 and 50 books. $20 READING FEE / $25 TO RECEIVE WINNING BOOK:Make checks payable to ”MJC (QR).”     SUBMISSION DEADLINE: All entries must be postmarked between June and October 16, 2009.  SEND SUBMISSIONS TO Quercus Review Press, MJC English Dept.,  435 College Ave. Modesto, CA 95350   SHORT STORY CONTEST THE INSPIRATION FOR THIS AWARD:  Arthur Edelstein passed away late in the summer of 2003. He spent most of his life teaching, and, particularly during his last two decades, encouraging fiction writers to perfect and value their craft. Those of us who knew him and studied under him, benefited not only from his knowledge, but from his patience and his humanity. WE FELT IT MIGHT HELP SUBMITTERS IF WE ARTICULATED THE ELEMENTS WE CONSIDER DURING THE PROCESS OF JUDGING THE STORIES: A successful story requires technical fluency (good writing), a well-rendered and engaging concept, and satisfying structure (beginning, middle, end) all of which work together to produce an artistic result greater than the sum of its parts.  writingsite.com will sponsor the fifth annual Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction in 2009 http://writingsite.com/ Eligibility: Short stories, 6000 words maximum All writers, published or unpublished, writing in English Prize: One prize of $1000.00 will be awarded to the winner Deserving stories will receive Honorable Mention  The winner will be announced on-site on March 31, 2010 The winning story will appear on-site as our short story feature for May 2010 Submissions: Unpublished short stories up to 6000 words in length Manuscripts will be accepted only during the month of October 2009 by USPS Entries remain the property of the author and may be submitted elsewhere Guidelines Manuscripts must be printed on white paper, one side only, double-spaced, 12 point font minimum, with pages numbered consecutively Manuscripts must include Title Page with author name, mailing address, and e-mail address (if applicable). Author name should not appear on ms. pages All manuscripts must have an October 2009 postmark Send to: writingsite.com, ATTN: Short Story Contest, P.O. Box 93, Pomfret Center, CT 06259 Include a 10.00 reading fee, check made out to The Arthur Edelstein Literary Fund, Inc. Manuscripts will not be returned Final judging will be done by an independent reader In the event that an insufficient number of submissions is received to make the contest viable, entrants will be notified and entry fees will be returned    River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Contest http://www3.ashland.edu/academics/arts_sci/english/riverteeth/guidelines.htm River Teeth’s editors and editorial board conduct a yearly national contest to identify the best book-length manuscript of literary nonfiction. The winner will be announced in March of the prize year.  The winner will receive $1,000 and publication by the University of Nebraska Press. General Guidelines: 1.     Manuscripts must be between 150-400 pages long 2.     Manuscripts must be double-spaced 3.     Include a title page with title only 4.     Include a cover page with title and contact information 5.     Include a $25 contest fee 6.     Postmark Deadline is December 31 , 2009. 7.     Mail entries to: RIVER TEETH Ashland University 401 College Ave. Ashland, OH 44805   Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Contest http://concretewolf.com/current/contest.htm Postmark Deadline: November 30, 2009 Prize: 100 Copies of a perfect-bound chapbook Reading Fee: $20, checks payable to Concrete Wolf. Final Judge: Jeannine Hall Gailey We prefer chapbooks that have a theme, either obvious (i.e. chapbook about a divorce) or understated (i.e. all the poems mention the color blue). We like a collection that feels more like a whole than a sampling of work. We have no preference as to formal or free verse. Submission Guidelines 16 to 26 pages of poetry, plus a table of contents and acknowledgements (if applicable). Please number all your pages. Include 2 cover sheets, one with title, author information (including email and phone), and one just with the title. Reading Fee: $20, checks payable to Concrete Wolf. SASE for results only. Manuscripts cannot be returned. Include a 6 by 9 postage-paid envelope stamped with $2.10 postage, if you’d like a copy of the winning chapbook. Simultaneous and multiple submissions okay. Notify us by email if you need to remove your chapbook from consideration. Winner will be announced in February 2010 and published Fall 2010. Let us know if you need additional info: <concretewolf(at)yahoo.com> (replace (at) with @) For a copies of our previous publications, see our publications page. Mail to: Concrete Wolf PO Box 1808 Kingston, WA 98346   Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment  “Notes from the Field” Contest  www.flyway.org    Do questions of environment play a role in your writing? Have you discovered hidden or submerged evidence of the natural world in cityscapes and urban landscapes? Do you find yourself writing short stories and personal essays that have a focus on place, landscape, and the environmental imagination? If so, please submit your prose to Flyway’s “Notes from the Field” Contest: Making sense of the environment through short stories and creative nonfiction.    SUBMIT: Prose (Short Fiction or Creative Nonfiction) that demonstrates an environmental approach and interest.    WORD LIMIT: 5,000 words or less.    AWARD: $500 prize, plus an “America the Beautiful” National Parks pass (valued at $80). Winning piece will be published in Flyway: A Journal of Writing and Environment.    READING FEE: $10 per entry, or $24 for entry and two-year subscription. (Make check payable to Flyway.)    DEADLINE: October 15, 2009, postmark deadline    SUBMIT TO:    “Notes from the Field” Contest (Please specify “fiction” or “nonfiction” on your entry.)    Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment  MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment  Iowa State University  206 Ross Hall  Ames, IA 50011  www.flyway.org    NATIONAL FEDERATION OF STATE POETRY SOCIETIES, INC http://www.nfsps.com 2009 STEVENS POETRY MANUSCRIPT COMPETITION awarding $1000 + publication + 50 books  GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION ·     manuscript by a single author ·     48-70 pages of poetry, counting any section title pages, but not counting front matter ·     typewritten or computer printed, NO illustrations ·     no author identification anywhere in manuscript ·     pages numbered, one poem, one column per page ·     may include previously published poems (acknowledgments on separate sheet) ·     simultaneous and multiple submissions permitted ·     enclosed in a plain file folder and/or held by a manuscript clip, NO staples or binding Include two title pages, one with no author ID, the other with name, address, phone number, email address, and, if applicable, state poetry society membership. Include a table of contents.  Manuscripts will NOT be returned. Entrants who enclose a business-size self-addressed, stamped envelope, or provide an email address, will be notified of the results in January 2010.  Do NOT send by certified or registered mail. Do NOT send disks.  Notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.  All manuscripts will be reviewed for compliance with guidelines and overall quality by the competition chair. Approximately 100 will be sent, with out identification or acknowledgments, to an independent judge, who will remain anonymous until the results are announced.  The winning manuscript will be published by the NFSPS Press, and the book will be available for sale at NFSPS annual convention in June 2010.  Address for Submissions: Eleanor Berry, Chair  NFSPS Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition 22614 N. Santiam Hwy. Lyons, OR 97358   Submission Period: August 1-October 15, 2009 (postmark deadline) Entry Fee: $20 for NFSPS members, $25 for nonmembers (Members of state poetry societies affiliated with NFSPS are members.)  Past Judges: David Baker, Michael Dennis Browne, Michael Bugeja, Anne Marx, Sue Brannan Walker, Kenneth Brewer, David Sutherland, Donna Salli, Bruce Eastman, Ruth Berman, Peter Meinke, Lawson Inada, Patricia Fargnoli, Jeff Gundy, Carolyne Wright   The Calvino Prize Submission Guidelines  http://louisville.edu/english/creative-writing/contests/calvino-guidelines.html Submit up to 25 industry standard (double-spaced, 12-point font, pages numbered) pages of a novel, novella, short story, or short collection. Entries which use a smaller font or are single-spaced in order to make a longer work appear to be only 25 pages will be trimmed to approximately 25 industry standard pages. Work previously published is eligible and simultaneous submissions are accepted. An excerpt from a larger work is allowed; however, remember that the selection will be judged on its own merit and so should be able to stand on its own.  Please submit TWO copies of your submission bound by a paper clip, binder, or single staple. DO NOT USE MULTIPLE STAPLES. The author’s name should not appear on the work. All entries will be read anonymously.  Please send two cover pages: one listing only the title of the manuscript; the other listing the title, author’s name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Please tell us in what magazine you learned of this contest. Please do not send publication history of the author. Submit anytime between July 1 and October 15, 2009. Deadline: October 15, 2009.   Winner announced December 15, 2009. The entry fee is $25 and should be made payable to: The University of Louisville. Mailing Address: The Calvino Prize English Department Room 315, Bingham Humanities Bldg. University of Louisville Louisville,  KY 2040292 If you would like confirmation of receipt of manuscript, please enclose a self-addressed, stamped standard US Postal Service post card. All results will be posted to the University of Louisville’s website following the announcement on December 15, 2009. Finalists and winners will be notified via email.  For questions, email Paul Griner, Director of Creative Writing at <pfgrin01(at)louisville.edu> (replace (at) with @( Faculty and employees of the University of Louisville and the University of Syracuse may not enter the contest. The judges reserve the right to withhold the award if no entry is deemed worthy. Previous first place winners may not enter for three years after winning.  Second place winners have no restrictions. Final Judge 2009: Harold Bloom   THE HOLLIS SUMMERS POETRY PRIZE    http://www.ohioswallow.com/poetry_prize    Named after the distinguished poet who taught for many years at Ohio University and made Athens, Ohio, the subject of many of his poems, this competition invites writers to submit unpublished collections of original poems.    The competition is open to both those who have not published a book-length collection and those who have.    Submission Period    Manuscripts must be postmarked by October 31. Those postmarked later will be returned unread.    Format    Manuscripts of 60 to 95 pages should be typed on standard sized paper or be a clean photocopy. Do not send your only copy. Name, address, and phone number should appear on the title page. Acknowledgments should appear on a separate page. Individual collections must be the work of a single author. Translations are not accepted. Manuscripts should be submitted in final form; revisions or emendations to acknowledgments will not be considered during the contest. Multiple submissions to other publishers are acceptable provided we are informed if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere. The manuscript should be submitted in a plain 9 × 11½” manila folder. Please do not submit manuscripts bound in ring binders or plastic holders.    Return of Manuscripts    Because we cannot guarantee the return of the manuscripts, all entries become the property of Ohio University Press and those not chosen will be recycled. Do not include a self-add ressed stamped envelope. All contestants will be notified following the final selection. Include a self-addressed stamped postcard if you wish acknowledgment of receipt.    Entry Fee    Submissions should include a check for $20 made out to Ohio University Press to help defray administrative costs.    Judging    The final judge for the competition will be named when the winner is announced in April. Individual criticism of manuscripts cannot be given.    Prize    The winning manuscript will be published by Ohio University Press the following year and will be awarded a cash prize of $1000.    Send all materials to:    Hollis Summers Poetry Prize  Ohio University Press  19 Circle Drive  The Ridges  Athens, OH 45701      American Short Fiction announces its fourth annual Short Story Contest, judged by Rick Moody. http://www.americanshortfiction.org/contest Prizes and Judge First Prize receives $1,000 and publication. Second Prize receives $500. Final Judge: Rick Moody, author of Purple America, Demonology, The Ice Storm, and, most recently, Right Livelihoods Deadline The contest is open from September 15 through December 8. Entries must be submitted by December 8, 2009. All entries will be considered for publication. Key Contest Guidelines * All entries must be unpublished and 6,000 words or less. Please type and double-space. * The contest entry fee is $20. You may submit only one story per entry, but you can enter as many times as you like. Before submitting a story, entrants should pay the $20 entry fee through our publisher’s secure online store (http://store.badgerdog.org). Entrants who live overseas should pay via PayPal (http://www.americanshortfiction.org/paypal.html). Entries submitted without a fee will not be considered for the contest. * The $20 fee entitles the entrant to a copy of the contest issue.  * All entries should be uploaded to the American Short Fiction Submission Manager. * Winners will be announced on March 31, 2010. Emails with details will be sent to all contestants. * We comply with the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Code of Ethics. Full contest guidelines are available on our website: http://www.americanshortfiction.org/contest     The 2010 Tusculum Review Poetry Prize The 2010 Tusculum Review Poetry Prize offers a $1,000 (U. S.) purse and publication.  There is a $15 (U. S.) entry fee, which includes one copy of the vol. 6/2010 edition of the The Tusculum Review and consideration for publication.  We consider all works submitted for publication, but only works with entry fees are considered for the contest. http://tiny.cc/MhPJj  Submissions must be postmarked by March 15, 2010 for consideration. Each submission is restricted to 1-5 poems, no more than 10 PAGES per submission.  All entries must be typed.  Poets may submit more than one submission, but each submission must include the required $15 (U. S.) entry fee. Previously published poems, including web publications, are not allowed. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if our editors are notified immediately that the work has been accepted elsewhere. Please send a cover letter with your name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and the title(s) of your work. Please do NOT include your name on your actual submission.  For those entering more than one submission, you may designate a gift copy of The Tusculum Review vol. 6/2010.  Please provide the name(s) and address(es) for where you want the journal(s) mailed. Manuscripts will be numbered and all names on the manuscripts will be removed before they are presented to the judges.  In the event that judges do not deem any submissions worthy of the prize, The Tusculum Review0reserves the right to extend the call for manuscripts or to cancel the award. The final judge this year will be Allison Joseph.  Family, friends, and previous students of the judge, or those with a reciprocal professional relationship with the judge, will be disqualified from the contest.  Submissions will be screened by the staff of The Tusculum Review, and finalists will be forwarded for judging. All contestants will receive a letter announcing the winner and finalists with their copy of The Tusculum Review vol. 6/2010.  The winner and finalists will be listed on The Tusculum Review website in April 2010.  The new issue will be mailed in May 2010. Manuscripts will not be returned. Mark all envelopes, “Poetry Contest.” Send all work to: The Tusculum Review 60 Shiloh Road P.O. Box 5113 Greeneville, Tennessee 37743. We accept checks and money orders payable to The Tusculum Review. For more information, contact the editors at review@tusculum.edu  by our sister site, Zoetrope.com, which is entirely secure.) Please e-mail us at contests@all-story.com with further questions. Thank you for your interest, and good luck!