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...

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...

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)....

$2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse Online entry & postmark deadline: December 15, 2008 Enter your manuscript online at crazyhorse.cofc.edu or mail in How to enter prizes: enter your manuscript online at crazyhorse.cofc.edu (click “Fiction and Poetry Prize” link for full instructions), or enter by mailing in your paper manuscript of up to twenty-five pages fiction or up to three poems (10 pp. poetry max). More than one manuscript may...

www.tennesseewilliams.net/contest Judge: Richard Ford Grand Prize • $1,500 • VIP Festival Pass ($500 value), March 25-29, 2009 • Publication in the New Orleans Review • Domestic Airfare and Accommodations to attend the Festival in New Orleans • Public Reading Second Prize: $200, a Public Reading, and Festival Pass Third Prize: $100, a Public Reading, and Festival Pass Eligibility: Short stories, written in English, up to 7,000 words Deadline:...

Middlebury College seeks a poet with an M.F.A. degree and at least one published book to reside in Robert Frost’s Homer Noble Farmhouse in Ripton, Vermont, to teach two courses and advise undergraduate poetry projects during the academic year, and to teach one course during the summer at either the Bread Loaf School of English or the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. The fellowship, renewable for up to three years, will begin in...

(Fiction and/or Creative Non-Fiction) The MFA Writing Program, based in the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts, invites applications for a regular faculty position (two courses per semester) in fiction and/or creative non-fiction. We seek a writer with teaching experience and significant publications who will contribute to the program’s unconventional, non-tracking curriculum and who will encourage an...