Posts made in March, 2007

Cranky Chapbook Contest

Cranky announces its first-ever chapbook contest. The details? http://www.crankymag.org/contest.html You: Poet with 20-45 pages of poetry waiting to be let out to play. Maybe a few of these poems have been published in literary journals, but the set has not been previously published anywhere, though your poems are deliciously crisp and black (like ants). You live in a cold-water flat and could use the $500 first prize. Unlike the runners-up at...

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Spire Spring Poetry Chapbook Contest

Spire Spring Poetry Chapbook Contest www.spirepress.org The winning entry will be published with a full-color cover and receive $500 cash, plus 20 copies and a royalty contract * All finalists will be considered for publication * Contest Guidelines: 1) Each submitted manuscript should be 18-30 numbered pages of poetry; 2) No author names should appear on any manuscript, but the chapbook title should appear on each page; 3) Two cover letters:...

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The Bechtel Prize

The Bechtel Prize is awarded annually in recognition of an exemplary article or essay related to: Creative writing education, Literary studies, and/or The profession of writing. The winning essay appears in Teachers & Writers magazine, and the author receives a $3,500 honorarium. Entries selected as finalists for the Bechtel Prize may also be published in Teachers & Writers. The authors of finalist essays selected for publication in the...

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Many Mountains Moving Press Poetry Contest

Many Mountains Moving Press 2007 Poetry Book Contest Guidelines Prize: The winner receives $500 and publication by MMM Press in 2008. Deadline: May 1, 2007 (postmark). Entry fee: $20 {Entitles entrants to a free back issue and the opportunity to buy a new MMM Subscription for $10.00, and any one of the MMM Press Books, They Sing at Midnight, invisible sister, & Feeding the Fear of the Earth, also for $10 (shipping included). Final Judge:...

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Lyon College Creative Writing Residency (CNF)

Lyon College Creative Writing Residency 2008 Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing of Creative Nonfiction Complete Application Guidelines Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, a highly selective four-year liberal arts college, seeks a distinguished writer of creative nonfiction for its 3rd biennial Visiting Fellowship in Creative Writing, a six-week residency scheduled during the spring 2008 semester (exact dates negotiable). While the...

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