Posts made in April, 2007

2008 Expatriate Writing Contest

www.transitionsabroad.com/information/writers/expatriate_writing_contest.shtml TransitionsAbroad.com invites you to enter its 2008 Expatriate Travel Writing Contest. Professionals, freelancers and aspiring writers are invited to write articles which describe their experience living abroad. Making the move to live abroad is for many the ultimate transition often the fulfillment of a liifelong dream, in other cases the result of chance and...

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Caketrain Chapbook Competition

www.caketrain.org/competition07.html Each year, we bring a special guest into the selection process, a writer whose work we hold in very high regard, and this year is no exception: for 2007, we are honored and humbled to announce that Claudia Rankine will serve as our final judge. Claudia is the author of four collections of poetry: Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf Press, 2004), Plot (Grove Press, 2001), The End of the Alphabet (Grove...

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Don Russ Poetry Prize 2007

Kennesaw Review proudly announces its 2007 Don Russ Poetry Prize of $500 for the single best poem submitted to the competition. www.kennesawreview.org/artman2/publish/contests/Don_Russ_Poetry_Prize_2007.php $500 prize for one winning poem, to be published in KR April 23, 2007 deadline for receipt (hard copies only) Initial round of judging by KR editorial staff; final round by distinguished outside judges $15 entry fee for 3-5 previously...

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HOWARD FRANK MOSHER SHORT FICTION PRIZE

Judged by Wally Lamb, author of She’s Come Undone and Oprah Book Club selection I Know This Much Is True, and editor of the best-selling Couldn’t Keep It to Myself, an anthology of stories written by female inmates at Connecticut’s only maximum-security prison for women. NEW DEADLINE: June 1, 2007 One $1,000.00 prize winner receives publication in the Fall 2007 Issue; two honorable mentions receive $100.00 each. GUIDELINES $15...

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RUNES REVIEW 2007

Each issue of RUNES has a different theme. The theme for 2007 is CONNECTION, which may be loosely interpreted. Guidelines: We are seeking poems that have passion, originality and conviction. We are looking for narrative and lyric poetry that is well-crafted and has something surprising to say. We prefer poems under 100 lines. To Submit: Send up to five poems with an SASE to RUNES, A Review of Poetry c/o Arctos Press PO Box 401 Sausalito, CA...

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