Posts made in November, 2007

CW Job in Hawai’i

Hawai’i Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii, is searching for a full-time Assistant Professor in English with the ability to teach courses in composition, fiction writing, and literature beginning Fall 2008. Teaching load is 4/4. Applicants are expected to have a Ph.D or M.F.A.; a strong commitment to teaching excellence; and an established record of teaching and scholarship. Salary will commensurate with experience. Please send letter...

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14th Annual Juried Reading and Awards, Poetry Center of Chicago

www.poetrycenter.org/reading/index.html E. Ethelbert Miller , Final Judge Postmark deadline: Friday, January 25, 2008 First prize: $1,500; Second prize: $500; third prize, $250; five finalists receive $50 The Poetry Center invites regional poets to submit their unpublished work for consideration in the 14th Annual Juried Reading. Eight finalists will have their poetry published in a chapbook by Dancing Girl Press as well as on the Poetry Center...

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The William Richey Short Story Contest

$1,000 Prize yemasseejournal.org/contests.html Postmark deadline November 15 annually Entry Fee – $10 1 previously unpublished story of up to 10,000 words (please double-space pages) GUIDELINES No previously published works Simultaneous submissions accepted with notice Multiple submissions accepted ($10 and SASE per entry) BLIND SUBMISSIONS (include author’s name, contact information, and work/s title on a separate cover letter. Include...

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2008 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest

www.oregonquarterly.com/html/essay.htm OPEN AND STUDENT CATEGORIES Oregon Quarterly invites entries to the 2008 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest in both student and open categories. Entries should address ideas that affect the Northwest. The Oregon Quarterly staff will select finalists and the contest judge will choose the top three winners in each category. Past judges have been Kim Stafford, Barry Lopez, John Daniel, Karen Karbo, Brian...

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2008 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Open Competition Awards $3500 and publication – first prize $2000 and publication – second prize Crab Orchard Review and Southern Illinois University Press are pleased to announce the selections for the 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards. Our final judge, Cathy Song, selected Ciaran Berry’s THE SPHERE OF BIRDS as the first-prize winner and Jake Adam York’s A MURMURATION OF STARLINGS as the...

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