LSU MFA in Creative Writing

FW riction: review

2011-03-15T20:54:00.003-05:00

FWriction: Review, run by Editor Danny Goodman, seeks new fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Also, his blog is a great go-to for hot fiction new and re-discovered online:

http://www.fwriction.com/

I often find an article at Paris Review or a writer I want to know more about at Failbetter--all because of Goodman's links.

Check it out!

Badlands

2011-01-29T19:27:00.001-06:00

Badlands, a bilingual journal published out of California State University--Palm Desert Campus, is now accepting submissions (in English and Spanish) of Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction,and visual art. We also publish original translations of poetry and prose.

Submit online at: http://greensubmissions.com/35/badlands/index.php

The submission deadline for the 2011 issue of Badlands is March 1, 2011.

Text files should be in doc, docx, or pdf formats.

Please include a cover page with your name, word and page count, the title and genre of the work, and a brief bio (50 words). Please do not using running headers with your name in the actual submission, as readings are blind.

Visual art submissions should be high-resolution TIFF files or JPEGs (300 dpi).

A pdf version of the last edition of Badlands can be viewed through the CSUSB-PDC at webpage http://pdc.csusb.edu/

Questions? Email Stephen Lehigh: badlandseditor@gmail.com

Check it out!

2010-11-08T05:22:00.000-06:00

The Poetry Kit: international calls for work...

VLAK

2010-10-27T12:57:00.003-05:00

Litteraria Pragensia is proud to announce the launch of its new biannual magazine:

VLAK: CONTEMPORARY POETICS & THE ARTS

eds. Louis Armand, Eddie Berrigan, Carol Watts, Stephan Delbos, David Vichnar, Clare Wallace
Volume 1, issue 1 published September 2010.
www.vlakmagazine.com

VLAK is an international curatorial project with a broad focus on contemporary poetics, art, film, philosophy, music, design, science, politics, performance, ecology, and new media.

VLAK invites contributions that extend our understanding about what is possible; which pose questions about the prevailing attitude of norms; which explore the ramifications of contemporary culture and attempt new critical and creative methods.

"What is lost in abstraction? What is signified by a long work? By a serial work? What are its limitations? How might multiple voices reflect reality? Infect reality? And how sustain such a work? How does the world enter the work? How is the inside destroyed or transformed into 'another' space? How end a work? How reshape parts of the world, and is that what we aspire to anyway? Are we breathing easier, feeling better, glutted with our 'contemporary practice' digested? Or fiercely unsatisfied, curious, anxious, asking, 'What are tomorrow's questions?'" (Abigail Child, This is Called Moving).

VLAK stands for the drive to experiment, to synthesise, to extend—holding to the principle that a vital culture is always experimental and thus always “at a crossroads.”

Brenda Hillman @ Tulane 11/8/10

2010-10-21T13:42:00.002-05:00

Michael Ondaatje: Oct. 25

2010-10-18T17:30:00.000-05:00

Michael Ondaatje, Bestselling Author of The English Patient, to Read at Tulane

Internationally acclaimed writer Michael Ondaatje will read at Tulane University’s Dixon Hall on Monday, October 25, 2010. The 7:00 PM event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:00 PM. After the reading, Ondaatje will remain to sign books.

Ghost Town

2010-10-15T06:29:00.000-05:00

Ghost Town is the new literary magazine of the MFA program at Cal State University San Bernardino. We’re looking for fearless and inventive fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction. We’re also interested in translations, letters, cryptic found writings, illustrations, and other oddments. For a better idea of our editorial outlook, check out the first issue, which is now available.

We publish annually in the spring. Our reading period is from September 1 to February 1.

Recent to less recent contributors to CSUSB’s literary magazine (in its previous incarnation) include Peter Orner, Jeff Parker, Yannis Ritsos, Billy Collins, William Stafford, Jared Stanley, Arda Collins, and Yusef Komunyakaa.

Submit online at: ghosttown.submishmash.com

Or send to:

Ghost Town

Department of English

CSU San Bernardino

5500 University Parkway

San Bernardino, CA 92407

website: http://ghosttownlitmag.wordpress.com

No Tell Motel Open Reading Period

2010-09-27T11:31:00.000-05:00

No Tell Motel is opening its submission period during the month of October. Complete guidelines are here.

No Tell Motel has been publishing poems every weekday for over 6 six years. Unlike most magazines, we don't publish issues, but instead feature a new poet each week and a new poem each weekday. Poems published in No Tell Motel enjoy a considerable readership and some have gone on to appear in the Best American Poetry (Scribner), the Best American Erotic Poems (Scribner), Sundresses' Best of the Net, Dzanc's Best of the Net, among other notable places.

We publish a broad range of styles and poets, including: Cynthia Arrieu-King, Anne Boyer, Laynie Brown, Shanna Compton, Bruce Covey, Neil de la Flor, Denise Duhamel, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Steve Fellner, Suzanne Frischkorn, Amy Gerstler, Brent Goodman, Arielle Greenberg, Kate Greenstreet, Yona Harvey, Anna Marie Hong, Luisa A. Igloria, Charles Jensen, Kirsten Kaschock, Amy King, Rauan Klassnik, Jennifer L. Knox, Krystal Languell, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Rebecca Loudon, Rob Macdonald, Dora Malech, Nicole Mauro, Shane McCrae, John Murillo, Danielle Pafunda, Craig Santos Perez, Zachary Schomburg, Evie Shockley, Kim Gek Lin Short, Mathias Svalina, Eileen R. Tabios, Craig Morgan Teicher, Fritz Ward and Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

For a complete contributor list: http://www.notellmotel.org/archives_poet.php?view=category

If you aren't already familiar with No Tell Motel, I invite you to visit the magazine and if you believe your work is a good fit, please consider submitting.

Thank you,

Reb Livingston
Editor

The Offending Adam

2010-08-04T16:18:00.002-05:00

Also, we are delighted to announce that The Offending Adam has re-opened submissions for new writing, essays, book reviews, and feature projects! Please see the guidelines at our submissions page: http://www.theoffendingadam.com/submit/

Barrow St

2010-06-17T17:03:00.002-05:00

The deadline for the 2010 Barrow Street Press Book Contest is fast approaching. To be eligible, all submissions must be postmarked by Wednesday, June 30, 2010.

Judged by Mary Ruefle, the Barrow Street Press Book Contest award will be given for the best previously unpublished manuscript of poetry in English. The winner will receive book publication by Barrow Street Press and $1000.00.

For more details, please visit our website. You can find the complete rules for the 2010 Barrow Street Press Book Contest here:

If you have already submitted to this year's contest, we look forward to considering your work. If you have yet to send us your manuscript, please do so by June 30, 2010.

Please send poetry manuscripts to:

Barrow Street
P.O. Box 1558
Kingston, RI 02881

Thank you for your time. We look forward to receiving and reading your submission.

The Editors
www.barrowstreet.org

LSU Press -- Buy One Book

2010-05-25T12:39:00.001-05:00

Octopus Books Open Reading Period Ends This Week

2010-04-27T20:23:00.002-05:00

There are five days left in the month of April.

Octopus Books is accepting submissions of full-length manuscripts during the month of April.

Therefore there are five more days during which you can submit a manuscript, either by mail or electronically.

For submission guidelines, visit this site.

Thank you.

Not Blessed Story Contest: Deadline April 30

2010-04-21T08:48:00.000-05:00

“In answer to your question, I will tell you a little story…”

In NOT BLESSED, a story is told not once, but twenty-eight times in twenty-eight shifting versions. Twenty-eight because author Harold Abramowitz initially drafted a version of the story every day for twenty-eight days in February.

In wild celebration of NOT BLESSED (just published by Les Figues), and in the spirit of collective story-telling, Les Figues Press is hosting a twenty-eight day NOT BLESSED A LITTLE STORY CONTEST.

We invite you to create your own version of the book’s recurring story: destroy, deconstruct, build-up, skew, subvert, or whatever else you would like to do to contribute to this webbed work. Read the following excerpt from Not Blessed, meet the players and retell the story…again, as your own.

Download Excerpt

Guidelines:
—No entry fee. The contest is open to everyone.
—Download pdf of selections
—Email your remix to contest.figues [at] gmail.com attached as a word document (.doc).
—Include a cover page with your name, address, email and phone number.
—Entries will be judged by Harold Abramowitz. Winning pieces will be published on the Les Figues Blog as well as the Les Figues website. Winners will also receive FREE BOOKS.
—Contest begins April 3; deadline for submission is April 30, 2010

Please direct all questions to contest.figues [at] gmail.com

NOT BLESSED is published as part of the TrenchArt Maneuvers series, Les Figues Press.

NOT BLESSED:

Trenchart Maneuvers Series:

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Les Figues Press
PO Box 7736
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Ph. 323.734.4732
Email: info@lesfigues.com
www.lesfigues.com

Opportunity! (Contact Dr. Richardson)

2010-04-14T11:11:00.001-05:00

Through reasons too complicated to explain, I’ve been drafted to find a group of students to meet on (probably) Friday, April 23, with David Amram, who will be here for an LSU Opera production of scenes from his opera based on Twelfth Night. Amram is an amazing character who has known and worked with people like Jack Kerouac , Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, and Bob Dylan, as well as most of the jazz greats of the last sixty years. He and Keruoac did New York’s first jazz/poetry readings in 1957, he was in Kerouac’s film Pull My Daisy, and he wrote the film score for The Manchurian Candidate. There’s a documentary film being made about him by Larry Kraman, who works for Newport Classics (http://www.newportclassic.com/projoarticle.htm ). The students would be in the film. Larry is looking for a group of students who are interested in music and poetry. Amram apparently likes to do jazz improvs off the cuff to other people’s poetry. Check him out, maybe starting with the “scrapbook” page for his photos with some pretty impressive people:

http://www.davidamram.com/index.php

This would be a great opportunity for students (and us) to meet someone who’s a real link to the Beats and still, at 79, a remarkable creative artist in his own right. Can we put something together? We’ll have to coordinate through Dugg McDonough in the School of Music, who is his immediate sponsor. Looks like he’s free most of Friday, April 23, at this point.

Best wishes,

Malcolm

Malcolm Richardson
Associate Dean, The Graduate School
Dr. J.F. Taylor Professor of English
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Office: 225-578-2157 (Graduate School)/3161 (English Dept.)
Fax: 225-578-1370

First Year Reading

2010-04-10T15:23:00.001-05:00

First year MFA students Britton Estep, Afton Wilky, Ryan Gibbs and Al Grifa will read their work Thursday, April 15th, 7:00 at Chelsea's Small Bar

Faulkner Society judges announced--extended deadline

2010-03-27T17:06:00.000-05:00

The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society has announced judges for adult categories of The William Faulkner - William Wisdom
Creative Writing Competition for 2010. The Society also announced today that the posted deadline for entries has been extended from April 1 to May 1.

Novel, Stewart O'Nan.
O'Nan's first book, and only collection of short stories, In the Walled City, was awarded the 1993 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. The same year, he was able to find a publisher for his second book, and first novel, Snow Angels—based on the story "Finding Amy" from In the Walled City—when the manuscript earned him the first Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize for the Novel. In 2007 Snow Angels was adapted for a film of the same title, directed by David Gordon Green, who also wrote the screenplay, and starring Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale. In 1995 he and his family moved to Avon, Connecticut. He was a writer-in-residence and taught creative writing at Trinity College in nearby Hartford until 1997. The research he did for his novel The Names of the Dead led to the creation of a class that studied Vietnam War memoirs as a form of literature, which he also initially taught. In 1996, Granta named him one of America's Best Young Novelists.

Novella, Julia Glass
Her debut novel, Three Junes, won the National Book Award in 2002. Three Junes is three linked novellas, including Collies, which won the Faulkner Society's Gold Medal for Best Novella in 2000. Glass followed this up with a second novel, The Whole World Over, in 2006, which was also set in the Bank Street, Greenwich Village universe and featured several characters from Three Junes. She just published a new book, her third, "I See You Everywhere". Glass grew up in Lincoln, MA, and graduated from Yale in 1978, prior to attending Concord Academy. Intending to become a painter, she moved to New York City, where she lived for many years, painting in a small studio in Brooklyn, NY and supporting herself as a free-lance editor and copy editor (Glass worked for several years in the copy department of Cosmopolitan magazine). She lives in Marblehead, MA with her partner, photographer Dennis Cowley, and their two children, and works as a freelance journalist and editor.

Novel-in-Progress, Michael Murphy
In book publishing for 28 years, his first 13 years were with Random House, where he was a Vice President. Later, he ran William Morrow as their Publisher. In September, 2007, he formed his own agency, Max & Co. A Literary Agency & Social Club. One of his authors, who attended Words & Music, 2008 is New York Times best selling Tony O'Neill, who has been tabbed by Esquire magazine as the IT writer of the current decade, joining their other choices, Jack Kerouac (1960s), Hunter S Thompson (1970s), Bret Easton Ellis (1980s), and Irvine Welsh (1990s). His forthcoming novel, Sick City, branches into the Noir category and has been described as "Unmistakably Tony O'Neill, but as though he's been snorting high grade Jim Thompson & mainlining Elmore Leonard." Two of his authors attending this year are New Orleans residents, Andrea Young and Barb Johnson. Barb was Glimmer Train's Best New Voice 2007, and won the Washington Square competition the same year. She was recipient of A Room of Her Own grant for 2009. Her first book, More of This World or Maybe Another was just published by HarperCollins. Andy Young is an accomplished poet who is now writing both fiction and non-fiction prose.

Short Story, Tom Franklin
This critically acclaimed author of Poachers, a collection of short fiction which won the Edgar Allen Poe Award, and two novels, Smonk and Hell at the Breech—was born in the small southern town of Dickinson, AL, and later moved with his family to nearby Mobile, and attended the University of South Alabama there, earning his BA in English. Franklin earned his MFA in fiction at the University of Arkansas in 1998 and then returned to the University of South Alabama to teach. Shortly after he was awarded the Phillip Roth Residency in Creative Writing at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. Subsequently he was writer in residence at Knox College and the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at Ole Miss, instructing both undergraduate and graduate students in fiction writing course. Tom and his wife, the widely acclaimed poet Beth Ann Fennelly live in Oxford, MS where she is a member of the English Department. Winner of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, Franklin taught at Sewannee during the academic year 2002-2003. His short stories and essays have been published in such magazines as The Chattahoochee Review, Brightleaf, The Nebraska Review, The Texas Review, Quarterly West, and Smoke Magazine. to name a few. His and are included in anthologies such as New Stories from the South; The Year's Best, 1999; Best American Mystery Stories, 1999 and 2000; and Best Mystery Stories of the Century. �

Essay, Beth Ann Fennelly
Born on May 21, 1971, in New Jersey, Ms. Fennelly grew up in Lake Forest, IL. She obtained her B.A. magna cum laude in 1993 from the University of Notre Dame. After graduation, Fennelly taught English in a coal mining village on the Czech/Polish border. When she returned to the States, she earned the M.F.A. degree in poetry from the University of Arkansas. She then received the 1999 Diane Middlebrook Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin. She was also the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Grant. She became an Assistant Professor of English and taught poetry at Knox College in Galesburg, Il. Her chapbook A Different Kind of Hunger, published by the Texas Review Press, won the 1997 Texas Review Breakthrough Award. Her poems have been anthologized in Poets of the New Century, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The Best American Poetry 1996, The Pushcart Prize 2001 and others. Fennelly's book of poems, Open House, has won numerous awards, including the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry for a First Book. Her next book, Tender Hooks, was followed by Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother and in Unmentionables: Poems Company. Most recently, Ms. Fennelly has been working in non-fiction and has had a number of highly successful memoirs and essays published.

Poetry, Nicole Cooley
Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans. In 2010, she will publish two books of poetry, Breach, to be published by LSU Press in April 2010, which focuses on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and Milk Dress, co-winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award, to appear with Alice James Books in November. She has published two other books of poems and a novel. She has been awarded the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, a "Discovery"/Nation Award, and the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. She directs the new MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College-City University of New York.

The Judge for Short Story by a High School Student will be announced shortly.

All of the judges also will appear as members of the faculty for Words & Music, 2010.

Best regards,
Rosemary James, Faulkner Society

Letter Machine Editions

2010-03-22T16:48:00.000-05:00

LME will be reading book-length mss. in the month of April 2010.

http://www.lettermachine.org/submissions.html

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We'll also be having an offsite event at AWP with Counterpath Press:

http://www.lettermachine.org/awp.html

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You can still order Travis Nichols' IOWA & Sawako Nakayasu's TEXTURE NOTES together for $20 (shipping included!).

http://www.lettermachine.org/purchase.html

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Come stop by our table with Counterpath in the bookfair i you're going to be in Denver this year.

xoxooxoxo,
LME

The Underpass: Small Bar Readings

2010-03-10T09:27:00.004-06:00

2nd Year MFA students Lauren Tussing-White, William Burke, John David Harding and James Claffey will read from their work Thursday, March 18th 7:00 at Chelsea's Small Bar.

WAVE BOOKS is currently seeking a Web Intern

2010-03-03T11:15:00.000-06:00

to manage and maintain Wave's online media, including this website, Wave author and book pages, Wave's Facebook page, and other pages and sites (to be proposed...). In addition to being well-versed in all aspects of the Web (including social networking, online marketing, search, the blogosphere, basic html, etc.), applicants must also have a fundamental love of the Web, and believe strongly in its role in the life of contemporary poetry. Applicants must also possess a strong knowledge of, and/or relationship with, the work of Wave Books (poems, books, and projects).

This is an unpaid internship. Applicants may be located anywhere around the world, though within the United States is preferable.

If you are interested in applying, please send a CV and cover letter, addressing all of the above considerations, to: info@wavepoetry.com, with "WEB INTERN APPLICATION" in the subject line. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, and will close when the position is filled. All questions can be addressed to: info@wavepoetry.com.

The Gatewood Prize (Switchback Books)

2010-03-02T08:55:00.000-06:00

The Gatewood Prize is Switchback Books' annual competition for a first or second full-length (48-80 pp.) collection of poems by a woman writing in the English language.

Cathy Park Hong will judge.

cfp: The Brown Issue

2010-02-23T18:58:00.003-06:00

We are currently accepting submissions for the seventh issue of Fairy Tale Review, The Brown Issue, to be Guest Edited by Timothy Schaffert. Seeking illustrators, as well as writers. Please submit work to brownissue@gmail.com

The Brown Issue will also feature "The Fairy-Tale Juvenilia Supplement" edited by Kate Bernheimer (FTR's founder and editor). This first supplement is open to writers with one or more published books. We are seeking fairy-tale themed short stories, poems or illustrations produced (by you) between the ages of 5 and 18 for this supplement. To be considered, please send a high resolution (300 dpi or higher) image of the juvenilia along with a brief letter describing its context to brownissue@gmail.com with the subject line "Juvenilia Supplement."

Submission questions and queries can be directed to ftrmanagingeditor@gmail.com

MFA Alumni Reading

2010-02-20T10:12:00.002-06:00

LSU MFA alumni Jenn Nunes, Chris Shipman, Claire Dixon and Arizona alumna Cara Blue Adams will read Thursday, February 25th at 7:00 at Chelsea's Small Bar

Kenyon Rev. short fiction contest

2010-02-15T10:58:00.001-06:00

KR will be electronically accepting submissions February 1st through February 28th, 2010, through the Short Fiction Contest page of the KR website. Louise Erdrich will be the final judge. The winning story will be published in The Kenyon Review, and the author will receive a scholarship to the 2010 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, June 19-26th, in Gambier, Ohio. (Scholarship covers tuition, room and board expenses.) There is no entry fee for submission. Please direct questions to kenyonreview@kenyon.edu.

Here are the full contest details:

Submission Guidelines

Writers must 30 years of age or younger at the time of submission.
Stories must be no more 1200 words in length.
Please do not simultaneously submit your contest entry to another magazine or contest.
The submissions link will be active February 1st to February 28th. All work must be submitted through our electronic system. We cannot accept paper submissions.
Winners will be announced in the late spring. You will receive an e-mail notifying you of any decisions regarding your work.
For submissions, we accept the following file formats only:
.PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
.DOC (Microsoft Word)
.RTF (Rich Text Format)
.TXT (Microsoft Wordpad and Notepad, Apple TextEdit
The final judge will be Louise Erdrich, winner of the 2009 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Erdrich is the acclaimed author of the novels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, and The Plague of Doves, as well as many others. In 2009, she published The Red Convertible: Collected and New Stories, 1978-2008.

Delta Mouth

2010-02-09T12:03:00.007-06:00

A literary festival organized by the New Delta Review, LSU's graduate student-run literary magazine.

Delta Mouth features Laurie Lynn Drummond, Akilah Oliver, Peggy Shinner, Ariana Reines, Susana Chavez-Silverman, Marthe Reed, Xero Skidmore, and Andrew Ervin.

There will be readings beginning at 8:30 Thursday, February 11th at Chelsea's and at 8:00 on Friday, February 12th at the Shaw Center. Dinner receptions precede both.

"Send the Clowns Now"

"Send the Clowns Now," a ten-minute play by Susan Kirby-Smith, will debut at Delta Mouth on Thursday evening, 8:30 at Chelsea's.

The play will star DeWitt Brinson, Jenn Nunes, Karin DeGravelles, and William Burke.

* Mel Coyle is the understudy.

OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS: TARPAULIN SKY LITERARY JOURNAL

2010-02-02T20:09:00.002-06:00

Hola and howdy, readers and friends,

During the month of February we will be reading submissions for the next paper edition of Tarpaulin Sky. We hope you'll give it a go, and send your best, as this is the only submission period for the magazine this year.

We're trying something new, too--well, new to us--the online submission manager. So you'll be able to keep tabs on the status of your submission throughout the process.

Also new this year are many of the journal's editors: Blake Butler and Joanna Howard editing Fiction; Laynie Browne and Karla Kelsey editing Poetry; and Sandy Florian and Lily Hoang editing "Other"; presided over by Editor in Chief Colie Collen, with all submissions shepherded through the process by Associate Editors Duncan B. Barlow, Jamey Dunham, and Christine Wertheim, as well as Assistant Editors Michael Tod Edgerton and Brian Mihok.

Please visit our guidelines for all the deets.

Fence Modern Poetry Series

2010-01-29T22:14:00.000-06:00

The 2011 Fence Modern Poets Series is open February 1-February 28. Guidelines and required entry forms available here.

Past winners: Joyelle McSweeney, Elizabeth Robinson, Prageeta Sharma, Geraldine Kim, Daniel Brenner, Christopher Janke, James Shea, Macgregor Card, Nick Demske

Past judges include: Allen Grossman, Ann Lauterbach, Peter Gizzi, Forrest Gander, Nick Flynn, Martin Corless-Smith, Joyelle McSweeney

Thanks!

Bucknell fellowship

2010-01-24T20:19:00.002-06:00

Bucknell University. Stadler Center for Poetry. The 2010-11 Emerging Writer Fellowship offers professional training in arts administration & literary editing in a thriving, university-based poetry center, while also providing the Fellow time to pursue his or her own writing. The Emerging Writer Fellow assists for 20 hours each week in the administration of the Stadler Center for Poetry &/or in the editing of West Branch, a nationally distinguished literary journal. The Fellow also serves as an instructor in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets in June. The Fellowship stipend is $20,000. Unlike the related Stadler Fellowship, the Emerging Writer Fellowship currently does not include housing or health insurance. All campus academic, cultural, & recreational facilities are available to the Emerging Writer Fellow. To be eligible, an applicant must be at least 21 years of age, must have received an advanced degree in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry (i.e. MFA, MA, PhD) no earlier than spring 2005, & must not be enrolled as a student during the period of the Fellowship. (Persons enrolled in a college or university at the time of application are eligible.) The Emerging Writer Fellowship is potentially renewable for a second year pending funding. Submit the following items by postal mail: letter of application, curriculum vita, three letters of recommendation, a poetry sample of no more than 10 pp., to: Emerging Writer Fellowship, Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837. No materials will be returned; please do not send originals. Postmark deadline: Wednesday, February 10. Notification: late spring 2010. For more information on the Stadler Center for Poetry, see our website: www.bucknell.edu/stadlercenter (AWP)
Added 12/17/09

R.H.I.Z.O.M.E.

2010-01-21T08:58:00.002-06:00

Hello!

I am in the process of starting a new site dedicated to poetry book reviews. To start off, I am asking for reviews of contemporary, experimental, and post-modern poets only. If you are interested in submitting a review, please include the following:

1. The name of the poet(s) you are reviewing
2. The book title(s)
3 The review(s)
4. Your bio

Send all queries/reviews to the following address:

matinals@gmail.com

I look forward to reading your reviews!

Bests,
Matina L. Stamatakis

Translation/transmissibility CFP

2010-01-18T16:45:00.002-06:00

Call for papers:

Translation/transmissibility
and transcultural communication in the humanities

The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), 10th-11th May 2010

“The limits of my language are the limits of my world”—Wittgenstein

“The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is
CAPABLE of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.”—Ezra Pound

This two day conference aims to address the problematic of translation as it is applied specifically to the study, teaching, research and dissemination of intellectual information within the various disciplines of the Humanities. In fact, it is time to re-examine political, cultural and social constructions in the context of, and as they are related to, translation and translation theory within the Social Sciences.
To help prompt various reflections, presenters may wish to address questions such as what is the cultural, or even rational identity one might call author, or the value of an “original text” or “original thought” once they have gone through the process of translation? How are social systems facing or failing to acknowledge each other through the cross-cultural work of translation in the Humanities? What hold does the translator have over how disciplines in the Humanities and its theories, (in particular philosophy, sociology or anthropology), are received abroad, out of the local contexts, native language, and cultural background that make up the thinking behind the original writing? How might one reconsider within the framework of translation arguments from such texts as Michel Foucault’s “The Author Function”? or, if limited to Humanities translation, Walter Benjamin’s “The Author as Producer” and “The Task of the Translator” ? How is academic translation related to Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "the deterritorialization of language"? What intellectual errors or omissions have occurred through mistranslation (deliberate or accidental), and how has this lead to surprisingly fruitful or disastrous consequences in research? If we accept that translation implies a cultural conversion of the text, how can it be treated with equal weight in its non-native form? As such, how might the practice of translation dislodge binary constructs of cultural and national identities which assume essence, fixity, and hierarchy?
Within the context of such interrogation, papers may examine literary, theoretical, philosophical or other works that have had greater reception in translation than in their native language. They may also address the social ramifications of language domination as it pertains to erasure or accentuation of various languages via translation. Other topics we would encourage include:
—translation and tangential thought processes
—close examination of retranslations of a single theoretical text throughout time
—the variants retranslations reveal about cultural context and change as opposed to the linguistic value of a text
—intertextuality in translation
—translation’s relationship with postcolonialism and postcolonial studies
—translation as interpretation and misinterpretation of The Other in a social science context.

We encourage interdisciplinary papers, those which think beyond the traditional limits of translation to explore issues and consequence of cultural transfer or isolation. Please send a title with a 300 word abstract and a brief bio in English, French, or German to Jennifer K Dick & Stephanie Schwerter at transmissibility@gmail.com before the 1st of February 2010. We encourage papers from professors, researchers and scholars at all levels of their career, including MA and PhD candidates.

Hot Metal Bridge

2010-01-18T09:38:00.002-06:00

Submissions are open for the Spring 2010 issue! The deadline to submit is March 1, 2010.
Submission Guidelines:
Fiction:
Hot Metal Bridge is interested in your well-crafted literary fiction, whether short story, flash fiction, or novel excerpt. What counts as literary these days? Beats us. Just don’t send us a story about spaceship-flying dinosaurs. Unless it’s really good. That said, we like aesthetic diversity, from realism to surrealism, maximalism to minimalism. And if you simply write stories and don’t care about literary classifications, send us your work too. We accept submissions as Word attachments sent to fiction@hotmetalbridge.org. Please include the phrase “Fiction Submission” in the subject line. Please keep submissions under 7,000 words and make sure to include your name and contact information.
Poetry:
We are many, and our tastes differ, but as this is an entirely online journal, there’s no reason not to read the past issue before submitting (it’s good, we promise). If you can smell what we’re stepping in, then send something our way. Down to business. We welcome poetry submissions of five (5) pages or five (5) poems, whichever comes first. Please attach your submission as one document (we prefer .doc, but .docx .rtf or .pdf will all work) with your name appearing at the top of the first page. E-mail subject heading should read “Spring Poetry Submission” and in the body, you may include a short bio or cover letter, if that strikes your fancy. Send your work our way: poetry@hotmetalbridge.org.
Nonfiction:
We’re looking for nonfiction in all its guises: essay, travel writing, literary journalism, satire, memoir, etc. We want to hear about dirty kitchens, ill-mannered exchange students, and hydrogen bonding. We will read about decaying vineyards, heroic mall guards, disenchanted cartographers, and sweet potatoes. If it’s new and true—and under 5,000 words—send it our way, to nonfiction@hotmetalbridge.org as a Word or RTF attachment.
Criticism:
Hot Metal Bridge is interested in your well-crafted literary fiction, whether short story, flash fiction, or novel excerpt. What counts as literary these days? Beats us. Just don’t send us a story about spaceship-flying dinosaurs. Unless it’s really good. That said, we like aesthetic diversity, from realism to surrealism, maximalism to minimalism. And if you simply write stories and don’t care about literary classifications, send us your work too. We accept submissions as Word attachments sent to fiction@hotmetalbridge.org. Please include the phrase “Fiction Submission” in the subject line. Please keep submissions under 7,000 words and make sure to include your name and contact information.
http://hotmetalbridge.org/submissions

--
Amy Whipple and Turi Fesler
Editors in Chief
Hot Metal Bridge

CFP special Lisa Robertson issue of Open Letter

2010-01-13T09:04:00.002-06:00

Open Letter is seeking submissions for a special issue dedicated to the work of Lisa Robertson. One of Canada’s most innovative and challenging writers, Robertson’s work reveals a persistent interest in the relationships among epistemology, civic space, gender, language and the visual. Her poetic engagements with thinkers ranging from Virgil and Lucretius to William Wordsworth and Emily Montague, as well as her work in and against forms such as the epic, the pastoral, the essay and the manifesto reflect her ongoing interest in literary and philosophical history and the pleasures and politics of form. This issue invites writers and critics to engage with any aspect of Robertson’s work. Possible topics might include (but are certainly not limited to) Robertson’s work and:

· Space, architecture, and/or geographies
· Feminist poetics
· Kootenay School of Writing
· Genre (poetry, prose, essay, manifesto)
· Form
· Classical texts
· Philosophy
· The archive
· Visual art
· The epic
· The pastoral
· Language poetry

Please send your submissions by email to Heather Milne h.milne@uwinnipeg.ca by June 1, 2010

GoGoVertigoat

2010-01-12T09:13:00.000-06:00

We are seeking artists to inspire, question and engage with us as a means to create a greater collaborative community amongst artists of various mediums. We offer free room and studio space for temporary periods of dance research and rehearsal time, during which one can explore the New York dance/art scene. The Goat Squat intends to be a conduit for dance artists and other interested creative souls, to become a part of our work and to insert themselves into the much sought after city for creative residence. We ask the artist to design their dream intensive movement study, be it in performance, pedagogy, curriculum, movement invention, somatic exploration, choreography, ecetera. We also ask that each artist propose a basis upon which they can interact with the GoGoVertigoat Dance and/or Performance group.

At the moment, we are looking for proposals. We are very interested in emerging artists and artists who wish to come to NYC from outside the USA for various periods of time. We are also happy to host artists who are in school.

Proposals can take on any shape you choose, but should include the following:
- What you wish to do in New York City, and how long you wish to stay
- A plan for engaging in an exchange of ideas, or just sharing with GoGoVertigoat (refer to their website)
- An artist's statement
- A work sample
- A statement of need

Please send proposals/inquiries to gogovertigoat@gmail.com

--
Lindsey Drury
523 East 5th Street
Brooklyn NY 11218
646.416.1673
www.gogovertigoat.org

3rd Year MFA Reading

2010-01-10T10:58:00.001-06:00

Tracey Duncan, Tyler Smith, Jennifer Tamayo and Shelby Goddard will read on Thursday, January 28th at Chelsea's Small Bar, 7:00

Congratulations to Jennifer Tamayo!

2010-01-08T09:46:00.001-06:00

Two of her poems, "Articulations" & "Girl of All Going: an orientation in 4 parts," will be featured in No Tell Motel during the week of July 5, 2010.

unbound press (UK) fiction call

2010-01-01T18:39:00.003-06:00

The Unbound Press Fiction Competition is now open for entries!

2 Categories:

Short story
Prizes: 1st Prize: £100

2nd Prize: £50

Length: up to 3000 words

Entry fee: £5

First chapter of an unpublished novel
Prizes: 1st Prize: £75

2nd Prize: £25

Length: up to 3000 words

Entry fee: £5

All Winners and Runners-up in our competitions will be published in the Unbound Press Journal and will each receive a free copy of the journal.

Go to our Competitions page at www.unboundpress.co.uk for full details.

There will be two further competitions during 2010:

Competition 2 – Creative Non-Fiction Essay & First Chapter

Opens: 1st May 2010

Closing date: 31st July 2010

Competition 3 – Flash Fiction & Poetry

Opens: 1st August 2010

Closing date: 31st October 2010

We look forward to your entries. Good luck!

www.unboundpress.co.uk

Omnidawn chapbook & ms submission deadlines...

2009-12-27T11:39:00.002-06:00

The 2010 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest
Judged by Elizabeth Robinson
is Omnidawn Publishing's first annual
chapbook contest
open to all poets writing in English.

Prize includes $1,000.,
Fall 2010 publication by Omnidawn &
100 complimentary copies of the chapbook.

The entry fee of $15 entitles you to a copy of
the winning chapbook if you send an SASE.

Submission period: 1/1/10 - 2/28/10.
Accepting both electronic
and postal submissions.

For details visit www.omnidawn.com/contest
~~~~~~~~~~~
Also Coming:
Omnidawn's 2010 Full Poetry Book Contest
for first or second books.
Judged by Rae Armantrout.
Prize includes $3,000.,
Fall 2011 publication by Omnidawn,
& 100 complimentary copies of the book.
Electronic & postal
submission period: 3/1/10 - 6/30/10.

an essay by Alison Barker

2009-12-21T08:38:00.007-06:00

3rd year fiction student Alison Barker has published an exquisite and powerful essay about her time working for the NYC Parks Department in Front Porch

Call for Work: Paris-based journal seeks innovative poetry and flash fiction!

2009-12-18T14:00:00.000-06:00

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

The Paris literary journal Upstairs at Duroc seeks submissions for its Issue # 12. We publish English language poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and translations. We welcome innovative forms, prose poems and flash fiction. Submit no more than 5 poems, or two prose pieces not exceeding 2000 words each. Include cover sheet with name, address, phone number, email address, word count for prose, and a short Bio. Send snail mail submissions to the WICE office. Send email submissions to wice@wice-paris.org with “Upstairs at Duroc Submission” in the subject line. Copies of Upstairs at Duroc can be obtained at our readings or at the WICE office (7 cité Falguière, 75015 Paris , France . Open Mon-Tues-Thurs-Fri 10 AM to 3 PM). For samples of published work, see our Web page at www.wice-paris.org. We prefer email submissions. Deadline: January 31, 2010.

1st Year Reading

2009-11-14T16:08:00.001-06:00

Aimee Davis, Ben Pehlan, Maia Elgin and Rachel Van Sickle will read Wednesday, November 18th at Chelsea's Small Bar

VERSAL cf...

2009-11-13T20:54:00.003-06:00

ANNOUNCING: Versal Magazine seeks creative work for issue 8:

VERSAL SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES:
We look for work that is urgent, involved, and unexpected. Innovative forms are encouraged (we like flash fiction & prose poetry, too, are open to hybrid works and works that require a larger print page—which the size of the magazine can accomodate).

Submissions sent outside of our current reading period and/or which do not follow the following simple guidelines will not be considered.
The Basics
We use an online submission system for all submissions, without exception. Please read these guidelines carefully, then go to http://www.wordsinhere.com/versal/submgr/index.php
You can submit in more than one genre but please submit only once per genre per submission period.
Poetry Submission Specifics
Send up to 5 poems of no more than 10 pages in total. Attach only ONE Word file, with each poem beginning on a new page. Long poems and translations are considered.
Prose Submission Specifics
Send no more than 1 prose piece no longer than 3000 words. Please double-space and page number your document. We are looking for engaging, well-crafted fiction. We accept both traditional and non-traditional stories. We do not accept novel excerpts unless they can be read as a standalone story.
Art Submission Specifics
Attach a single digital file at low-resolution for review purposes only. We will contact you if we require a higher quality image.You can submit multiple images via a single PDF or Word file. Click here to download a PDF with instructions on how to make a multiple-image file.
In your cover letter, please include the title of your piece(s), materials used, dimensions, and year.
Nota Bene
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please inform us as soon as your work has been accepted elsewhere. We do not publish reprints. Previous contributors are asked to wait one year (i.e. skip one issue) before submitting again. We do our best to keep our response time under two months. Payment is in contributor copy. All rights revert to the author and artist upon publication. Direct all inquiries to versal@wordsinhere.com. This is not the submission address.
Ready to submit?
Our online submission manager can be found here:
http://www.wordsinhere.com/versal/submgr/index.php
Please click or copy-paste into a browser window.
You can return to the system at any time to check on the status of your submission.

Meena

2009-11-11T18:08:00.000-06:00

At long last, Meena 3 has finally arrived! We want to invite you to join us for two upcoming readings:

Loyola University, Monday, November 16th, at 6 pm Monroe Library Living Room
The Gold Mine, Thursday, November 19th, 705 Dauphine, 8 pm

In addition to the bilingual reading celebrating the new issue, we will happily be joined by Stuart LeBlanc on the oud.

Copies will be for sale at the readings and are also available at the Pharaoh's Cave, 1241 Royal Street (New Orleans), as well as at Zeitgeist's Middle Eastern Film Festival, directly from us and, soon, through our website and at independent bookstores.

We hope to see you!

Gratefully, Andy and Khaled

post-moot

2009-11-10T12:20:00.001-06:00

Call for creative proposals papers / performances / presentations (deadline November 20th).

post _ moot: a 2nd convocation of unorthodox cultural and poetic practices

April 22-25, 2010, Miami University of Ohio

The second Post-Moot Convocation, an international conference to be held at Miami in spring of 2010 to foster creative exchange among poets in the early transnational 21st Century, will present papers / performances / presentations on a range of contemporary issues in poetics.

Topics will likely include but will not be restricted to (we welcome other formulations):

- ecopoetics
- issues of writing and power
- postconceptualist poetics
- performance and performance writing
- spatiality
- the book as object
- poetic economies
- sound / noise
- versions
- state of lyric
- signifying on older poetic traditions
- translation
- electronic archives

Proposals (we do not need a conventional abstract) should take account of the fact that upwards of 50 people are likely to be included in the program. In other words we can consider presentations that have extended duration, but we hope not to get into exhaustive parallel paneling and hope for proposals of between 15-25 mins on average. We have a variety of presentation / performance venues available, dependent upon proposals. We can host work by participants unable to attend in person.

We look forwards to hearing from you: the post _ moot collective (Maria Auxiliadora Alvarez, Tammy Brown, cris cheek, WIlliam R. Howe, Cathy Wagner)

please respond to: postmoot@gmail.com

ps

post _ moot 1 occurred in 2006, with generous participation from Michael Basinski, Brian Brown, Peter Castaldo, Rachel Chase, cris cheek, Pete Drummond, Steph Elstro, Alan Golding, K. Lorraine Graham, Kevin R. Hollo, William R. Howe, jUStin katKO, Claire Keys, Steven Paul Lansky, Kirsten Lavers, Mel Nichols, Tom Orange, Camille Paloque-Berges, Nicole Proctor, Linda Russo, Rod Smith, Joshua Strauss, Rodrigo Toscano, Keith Tuma, Mark Wallace, Leigh Waltz, Tyrone Williams, Aaron Yandrich.

post _ moot featured readings; screenings; book launches; a bookateria; curated digital stations; papers; panel discussions and performances

black & white & rouge all over...

2009-11-08T20:06:00.005-06:00

TheAvantGuardian

2009-11-04T23:32:00.002-06:00

A number of LSU MFAs, faculty, and community members write for TheAvantGuardian, a site that covers music, fashion, hair, film, poetry, performance, writing, and all topics broad and small that fall through the cracks of typical culture-infested sites.

New articles on performative writing and Arnold Schwarzenegger + Masculinity + The Movie That Would've Been the Best of His Oeuvre but Remains Unproduced: "Crusade".

Fence Mag: Summer Literary Seminars 2010 Contest

2009-10-26T21:45:00.000-05:00

Summer Literary Seminars 2010 Contest:

Fiction judge--Mary Gaitskill
Poetry judge--Mary Jo Bang

Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in Fence, as well as the participating literary journals in Canada, Lithuania and Kenya. Additionally, they will have the choice of attending (airfare, tuition, and housing included) any of the SLS-2010 programs – in Montreal, Quebec (June 13 – 27); Vilnius, Lithuania (August 1 – 14); or Nairobi-Lamu, Kenya (December).

Second-place winners will receive a full tuition waiver for the program of their choice, and third-place winners will receive a 50% tuition discount.

A number of select contest participants, based on the overall strength of their work, will be offered tuition scholarships, as well, applicable to the SLS-2010 programs.

Contest Deadline: February 28, 2010.

Fence Books: 2011 Motherwell Prize

2009-10-26T21:42:00.001-05:00

for a first or second full-length collection of poems by a woman writing in English, to be judged by Fence Books editors, with a cash prize of $1000 & Spring 2011 publication by Fence Books.

Manuscripts accepted during the month of November, 2009.
Full details on our website.

350 Poems

2009-10-24T11:55:00.000-05:00

350 Poems is part of 350.org's international day of climate action. Less than 48 hours left! Submit your 3.5 lines to 350poems@gmail.com before midnight, October 24th.

On this site, 350 writers will each contribute a poem responding to climate change (in a language of their choosing) in the days leading up to the 24th. As an additional constraint--mirroring the real political obstacles and shortage of time we face--each poem must be 3.5 lines in length.

Why 350? Because that is the agreed upon safe upper limit for CO2 in the atmosphere (in parts per million). We're currently at 390 and rising, close to what climate experts call "the point of no return." This is a critical moment: we and our political representatives must act quickly in the less than two months before this December's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Visit 350.org for other actions in your area (there are currently over 4000 actions in over 170 countries) and continue to read the new poems we're uploading hourly.

-Jennifer Karmin

2009-10-22T12:25:00.002-05:00

Red Star will join with The New Delta Review – the all graduate student-run literary magazine out of Louisiana State University – on Friday, October 23, 2009 in hosting “Word of Mouth: An Evening of Music, Drinks and Fun(draising).” Music from Polly Pry, Twenty Six and Rmonic. And the world premiere of the Poetry-Kissing Booth!

The New Delta Review aims to raise $800 or more to support Delta Mouth Literary and Music festival. Last year, Delta Mouth brought together 30 regional and national writers and artists for a weekend of music, readings, and art exhibits. This year’s event hopes to continue expanding Baton Rouge’s literary arts community by bringing even more national writers in connection with writers and artist from the local area. Delta Mouth is scheduled for Thursday and Friday, February 11 & 12, 2010.

The event will start at 9:00 PM at Red Star bar located at 222 Laurel Street downtown Baton Rouge. Come show your support for the literary arts in Baton Rouge!

3rd Year Reading

2009-10-20T07:50:00.003-05:00

3rd Year Reading with Jordan Soyka, Alison Barker, Jason Hardy and DeWitt Brinson

Wednesday, October 21 7:00, Chelsea's Small Bar

Slope reopens...

2009-10-15T12:15:00.002-05:00

Dear Friends and Readers and Friends,

This is a note to let you know that Slope, the online magazine of poetry & poetics, has recently re-opened for viewing. We are excited to be bringing to you twenty-five issues by twenty-five editors over the course of the next twenty-five years. Please enjoy the inaugural work of this new commitment: a portfolio of poems and materials by Heather Christle (click on number 26). Many more poets, projects and presentations to follow, both slowly and soon.

Thank you for reading,

The Editors of Slope
slope.editors@gmail.com

No Tell Motel: Call for Poetry Submissions

2009-10-09T12:34:00.002-05:00

Hi, I want to let everyone know that No Tell Motel is considering poetry submissions during the month of October.

The guidelines are here.

We don't publish issues, we publish a new poet each week, a new poem each weekday. That means we need 5-8 poems to consider. We can't use submissions with less than 5. The one exception is long(er) poems that can be divided into sections and published over the course of the week.

Best,
Reb

link to interview w/ LSU alum. Jamey Hatley

2009-10-07T14:51:00.000-05:00

Fence Magazine

2009-10-06T11:47:00.000-05:00

Good morning!

Fence is pleased to announce that from now until October 30th you can submit Poetry, Fiction, and Other through our handy Submission Manager. We are, as previously stated, no longer open for long stretches, so get in there now, but we'll open again for a month in the spring if you don't have anything right now that you think is really right.

Tarpaulin Sky!

2009-10-06T11:45:00.000-05:00

Dear Friends and Readers,

During the month of October, Tarpaulin Sky Press will be reading full-length
manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and cross-genre work. Manuscripts should be
postmarked between October 1 and October 31, 2009. There is no need to query
first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below.

Send one copy of your manuscript along with two copies of the title page
(note: the reading process is not "blind"--we ask for two title pages only
so that we may keep one with the manuscript, and the other for
reference/notes, etc). Be sure that your title pages include your name,
address, telephone number, and email address.

Cover letters are read with interest. We like to know who your are, what
you're up to, and where we can read more of your work.

We do accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you let us know
immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Individual pieces from
the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies,
and short-run chapbooks, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished.
Manuscripts will not be returned. Please do not send us your only copy.

Writers who have not been published in our literary journal should include a
$20 reading fee in the form of a check or a money order made payable to
Tarpaulin Sky Press. Past contributors to Tarpaulin Sky may submit their
manuscript with a $10 reading fee. Current subscribers to Tarpaulin Sky
Press do not need to include a reading fee (you've already done plenty to
support the press--thank you). Everyone submitting a manuscript is welcome
also to choose from any TSky Press trade paperback (sorry, no
chapbooks)--just let us know which title you would like, and enclose with
your submission packet a 9x12, self-addressed, stamped envelope with $2.64
in postage. We will ship the books separately from your notification SASE.

Mail your submission to

Tarpaulin Sky Press
PO Box 189
Grafton, VT 05146

For notification of decisions, include a business-size SASE. If you would
like to receive acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, please
include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Notification of decisions will
be made in February 2010. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in
2010 & 2011.

If you are not familiar with our press and the type of books that we
publish, we encourage you to explore our work before submitting, by
purchasing one of our titles.

Eleven eleven on-line call

2009-10-04T12:23:00.000-05:00

Eleven Eleven Journal is reading for issue #8, our second winter online issue. We're looking for poetry, fiction, essays, plays and art, as well as work in translation. Deadline is October 15. Mail work to: Eleven Eleven, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth St., San Francisco, CA 94107.

Hot Metal Bridge call for work (fiction, poetry & nonfiction as well as criticism

2009-09-29T09:05:00.001-05:00

It’s that time of year again writers, readers and friends. We here at Hot Metal Bridge are ready and willing to pore over your finest literary submissions in preparations for the sixth iteration of Hot Metal Bridge, due to be released later this fall. Below you’ll find the updated call for submissions from the various genres. So whether it be fiction or criticism, nonfiction or poetry, send us your work by Tuesday, November 10th. We look forward to it.

Submissions Guidelines:

Fiction:

Hot Metal Bridge is interested in your well-crafted literary fiction, whether short story, flash fiction, or novel excerpt. What counts as literary? Just don’t send us a story about spaceship-flying dinosaurs. That said, we like aesthetic diversity, from realism to surrealism, maximalism to minimalism. And if you simply write stories and don’t care about literary classifications, send us your work too. We accept submissions as Word attachments sent to fiction@hotmetalbridge.org. Please keep submissions under 7,000 words and make sure to include your name and contact information.

Poetry:

We are many, and our tastes differ, but as this is an entirely online journal, there’s no reason not to read the past issue before submitting (it’s good, we promise). If you can smell what we’re stepping in, then send something our way. Down to business. We welcome poetry submissions of five (5) pages or five (5) poems, whichever comes first. Please attach your submission as one document (we prefer .doc, but .docx .rtf or .pdf will all work) with your name appearing at the top of the first page. E-mail subject heading should read “Spring Poetry Submission” and in the body, you may include a short bio or cover letter, if that strikes your fancy. Send your work our way:poetry@hotmetalbridge.org.

Nonfiction:

For this issue (and this issue only) all creative nonfiction submissions must be brief: 1,000 words or less. If you think of creative nonfiction as organic material saturated with potential energy—ready fuel for reflection, insight, and action—then brevity is a diamond. Alternately, think of creative nonfiction as a magnifying glass held over some aspect of human experience; brevity focuses that lens until your writing ignites.

As in past issues, we’re still looking for nonfiction in all its guises: essay, travel writing, literary journalism, satire, memoir, etc. We want to hear about dirty kitchens, ill-mannered exchange students, and hydrogen bonding. We will read about decaying vineyards, heroic mall guards, disenchanted cartographers, and sweet potatoes. If it’s new and true—and under 1,000 words—send it our way as a Word or RTF attachment. Nonfiction@hotmetalbridge.org

Criticism:

Hot Metal Bridge is looking for innovative critical work from graduate students and scholars across the humanities. As a forum for a variety of approaches to cultural criticism, we want your seminar and conference papers, your unpublished chapters, your articles and miscellany. Our aim is to create a space for previously unpublished pieces that may not find an easy home elsewhere. Because critical work is inherently creative, we encourage interdisciplinarity and hybridity in both form and content.

For the first time, our Fall 2009 issue will feature articles constellated around a specific theme. The increasingly digital manner in which we engage with the world—what Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker call “network being, a Dasein specific to network phenomena”—gestures toward the impending declaration of the “death of analog.” We are interested in exploring some of the implications of near-ubiquitous digitization, especially the implications this has for work in the humanities, a field that has been dominated by the analogical since the invention of the pen. So for this issue, we specifically invite submissions loosely gathered around themes of the digital (for instance, but not limited to):

–Literature read through a digital lens

–The materiality of the text and textual apparatus of the book

–Digitality and poststructuralism: fragmentation in practice

–Modes of composition: digital pedagogy, multimodal making

–(New) Forms? New Form(alism)?

–Digital effects on the production of literature

–Networks and network theory

–Digital ecologies

–The posthuman and the machine

–Code

–Digitization in the academy

Send articles and papers, 15 to 30 pages in length, to criticism@hotmetalbridge.org before November 10, 2009. A 200-300 word abstract should be included in the body of your email, in addition to a brief bio. Please note your name and title in the subject heading of your email—your name should not appear in your attached submission (Word file .doc, .docx, or .rtf). MLA style is required; submit other citation styles with the understanding that a conversion to MLA will be required for publication.

And finally, good luck to all of you and we hope you’ll stay turned for upcoming book reviews, podcasts and our glorious sixth issue.

--
Sal Pane
Editor
Hot Metal Bridge

Ellipses Press

2009-09-29T08:51:00.000-05:00

Seeking innovative "novels". Deadline is 15 Nov.

http://www.ellipsispress.com/submission-guidelines/

VERSAL call for work from Jennifer Dick

2009-09-25T18:53:00.002-05:00

VERSAL CALL

Versal wants your poetry, prose, and art for its eighth issue due out in May 2010. Internationally acclaimed literary annual published in Amsterdam, bringing together the world's urgent, involved, and unexpected.

See website for guidelines and to submit: http://versal.wordsinhere.com.

Inquiries (only) can be directed to: versal@wordsinhere.com.

Deadline: January 15, 2010.

Contest: Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes

2009-09-25T10:34:00.002-05:00

Prizes ranging from $1,000 up to as much as $25,000 will be awarded for the finest lyric poems celebrating the human spirit.
Entrants must be under the age of 40 on November 6, 2009.
The contest is open to all writers, published or unpublished.
Winners may continue to enter until their prizes total in excess of $25,000.
Submissions must be in English: no translations, please.
Each entrant may submit one to three separate poems.
Only one of the poems may be more than thirty lines in length.
All poems must be original and previously unpublished.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked on or before October 17, the third Saturday in October, 2009.

Jaques Servin on CNN

2009-09-24T08:36:00.001-05:00

Jacques Servin of the YES MEN, interviewed on
CNN. Jacques is a graduate of LSU's MFA program.

Here, he's operating under the pseudonym Andy Bichlbaum.

Words and Music Writers Conference: Submission Deadline Approaching

2009-09-23T18:14:00.003-05:00

Those who wish to participate in the Words and Music Writers Conference in New Orleans should submit manuscripts for critique by e-mail not later than September 25th, accompanied by a letter stating when they will be available for volunteer activities. LSU MFA students receive free participation in the conference in exchange for volunteering.

More information about the conference can be found here.

Contest: 30 below

2009-09-22T17:02:00.001-05:00

30 Below Story Contest—2009

Narrative is calling on writers, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers, between eighteen and thirty years old, to tell us a story. We are interested in narrative in the many forms it takes: the word and the image, the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary.

Awards: First Prize is $1,500, Second Prize is $750, and Third Prize is $300, and ten finalists will receive $100 each. The prize winners and finalists will be announced in Narrative, and all entries will be considered for publication.

We accept submissions in the following media:

Written: Works of fiction and nonfiction, including short stories, novel excerpts, essays, memoirs, and excerpts from book-length nonfiction. Submissions must not exceed 15,000 words, and should be double-spaced, with 12-point type, at least one-inch margins, and sequentially numbered pages. Please provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address at the top of the first page. Submit your document as a .doc, .docx .pdf, or .rtf file.

Drawn: Graphic novel excerpts and comics of no more than thirty pages, in .pdf format. Please include your full name in the title of the filename.

Photographed: Photo essays of between five and twenty images, previously unpublished (including Flickr, your personal website, stock photography sites, etc.). Images should be submitted in a low-resolution .pdf or .jpg format; however, upon acceptance, images need to be provided with a resolution of at least 300 dpi, as a .tif, .jpg, or raw format and that can be reproduced at 750 pixels wide. Captions or text should be included, either with the file containing the images, or as a separate document with numbered captions corresponding to the similarly numbered photographs in a .doc or .pdf format. Please provide your name, address, telephone number, and email address on the first page of the essay.

Spoken: Original works of fiction and nonfiction in audio theater, including performance, radio journalism, and stories read aloud. Submissions may run up to ten minutes, in .mp3 format, with a bit rate of at least 128 kbit/s. Please include your full name in the file name.

Filmed: Short films and documentaries of up to fifteen minutes. Submissions must be in .mp4 format. Please include your full name in the file name.

Timing: Entries will be accepted between September 21 and October 29, 2009. (The contest will close to entries at midnight Pacific Standard Time on October 29.)

Entry Fee: There is a $20 fee for each entry. And with your entry, you’ll receive three months of complimentary access to Narrative Backstage.

Judging: The contest will be judged by the editors of the magazine. Winners and finalists will be announced to the public by December 1, 2009. All writers who enter will be notified by email of the judges’ decisions.

Entries must be previously unpublished, though we do accept works that have appeared in college publications. Entries cannot have been the winner, finalist, or honorable mention in another contest. We accept online entries only. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but if your entry is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible (and accept our congratulations!).

Unmoveable Feast

2009-09-21T18:28:00.011-05:00

Unmoveable Feast literary journal features work of LSU and UNC-G students, alumni and faculty, as well as other writers and artists.

Unmoveable Feast would like to invite you in to the parlor. Look around, stay a while but never, ever turn your back to the ocelot.

MFAamilies that prey together stay together. We are collecting for our next issue and are on the lookout for: reviews, short films, essays, and interviews.

Job listing: Missouri Review

2009-09-18T13:17:00.002-05:00

LECTURER/MANAGING EDITOR--Seeking a person with literary or other professional publication editing and management experience to assume the Managing Editor position at The Missouri Review, a not-for-profit literary magazine based at the University of Missouri. This is a non-tenure track, 12-month academic position, reporting to the Editor in Chief. Terminal degree required. Candidate must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as strong project and staff management experience. Prefer an individual with budget development and oversight experience, prior teaching experience, a broad knowledge of literature and literary publishing and experience working effectively in diverse environments. Demonstrated success at securing grant funding and an entrepreneurial spirit considered a plus. Salary commensurate with experience. Review of applications will begin October 1, 2009.

Complete info here.

iPhone + Book + Audio Book + Video Performance

2009-09-17T22:03:00.003-05:00

Nick Cave's new novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, has been turned into an iPhone app--one that expands traditional methods of reading.

Worth a look.

Video here.

post _ moot: a 2nd convocation of unorthodox cultural and poetic practices

2009-09-16T13:34:00.003-05:00

Call for creative proposals papers / performances / presentations
(deadline November 20th).

April 22-25, 2010, Miami University of Ohio

The second Post-Moot Convocation, an international conference to be
held at Miami in spring of 2010 to foster creative exchange among
poets in the early 21st Century, will present papers / performances /
presentations on a range of contemporary issues in poetics.
Topics will likely include but will not be restricted to (we welcome
other formulations):

- ecopoetics
- issues of writing and power
- postconceptualist poetics
- performance and performance writing
- spatiality
- the book as object
- poetic economies
- sound / noise
- versions
- state of lyric
- signifying on older poetic traditions
- translation
- electronic archives

Proposals should take account of the fact that upwards of 50 people are likely to be included in the program. In other words we can consider presentations that have extended duration, but we hope not to get into exhaustive parallel paneling and hope for proposals of between 15-25 mins on average. We have a variety of presentation / performance venues available, dependent upon proposals. We can host work by participants unable to attend in person.

We look forwards to hearing from you: the post _ moot collective
(Maria Auxiliadora Alvarez, Tammy Brown, cris cheek, William R. Howe, Cathy Wagner)

please respond to: postmoot@gmail.com

The Poetics of Pain: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Representation

2009-09-16T12:25:00.002-05:00

Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
February 25th-26th, 2010

Department of Comparative Literature
The Graduate Center - City University of New York

Pain has always occupied a problematic space in any discipline investigating the human condition. The question of how to manage the unmediated experience of pain in the face of the social and ethical imperative to communicate it has spawned countless theories of and approaches to pain itself and its representation. This conference seeks to foster dialogue between a broad range of approaches to pain and suffering, including medical-scientific investigations of the neurological processes involved in the experience of pain, socio-historical analyses of the connection between individual pain and collective trauma and literary/linguistic inquiries into the possibilities and limitations of a poetics of pain.

We invite papers from all disciplines approaching the subject from a variety of critical perspectives that explore the ways in which pain is articulated, narrativized, framed, interpreted, subjectivized, and imbued with meaning.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Torture, War
• Illness Narratives
• Medical and Diagnostic Language of Pain
• Sadomasochism - from Rousseau and de Sade to LGBT “Leather Scenes”
• Biopolitics
• Animality and Humanism
• Martyrdom and Religious Representations of Suffering
• Theaters of Cruelty
• Politicization of Pain and Collective Accounts of Past Suffering
• Violence and Politics
• Survivor Memoirs
• Victims of Crime and Assault
• Trauma and Testimony
• Physical Suffering in Light of the Cartesian Mind/Body Problem
• Religious and Secular Theodicies
• Victimhood, Voice and Agency
• Desire, pain and subjectivity.
• Technologies of Punishment
• Bioethics

Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by October 10th to painconference@gmail.com . Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter's name, institutional and departmental affiliation. We also welcome panel proposals (3-4 papers).

KEVIN YOUNG at ULL this Saturday

2009-09-15T21:53:00.001-05:00

The Deep South Festival of Writers presents Kevin Young.

Saturday, September 19 at 7:30pm

at The Acadiana Center for Film and Media
700 Lee Ave
Lafayette, LA 70501

Kevin Young's books of poetry include For the Confederate Dead (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), Black Maria (2005), Jelly Roll: A Blues (2003), To Repel Ghosts (2001) - a finalist for the James Laughlin Award - and Most Way Home (1995), selected for the National Poetry Series and winner of the Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. Young is also the editor of the anthologies Blues Poems (Everymans Library, 2003) and Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000), as well as a selected volume of poems by John Berryman for the Library of America. His poetry and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and Callaloo.

Marthe Reed
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Marthe Reed
English Department
UL Lafayette
337-482-5503
mreed@louisiana.edu

MFA 2nd Year (+1 PhD) Reading

2009-09-14T14:15:00.001-05:00

Featuring:

My Nguyen
David Newman
Al Dixon
Mel Coyle

Chelsea's Small Bar
Wednesday, Sept. 23
7PM

Olympia Vernon

2009-09-14T14:10:00.001-05:00

Olympia Vernon (alumni of LSU's MFA program) participates in an ad campaign for the fall promoting the university, its alumni and their achievements.

Read more about Olympia and her work here.

River Writers: Sept. 15

2009-09-14T13:42:00.003-05:00

celebrating with the founders:

Vincent A. Cellucci
Eric Elliott
Ben Lowenkron
Rebecca Gammons
Chris Shipman

might be an small invasion of italian poems...
reminder about call for submissions: see august post on blog
ALSO IMPORTANT updates for OCT Gulf Coast Poetry Tour

Boudreaux and Thibodeaux upstairs bar
214 Third Street
10PM

Contest: 3rd Annual Commonline Poetry Competition

2009-09-13T17:32:00.002-05:00

Prize: $1000.00, publication of selected piece and short biography (if desired).
Deadline: November 5, 2009
Winner Announced: November 15, 2009 (Winter Issue)
Reading and Entry Fee: $5.00 per entry (2 poems = 1 entry)

- 3rd Annual CommonLine Poetry Competition (2009) Guidelines -

What to submit:
1). Send up to 2 poems per entry.
2). As a guide you can view our 2008 selections here.

How to submit:
1). Paste your submission into the body of an email.
2). Include your name and the words “2009 Submission” in the subject line.
3). Include the following information: full name, phone number, date, title of work(s), date reading fee was paid.
4). Send your submission to: clp2009poetry@hotmail.com (please do not send entries to the regular submission address).
5). Pay reading fee via secure Paypal (below)

LSU English Department NEWSLETTER

2009-09-11T21:18:00.000-05:00

From Anna Nardo:

"Thanks to Kieu Pham and Chris Tusa, we now have a Newsletter on our English Department web site. Here’s how it works. On the left, you will now see a button “Newsletters.” When you click on it, you will see a drop-down menu—a link for submitting an item, and a link to the actual Newsletters. As your items are posted, we will have a running record of all the wonderful achievements of Faculty, Current Students (graduate and undergraduate), and Former Students."

Click here to post news of your publications and achievements to the English Department Newsletter. [And don't forget to post any such news on our MFA blog, too!]

Of Interest: C. D. Wright chapbook from Octopus

2009-09-11T18:46:00.000-05:00

Our newest chapbook, CD Wright's 40 Watts, is now available for purchase for $20 at www.octopusbooks.net. 40 Watts is a limited edition (200 copies), hand-made, hand-sewn, letter-pressed hard cover chapbook of 40 short poems, and will only be available through our website. Once they sell out, we will not make any more, so don't wait too long to make your purchase.

Black Warrior Review

2009-09-11T15:54:00.001-05:00

Subject: Online Submissions Now Open for Fifth-Ever Fiction and Poetry Contests

Hello BWR fans,

We wanted to let you know that we are now taking online submissions at Manuscript Hub for our Fifth-Ever Fiction and Poetry Contests. Go to http://www.facebook.com/l/389ae;manuscripthub.com to check it out; signing up with the site is free, and once you're in it will walk you through the submission process (uploading your files, paying the contest fee, etc).

All other contest details can be found on our website at http://www.facebook.com/l/389ae;bwr.ua.edu and, of course, on our FB fan page.

We look forward to reading your work!

Onward,
Jenny Gropp Hess
Managing Editor

Fence: Call for Submissions

2009-09-11T14:23:00.000-05:00

Hi. We're going to be opening up our Submissions Orifice on October 1--AND CLOSING IT AGAIN ON OCTOBER 30. We're changing over to a one-month reading period in an attempt to handle the pretty unmanageable volume of submissions we currently receive.

More info here.

Meanwhile! (I had to get an exclamation point in here somehow.) Fence Books two book contests now have updated guidelines and required entry forms on our site.

All best,
Rebecca Wolff

Congratulations to Chris Shipman!

2009-09-08T20:36:00.000-05:00

His poem, "Since the Toys are Gone," will appear in an upcoming issue of Cimarron Review.

ROCKPILE Performace (New Orleans)

2009-09-06T21:20:00.000-05:00

Sunday, October 25, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center

ROCKPILE is a collaboration between David Meltzer — poet, musician, essayist, and more — and Michael Rothenberg of Big Bridge Press. David and Michael will journey through eight cities in the U.S. to perform poetry and prose, composed while on the road, with local musicians and artists in each city. ROCKPILE will serve to educate and preserve as well as to create a history of collaboration. It will help to reinforce the tradition of the troubadour of all generations, central to the cultural upheaval and identity politics that reawakened poets, artists, musicians, and songwriters in the mid-1960s through the 1970s. The project will end with a final multimedia performance in San Francisco.

In New Orleans: David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Blodie with members of The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Gregory Davis (trumpet), Roger Lewis (bari sax), Terence Higgins (drums), Julius McKee (sousaphone) and Jacob Eckert (guitar)

Tickets: $5-$7

Time: 8pm

1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
New Orleans, Louisiana 70113

(504) 827-5858 or (504) 352-1150

More about ROCKPILE here.

2009-09-05T12:38:00.004-05:00

Tupelo Press: Dorset Prize

2009-09-05T00:03:00.000-05:00

The annual Dorset Prize is an open competition for a poetry manuscript, with a $3,000 prize. Poets submitting work for consideration may be published authors or writers without previous book publications. Submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad (translations are not eligible for this prize). All entries must be postmarked between September 1 and December 31, 2009. The guidelines for the Dorset Prize can be read here.

West Wind Review: Call for Submissions

2009-09-04T23:55:00.001-05:00

West Wind Review is seeking submissions for its 2010 issue through October 1st. Please send poems, "conceptual prose," and inscrutable diagrams to westwind@sou.edu as Word attachments. [By the way, WWR especially needs more submissions from women or woman-like beings.]

Thanks,
K. Silem Mohammad

The Missouri Review: fiction, essay, and poetry contest

2009-09-04T18:59:00.002-05:00

Dear Friend of TMR,
Have you heard the news? The Missouri Review is now offering $15,000 in prize money for the 19th annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize Contest -- $5,000 per genre in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Past winners' work has been reprinted in the Best American series. Each entry is $20. All entrants receive a one-year subscription to The Missouri Review either in print or in the new environmentally friendly digital format, which includes bonus audio content. The deadline is October 1st, and you can enter online or by mail. For details, check out our webpage: http://missourireview.com/contest.

All our best,
Kate McIntyre and Joe Aguilar
Contest Editors

Call for Papers: Louisiana Conference

2009-09-02T13:16:00.001-05:00

The Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language and Culture--now in its 9th year, this conference attracts academics and writers from across the country and around the globe.

The conference will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Lafayette on March 5-6, 2010. Our keynote speakers for 2010 are Dr. Dale Bauer and Dr. Gordon Hutner. Both Bauer and Hutner are well-known literary scholars who teach at the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, and both have new books out this year from the University of North Carolina Press. In addition, Dr. Hutner is the founding editor of American Literary History, published by Oxford University Press, a top journal in the field of American literary studies. Other plenary sessions on publishing will include our new Writer-in-Residence, novelist Kate Bernheimer, who is also editor of The Fair Tale Review. And there will be a special presentation by award-winning novelist Rikki Ducornet.

There will, of course, be plenty of Cajun food and music, and maybe even some dancing!

Hope to see you there.

--Christine DeVine
The Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language and Culture
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
http://english.louisiana.edu/laconference

Congratulations to Jennifer Tamayo!

2009-08-31T21:09:00.000-05:00

Five of her poems will appear in the Summer, 2010 issue of Action, Yes online quarterly.

MFA Alumni Reading: Wed. September 2 @ 7PM, Chelsea's Small Bar

2009-08-31T21:07:00.001-05:00

Join us to hear LSU alumni Ronlyn Domingue, Jamey Hatley, and Mary McMyne read from their recent work.

Ronlyn Domingue is the author of The Mercy of Thin Air from Atria Books. Her debut novel was a 2005 Borders Original Voices Award Finalist.

Jamey Hatley won the 2006 Faulkner-Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress. Her story, "Dream Session," was recently published in Oxford American.

Mary McMyne won the 2007 Faulkner-Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress for the novel she has since completed, a retelling of the Odysseus myth set in the 20th century Deep South.

The Collagist

2009-08-25T23:19:00.000-05:00

Dear Creative Writing Students and Faculty,

As the editor of The Collagist, a new online literary journal published by Dzanc Books, I would like to invite you to join us first as readers and then also to submit your own work for possible inclusion in our magazine. We strongly believe that much of today's most interesting and innovative literary work is being done in our many creative writing and literature programs, by both students and faculty, and so we genuinely look forward to reading your submissions.

We publish fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and book reviews, and are always reading in all categories.

Following this letter, you'll find some general information about The Collagist, and below that our most recent guidelines.

Thanks again for your time, and good luck with both your writing and the new school year.

Sincerely,

Matt Bell

Editor

The Collagist

editor@thecollagist.com

www.thecollagist.com

ABOUT THE COLLAGIST

The Collagist is a new online journal published monthly by Dzanc Books and edited by Matt Bell, with Matthew Olzmann as Poetry Editor. Continuing the Dzanc tradition of bringing extraordinary writing to a wide audience, the first issue of The Collagist was published on August 15th, 2009, and new issues will appear subsequently each month at www.thecollagist.com.

The Collagist's recently published debut issue includes new fiction by Chris Bachelder, Kevin Wilson, Kim Chinquee, and Matthew Salesses, plus an excerpt from Laird Hunts forthcoming novel Ray of the Star. It also includes poetry by Charles Jensen, Oliver de la Paz, and Christina Kallery, as well two essays: Ander Monson provides an innovative essay in the form of an assembloir, while David McLendons essay relates his personal experiences with the master teacher, editor, and writer Gordon Lish, exploring the impact of Lishs mentorship on both his own writing and his everyday life. Lishs story Im Wide (which originally appeared in his collection What I Know So Far) is also reprinted in this issue, which I hope youll consider first as its own unique piece and then again, in tandem with McLendons essay.

The Collagists first book review section includes coverage of Terry Galloways Mean Little Deaf Queer, Michal Ajvazs The Other City, and Brian Evensons Fugue State (written by Dawn Raffel, John Madera, and Ryan Call, respectively), as well as a video review of Jonathan Baumbachs You, or the Invention of Memory by Anna Clark.

The Collagist also extends beyond its formal pages onto its blog, which provides additional material throughout the month, including interviews with contributors and audio and video readings of work found in the issue, all of which will also be available as a podcast through iTunes. The blog can be found at www.thecollagist.com/wordpress/.

For more information or for general inquiries, please email editor@thecollagist.com.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Fiction:

The Collagist includes four previously unpublished works of fiction in each monthly issue. We will consider all lengths of short fiction, from flash through novella. Send one story or novella or 1-3 flash fictions or short-shorts to fiction@thecollagist.com as a .DOC or .RTF attachment and list The Collagist - Fiction submission in the subject line.

Poetry:

The Collagist includes previously unpublished work from four poets in each monthly issue, publishing between 1 and 3 poems per poet. We will consider all types of poetry. Send to poetry@thecollagist.com as a single .DOC or .RTF attachment and list The Collagist - Poetry submission in the subject line.

Non-Fiction:

The Collagist includes between one and three previously unpublished essays in each monthly issue, on a variety of personal, political, and literary subjects. Please send to nonfiction@thecollagist.com as a .DOC or .RTF attachment and list THE COLLAGIST - Non-fiction submission in the subject line.

Book Reviews:

The Collagist includes several book reviews in each monthly issue. We will arrange for these in advance. If you would like to become a book reviewer for The Collagist, please email Dan Wickett at dan@dzancbooks.org. Include in your email two or three of your past reviews, and if there are any specific books you'd like to review, please include those titles as well.

Octopus Magazine: Call for Poems & Recovery Projects

2009-08-22T23:10:00.003-05:00

In August we will be reading for issue 13 of Octopus. In addition to
reading submissions of poetry, we are making a call for Recovery
Projects.

Recovery projects are celebrations of a single book that you feel
people should be reading but are not reading--books and poets off
the radar. They should be about 1000 words, about a book that is
at least 20 years old & out of print, but all those are flexible.
The only real requirement is that the recovery inspires a reader to
want to track down that book and read it asap. If you have an idea
for a recovery, first pitch it to the editors.