Posts made in September, 2008

New Southerner Literary Contest

$200 prizes for poetry, fiction and nonfiction Three prizes of $200 each and publication in New Southerner will be awarded for works of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. * 5,000 word limit for prose * 50 line limit for poetry * Entry Fee: $10 per entry; checks should be made payable to Swallowtail Press * Multiple entries accepted * Postmark deadline: October 1, 2008 Final judges: Nonfiction — Kathryn Eastburn (author of A Sacred Feast...

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The Whitebird Chapbook Series

www.wingspress.com/chap.cfm This chapbook series is named in honor of Joanie Whitebird, a co-founder of Wings Press. As the Texas Observer described her, Joanie was “an old-fashioned fence hater, a wire-cutter, a woman in love with the open road, with open relationships, with open futures fraught with possibilities.” We honor her spirit by using this series to introduce new and innovative poetic voices. Contest Rules Between Sept. 1...

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Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry

www.snakenationpress.org/guidelines.html 50-75 page manuscript $1,000 prize and publication An entry fee of $25 must accompany the manuscript Pay entry fee online only at www.snakenationpress.org/interpay1.html Previously published eligible Deadline: November 30, 2008

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Call for submissions: Cave Wall

www.cavewallpress.com The poetry journal Cave Wall is accepting open submissions from August 1-September 30, 2008 (postmark dates). Please send 3-6 previously unpublished poems to the following address: Cave Wall Press, LLC P.O. Box 29546 Greensboro, NC 27429-9546 We read submissions blind, so your name should NOT appear on any poems. Include a cover letter listing the titles of poems you’re submitting. Be sure to include an SASE for...

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Foliate Oak Call for Submissions

The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine is Seeking Submissions of Prose, Poetry, Art, and Photography. www.foliateoak.uamont.edu Please read our guidelines before submitting: www.foliateoak.uamont.edu/guidelines We love previously unpublished quirky writing that makes sense, preferably flash fiction (less than 1000 words). We are eager to read short creative nonfiction also. We rarely accept submissions that have over 2700 words. We enjoy poems that...

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