Posts made in March, 2009

2009 Ray Bradbury Writing Contest

www.waukeganpl.org/programs/bradcontest.html Since the inception of television our society has become increasingly more reliant on it with each generation. In this prescient novel, Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury anticipated this trend in which reality programming impacts our daily lives. Fahrenheit 451 is a reaction to a society defendant on television rather than human interaction, literature, or the fine arts. Respond to this theme of social...

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River Poets Journal Call for Submissions

River Poets Journal seeking submissions for “Special Edition” in editorial collaboration with Joseph Reich, poet, philosopher, social worker, dreamer, family man… riverpoetsjournal.com/SeekingSubmissions.html Title: Jukebox Junction USA: a poetic history to how music moved you Deadline: August 31, 2009 Theme: Please consider that song you recall from your adolescence and youth, which significantly and profoundly moved you from a...

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The Deep Bowl Prize for Short Fiction

www.deepbowlpress.com/id4.html Deadline: Postmarked by April 20, 2009 GUIDELINES Send one copy of the manuscript (136-152 pages) in a plain envelope and a $20 entry fee, made payable toDeep Bowl Press, to: Deep Bowl Press P.O. Box 602 O’Fallon, IL 62269 via USPS only. Do not send via any other mailing service and please do not send using expedited delivery or in any form that requires a signature. Only mailed submissions can be accepted....

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NAOMI LONG MADGETT POETRY AWARD (African American poets only)

www.lotuspress.org/poetryaward.html This competition is open to African American poets only. If you have already had a book published by Lotus Press, you are ineligible. However, inclusion in a Lotus Press anthology does not disqualify you. Any other serious African American poet, whether previously published or not, may submit a book length manuscript for consideration. Poems submitted by another person, anthologies, or collaborations by more...

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The Inaugural ‘I Read It; I’ll Spread It!’ Blog Writing Competition

tewrites.blogspot.com/2009/03/christening-new-baby.html The competition will be running from 15 March 2009 until 30 June 2009. It’s all about stuff we’ve read and been blown away by. Share the good news you read with us and our readers. Did you come across a little-known but life changing fact in some book somewhere? How about a quote you live by? Do you feel you must share it with the world or you would just die? It might be a recipe that...

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