First Book Award www.siu.edu/%7ecrborchd/firstpo1.html $2500 and publication Crab Orchard Review and Southern Illinois University Press are pleased to announce the selection for the 2006 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. Our final judge, James Harms, selected Mary Jo Firth Gillett’s SOLUBLE FISH as the winner. SOLUBLE FISH will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in September 2007. Below are the guidelines for...

Thornton Writer Residency at Lynchburg College, Spring 2008 semester. 8-week residency with $8,000 stipend, housing, meals, and roundtrip travel expenses for a poet. Writers gives a weekly creative writing workshop and a public reading. Submit: copy of a previously published poetry collection, curriculum vitae, cover letter outlining successful teaching experience. No entry fee. Deadline: July 1. Lynchburg College Thornton Writer Residency...

www.olivetcollege.edu/academics/humanities.php Intensive Learning Term poet-in-residence program, April 29-May 16, 2008 From the early 1930s to the mid 1940s, Olivet College hosted some of the best-known writers of the time: Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Ann Porter, Carl Sandburg, Ford Madox Ford, W.H. Auden, and Gertrude Stein. In that tradition, Olivet has established an annual residency program for poets who are establishing a...

Awards & Contests: New Millennium Writings $4,000 in Prizes, plus publication in NMW and on the Web at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com $1,000 for best Story; $1,000 for best Poem; $1,000 best Nonfiction (Nonfiction includes humor, memoir, creative nonfiction, travel, opinion, essay, interview, features, investigative reporting, etc.) Plus, $1,000 for best Short Short Fiction (1,000-word limit) Winners of NMW Awards are showcased along with...

www.camberpress.com Camber Press is pleased to announce the return of our poetry chapbook award. Our ethos is to publish contemporary poetry exhibiting lucid delivery while not sacrificing emotional depth, mastery of craft,or originality. First Prize: $1,000 and publication of chapbook Submission guidelines: The winning poet will receive $1,000 and have his or her manuscript published by Camber Press, Inc. Only typed manuscripts no greater than...