Institution: University of Central Oklahoma Location: Edmond, OK Category: Faculty – Liberal Arts – English and Literature Posted: 01/20/2009 Application Due: 03/01/2009 Type: Full Time Salary: $30,000 USD Per Year Effective Date: 08/10/2009 Position Number: 999766 Requisition Number: A000452 Position Summary: Teach two courses per semester, including advanced poetry writing courses and introductory creative writing courses for...

Call for Applications—Deadline February 20, 2009 In 2009, the International Writing Program (IWP), in cooperation with the Chinese Writers’ Association, is commencing a pilot exchange project, the Life of Discovery (LOD), between writers and artists from the United States and from the minority ethnic communities in the western regions of the People’s Republic of China. Five American and five Chinese writers and artists, all aged...

An Open Online Poetry Contest judged by the entrants themselves. The Judging is in three rounds. In each round the entrants read 12 poems. It’s a knockout system. In the final round everyone reads the last 12. The judging will take place in the 2 months following closure of the competition. All profits will be donated to MAG (Mines Advisory Group). MAG is a neutral and impartial humanitarian organisation that clears the remnants of...

sycamorereview.com/contest/ Final Judge: Tobias Wolff First Prize: $1000 and winning entry published in Summer/Fall 2009 issue Entries of honorable mention also published in Summer/Fall 2009 issue Complete Guidelines for Contest Submissions Deadline: Entries must be received by March 19, 2009. This is NOT a postmark deadline. Entries received after March 19, 2009 will be returned unread. 1. Submit one piece of fiction (or a series of related...

www.poetrycenter.org/node/30 Judge: Brenda Hillman Postmark deadline: Friday, January 30, 2009 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prize: $500; third prize, $250; five finalists receive $50 The Poetry Center invites regional poets to submit their unpublished work for consideration in the 15th Annual Juried Reading. Eight finalists will have their poetry published in a chapbook by Dancing Girl Press as well as on the Poetry Center website, and all eight...

Glass: A Journal of Poetry (ISSN 1941-4137) seeks poems for its second year of publication. Full information about Glass, including submission guidelines, can be found at our website: www.glass-poetry.com. Glass is an online poetry journal that appears three times a year (March, June and December). We want to see poetry that enacts the artistic and creative purity of glass. We seek to promote new and established poets by publishing their work....

FAWLT magazine (www.fawltmag.com) is an online, quarterly journal seeking short stories, poems, essays, and artwork that deal with human flaws. Each issue of the magazine focuses on a single, undesirable characteristic, exploring such issues as: who is affected by it, its impact on individuals, in which circumstance it can be especially bad (or actually good), and any other aspect of the flaw that that may be worth investigating. We seek...