Posts made in November, 2008

Yale Younger Poets

yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/youngerpoets.asp#rules Submissions for the 2009 Competition must be postmarked no earlier than October 1, 2008 and no later than November 15, 2008. See Guidelines for Submission below for precise information regarding your entry. Rules Governing the Competition Each year, Yale University Press seeks one book-length poetry manuscript to be published in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The competition is open to any...

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Keyhole’s 2008 Fiction Chapbook Contest

Judged by Michael Martone www.keyholemagazine.com/contest Judge: Michael Martone Prize: $250 and 25 copies of the chapbook. Deadline: December 1, 2008. Michael Martone’s most recent books are Racing in Place, a book of essays, Double-wide, his collected early fictions, and Michael Martone, a memoir done in contributor’s notes. With Lex Williford he recently edited The Scribner’s Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and The...

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Cervena Barva Poetry and Fiction Chapbooks Contests

www.cervenabarvapress.com/submissions.htm Accepting manuscripts November 1, 2008-January 31, 2009 Manuscripts postmarked after January 31st, will be returned. No manuscripts will be returned. For Poetry: 24 pages of poetry. 8 pages will be added automatically to the winning chapbook which will make the total 32 pages. Include the following: Title page with contact info Title page with just the title SASE for the announcement of the winning...

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Hawk & Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability Call for Submissions

Like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the contributors to Hawk & Handsaw know which way the wind blows. They know that a sustainable lifestyle can be messy and meaningful-that it requires reflection, deep philosophical commitment and, more often than not, a good sense of humor. To this end, Hawk and Handsaw celebrates the thinking and reflection that ground sustainable practices and practitioners. Each issue, we offer works from established and...

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Babel Fruit Call for Submissions / Under the Influence Theme

Babel Fruit is currently inviting submissions of poems specifically written *under the influence of other poems*. Have you got two roads diverging in a yellow wood? Do you do “you do not do, you do not do / Any more, black shoe” polished or tap-dancing? Do you think of breakfast cereal when you hear “O Captain! my Captain!” Satire especially welcome. (Please let us know which poem you are under the influence of. Sometimes we miss the obvious)....

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