Posts made in May, 2009

INKWELL SHORT FICTION & POETRY CONTESTS

www.inkwelljournal.org/competitions.htm Fiction: $1500 GRAND PRIZE & PUBLICATION IN INKWELL COMPETITION JUDGE: Alice McDermott GUIDELINES 1. Up to 3 previously unpublished stories, 5,000-word limit 2. Text must be typed, 12pt. font, double-spaced, one-sided 3. Cover sheet with name, address, phone, e-mail, titles and word counts 4. No name or address anywhere on manuscripts 5. SASE for contest notification only – manuscripts will be...

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Miami University Novella Contest

www.orgs.muohio.edu/mupress/novella.html The novella form has had a long and distinguished place in American literature, and has triumphed in the hands of Herman Melville, Henry James, Katherine Anne Porter, Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, William Gass, John Gardner, Andrea Barrett and Tobias Wolff, to name just a few. As commercial publishers are driven more and more by marketplace concerns,...

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GRANDMOTHER EARTH XIV NATIONAL WRITING AWARDS

www.grandmotherearth.org/id2.html DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2009 (POSTMARK) GRANDMOTHER EARTH XIV NATIONAL WRITING AWARDS PO Box 2018, Cordova, TN 38088 PHONE: 901-309-3692; E-mail: gmoearth@aol.com www.grandmotherearth.org Work can be unpublished or published. Money award entries (and selected finalists if permission is given) will be published in Grandmother Earth XVI. Rights to previously published work must belong to the author. No profanity or...

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2009 PEARL POETRY PRIZE

www.pearlmag.com/contests.html $1,000 & BOOK PUBLICATION Judge: Debra Marquart GUIDELINES MANUSCRIPTS should include a title page with the author’s name, address, phone number, and e-mail address; an acknowledgment page listing previously published poems; a table of contents, 48–64 pages of original poetry; and an SASE for reply or return of manuscript. Manuscripts should be unbound, typed, pages numbered, and name should appear on...

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The Akron Series Poetry Prize

www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetryprize.html The Akron Series in Poetry was founded to bring to the public writers who speak in original and compelling voices. Each year, The University of Akron Press offers the Akron Poetry Prize, a competition open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives $1,000 and publication of his or her book. The final selection will be made by a nationally prominent poet. The final judge for 2009 is Martín...

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