Posts made in May, 2007

Call for Submissions (Poetry)

Robert Johnson, Founder of Media Press in Minneapolis, seeks submissions for a book of poems in honor of James Wright. The book will be a standard trade edition of about 70 pages. Each contributor will receive two copies of the book, and a small number of poems in the book will also be printed in broadside format suitable for framing. Submissions should be no more than two pages of poetry in any form. Your name and contact information should...

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Alligator Juniper National Writing Contests in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction $10 Entry Fee $500 First Place Prize Postmark Deadline: October 1, 2007 Alligator Juniper, a publication of Prescott College in Arizona, awards $500 plus publication for the first place winners in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Additional winners selected for publication will be paid in copies (4). $10 entry fee, checks payable to Alligator...

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Revolting Sofa’s Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions Revolting Sofas needs you, fiction and poetry writers! Send up to 5 pages of poetry or prose to starthamewart@gmail.com in a Microsoft Word Document or PDF file *only*, and risk being commissioned to create a very short piece to go along with a photograph of a horrible couch: www.revoltingsofas.blogspot.com Contributors have included: Cathy Park Hong, James Urbaniak, Lysley Tenorio, Ernest Hilbert, Jonathan Lethem, Susan...

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The Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry 2008

www.sjsu.edu/reed/markham.htm Sponsored by Reed Magazine and San Jose State University. Reed Magazine announces the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry. Writers are invited to submit poetry manuscripts of 3-5 original unpublished poems. The first place winner will be selected by the 2008 final judge, [To Be Announced] . The first-place winner will receive a $500 cash prize. The winning manuscript will appear in the 2008 issue of Reed Magazine, and...

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The MacGuffin 12th National Poet Hunt Contest

www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/poet.asp Judged by Thomas Lux First Place Prize: $500 Two Honorable Mentions* Contest Rules 1. Each entrant will receive one FREE issue of The MacGuffin including the Contest winners. 2. Staff members and their families are not eligible. 3. An entry consists of five poems. 4. Poems must be typed on sheets of 8.5×11 paper. Clean photocopies are acceptable DO NOT place name and address on submissions. Entries...

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