Montclair State University. Assistant Professor in Creative Writing. Full-time, tenure-track position in creative writing with primary expertise in the writing of poetry. The candidate should have significant publications, including a book of poems, as well as a record of successful teaching in a diverse, multi-ethnic environment. Candidates should be prepared to teach creative writing courses ranging from Intro to Creative Writing to Advanced...

Lynne Birdsall PO Box 1615 Concord, NH 03302-1615 Please note limit is forty lines. Name and address must appear in the upper right hand corner of the copy on which they appear. NO identification is to appear anywhere on the second copy. The Poetry Society of New Hampshire sponsors four National Contests open to all poets, members or not. Judges for the contests are not members of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. Prizes are awarded to four...

www.theledgemagazine.com/Poetry%20Chapbook%20Contest.htm PRIZE: Winning poet will receive a $1,000 cash award and 25 copies of the published chapbook. SUBMIT: 16-28 pages of original poetry with title page, biographical note and acknowledgements, if any. Please include your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number (optional). Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but we ask that you notify us if your manuscript is accepted...

www.freewebs.com/usethesewords/pdf/usethesewords1.pdf Submissions for use these words issue two: By January 1, 2009, send a brief contributor’s note and 1—5 poems, each using all of the following words, in the body of an e-mail to usethesewords@gmail.com. pillow, tantrum, silver, roof, vacant, atlas, break

Willow Books, an imprint of Aquarius Press, announces its first annual Willow Books Poetry Award. The contest is open to all African American poets or poets of African descent. The contest is open to published and unpublished poets. Willow Books is open to a variety of aesthetics and seek to publish excellent manuscripts. Runner-ups will also be considered for publication. Willow Books reserves the right not to pick a manuscript, in which case...

www.storyscapejournal.com Storyscape, an online literary journal that is story-centered, asks for your submission. We want your: Invented story, true story, overheard story, visual story, poetic story, audio story, found story, given story. Just captivate us with the strength of the story. The premise of the journal is to expand the notion of what stories are while shaking up the labels we use to define them. To this end, we’ve come up...

Submission Deadline: November 30th—Winter Currently we are accepting submissions up until November 30th for the Winter Issue. There is no particular theme for this issue. We simply want good work. Reverie is a journal devoted to featuring the best literature and is open to African Americans with “ties” to the Midwest. The Review Board consists of a distinguished group of professional writers and instructors. Reverie appears in print...