Seattle Poets Announcements

Poetry + Comedy + Film in Columbia City

2012-01-23T23:01:00.000-08:00

Thursday is going to be a huge night for poetry in Seattle... several events happening, including Hugo House's Cheap Wine & Poetry night as well as Hear/Art at Cafe Racer.

I'd like to invite everyone to a poetry event at the Columbia City Theater, an old jazz hall and a very lovely venue.

Poets: Evan J. Peterson and Adam Boehmer
Comedians: Danielle Radford and Elicia Sanchez
2 short films by Marie Biondolillo and Union Street Films

For more info, click here.

Hope to see you there!

Icicle Creek Creative Residencies

2011-10-03T20:02:00.000-07:00

Background

As part of Icicle Creek Center for the Arts new initiatives, we will begin to offer partially subsidized music, theatre and literature residencies beginning in the fall of 2011. Residences will be offered on a rolling basis for 1 to multiple week periods to self-directed, established local and national writers, artists and musicians looking to create new or finish existing pieces while being inspired by the natural beauty of the Icicle Creek region. ICMC will gladly accept applications from ensembles and individuals interested in single or multidisciplinary genres.

Duration of Residence

Minimum 1 - Maximum 6 weeks.

History of Organization

Icicle Creek Center for the Arts (formerly the Icicle Creek Music Center) was founded in 1995 as a place for excellence in classical music, with an emphasis on chamber music. Since then, the organization has expanded to include educational, cultural and artistic offerings of many varieties, including learning retreats, master-classes, tutorials, performances, presentations and special events. Icicle Creek’s signature has always been the excellence of its programs and the inspired natural beauty of its environs. The center sits at the base of the picturesque Sleeping Lady Mountain, and on the shores of the Icicle Creek. Visitors are treated to dramatic seasons with the spring offering lush fields of wildflowers and the winter coating the region in crisp, white snow. The center also sits adjacent to the rustic and elegant property of Sleeping Lady Resort.

Retreat Accommodations

Selected residents will enjoy a private cabin on the campus of Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, furnished with bed, desk, phone, Internet, bathroom, and some of the most beautiful vistas in the region. Certain units feature a small kitchenette and are only available for longer stays (2+ weeks). In addition, residents have use of a private practice space during the day, for composition, writing, artwork, or just solitude.

The cabins are located within walking distance of a casual bistro restaurant and bar, and a short drive from the lively town of Leavenworth.

Accommodations include

• Private Cabin. 2 units feature a small kitchenette (refrigerator, stove top, microwave, coffee pot, limited kitchen utensils). Those units are are only available for guests staying 2 + weeks.

• Access to laundry services

• Weekly housekeeping service for sheets and towels

• Solo practice space

• Access to recital hall on scheduled basis for performance, reading or other event

• Internet Service

• Local Phone Service

• Admission to any Icicle Creek public events happening during your stay

• For an additional cost, access to Sleeping Lady resort amenities

Resident Fee

Icicle Creek is funded in part by individual donations, which makes it possible to offer partially subsidized artists residencies. Costs are less than $18 per-day, depending on length of stay. (Four, five and six week rates are available, please contact us for details)

$125 – One week

$250 – Two weeks

$375 – Three weeks

Application Process and Deadlines

To be considered for a Residency at Icicle Creek Music Center, all applicants must fill out the following application and return it to ICMC in its entirety. Applications deadlines are as follows: Literature and Theatre by October 10th, Music and Visual Arts by November 11th.

At the time you are selected for your residency, you will be required to provide a deposit (50% or the resident fee). This deposit is non refundable within 45 days of the agreed upon check-in date.

How to apply

If you would like to apply for an Icicle Creek Creative Residency, please visit our website at http://www.icicle.org/. If you have questions, please give us a call or email! (509) 548-6347 x409 or email - shughes@icicle.org.

The Esoterics perform Naturalia next weekend

2011-10-03T01:15:00.000-07:00

Deirdre Lockwood, one of our own, sent me this news today; I'm happy to pass it along:

I just wanted to let you know that things worked out wonderfully in the collaboration with Christina Whitten Thomas, the composer you connected me with--thanks again so much for passing on my name to her. The Esoterics, a Seattle choir, are performing Christina's piece (setting a poem I wrote for the project), as well as many other incredible musical settings of poems about nature (including poems by Emily Dickinson and A.R. Ammons, plus many other poems in Icelandic, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, and Russian!) in two shows in Seattle next weekend, in case you or any of the other poets are interested (I'll be out of town for a wedding but Christina will be there). Here's the info: http://theesoterics.org/Concerts/NATURALIA.aspx I went to the first show last night and it was really wonderful.

Dead Letters: Written Accounts of Mortality

2011-09-20T21:09:00.000-07:00

Just a quick reminder to former students, friends, and others who've expressed interest, my next reading class, Dead Letters: Written Accounts of Mortality, begins Saturday, October 8 at Hugo House and runs six weeks.

For those who would like a detailed reading list (to preview or, if you've already signed up, to get started), I have a course page here: http://encke.org/dead-letters-written-accounts-of-mortality/

Please pass this information along to friends and let me know if you have any questions.

Jeff

Call for submissions: Kweli

2011-09-10T20:19:00.000-07:00

Finally a smart and well curated literary space for writers of color that encourages experimentation. A place to commune. A place to read new contemporary voices that deserve our attention. Bravo! Angie Cruz, author of Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee, a finalist for the Impac Dublin Award in 2007. Kweli has featured the prose of Jeffery Renard Allen, Angie Cruz, Victor LaValle and Nelly Rosario, . . . the poetry of Santee Frazier, Lorna Goodison and John Murillo, . . . and photo essays by Thomas Sayers Ellis, Rachel Eliza Griffiths and Emily Raboteau.

Upcoming issues will feature Jennine Capo Crucet, Camille Dungy, Amaud Johnson and Aaron Michael Morales.

Add your voice. Share your visions. Join us.

* * *

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Our next reading period: July 16, 2011 to September 16, 2011

Submit your work to:

http://kwelijournal.submishmas/h.com/

Visit http://www.kwelijournal.org/ for details.

Payment is upon publication.

Sep 16 reading at Elliott Bay Books: Arlene Kim and Anne Overstreet

2011-09-08T19:35:00.000-07:00

From Arlene:

You—yes, you!—are invited to my book launch at Elliott Bay Books (1521 10th Ave, Seattle—in Cap Hill) on Sep 16, Fri, 7:00pm. I'll be reading from my new collection of poems, What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?, along with friend/fellow poet Anne Overstreet, who also has a book of poetry just out, Delicate Machinery Suspended. (Psst: secret little handmade goodies for anyone who buys a book at the reading.)

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Writing classes for women

2011-08-31T12:41:00.000-07:00

Fall 2011 - "Poeming the Silence," Thursdays Oct 13 - Nov 17, 10 am - noon. Greenwood Senior Center, Contact Center.

My Tues night class is now open for new members, 7-9 pm. Contact me directly.

Come Celebrate! Launch Party, Saturday, October 15, 7:30pm

2011-08-27T15:20:00.000-07:00

Please join us to as we launch Elizabeth Myhr's debut book of poetry, the vanishings & other poems.

When: October 15, 2011- 7:30 p.m.
Where: The home of Anita Nadelson & Tom Garvey
Address: 3300 43rd Ave NE, Seattle, Washington 98105
Neighborhood: Laurelhurst
Questions: 206 769 0444

Please RSVP to bethmyhr@gmail.com

Join SPA Member Elizabeth Myhr at Northwest BookFest 2011

2011-08-27T15:14:00.000-07:00

As part of the Northwest BookFest 2011 Education Program Beth will be talking with writers and readers about the new, virtual, cooperative press Calypso Editions. Elizabeth is a founding member of Calypso.

Sunday, Oct. 2
Noon - 1 pm
Room 4
Founding the Virtual Small Press

Call for submissions: [out of nothing]

2011-08-23T01:39:00.000-07:00

(this one I kinda dig...JE)

[out of nothing], an electronic publication interested in new works in image, sound, text, and the intersections between these media, is now open to submissions for its sixth issue: "in the mirror, a sleep, a spectral nothing."

Please submit your textual, aural, visual, poly/ambi-medial work to us at <shelling.peanuts(at)gmail.com> [replace (at) with @].

Deadline: October 31, 2011
Complete submissions guidelines are available at: http://www.outofnothing.org/mirror/

Prospective contributors would be well-advised to consult our earlier publications at http://www.outofnothing.org/ as a guide to the type of work we're interested in: to supplement this understanding and ideally stimulate your thinking about a new piece made particularly to address the issues that consume, or rather, are consumed by us, we offer the following potential topics:
> the vacuum
> salvage / remainders
> imaginary spaces possessed of imaginary dimensions
> darkness / lightlessness
> reduced or infinitesimal means
> the exponential
> self-abnegating symbols
> the blank
> obliteration
> the inconsequential
> refusal
> the contentless / general contentlessness
> the generic and / or undifferentiated and / or the contra-original
> adhesive agents in search of clients to bind
> none of the above or below

Electronic submissions only. Please allow 3 - 6 months response time.
Eds., [out of nothing]

Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press: Chapbook Contest

2011-08-23T01:27:00.000-07:00

http://home.earthlink.net/~astoundingbeautyruffianpress/

The prize for our 2011 poetry chapbook contest is:

$10,000 and publication of the winning manuscript

Unprecedented in the history of chapbook competitions, our cash award for the winning manuscript in 2011 is $10,000. In 2012, our cash prize will revert to $1,000. If we are ever able to scrape together another $10,000, our plan is to offer that amount as a prize once again. : )

Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press 2011 Poetry Award

for a chapbook-length manuscript

May 1 - August 31, 2011 (postmark date)

Please submit:

10-20 pages of original poetry not already published, or committed to be published, as a collection

by a single author

English only, no translations

no more than one poem per page (however, a single poem may be longer than one page), typed in 12 pt. plain font

no artwork

include a table of contents

please number pages

one title page with poet's name, address, telephone number, email, and title of
manuscript and a second title page with title only

biographical page (ONLY because we are interested in you as a person)

acknowledgements page

$20 entry fee, checks made payable to Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press and drawn on a U.S. bank - if you live outside the United States, please send the entry fee in the form of a cashier's check or money order

absolutely no paper clips, spring clips, staples, plastic covers, or folders -
we would rather not have to bother with these things, so don't waste your
supplies

Do not include a SASE - winner will be announced on our website in the fall of 2011.

Manuscripts will be recycled.

Send by regular, first-class mail only:

Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press
Poetry Award
2155 Elk Creek Rd.
Stuart, Virginia 24171

***Authors may submit as many manuscripts as they like, but each must be accompanied by a check or money order for the $20 reading fee.

Voices in Space (VIS)

2011-08-20T20:59:00.000-07:00

Voices in Space (VIS) is a free literary forum on which writers and poets—no matter how experienced— may post their work and get feedback from a wide array of impartial critics, i.e., the community of users. Authors also have the ability to workshop their writing on the site, track the evolution of their writing, and gauge how changes to a work are received by their audience.

VIS’s mission is to provide writers of all levels exposure for their work while attracting the constrictive criticism they need to hone their craft. To learn more, please take a moment to browse the site, www.voicesinspace.com, or visit our “How We Work” page, www.voicesinspace.com/how_we_work.

Happy versing!

-The VIS Team

Two readings: Patricia Killelea (August 9 and 13)

2011-08-07T00:36:00.000-07:00

Patricia Killelea will read poems from Other Suns at The Elliot Bay Book Company (1521 Tenth Avenue Seattle) on Tuesday, August 9 @ 7 p.m. and for the Poets West Reading Series (Green Lake Branch Seattle Public Library, 7364 E Greenlake Dr. N, Seattle) on Saturday, August 13 at 4 p.m. Other Suns is her first poetry collection. Find out more at http://www.patriciakillelea.com/

Engaging Diverse Youth in Creative Programming

2011-08-05T17:27:00.000-07:00

Time	Wednesday, August 17 · 12:00pm - 4:00pm

Location	Beacon Hill Library (Free parking. Served by Metro Buses 36, 38, & 60 & the Beacon Hill Light Rail Station) 2821 Beacon Ave S. Seattle, Washington

Created By	The Cross Cultural Health Care Program

More Info	The Cross Cultural Health Care Program, the Office of Minority Health, and Within Reach are pleased to announce the second event in the 2011 Can You Hear Me? Speaker Series. Need inspiration and support for your work? New to the field? Come get some great ideas and meet new colleagues! Panelists will include individuals in creative youth programming focusing on the arts, health care, mental health, and community wellness. We will discuss projects involving diverse youth, outreach ideas, how to stay alive in a hard economy, and more! 12:15 – 1:00 pm – Optional brown bag & networking. Bring lunch. We’ll provide drinks & dessert. 1:00 – 4:00 pm – Panel discussion. Free and open to the public! Limited Seating. RSVP to Nimisha: ccprograms@xculture.org \| 206.860.0329 For accommodations, please inquire prior to the event.

Book contest: Philip Levine Book Contest

2011-06-24T11:16:00.000-07:00

Philip Levine Prize for Poetry

A prize of $2,000, publication by Anhinga Press, and 25 author copies is given annually for a poetry collection. Poet Denise Duhamel will judge. Submit a manuscript of 48 to 100 pages with a $25 entry fee by September 30, 2011. Visit the Web site for complete guidelines.

California State University
Philip Levine Prize in Poetry
English Department
5245 North Backer Avenue
Mail Stop PB 98
Fresno, CA 93740

(559) 278-1569.
Connie Hales, Award Coordinator
<connieh(at)csufresno.edu> or Cindy Wathen <ciwathen(at)csufresno.edu>
(Replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail)
http://www.csufresno.edu/english/mfa/levine/index.shtml

Book contest for writers over 60 years of age: Off the Grid Press

2011-06-24T11:14:00.000-07:00

Off the Grid Press announces its first annual manuscript contest for poets over sixty -- final judge, Carl Dennis. The winner will receive $1,000 and publication.

Here are the guidelines:
1. Submissions deadline: Aug. 31, 2011. The competition is open only to poets over 60 years of age.
2. Manuscript must be typed, paginated, and 50–70 pages in length (single spaced). We accept do not accept double sided manuscripts.
3. Individual poems from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks of less than 25 pages, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Translations and self-published books are not eligible. No multi-authored collections, please.
4. Manuscripts must have a table of contents and include a list of acknowledgments for poems previously published. Your name, address, phone number, and email should appear on the title page of your manuscript. MANUSCRIPTS CANNOT BE RETURNED. Please do not send us your only copy.
5. No illustrations, photographs or images should be included.
6. Send one copy of your manuscript submission with two copies of the title page. On the second title page print only the book's title, no name or contact information. Use only binder clips. No staples, folders, or printer-bound copies.
7. For notification of winner, include a business-sized SASE. If you wish acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, include a stamped addressed postcard.
8. Entry fee for the Off The Grid Press Competition is $25. Checks or money orders should be made payable to Off The Grid Press.
9. Manuscripts should be submitted by mail. Mail entries to: Off The Grid Press, 24 Quincy St., Somerville, MA 02143
10. If, in our judgment, no submission is worthy of publication, the press reserves the right to publish no book and return the entry fees.

Poetry chapbook contest: Caketrain

2011-06-24T11:11:00.000-07:00

2011 Caketrain Chapbook Competition is open now through October 1. The genre is poetry and the final judge is Rosmarie Waldrop. Full guidelines are posted at www.caketrain.org/competitions

Caketrain Journal and Press
Box 82588, Pittsburgh, PA 15218
http://www.caketrain.org/

Call for submissions: anthology of stories inspired by beer

2011-06-24T11:10:00.000-07:00

Yeast of Eden, an anthology of stories inspired by beer, is requesting submissions.

1,000 to 7,000 words, fiction or nonfiction. September 1, 2011 deadline.

Visit http://www.beeranthology.com/ for more information.

Cheers!

Call for poetry: iO

2011-06-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

iO: A Journal of New American Poetry invites submissions of high-quality poetry across a wide range of styles. Our first issue features work by Franz Wright, Joe Hall, Susan Tichy, Kara Candito, and more. Check us out at: http://iopoetry.org/ or on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/IO-A-Journal-of-New-American-Poetry/123629071048251.

iO is a quarterly electronic journal which seeks to publish newer, up-and-coming poets alongside established American voices in each issue. We invite you look over the submission guidelines and to send 3-5 poems through our submission manager here: http://iopoetry.submishmash.com/Submit

We read year-round. Be sure to include all submissions as a single document.

Call for submissions: Interrobang?!

2011-06-24T11:04:00.000-07:00

Interrobang?! Magazine (http://interrobangzine.com/) is a web and print 'zine for the arts based dually in Providence, RI and New Orleans, LA. Our goal is to provide a formal venue for voices of all kinds, whether it be poetry, fiction, creative essays, photography, fine art, or experimental music and video. Don't be shy: we want your stories, your pictures, your music, your oddball esoterica. The interrobang symbol is meant to denote surprise, querying excitement or shocked disbelief; our publication seeks art that provokes this reaction, that astonishes, challenges and compels with its beauty or daring.

Submissions may be sent online at http://interrobangzine.submishmash.com/
Please submit each piece separately so that it may be individually evaluated. See http://www.interrobangzine.com/about/submit/ for further details.

Call for submissions: Printer's Devil Review

2011-06-24T10:44:00.000-07:00

Printer's Devil Review (ISSN 2160-2948) is an independent, open access journal of literary and visual art. We provide emerging writers and artists with access to publication and inquisitive readers with new voices and visions.

We're currently seeking submissions of fiction (2,000 to 9,000 words), poetry, nonfiction, and visual art. Our reading period for Fall 2011 began May 1 and ends August 1.

You can find full guidelines for each section and access our online submission system at http://pdrjournal.org/submit

Call for submissions: Switchback

2011-06-24T10:42:00.000-07:00

SWITCHBACK is now accepting submissions for issue 15.

• We accept poetry, fiction, nonfiction, critical essays, and art
• Only previously unpublished works
• We accept simultaneous submissions but please notify us immediately
of acceptance elsewhere
• The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2011
• Visual art submissions are accepted on an ongoing basis.
• Contributors to our previous two issues (thirteen and fourteen) will
not be considered

WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS:
Poetry:
• Maximum 3 poems per writer
• Each poem needs to be submitted separately.
• Send written submissions in .doc (preferred), .docx, pdf, or .rtf
format

Prose:
• Maximum 1 story, nonfiction piece, or critical essay per writer
• We prefer prose works to be 2,000-2,500 words, but if you have
something really good that's longer, we will consider it
• Send written submissions in .doc (preferred), .docx, pdf, or .rtf
format

Art:
• Include an explanation of your piece in no more than 100 words
• Send submissions in .gif, .jpg, or .png format with a resolution of
300 dpi or higher

The fifteenth issue will be published in Spring 2012.

Visit http://www.swback.com/ for more information.

SWITCHBACK is a publication of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing
Program of the University of San Francisco, Aaron Shurin, Director.

SWITCHBACK is a forum for the writers of USF's MFA community, including
alumni, students, and faculty, as well as the wider literary community,
in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and critical essays.  

Book contest: Accents Publishing

2011-06-24T10:38:00.000-07:00

Go to website to download entry form:
http://www.accents-publishing.com/

Accents Publishing is happy to announce its 2011 International Poetry Book Contest. Two winners will be selected – one by an independent judge, Lisa Williams, and one by the Senior Editor and founder of Accents Publishing, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer. Each winner will have his/her submission published and will receive a $500 cash prize. Additionally, the winners will be invited for a featured reading at a book premiere celebration event. All contest entries will be considered for regular publication with Accents Publishing, as well.

The entry fee is $20.00. Multiple submissions are allowed, as long as each one is accompanied by a separate entry fee and submission form. Winning books may be pre-ordered at the time of submission for $10.00 each.

A complete submission should include the following:
• A completed submission form
• Your manuscript, including
o An acknowledgement page, if necessary
o Two title pages – one with name and contact information, one without
• Your biography or CV
• A check or a confirmation of payment via Paypal covering the $20 entry fee, plus any optional book preorders
Please do not include a SASE, as notification will be made by email only.

We will accept submissions between February 1st and July 31st. Winners will be announced in August. The contest is open to any poet writing in English. Employees of Accents or family members of judges are ineligible to participate. Simultaneous submissions will be accepted, but please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere.

Manuscripts should conform to the following guidelines:
• 60 to 120 pages of poetry
• Table of contents
• Single spaced
• Numbered pages
• 11 pt font minimum

Your name should not appear anywhere within the manuscript. Please do not send your only copy of your work, as manuscripts will be recycled.

Entries should be mailed to:
Accents Publishing
Attn: Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
P.O. Box 910456
Lexington, KY 40591-0456
Accents Publishing is an independent press for brilliant voices. For more information, or to download the submission form, please visit us at http://www.accents-publishing.com/

Pongo Teen Writing call for volunteers

2011-06-15T16:10:00.001-07:00

Pongo Friends,

This is an exciting time for me, when Pongo Teen Writing makes its annual Call for Volunteers for next school year. It's a privilege to get to know some of you better, as wonderfully accomplished, insightful, and creative people who honor Pongo with your commitment.

The Pongo opportunity will train you to help victims of childhood trauma (abuse, violent loss, etc.) to heal through poetry writing. The skills will benefit you in current and future careers in counseling and teaching. Pongo poetry writing is uniquely helpful for distressed individuals, and uniquely nurturing for caregivers.

Pongo volunteers are well trained, and they work in teams under an experienced leader. We have two sites currently, inside juvenile detention and inside the state psychiatric hospital for children. To begin the process for selection as a Pongo volunteer...

1. Please review the Pongo web site, including the volunteer commitment and expectations (You'll write your own poetry!) as described on the following page...

http://www.pongoteenwriting.org/volunteering.html

2. Carefully consider the volunteer schedule, which includes one of these times...

* juvenile detention (Tuesdays, 12:00-3:15 pm, mid-Sept to mid-April, in Seattle)

* the state psychiatric hospital for children (Mondays, 12:00-3:00, Oct-March, in Tacoma)

3. Email your resume and a writing sample (preferably poetry) to richard@pongoteenwriting.org .

4. In your resume or email message, please include all of your experience working with youth. Also, state your availability to volunteer on a Monday or Tuesday afternoon during the coming school year. If you are available both days, state your preference for working with Pongo inside juvenile detention or the psychiatric hospital. Finally, I'd like to hear why you're interested in Pongo and our mission. And I welcome your questions.

Cheers and Best Wishes!

Richard Gold

Pongo Teen Writing Project

http://www.pongoteenwriting.org/

2011-05-06T07:45:00.000-07:00

This Thursday: Liner Notes 3 @ Electric Tea Garden

2011-05-03T21:13:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Liner Notes is a new Seattle reading series held once monthly at the Electric Tea Garden. Each month, a new album is selected; poets are randomly paired with one song on the album, inspiring new work.

This Thursday at 6:30: a tribute to A Tribe Called Quest and their album-Midnight Marauders, featuring:

Evan J. Peterson
Alex Oh
Amber Flame
Ela Barton
Daemond Arrindell
Laura Wachs
Naomi Washburn
Jeremy Springsteed
Gigi Frazier
Korvus Blackbird
Bruce V Bracken
Frank O'Brien
Cecily Schuler
Barton Jackson

Donations accepted but no cover required
21+ ID required

New Writing and Publishing Group being formed -- Chrysanthemum Writers Group

2011-05-02T14:26:00.000-07:00

Koon Woon is asking those of you who are interested in writing in any genre to gather to support, give feedback, share, and learn from one another. We will be having an organization meeting at the Common Ground Coffee and Cupcake Shop in Renton, WA. on May 22, 2011 at 2pm. The coffee shop is located at 900 3rd Street in Renton. The phone number is (425) 235 - 1717.

Everyone is welcome. Common Ground coffee and cupcake shop as free Wi-Fi and generally a pleasant place to study or to write, to meet others for literary discussions, and to just have coffee and relax.

If you are interested please call Koon Woon at (206) 329 - 5566 or email clsseattle@aol.com. We will also discuss the business side of running a magazine, a small literary press, and other promotional ideas for one's writing or books. Let's meet and share our experiences and connections with writing and publishing. Also, poetry and other readings can be arranged at the cafe. http://commongroundcupcakes.com/default.aspx

Hope to see you there. Bring your ideas!

Boston Review Fourteenth Annual Poetry Contest

2011-03-06T01:09:00.000-08:00

http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/index.php

Deadline: June 1, 2011
Judge: Tomaž Šalamun
First Prize: $1,500

Complete guidelines:
The winning poet will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in the November/December 2011 issue of Boston Review. Submit up to five unpublished poems, no more than 10 pages total. Any poet writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current student, former student, relative, or close personal friend of the judge. Mailed manuscripts must be submitted in duplicate, with a cover note listing the author's name, address, email and phone number. No cover note is necessary for online submission. Names should not be on the poems themselves. Simultaneous submissions are not permitted, submissions will not be returned, and submissions may not be modified after entry.
A non-refundable $20 entry fee, payable to Boston Review in the form of a check or money order or by credit card, must accompany all submissions. All submitters receive a complementary half-year subscription (3 issues) to Boston Review. Mailed submissions must be postmarked no later than June 1, 2011. The winner will be announced no later than November 1, 2011, on the Boston Review Web site. All poems submitted to the contest will be considered for publication in Boston Review. Please enter online using our contest entry manager: https://bostonreview.net/contest/submit/
This requires payment using a credit card or Paypal.

Or mail submissions to:
Poetry Contest, Boston Review
PO Box 425786
Cambridge, MA 02142

Bellday Poetry Prize

2011-03-06T01:04:00.000-08:00

BELLDAY POETRY PRIZE
$2,000 PRIZE TO WINNING POET
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15, 2011
CONTEST FINAL JUDGE: ELAINE EQUI
CONTEST RULES
- Submit manuscript of 60-90 pages of original poetry in English. The manuscript must not have been published in book or chapbook, but may contain poems that have appeared in print or on the Internet.
- Manuscript must contain 2 title pages: Name and contact information should appear on first title page only. Name should not appear anywhere else in manuscript. Manuscript should be typed, single-spaced, paginated, and bound with spring clip.
- Include a table of contents page, but no acknowledgements.
- Enclose SASE for announcement of the winner.
- Manuscripts cannot be returned. Complete rules: belldaybooks.com
- Check or money order for $25 reading fee, payable to Bellday Books.
- Mail entries: Bellday Books, Inc., P.O. Box 3687, Pittsburgh, PA 15230.
- Bellday Books reserves the right not to select an award winner, in which case all fees will be refunded.
Contest mailing address:
Bellday Books, Inc.
P.O. Box 3687
Pittsburgh, PA 15230
Questions may be directed to <office(at)belldaybooks.com>.
Replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail.

Four Way Books: 2011 Levis Prize in Poetry

2011-03-06T01:01:00.000-08:00

2011 Levis Prize in Poetry
Claudia Rankine, Judge
January 1 - March 31, 2011
electronic or mail submissions accepted
Publication of a book-length manuscript
$1000.00 honorarium
Featured reading in a New York City event sponsored by Four Way Books

Open to all poets regardless of publication history
For complete guidelines, please visit
http://www.fourwaybooks.com/
Four Way Books
P.O. Box 535 Village Station
New York, New York 10014

Reading with Esther and Ann

2011-01-28T17:51:00.001-08:00

RASP
7:00 pm. in Room 105
At the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center (ORSCC) at 16600 NE 80th Street, Redmond, WA 98052

Jan 28, 2011

10 Poets. 10 New Chapbooks. 1 Night.

2011-01-14T17:31:00.000-08:00

Friends, lovers, and poetry addicts,

Tomorrow night, Saturday the 15th, we present a showcase of ten poets, all celebrating the release of new chapbooks. For most of us, it's our first chapbook. For others, it may be the first time publishing a chapbook in which all the poems therein have appeared in print or online journals.

A suggested donation of $5 is asked to cover the cost of renting the space. All chapbooks will be on sale-- go home with a bundle of new, inexpensive literature.

The poets have previously read at such venues/events as Richard Hugo House's Cheap Wine and Poetry, Seattle PLOP!, Seattle Spit, and the Bent Mentor Showcase.

Line up:
Evan J. Peterson (Secular Exorcisms)
Sparkle (God's Chin)
Imani Sims
Cecily Schuler (Degeneration of a Playful Genius)
Cole Arden Peake (Brass Tacks)
Casey Tonnelly
Erin Kilpatrick
Jessica McPherson
Laurie Cox (Don't Be a Dogwalker)
Sarah Zurat

and hosted by Marita Isabel Deleon

7pm-10pm
Washington Hall, Lodge Room
153 14th Ave
Seattle, WA

Cheap Wine and Poetry tonight at Richard Hugo House

2010-11-04T12:49:00.000-07:00

Tonight.
7pm.
Richard Hugo House.
Cheap Wine and Poetry.
Starring:
Elissa Ball as Princess Haiku
Sean O'Connor as Captain Afterglow
Evan J. Peterson as Doktor Feelgood
Mary Purdy as the Kale Queen

We anticipate a large crowd. Those who are tardy may receive furtive glances.

SAM WORD

2010-10-19T21:30:00.000-07:00

Oct. 21, 2010

Jack Straw Productions curates an evening of readings in response to works on view in Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris. This month's reading features Denise Calvetti Michaels, Esther Altshul Helfgott and Tara Roth.

PLOP! avant garde reading and arts series tonight

2010-10-16T11:36:00.000-07:00

8:00 tonight
Location: need-to-know basis. Email plopliteraryseries@gmail.com to RSVP and receive location info.
See also http://plopliteraryseries.blogspot.com/
and Facebook!

Starring (in order of appearance)
Josie Davis as The Impresario
Paul Pauper as The Bard
Matty Byloos as The Storyteller
Paco-Michelle Atwood as The Witch
Miko Kuro as Midnight Tea
Evan J. Peterson as The Monster

with:
complimentary chocolate pie, wine, and tea
not-so-complimentary artists' cds and books available

$10 to see the show. Half the ticket price will be refunded to ladies and nervous persons who faint dead from fright during the performance.

It's About Time Writers updated calendar

2010-10-12T09:55:00.000-07:00

Thurs. Oct. 14, 2010 #253 Ann Teplick, Monica Schley, Georgia S. McDade + John W. Marshall on The Writer's Craft

No reading in Nov - the library will be closed due to Memorial day.

Thurs. December 9 2010 # 254 Carol Levin, Gerry McFarland, Karen Finneyfrock
+ Elizabeth Colen on The Writer's Craft

2011 Calendar

Thurs. Jan 13, 2011 #255 Emily Dietrich, Leonard Orr, Michael Spence + Deborah Woodard
on The Writer's Craft

Self-Reflection: On the Problem of Memory and Memoir

2010-09-27T11:27:00.000-07:00

Only a few spots left in my next reading course at Hugo House:
http://encke.org/self-reflection-on-the-problem-of-memory-and-memoir/

Even the finest memories are incomplete. Fittingly, in this class we will examine the attempts of various authors to fathom memory and self-reflection by reviewing those attempts in bits and pieces. Readings will include short selections from Plato’s Republic, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Wordsworth’s The Prelude (and Dorothy’s journals), Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lying in the Nonmoral Sense,” Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” Borges’ Ficciones, and Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu. Alongside these authors, or what they left of themselves on the page, we will explore the nature of individual and shared memory and its representation—a problem that sits at the center of all literary writing.

Meets: Saturday, October 09, 2010 – Saturday, November 13, 2010
Saturday, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Richard Hugo House
General: $230.00
Members of Hugo House: $207.00

Click here for information on registration and financial aid.

Required Readings

Week 1
Plato, Phaedrus and Book VII of The Republic
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 3, “The Story of Echo and Narcissus”

Week 2
William Wordsworth, The Prelude (Books I, II, and XI)

Week 3
Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes the Memorious,” “The Library of Babel,” and “The Secret Miracle”

Week 4
Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu, selection from Swann’s Way (pages 1-64 in the Modern Library edition)

Week 5
Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lying in the Nonmoral Sense”
John Ashbery, “The Painter” and “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”

Week 6
Selections from Memory, Brain, and Belief, including “Introduction” (Daniel L. Schacter and Elaine Scarry), “Mining the Past to Construct the Future” (Chris Westbury and Daniel C. Dennett), and “Autobiography, Identity, and the Fictions of Memory” (Paul John Eakin)

Poetry book contest: Philip Levine Prize

2010-09-27T11:21:00.000-07:00

Philip Levine Poetry Book Prize
$2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press
Final Judge: Brian Turner

Postmark Deadline: 9/30/10

2010 Guidelines
Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in book form, 48-80 pages, no more than one poem per page. Include two manuscript title pages: one with name and contact information and one with the name of the manuscript ONLY. Manuscripts are screened and judged anonymously. Multiple submissions are fine as long as the manuscript is withdrawn immediately upon its acceptance elsewhere.

The entry fee is $25. Checks should be made out to "CSU Fresno Levine Prize." Poets can submit more than one manuscript, but each will be considered a separate entry and must be accompanied by the $25 fee.
www.csufresno.edu/english/philip_levine
or Email Connie Hales at <connieh(at)csufresno.edu> (replace (at) with @)
Sponsored and administered by:
MFA Program in Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno

Open chapbook reading period: Tarpaulin Sky Press

2010-09-27T11:18:00.000-07:00

Tarpaulin Sky Press Chapbook Reading Period

Deadline: September 30, 2010

During the month of September, Tarpaulin Sky Press ( http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/ ) is reading chapbook manuscripts of poetry, fiction, and cross-genre work. There is no need to query first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below.

In addition to publishing both perfect-bound and hand-bound chapbooks, Tarpaulin Sky Press publishes trade paperbacks and a literary journal that appears both online and on paper. Featured in venues as diverse as After Ellen, HTML Giant, and Poets & Writers, Tarpaulin Sky's titles are regularly reviewed in Publishers Weekly as well as American Book Review, Bloomsbury Review, Bookslut, Jacket, and Rain Taxi. Ranked among "Great Titles from Underground Presses," by Time Out New York, Tarpaulin Sky's books also routinely appear on the "Bestsellers" list at Small Press Distribution.

GUIDELINES IN BRIEF
Chapbook manuscripts should be emailed or postmarked between September 1 and September 30, 2010. Manuscripts should be in the vicinity of 18-28 pages (give or take a couple). 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.

Multiple submissions are OK. We also 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 and anthologies, 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 $10 reading fee. Past contributors to Tarpaulin Sky may submit their manuscript with a $5 reading fee. Reading fees may be paid online or by check.

Notification of decisions will be made in December 2010. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in 2011 and 2012.

Please see our guidelines page for mailing addresses and payment details: http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/

Poetry book contest: Three Candles Press

2010-09-27T11:15:00.000-07:00

http://threecandlespress.com/OB2010.htm

Three Candles Press is pleased to announce the third Three Candles Press Open Book Award for a best book of poems by a poet at any point in his or her career. The contest will be judged by Paul Guest, whose poetry books include The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, Notes for My Body Double, and My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge. He is also the author of a memoir entitled One More Theory About Happiness.

Award: Winner receives $500.00 and 25 copies of the winning book. Deadline Oct. 15th (post-mark date). The winner will be notified at the end of December. Runners up and two alternates will be posted on the website by January 15th, 2011. The book will be available through Small Press Distribution, online retailers such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and at fine booksellers in America and Europe. The winner will receive a standard royalty contract.

Guidelines: Manuscripts of 60-95 pages should have one cover page containing the poet's name, address, phone number, email address and title of manuscript, and another with only the name of the manuscript. Please include only one acknowledgements page.

How the Contest Works: Publisher Steve Mueske will read all submitted manuscripts and forward the finalists to the judge (around 12 manuscripts). The final round of materials will be judged anonymously (without coversheet or acknowledgements page). To avoid conflicts of interest, the following manuscripts will be ineligible: those from former students of the judge or from family members or friends of the judge; those who have workshopped with Steve Mueske or received comments from any poems contained in the manuscript; and those who have worked with the editor in a business capacity (an exchange of money for goods or services) prior to the opening of the competition.

Manuscripts should be printed on one side only and bound with a sturdy clip. Contest entry fee is $22.00. Make checks payable to "three candles press."

Send materials to:
three candles press
open book award
PO Box 1817
Burnsville MN 55337

Call for submissions: Timber

2010-09-27T11:08:00.000-07:00

The MFA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder is proud to announce a new literary journal, Timber. Timber is dedicated to the promotion of cutting edge, truly innovative literature. We publish work that explores the boundaries of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and digital literatures. We produce both an online journal, in which we explore the potentials of the digital medium, and a semi-annual "book object," which is a venue for more traditional print-based work.

Our reading period is now open.

Please submit your work here:
http://timberjournal.submishmash.com/Submit

Baltic Writers Residency

2010-09-27T10:58:00.000-07:00

Applications for the 2011 Baltic Writers Residency, a funded month-long annual summer residency in Riga, Latvia for poets, playwrights, and writers of fiction working in English are now invited. Though, neither the writer nor their project need be connected with Latvia.

Both emerging and established writers are encouraged to apply. Recent finalists and winners range from those who have yet to conceive of their first manuscripts, to writers who have extensive publication records, and have been finalists for the National Book Award and numbered in the New Yorker's "20 Under 40."

Emma Jones, author of one volume of verse, The Striped World (Faber & Faber, 2009), winner of the Forward Poetry Prize, is this year's resident, and we strongly encourage other young and emerging writers to apply. Previous winners include Salvatore Scibona and Amity Gaige.

The deadline is December 15th, and we are accepting applications now. Details about the residency, about Riga, and about the application process can be found on the website: http://www.balticresidency.com/

The Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, PO Box 17184, Louisville, KY 40217
<balticresidency(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @)

Vermont Studio Center Fellowship

2010-08-27T23:39:00.000-07:00

Vermont Studio Center - Upcoming Fellowship Deadline
Applications due by October 1st, 2010

The Vermont Studio Center provides 4-12 week studio residencies on an historic 30-building campus along the Gihon River in Johnson, Vermont, a village in the heart of the northern Green Mountains.

VSCa wards a number of fellowships for 4-week residencies throughout the year. Open to all artists and writers. In addition to VSC Fellowships, a variety of special fellowships are also available for full or partial funding. Please visit our website for more information and to downloadan application:
www.vermontstudiocenter.org/fellowships/

NANO: Flash fiction/prose poem/micro essay contest

2010-08-27T23:37:00.000-07:00

NANO Fictionis now accepting entries for the Second Annual NANO Prize. $500 and publication will be awarded to a flash fiction piece, prose poem, or micro essay of 300 words or less.

The entry fee is $15 for the first three pieces and $2 for each additional piece. Each entrant will also receive a one year subscription to NANO Fiction. All submitted pieces will be considered for publication. Previously published work will not be accepted and all entrants will be notified of the winner by email in October.

Contest deadline is August 31, 2010.

Entry instructions at http://nanofiction.org/?page_id=88

Call for submissions: Soundings

2010-08-27T23:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.writeonwhidbey.com/Publications/

Soundings is currently reading for the fall issue, including our two contests, Founders' Circle Award and First Publication Contest. Deadline for these for the fall issue is September 15, but any submissions received at that time will be considered for the spring issue. All entries are considered for publication in the magazine.
Founders' Circle: $300 award, open to all except staff of the magazine. All genres, prose and poetry.
Length: poetry up to two pages; prose (fiction or nonfiction) up to 3,000 words. Entry fee: $5 for WIWA (Whidbey Island Writers Association) members; $7 for nonmembers. Winner receives publication and $300 and publication. Follow standard submission guidelines for magazine: 12 pt. Times Roman font, double space prose, include small SASE for response or larger envelope for return of manuscript. Write "Founders Circle Contest" on manuscript.

First Publication Contest: $100 award, open to those who have never before published in a book or magazine open to national submissions nor in a publication advertised or circulated nationally. Entry fee: $5 for WIWA members; $7 for nonmembers. Follow standard submission guidelines for magazine: 12 pt. Times Roman font, double space prose, include small SASE for response or larger envelope for return of manuscript. Write "First Publication Contest " on the manuscript. All entries will be considered for publication.

Currently, Soundings Review reads all year. Manuscripts received too late for one issue will be considered for the next. Published authors include Kelli Russel Agodon, Marvin Bell, Larry Cheek, Lorraine Healy, Bruce Holland Rogers, and David Wagoner. Full guidelines at our Website. www.writeonwhidbey.org/Publications

Philip Levine Prize

2010-08-27T23:33:00.000-07:00

$2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press

Final Judge: Brian Turner

Postmark Deadline: 9/30/10

Previous Winners: Sarah Wetzel, Shane Seely, Neil Aitken, Lynn Chandhok, Roxane Beth Johnson, Steve Gehrke, Fleda Brown.

2010 Guidelines
Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in book form, 48- 80 pages, no more than one poem per page. Include two manuscript title pages: one with name and contact information and one with the name of the manuscript ONLY. Manuscripts are screened and judged anonymously. Multiple submissions are fine as long as the manuscript is withdrawn immediately upon its acceptance elsewhere.

The entry fee is $25. Checks should be made out to "CSU Fresno Levine Prize." Poets can submit more than one manuscript, but each will be considered a separate entry and must be accompanied by the $25 fee.

http://www.csufresno.edu/english/philip_levine%20or Email Connie Hales at <connieh(at)csufresno.edu> (replace (at) with @)

Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry

2010-08-27T23:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.ohiostatepress.org/

The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University, selects one full-length manuscript of poetry each year for publication by The Ohio State University Press. In addition to publication under a standard book contract, the winning author receives the Charles B. Wheeler prize of $3,000.
Entries of at least 48 typed pages of original poetry must be postmarkedduring the month of September.

Entries postmarked later than September 30 will be returned unread. Clear photocopies are acceptable.

Your name or other identification should only appear on the cover page.
Manuscripts must be previously unpublished. Some or all of the poems in the collection may have appeared in periodicals, chapbooks, or anthologies, but these must be identified.
Include a nonrefundable handling fee of $25.00 (U.S. dollars) with each manuscript (check or money order payable to The Ohio State University). Entrants will receive a one-year subscription (two issues) to The Journal.
Include a stamped, self-addressed business-sized envelope so we can notify you of the results. Manuscripts will not be returned.
If you wish us to confirm receipt of your manuscript, include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. The winning entry will be announced by the following January 15.
OSU Press assumes no responsibility for lost or damaged manuscripts.
Mail to:
Poetry Editor
The Ohio State University Press
180 Pressey Hall
1070 Carmack Road
Columbus OH 43210-1002

New Madrid: call for submissions - water issue

2010-08-21T21:36:00.000-07:00

New Madrid will dedicate the Winter 2011 issue to the viability of water as resource and symbol. We're looking for submissions that incorporate lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, rain in all its guises (hurricanes, monsoons, floods), rituals involving water, recreational uses of water, etc. We're also interested in work that addresses such concerns as access to water, potability of water, water pollution, water rights, water tables,... and water-borne diseases. Our hope is to explore the threat of water scarcity from the vantage point of a number of literary genres and a number of philosophical, religious, social, psychological and economic perspectives.

Submissions will be accepted between August 15 and October 15.

Please note: we accept online submissions only. All submissions must be sent via our online Submission Manager. Please see our website for guidelines.

Guidelines available at:
http://www.newmadridjournal.org/submissions/index.htm

Rock Saw Press poetry chapbook series

2010-08-21T21:35:00.000-07:00

RockSaw Press will be reading from April 8th through August 31st, 2010. Anything postmarked before or after these dates will be returned unread. We will only be considering manuscripts of poetry during this reading period. Between January and May 2011, RockSaw Press will publish three poetry chapbooks, one of which will be the winner of the inaugural Blue Skunk Poetry Series contest, judged by Steve Gehrke. See guidelines below.

General Submission Guidelines:

Submissions of poetry manuscripts should be under 24 pages. Please number pages in manuscript with each new poem starting on a new page. One submission per author at a time. If you hear back from us within the reading window, feel free to submit another manuscript. Include a SASE for response. If you want receipt confirmation, also include as addressed and stamped postcard.

Include a cover page with name, address, e-mail, phone number and title of manuscript. Also include a title page with just the title of the manuscript. Author name must not appear on the manuscript.
We cannot return manuscripts so do not send your only copy. Simultaneous submissions ok if noted and we are informed immediately if accepted elsewhere.

Previously published work is fine, so long as it hasn't been published in book form (chapbook or full length).

Blue Skunk Poetry Series
Submission Guidelines:
To read a little about the series, the hows, whys, and whatfors, visit http://rocksawpress.com/blueskunk.html

Follow general submission guidelines plus:
Add to cover page: Contest submission.
A non-refundable reading fee of $7.00 should be made payable to RockSaw Press, or paid with well-concealed cash.

Winner will receive 20 copies of the chapbook and a $100 prize (prize amount may increase depending on amount of submissions).

Finalists for the contest will be judged by Steve Gehrke.
Gehrke was raised in Mankato, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Missouri with a Ph.D., where he was poetry editor of the Missouri Review. He teaches at Gettysburg College. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, Slate, The Iowa Review, and The Kenyon Review. In 1999, he received the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, in 2002 the Philip Levine Prize in Poetry, and in 2009 the Lannan Foundation, Marfa Residency. His books include The Resurrection Machine, published in 2000, The Pyramids of Malpighi, published in 2004, and Michelangelo's Seizure in 2007.

Submissions not selected for the Blue Skunk Poetry Series will be considered for general publication.

(We only take snail mail submissions)
All submissions should be mailed to:

RockSaw Press
317 ½ E. Main St.
Mankato, MN 56001

All guidelines can be found on our website, <rocksawpress.com>. Any questions can be addressed to Jorge Evans, Managing Editor, at <rocksawpress(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @). <rocksawpress@gmail.com>.

Motif 2 Available; Call for Motif 3

2010-08-08T17:26:00.000-07:00

The second annual volume in the Motif Anthology Series just arrived from the printer! I’m proud my poem “One Sperm” is published in Motif 2: Come What May, An Anthology of Writings about Chance.

We all are marked by some chance encounter, some happenstance in our lives, some bit of good luck or misfortune, a missed opportunity or a fleeting glimpse, some salvation through the kind-hearted actions of others. We might even argue that a good portion of our literary inspiration probably comes from witnessing some unplanned moment with an unusual outcome. Volume 2 of the Motif Anthology Series represents many of those random occasions. Motif 2: Come What May, An Anthology of Writings about Chance is brimming with the best short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and song lyrics that speak to the theme of chance. 136 writers provide their literary notions on this motif, a theme tied together with the elusive twines of accident, coincidence, fluke, prospect, and mystery.

Motif 2: Come What May is published by MotesBooks (Louisville, Ky) and is the second anthology in the annual series. Motif 1: Writing by Ear, An Anthology of Writings about Music was published in 2009. Both anthologies are available directly from the publisher. To order: http://www.motesbooks.com/motif.html

To submit to their next anthology on the theme WORK: http://motesbooks.com/MOTIF-Call-For-Submissions.html

Many Mountains Moving Press Poetry Book Prize

2010-07-29T21:13:00.000-07:00

Many Mountains Moving Press
Poetry Book Prize Guidelines
http://mmminc.org/other_assets/2010_MMMP_prize.pdf

Prize: The winner receives $1,000 and publication by MMM Press in 2011.
DEADLINE: Aug. 14, 2010 (postmark).
Entry fee: $25
{Entitles entrants to a discounted MMM Subscription for $10.00, and any MMM Press Book:
They Sing at Midnight, invisible sister, & Feeding the Fear of the Earth, Silkie, Ashes in Midair, or All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, also for $10 (shipping included). Please use the order form on the other side.}

Final Judge: Patrick Lawler

Eligibility:
• Open to all poets and writers whose work is in English.
• Staff and their family members are not eligible to enter.
• Simultaneous submissions allowed if the poet agrees to notify MMM Press of acceptance elsewhere.
• Entries may not be previously published, but individual poems and chapbook-length sections may have been if the previous publisher gives permission to reprint. (More than half of the ms. may not have been published as a collection.)

Submission Checklist:
• A typed ms. of 50–100 pages of original poetry, single- or double-spaced. (The author's name must NOT appear anywhere on the ms.)
• A cover letter with the title of the collection, a brief bio, your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address(es).
• Acknowledgments may be included in the ms. but are not required.
• A $25 check or money order payable to Many Mountains Moving Press.
• An SASE for the winner announcement. Mss. will not be returned.

Send to:
Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest
Many Mountains Moving Press
Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Senior Poetry Editor
1705 Lombard St
Phila. PA 19146

Or via e-mail, send an attachment (RTF, Word, WordPerfect or PDF) to editors(at)mmminc.org without any identification in the ms. itself. Send a cover letter on paper (replace (at) with @) along with the order form (other side) to the above address with a check and identification of the ms. etc. as with any paper submission. Mss. will be acknowledged as received when the check and order form arrive.

The last of the FREE back issues will be sent to the first entrants this year. Quantities are limited. Send a query via email if you want a particular back issue. Discounted subscriptions & books for contest entrants only: A new one year subscription or a renewal starting with Vol. X, the print annual (2010) is $10.00
Two years is $18.00. Shipping included.

Damselfly Press seeks submissions from women writers

2010-07-21T11:20:00.000-07:00

damselfly press, an online literary journal for women is pleased to announce the publication of our twelfth issue and call for submissions for the thirteenth issue. We are seeking electronic submissions of original fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by female writers only slated for online publication in October 2010.

As always, we welcome a myriad of women's voices from new and experienced writers.

The deadline to submit for the thirteenth issue is September 15th.

These are the e-mails per genre editor:

Fiction: jennifer(at)damselflypress.net (replace (at) with @)

Poetry: lesley(at)damselflypress.net (replace (at) with @)

Nonfiction: nonfiction(at)damselflypress.net (replace (at) with @)

Visit the damselfly press website: http://damselflypress.net/ to read the latest issue and learn more about the journal.

Philip Levine Poetry Prize

2010-07-20T15:51:00.000-07:00

www.csufresno.edu/english/philip_levine
$2000 prize and publication by Anhinga Press
Final Judge: Brian Turner
Postmark Deadline: 9/30/10
Previous Winners: Sarah Wetzel, Shane Seely, Neil Aitken, Lynn Chandhok, Roxane Beth Johnson, Steve Gehrke, Fleda Brown.

2010 Guidelines
Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in book form, 48- 80 pages, no more than one poem per page. Include two manuscript title pages: one with name and contact information and one with the name of the manuscript ONLY. Manuscripts are screened and judged anonymously. Multiple submissions are fine as long as the manuscript is withdrawn immediately upon its acceptance elsewhere.
The entry fee is $25. Checks should be made out to "CSU Fresno Levine Prize." Poets can submit more than one manuscript, but each will be considered a separate entry and must be accompanied by the $25 fee.
www.csufresno.edu/english/philip_levine

or Email Connie Hales at <connieh(at)csufresno.edu> (replace (at) with @)

Sponsored and administered by:
MFA Program in Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno

2010 RATTLE Poetry Prize

2010-07-19T11:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.rattle.com/
1st prize: $5,000
plus TEN $100
Honorable Mentions

Hardcopy Guidelines:
1) Entry fee of $18.00 includes a one-year subscription to RATTLE (or a one-year extension for subscribers). For entries received prior to May 15th, new subscriptions will start with the Summer 2010 issue. Those received after May 15th will start with Winter 2010.
2) Open to writers, worldwide*; poems must be written in English (no translations).
3) Submissions will be judged in a blind review by the editors of RATTLE: Type or print clearly your name, address, email address, phone number, and the titles of the poems onto a coversheet. No contact information should appear on the poems. Include a check or money order for $18.00, payable to RATTLE.
4) Send no more than four poems per entry. There is no line-limit; poems can be any length. Multiple entries by a single poet are accepted, however each group of four poems must be treated as a separate entry, each with its own cover sheet and $18 entry fee.
4) RATTLE's winter issue (Dec. 2010) must be a potential first publication for all works submitted. No previously published works, or works accepted for publication elsewhere. No simultaneous submissions, except to magazines or presses open to publishing reprints after January 1st, 2011.
5) Manuscripts will not be returned; include a SASE or email address if you'd like to be notified of the results.
6) Winners will be announced no later than September 15th, 2010, and those poems will be published in the Winter 2010 issue of RATTLE. Additional entries may also be offered publication as well.

POSTMARK DEADLINE:
August 1st, 2010
Send entries to:
RATTLE
12411 Ventura Blvd
Studio City, CA 91604

Publication Announcements:

2010-07-15T17:24:00.000-07:00

Qarrtsiluni

Qarrtsiluni just released a print version of their Economy issue from last summer. As with our previous print editions, the interior is black and white with a full-color cover. Check out the preview at Phoenicia Publishing:
http://www.phoeniciapublishing.com/2010/07/economy.html
where you'll also find links for ordering.

If you'd like to revisit the issue online, go to
http://qarrtsiluni.com/category/economy/
The online version remains the primary and most full-featured version of the issue, but a print edition gives words and images a kind of permanence they might not otherwise possess, should the global economy ever plunge into a deep enough depression to take down significant portions of the internet with it.

My poem "What did the News say about a Vacation? is in this issue of Qarrtsiluni.

Motif 2: Come What May, An Anthology of Writings about Chance

Inquiries for book dealers and librarians can be accessed on the MotesBooks website: http://motesbooks.com/MOTESRetailLibraryOrder.html

The third anthology series they are planning for 2011 on the motif of “work.” You can find the call for submissions to Motif 3 here: http://motesbooks.com/MOTIF-Call-For-Submissions.html. Please send them something to consider, and please be sure and pass the call around to your writing friends, colleagues, and students.

My poem "One Sperm" is published in Motif 2

Gertrude Journal, Issue 14

Gertrude 14 is now available for purchase. Features artist Rhonda Stone, writing by Laura Hershey, Cliff Bernier, Jeanine Stevens, Jon Lee Hart and Julene Tripp Weaver. Plus, an interview with Aaron Raz Link, co-author of What Becomes You (American Lives).

My poem "Sexual Revolution" is published in Gertrude 14.

Check out these journals and submit to future issues! Julene

Persea Books: Rudnitsky Prize for a first collection by a woman

2010-07-14T13:06:00.000-07:00

http://www.perseabooks.com/poetryprize.php

The Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize (formerly the Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize) is a collaboration between Persea Books and The Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project. It sponsors the annual publication of a poetry collection by an American woman poet who has yet to publish a full-length book of poems. The winner receives an advance of $1,000.00 and publication of her collection by Persea. In addition, beginning this year, the winner receives the option of an all-expenses-paid residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center, a renowned artists retreat housed in a fifteenth-century castle in Umbertide, Italy.

Submission Guidelines:

Submitted manuscripts should include two title pages: one containing the author's name, the author's contact information, and the title of the collection; and another containing only the title of the collection.
It is recommended that submitted manuscripts be between 48 and 96 pages. They should be paginated, with the title of the collection included on each page as a header or footer, and fastened with a clip. Please do not staple or permanently bind submissions.
Submissions may include a page of publication credits. However, they should not include other sorts of acknowledgments, thank-yous, or dedications.
Submissions must be primarily in English to be considered. Translations are not accepted.
Submissions must be received (not postmarked) between September 1 and November 1 (or the first weekday thereafter if November 1 falls on a weekend). They should be sent to The Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize, c/o Persea Books, PO Box 1388, Columbia, MO 65201, and should include a check (in U.S. funds) in the amount of $25.00, made payable to the order of The Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Project. Please do not send submissions to Persea's New York City office.

The winner is chosen by an anonymous selection committee and announced on Persea's web site in January. Submitted manuscripts will not be returned.

Sycamore Review: 2010 Wabash Prize for Poetry

2010-07-14T13:01:00.000-07:00

Final Judge: JANE HIRSHFIELD
http://www.sycamorereview.com/contest/

First Prize: $1000 and winning entry published in Winter/Spring 2011 issue

GUIDELINES

Deadline: October 1, 2010

For each submission, send up to three poems.
A $15 reading fee (check or money order) payable to Sycamore Review must accompany each submission. The reading fee includes a copy of the prize issue.
Additional poems (beyond the initial three) may be included. Increase the reading fee $5 for each additional poem.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable only if Sycamore Review is notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
All entries must be typed and must include a cover letter with the author's name and contact information (mailing address, telephone number, and email address) as well as the titles of all poems submitted. Information that identifies the author should NOT appear on the manuscript itself.
Manuscript pages should be numbered and should include the title of the piece.
Please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard if you wish to be notified upon receipt of your manuscript.
Manuscripts will not be returned. Winners will be announced by Dec. 30, 2010. For information on winners and runners-up, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with entry.
All contest submissions will be considered for regular inclusion in Sycamore Review.
All poems must be previously unpublished.
Questions may be directed to <sycamore(at)purdue.edu>(replace (at) with @)

Send 2010 Wabash Prize for Poetry submissions and reading fee to:

2010 Wabash Prize for Poetry

Sycamore Review

Department of English

500 Oval Drive

Purdue University

West Lafayette , IN 47907

Perugia Press Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry by a Woman

2010-07-13T11:09:00.000-07:00

Perugia Press Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry by a Woman
http://www.perugiapress.com/contest.html

Prize: $1000 and publication

Guidelines

Manuscript Requirements

Send between 48 and 72 pages, on white, 8.5 x 11-inch paper, with legible typeface, pagination, and fastened with a removable clip. No more than one poem per page.
Include two cover pages: one with title of manuscript, name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, and one with just title of manuscript. Cover letter and bio not required.
Include contents and publications acknowledgments pages.

Eligibility

Poet must be a living US resident.
Poet must have no more than one previously published book of poems. Chapbooks and books in other genres do not count. If the submission is for a second book, please indicate on acknowledgments page the title of your first book.
Translations and previously self-published books are not eligible, nor are revisions; the winning manuscript may undergo revisions before publication.
Poets who have had manuscripts reviewed by Perugia Press Editor Susan Kan are not eligible to enter.

Terms

An entry fee of $25 must accompany each submission, made payable to Perugia Press. You may submit more than one manuscript; each is considered a separate submission and must include a separate entry fee.
Individual poems may have been published previously in magazines, journals, chapbooks of fewer than 48 pages, or anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions permitted. Notify Perugia Press if accepted elsewhere.

Judging Process

To be certain that manuscripts receive the fairest consideration, all manuscripts are submitted to the judging panel anonymously.
Identifying material, acknowledgment pages, and bios are removed and filed for reference at the conclusion of the competition.
All readers are trusted and respected by Perugia Press.

Notification

Winner is announced via e-mail or enclose SASE. Notification will be by April 1.
Do not enclose SASE for return of manuscript; all manuscripts will be recycled at the conclusion of the competition. Please do not send your only copy.

Deadline

Entry must be postmarked between August 1 and November 15.
Early submissions strongly encouraged.

Mail manuscript and entry fee to (no FedEx or UPS):

Perugia Press Prize

P.O. Box 60364

Florence, MA 01062

Cloudbank poetry contest

2010-07-13T00:23:00.000-07:00

http://www.cloudbankbooks.com/Contest.html

Cloudbank is now accepting poetry submissions for our next issue.
A prize of $200 will be awarded for one poem or short prose piece.

Address for submissions:
Cloudbank
PO Box 610
Corvallis, Oregon 97339-0610

The deadline for contest submissions is July 31, 2010.
Guidelines:

1. The contest fee is $15.00. The check should be made out to Cloudbank. All writers who enter the contest will receive a one-year (two-issue) subscription to Cloudbank magazine.
2. Submissions without payment will also be considered for publication, but will not be eligible for the prize. We read submissions year-round.
3. Please do not send more than five poems or short prose pieces (500 words or less) for either the contest or regular submissions.
4. For contest submissions, the writer's name, address, and e-mail address should be typed on a cover sheet only, not on the pages of poems. For non-contest submissions, the writer's name and address should appear on each page.
5. We do not accept electronic submissions.
6. The submitted work may not have been published elsewhere.
7. Simultaneous submissions: Please let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
8. Your submissions will not be returned. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) so that we can notify you of acceptance.
9. Feel free to send prose poems, reviews, essays on poetry, short fiction (500 words max.). We are open to all types of quality writing.
10. For those who do not enter the contest, one-year (two-issue) subscriptions to Cloudbank magazine are $15.00. Individual copies are $8.
11. Two contributors' copies will be sent to writers whose work appears in the magazine.
12. If you already have a subscription and want to enter the next contest, your subscription will be renewed for two more issues.

Address any questions to:
Michael Malan
Cloudbank, PO Box 610,
Corvallis, Oregon 97339-0610
michael(at)cloudbankbooks.com (replace (at) with @)

Fiction, poetry, and nonfiction contests: Black Warrior Review

2010-07-13T00:19:00.000-07:00

Sixth-Ever Fiction & Poetry Contests, & the First-Ever Nonfiction Contest!
http://www.bwr.ua.edu/

Guest judges this year are Peter Markus (fiction), Claudia Rankine (poetry), and Lia Purpura (nonfiction). All entries must be submitted online by September 1, 2010. Please go to http://bwrsubmissions.ua.edu/ to do so.
Winners in each genre will receive $1,000 and publication in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue. Finalists in each category will receive notation in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue and are also considered for publication.

The reading fee is $15 per short story (up to 7500 words), $15 per nonfiction piece (up to 7500 words), and $15 per group of up to 3 poems.
Payment must be made online (the Submission Manager will direct you to do so). All contestants receive a complimentary one-year subscription.

Call for submissions: Journal of Renga and Haiku

2010-07-13T00:16:00.000-07:00

Call for Content - Journal of Renga & Renku

We're ready to begin accepting offers of content for the first issue of the Journal of Renga & Renku. While some details remain to be ironed out, the journal will be:

    1. published near the end of 2010
    2. available in hardcopy only
    3. available for purchase online using Paypal

We're looking for a variety of content along the lines of:

    1. Academic/polemic articles on any aspects of the genre
    2. Translations of old renga and renku
    3. News of renku groups and happenings
    4. Book articles/reviews
    5. and of course, a showcase of current examples of the genre:
          a) in English
          b) in any other language, accompanied by an English translation
          c) previously published or not (just let us have details of prior publication so we can acknowledge properly)
          d) simultaneous offers are fine too, again provided you advise us of prior publication for purposes of acknowledgement
          e) in any of the standard forms: kasen, triparshva, nijûin, jûnichô, shisan, rokku, hyakuin, yotsumono, etc.
          f) in any explorations of the above forms in terms of experimentation with one-line, zip, 5/7/5 or other fixed counts and even rhyme
          g) solo and group work
          h) with (preferably) or without notes/reflections on the poem/process from sabaki or renju or both
    6. We are also considering holding a contest, but have not finalised our thinking on that. Please send us any ideas you may have and/or indication as to whether you'd be interested in entering and/or reading the results
    7. We're open to discussing content ideas we've not covered above so please write
    8. All communications will be acknowledged within one week
    9. We are regretfully unable to pay contributors for content at this stage

Please send all contributions and other communications to (RengaRenku(at)gmail.com)

We look forward to hearing from you.
Norman Darlington

Moira Richards

Journal of Renga & Renku

http://tinyurl.com/23n4yl6

Tupelo: July open reading for poetry books/chapbooks

2010-07-13T00:08:00.000-07:00

July Open Submission Guidelines
http://www.tupelopress.org/july_guidelines.php

Throughout July, Tupelo Press will hold open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages) and chapbook-length poetry collections (30-47 pages). Submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language (whether in the United States or abroad).

Make sure that your cover page includes the title, your name and contact information, including address, phone number and email address.

There is a reading fee of $25 for each manuscript submitted. Why a reading fee? We are an independent, nonprofit literary press. Reading fees help defray, but do not by any means cover, the significant cost of publishing the many books we select outside of our competitions. Multiple submissions are accepted, so long as each submission is accompanied by a separate $25 reading fee. Manuscripts that have been submitted during this open reading period (July 2010) may not be revised and submitted again unless they are accompanied by an additional $25 reading fee.

To enter and submit manuscripts/entry fees:
http://www.tupelopress.org/july_guidelines.php

Marie Alexander Series Open submissions: Prose Poetry Collections

2010-07-12T21:59:00.000-07:00

Marie Alexander Poetry Series' Open Submissions Period

The Marie Alexander Poetry Series has an open submission period during the month of July. An award of $500 and publication will be given for a chosen collection of prose poems by an American poet. Submit a manuscript of at least 48 pages, which can include some lineated pieces, along with a cover letter with complete contact information and an SASE for notification only. Postmark must be between July 1 and 31.

Entries should also include a simultaneous electronic submission of the manuscript (MS Word or PDF format) sent to <editor(at)mariealexanderseries.com>. There is no entry fee.

Marie Alexander Poetry Series
Attention: Nickole Brown, Co-Editor
P.O. Box 5686
Louisville, KY 40255-0686
<editor(at)mariealexanderseries.com> (replace (at) with @)

Chapbook: Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Award

2010-07-12T14:39:00.000-07:00

Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Award - 2010
http://home.earthlink.net/~astoundingbeautyruffianpress/id1.html

The contest deadline has been extended to August 31, 2010. Manuscripts must be postmarked on or before the new deadline date of August 31, 2010.

The award is $1,000 and publication by Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press.

Please submit:

10-20 pages of original poetry not already published as a collection, and by one author
English only, no translations
no more than one poem per page (however, a single poem may be longer than one page), typed in 12 pt. plain font
no artwork
include a table of contents; pagination is not required
one title page with poet's name, address, telephone number, email, and title of manuscript
biographical page (ONLY because we are interested in you as a person)
$20 entry fee, checks only, made payable to Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press and drawn on a U.S. bank
no profanity
absolutely no paper clips, spring clips, staples, plastic covers, or folders - we would rather not have to bother with these things, so don't waste your supplies

Do not include a SASE - winner will be announced on our website in the fall of 2010.

Manuscripts will be recycled.

Send by regular, first-class mail only:

Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press
Poetry Award
2155 Elk Creek Rd.
Stuart, Virginia 24171

Fiction Contest: Zoetrope All-Fiction

2010-07-11T00:25:00.000-07:00

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL ZOETROPE: ALL-STORY SHORT FICTION CONTEST
http://www.all-story.com/contests.cgi

Guest Judge: Andrew Sean Greer
First prize: $1,000
Second prize: $500
Third prize: $250

The three prizewinners and seven honorable mentions will be considered for representation by the William Morris Agency, ICM, Regal Literary, the Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inkwell Management, Sterling Lord Literistic, and the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency.

The deadline is October 1, 2010. Results will be announced at the website December 15, 2010, and in the Spring 2011 issue of Zoetrope: All-Story; and the winning story will be published as a special online supplement to that Spring 2011 issue.

Complete Contest Guidelines:
We accept all genres of literary fiction. Entries must be: unpublished; strictly 5,000 words or less; and accompanied by a $15 entry fee per story. There are no formatting restrictions; please ensure only that the story is legible.

We welcome multiple entries ($15/story) and entries from outside the U.S. We will e-mail contest updates to anyone who provides an active e-mail address. Entrants retain all rights to their stories. Once a story is submitted, we cannot accept an updated draft. (However, an entrant is welcome to submit an updated draft as a new entry.) Entry fees will not be returned or adjusted.

Entries must be complete by 11:59 P.M. PDT on October 1, 2010. Enter at
http://www.all-story.com/contests.cgi

A New Poetry Chapbook Contest forthcoming from Chrysanthemum/Goldfish Press

2010-07-10T11:09:00.000-07:00

A new poetry chapbook contest offered by Chrysanthemum/Goldfish Press on the theme of "A dead end street opens to a hidden world..."

for particulars see http://httpbloggergoldfishpresscom.blogspot.com/

Details will be posted later. Tentative deadline December 31, 2010

Inquire at: Koon Woon nooknoow@aol.com or (206)329-5566 or write

P.O. Box 14515, Seattle, WA 98114 c/o Chrysanthemum magazine

Sarah Zale's The Art of Folding

2010-07-08T20:52:00.000-07:00

Sarah Zale's The Art of Folding, a collection of poems inspired from her travels to Israel and the occupied territories, was published by Plain View Press in April, 2010.

Sam Hamill writes: "In these two major suites of poems, Sarah Zale has composed an epic, an eye-opening, heartrending book that should be read and read again…"

Carolyn Forché writes: "Sarah Zale's The Art of Folding is a masterful work of sustained and interwoven lyrics, at once political and intimate, in which the gestures of daily life are seen as if for the first time in the light of history. …That she struggles toward the boundary between Israel and Palestine is a mark of her seriousness. That she achieves this is a mark of her power."

Martha Silano (Blue Positive) writes: "… Her unique voice and music will captivate you, her images draw you in from the beginning (shirt, ironing, hair), as this important and necessary book gains momentum with each poem."

Please order the book at www.sarahzale.com under the "Poetry & Links" tab.

Patricia Bibby First Book Award from Tebot Bach

2010-07-07T16:11:00.000-07:00

Tebot Bach announces
The Patricia Bibby First Book Award
$1,000 and Book Publication
http://www.tebotbach.org/tebot_ad.html

Patricia Bibby was a beginning poet whose poems expressed her love of life while living with cancer. Her kindness, humor, and optimism inspired the love of many new friends in the poetry community. She died in 2004, at 43, without having been published. In naming the First Book Award after Patricia Bibby, Tebot Bach honors the aspirations and spirit of all beginning poets. David St. John serves as judge for this competition that looks for a fresh, new voice in poetry.

Competition Guidelines

Winner will receive $1,000 and book publication
Judge: David St. John

The competition is open to all poets writing in English who have not committed to publishing collections of poetry of 36 poems or more in editions of over 400 copies.

Entries of 50–84 pages of original poetry in English must be postmarked by October 31. Entries postmarked after October 31 will not be read. Manuscripts will not be returned. Manuscripts must be bound with a binder clip. No staples, folders, or printer-bound copies. No photographs, images, or illustrations. Please do not include acknowledgements at this time. Please do not include any identifying information anywhere in the manuscript. Submit two title pages. The first, not fastened with the manuscript, should include the title of the manuscript, author's name, address, telephone number, and email address in upper right corner. The second, fastened with the manuscript, should include only the title in upper right corner. Entries should be fastened in this order:

1. Title page
2. Table of contents
3. Collection of poems
Items 1 and 2 are not included in the 50–84 page count.

Manuscripts should be letter-quality, typewritten, and single-spaced. Photocopies are acceptable. Please do not submit your only copy, as manuscripts will not be returned.

Tebot Bach assumes no responsibility for damaged or lost manuscripts.

Manuscripts must be previously unpublished.

Translations and multi-authored collections are not eligible.

Past and current volunteers and employees of Tebot Bach are not eligible. Poets who have studied with David St. John in more than 2 workshop settings are not eligible.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but Tebot Bach must be notified immediately if a collection is accepted for publication via email: info(at)tebotbach.org> (replace (at) with @)

Please include a non-refundable reading fee of $25, check or money order, made out to Tebot Bach. Include a business-size SASE(self-addressed envelope) for notification. Include a SAPC(self-addressed postcard) for notification of receipt of manuscript. Postcard should include title of manuscript.

Mail manuscript, check or money order payable to Tebot Bach, SASE, SAPC in one envelope to:

Patricia Bibby Award
Tebot Bach
Post Office Box 7887
Huntington Beach CA 92615-7887

Short fiction and poetry contest: Inkwell

2010-07-07T16:08:00.000-07:00

MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE
MASTERS OF ARTS IN WRITING PROGRAM
and
INKWELL
ANNOUNCE
(1) THE 13TH ANNUAL SHORT FICTION CONTEST
$1500 GRAND PRIZE and PUBLICATION IN INKWELL

COMPETITION JUDGE: Catherine Lewis

GUIDELINES

Up to 3 previously unpublished stories, 5,000-word limit
Text must be typed, 12pt. font, double-spaced, one-sided
Cover sheet with name, address, phone, e-mail, titles and word counts
No name or address anywhere on manuscripts
SASE for contest notification only – manuscripts will be recycled
Entry fee: $15 per story
Checks (USD ONLY) made out to Manhattanville – INKWELL

(2) THE 14TH ANNUAL POETRY CONTEST
$1000 GRAND PRIZE and PUBLICATION IN INKWELL

COMPETITION JUDGE: Mark Doty

GUIDELINES

Up to 5 previously unpublished poems, 40-line limit per poem
Only typed entries will be considered; 12pt. font
Cover sheet with name, address, phone, e-mail, titles and line counts
No name or address anywhere on manuscript(s)
SASE for contest notification only – manuscripts will be recycled
$10 for first poem, $5 per each additional poem
Checks (USD ONLY) payable to Manhattanville – INKWELL

Submissions for both contests must be postmarked between August 1 and October 30, 2010

http://www.inkwelljournal.org/competitions.htm

NOTE: Please indicate Poetry or Fiction Competition on envelope.
If submitting to both Poetry and Fiction Competitions, please use separate envelopes.

Submissions not adhering to the above guidelines will not be considered.

Mail to:

INKWELL - Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase Street
Purchase, NY 10577

Inkwell is produced in affiliation with the Master of Arts in Writing Programat Manhattanville College. The program offers a highly flexible schedule of day and evening courses taught by distinguished authors andeditors. Our Summer Writers' Week, held each June, is open to writers and aspiring writers.

For information on the Master of Arts in Writing program, please visit www.mville.edu/writing or call (914) 323-5239.

Call for submissions: Quiddity

2010-07-07T13:00:00.000-07:00

Quiddity literary journal and public-radio program is presently reading for its fall 2011 issue. Works accepted may be featured on the public-radio program (NPR member and PRI affiliate). International submissions are encouraged.

Submission Guidelines:
~ Prose: one work (no more than 5,000 words)
~ Poetry: up to five poems (no more than ten pages total)
~ Include complete contact information in the cover letter.
~ Please be sure your name is listed on each page of the work. You may list contact information on each page as well, if you wish.
~ U.S. submissions should include both an email address and a self-addressed, business-size (#10), stamped envelope (SASE).
~ International submissions should include an email address to which an electronic reply may be sent.
~ Work must be previously unpublished. All manuscripts will be recycled.

Submissions should be addressed to either Prose Editor or Poetry Editor at

Quiddity
Benedictine University at Springfield
1500 North Fifth Street
Springfield, IL 62702

We look forward to receiving high-quality prose and poetry from both established and emerging writers. We do not limit general submissions tospecific subject-matter or style. Novel excerpts are welcome as long as the work can stand alone. Translations are welcome.

We accept simultaneous submissions but require notification immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. Work submitted must fit the guidelines listed above. Quiddity's international literary journal is a publication of Benedictine Universityat Springfield. It is published semi-annually in April and October. Quiddity's companion public-radio program is produced by Illinois Public Radio's hub station,WUIS/WIPA, NPR member and PRI affiliate.

Contributors may be invited to read their work for the public-radio program.

General submissions are read year-round. Contest information isavailable at Quiddity's website: www.sci.edu/quiddity

Poetry chapbook contest: Organic Weapon

2010-07-06T10:15:00.000-07:00

Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Series announces its first chapbook competition.One chapbook will be selected for publication and the author will beawarded $200 and 50 author copies. Editor Jamaal May will make the final selection.

Please submit 20 – 32 pages of poetry, two title pages (one with title only, one with title and author's full contact information and email) and acknowledgements page, if applicable. Your name should only appear on one title page. Please format manuscript in Times or Times New Roman, 12pt font.

Postmark deadline is August 15, 2010. We will email you a confirmation uponreceipt of your entry. Winners will be announced in September. Publication is set for Winter 2010. Simultaneous submissions are ok, but please notify us if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere during the review period. Manuscripts that are not selected will be recycled.

Pleasesend $7.00 for each manuscript to: Organic Weapon Arts Chapbook Competition, PO Box 8242, Ann Arbor, MI 48107-8242. Make checks payableto Organic Weapon Arts.

No email submissions accepted. If you have questions, you may contact organicweaponarts@yahoo.com or visit http://www.organicweaponarts.com/

Call for submissions: A Handful of Dust

2010-07-05T15:50:00.000-07:00

H.O.D. (A Handful Of Dust) is seeking poetry and artwork for its second issue scheduled for October 31, 2010. While H.O.D. has no theme or limits, its editor would like to see more work that is grounded in grit-lit. The date of publication does not suggest an overall theme, but the editor will pretty much read anything (including horror). The journal is also open to flash and micro-fiction than can double as good prose poetry. Submit 3-5 poems and a cover letter in the body of an e-mail to: h.o.d.submissionsATgmailDOTcom.
H.O.D. is also open to Artwork submissions, from b&w photography to pencil (or ink) sketches. Check the new issue for an idea of what the editor wants. Submit 1-3 pieces as low-res jpegs to: <h.o.d.submissions(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @).

Check out http://hofd.wordpress.com/
for further guidelines and read the debut issue to get an idea of where the journal is headed.

Bloodroot Literary Magazine: Poetry Contest

2010-07-03T22:39:00.000-07:00

Three prizes of $200, $100, and $50; three honorable mentions; publication in 2011 Bloodroot Literary Magazine.

http://www.bloodrootlm.com/contest.html

CONTEST GUIDELINES:
* The competition is open to any poet who writes in English.
* Manuscripts should be typewritten or computer-printed on white 8-1/2" X 11" paper.
* We can only accept hard copies.
* Electronic submissions will not be accepted.
* Submit original, unpublished, free verse, 10 lines to 2 pages.
* Entry fee: $15.00 for three poems, $5.00 each additional poem.
* Final judge: Claudia McIsaac
* Your name must not appear on the manuscript.
* Please provide name, address, email address, titles of poems in a cover letter.
* You may include SASE for results and SAS postcard for confirmation (Optional).
* Entries must be postmarked no later than September 15, 2010.
* Manuscripts cannot be returned.
* Please no simultaneous submission to other publications.
Mail manuscript and entry fee to:
The Editors
Bloodroot Literary Magazine
PO Box 322
Thetford Center, VT 05075

Poetry Chapbook Contest: The Ledge

2010-07-02T08:56:00.000-07:00

The Ledge 2010 Poetry Chapbook Competition
http://www.theledgemagazine.com/print%202009%20Poetry%20Chapbook%20guidelines.html

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 elsewhere. Poets may enter more than one manuscript.
ENTRY FEE: $18. All entrants will receive a copy of the winning chapbook upon its publication in the fall of 2011.
NO RESTRICTIONS on form or content. The Ledge Press is open to all styles and forms of poetry. Excellence is the only criterion.
PLEASE include a SASE for the competition results or manuscript return. The winner will be announced in April 2011.
POSTMARK DEADLINE: October 31, 2010.
SEND ENTRIES TO:
The Ledge 2010 Poetry Chapbook Competition,
40 Maple Ave.,
Bellport, NY 11713

Contest in fiction, poetry, nonfiction: New Southerner

2010-07-02T08:55:00.000-07:00

The 2010 New Southerner Literary Contest is open to previously unpublished poetry, fiction and nonfiction from April 1 through October 1. Although the contest theme is open, we are especially interested in work that relates to our mission, which is promoting self-sufficiency, environmental stewardship and local economies. We are also interested in works by writers with a Southern connection, and works written with a Southern slant or that focus on Southern issues, people and places.

Prizes: $200 for winners of Fiction, Nonfiction and the James BakerMemorial Prize in Poetry; publication in the literary edition; invitation to read at a special event.

Finalists in all categories receive $15 and publication in the New Southerner Literary Edition. Submit fiction and nonfiction up to 5,000 words. Submit poems up to 100 lines. Contest fee: $10 per entry. Multiple entries are accepted. Simultaneously submitted entries are accepted as long as you notify us promptly if your work is accepted elsewhere. Entry fee is not refundable.

Postmark deadline: October 1.
Winners will be notified by November 20.
Finalists and winning entries will be announced in The New Southerner Literary Edition, available online and in print at http://www.newsoutherner.com/ in December.
Final judges are Sena Jeter Naslund (fiction), Jason Howard (nonfiction) and Jeff Worley (James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry);
Easy online submission process.
To enter, or for more information, go to http://www.newsoutherner.com/?page_id=263

It's About Time Writers Reading Series: July 8, 2010

2010-06-29T23:19:00.000-07:00

It's About Time Writers Reading Series
2nd Thursdays of each month
6:00 - 7:45 p.m.
Ballard Branch Seattle Public Library
5614 22nd Ave. N.W.
Seattle , WA 98107
206-684-4089

July 8th will feature:
Michael Spence has driven buses for King County Metro Transit for twenty-five years. His poems have appeared recently in The New Criterion, The North American Review, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and others. His latest book, CRUSH DEPTH, was published last year by Truman State University Press." His Writer’s Craft talk is "From History to Poem: More Than Just the Facts."
Thomas Aslin, who is from Spokane, has an M.F.A. from Montana where he studied with Madeline DeFrees and the late Richard Hugo. His publications include a chapbook, Sweet Smoke, and a full-length collection, A Moon over Wings, which was a finalist for the 2009 Washington State Book Award.
Bethany Reid's poems have recently appeared in Stringtown, Timber Review, Pontoon, Cairn, Santa Clara Review, Crosscurrents, Calyx, The Sun, and Blackbird (available at http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v9n1/poetry/reid_b/memory_page.shtml). This summer she is chasing after her three daughters (ages 16, 16, and 10!), teaching on-line, and writing a horse story.
Rebecca Meredith is a poet, writer and psychoanalyst. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, and featured on KUOW. She is currently serving a two year term as Redmond’s first poet laureate and has just begun a new literary blog, which can be found at www.rspoetica.com

Bill and Hilary -- a poem

2010-06-15T14:31:00.000-07:00

Bill and Hilary

Bill: I love you dear for loving me, which made me look after my diet, which made me healthier, which made me happier, which made me love you more, dear!

Hilary: Yes, you are healthier and you do love me better!

Bill: It was all your doing dear to choose to team up with me and now we love each other so much. It will continue to spiral...

Hilary: Yes, of course, Bill, we will soon be a tornado together....

Koon Woon
June 13, 2010

June 10th - It's About Time Writers Reading Series #250

2010-06-09T20:45:00.001-07:00

It's About Time Writers Reading Series #250
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Ballard Branch, Seattle Public Library
Street: 5614 22nd Ave. N.W.
City/Town: Seattle, WA

Thurs. June 10, 2010 #250 Selene David, Bruce Taylor, Anne Sweet
+Terry Grabstein on The Writer's Craft

Terry Grabstein earned a Certificate in Nonfiction Writing and a Certificate in Literary Fiction Writing from the University of Washington. She has contributed work to Writers in Performance Anthology, Mercer Island Reporter, The Leaflet, and Between the Lines. Silken Water, (Finishing Line Press, 2009), is her first poetry collection.

Selene David was raised in Virginia and wrote her first poem when she was 9 years old. She has been employed as a therapist for 23 years and continues to love writing poetry. Two of her poems were included in The Poet Within, edited by Diane Tait. Selene says she writes about everything she loves: family, friends, nature, spiritual practice, and love itself.

Bruce Taylor, aka “Mr. Magic Realism,” currently has a magic realist novella ”13 Miles to Paradise” in the collection Alembical. His other recent work, Edward: Dancing on the Edge of Infinity, (Redjack Press, introduction by Jay Lake) took eighteen years to get published. Bruce has his first of the Kafka’s Uncle series published by Afterbirth Books (nominated for the &NOW AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE WRITING (SUNY, NY, 2009) and with introduction by Brian Herbert) and has the other two (Kafka’s Uncle: the Unfortunate Sequel and Other Insults to the Morally Perfect and Kafka’s Uncle: The Ghastly Prequel and Other Tales of Love and Pathos from the World’s Most Powerful, Third-World Banana Republic out to various editors.
http://www.brucebtaylor.com/

M. Anne Sweet is a poet and artist. Her poetry collection, Nailed to the Sky, is out from Gazoobi Tales. She has read extensively throughout the Puget Sound area, and her poetry has appeared in many print and online literary journals. She is a past winner of the Bart Baxter Poetry in Performance Award. For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/l/98e59;www.studiosixeight.com

Boston Review: 13th Annual Poetry Contest

2010-05-28T15:15:00.000-07:00

Thirteenth Annual Poetry Contest

http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/

Deadline: June 1, 2010
Judge: Peter Gizzi
First Prize: $1,500
Complete guidelines:

The winning poet will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in the November/December 2010 issue of Boston Review. Submit up to five unpublished poems, no more than 10 pages total. Any poet writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a relative, current student, former student, or close personal friend of the judge. Manuscripts must be submitted in duplicate, with a cover note listing the author's name, address, email and phone number; names should not be on the poems themselves. Simultaneous submissions are not permitted. Submissions will not be returned. A $20 entry fee ($30 for international submissions), payable to Boston Review, must accompany all submissions.

All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to Boston Review, beginning with the November/December 2010 issue. The winner will be announced no later than November 1, 2010, on the Boston Review Web site. All poems submitted to the contest will be considered for publication in Boston Review.

Mail submissions to:
Poetry Contest, Boston Review
35 Medford St., Suite 302
Somerville, MA 02143

Contest: Ruminate Magazine Janet McCabe Poetry Prize

2010-05-28T15:12:00.000-07:00

Ruminate Magazine invites you to enter our annual Janet McCabe Poetry Prize.

The finalist judge for this year's contest is Vito Aiuto, poet, pastor, and musician from the band The Welcome Wagon.
The submission deadline for the prize is midnight May 28th, 2010, and the entry fee is $15 (includes a free copy of the Fall 2010 Issue). You may submit up to three poems per entry, no longer than 40 lines each.
$800 will be awarded to the winner and publication in the Fall 2010 Issue will be awarded to the winning poem and the runner-up.

For detailed submission guidelines and to enter your work, visit our website at

http://www.ruminatemagazine.org/contests/janet-mccabe-poetry-prize.html

Allen Gingsberg Poetry Marathon w/Band of Poets

2010-03-25T10:21:00.000-07:00

Allen Ginsberg Poetry Marathon w/ Band of Poets & Open Mic
Featuring Julene Tripp Weaver & John Burgess & Jed Meyers reading Ginsberg's work

Come celebrate the life & poetry of great American poet Allen Ginsberg and help SPLAB raise funds to continue their work. Read a poem by Allen Ginsberg, or one of your own. Eat & drink too much coffee. Bring a short poem for the Lightning Round. Write drunken exquisite corpses. See Band of Poets. Flirt with Saintly Motorcyclists. Express yr angst with music.

When: Saturday, April 3, 2010 at
Time: 8:00pm
Place: Empire Espresso (Columbia City)
3829 S Edmunds
Seattle, WA

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It's About Time reading #247 - March 11, 2010

2010-03-05T11:02:00.000-08:00

Thurs March 11, 2010 #247 - Michael Daley on The Writer's Craft: "Misdirections, making a new poem by imitating others"
+ Priya Keefe, Peter Ludwin, and Laura Snyder

Michael Daley published The Straits (Empty Bowl, Port Townsend) in 1983, Way Out There, essays (Pleasure Boat Studio, New York), in 2007, To Curve (Word, Cincinnati) in 2008 and Moonlight In The Redemptive Forest, his latest book of poems including an Artist Trust sponsored cd, was just released by Pleasure Boat Studio in February, 2010. Michael will be speaking on "Misdirections, making a new poem by imitating others."

Priya Keefe entered life through the door of the Pike Place Market. Publications include qarrtsiluni, Pontoon 7, Metro Poetry Buses, Drash, and Real Change. Performances include Seattle City Council, Bumbershoot festival, Bart Baxter Poetry in Performance, and Band of Poets. She taught a poetry class at Seattle Central Community College in fall of 2009 and is studying for an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College.

Peter Ludwin is the recipient of a Literary Fellowship from Artist Trust. He was the Second Prize Winner of the 2007-2008 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards, and a Finalist for the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award. For the past nine years he has been a participant in the San Miguel Poetry Week in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he has studied under such noted poets as Mark Doty, Alfred Corn, Linda Gregg, C.K. Williams and Tony Barnstone. His work has appeared in many journals, including Common Ground Review, The Comstock Review, The Fourth River, Midwest Quarterly and South Carolina Review, to name a few. His first full length collection, A Guest in All Your Houses, was published in 2009 by Word Walker Press, which nominated several poems for Pushcart Prizes.

Laura Snyder - bio follows

Hope to see you there,

Esther

http://itsaboutimewriters.homestead.com/

Reading at Hugo House March 3, 2010

2010-02-23T09:32:00.000-08:00

Chrysanthemum Literary Society

presents a reading of the Chinese Diaspora poetry

featuring Changming (Michael)Yuan from Canada
and local poet Koon Woon
at the Hugo House

March 3, 2010

6pm - 9:30 pm

Open Mic

This event is supported by Poets and Writers, Inc.

This event is also supported by Seattle Office of Art & Cultural Affairs

Call for submissions: Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal

2010-02-03T21:50:00.000-08:00

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.
SEE YOU AT AWP DENVER?

We hope so. TSky authors and editors will be reading from new books and selling them as well, and we'll be joining our favorite presses for various kickass events: readings with Action Books, Apostrophe Books, Astrophil Press, Black Ocean, Featherproof Books, and Slope Editions, just to name a few. Events Coordinators Michelle Puckett and Megan DiBello invite you to keep on top of our events blog for forthcoming details.

IS YOUR BOOKSHELF NOT SO FRESH?

We can fix that. Subscriptions to Tarpaulin Sky Press's forthcoming Spring titles are still available--as are huge savings on forthcoming titles. If you're looking for some of the most exciting literature being published today, you may want to have a look at our catalog, or take a look at some of our forthcoming Spring 2010 titles: Traci O Connor's Recipes for Endangered Species, a book of short fictions that Brian Evenson calls "a marvelous debut. . . . moving fast enough that you could end up anywhere, Connor’s thought about every single word, every gesture, and she can turn each story on a dime" or Kim Gek Lin Short's The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits, book of interlocking short fictions / prose poems that Joyelle McSweeney deems "twisted," and Norma Cole calls "Irresistible.... with its incantations of quantum teleology, its footnotes & sources.... it is a magnificent work." Also on the way, Joanna Ruocco's book of short fictions, Man's Companions; Shelly Taylor's book of interlocking short fictions / prose poems, Black-Eyed Heifer; and Emily Toder's poetry chapbook, Brushes With.

& Let us not forget the three chapbooks we just picked from the last reading period: Lara Glenum's The Hotling Chronicles: A Horror in Trans; Sarah Goldstein's Fables; and James Haug's Scratch. Plus forthcoming full-lengths-with-really-long-titles, Jenny Boully's not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, and Johannes Göransson's Entrance to a colonial pageant in which we all begin to intricate

LOOKING TO SCORE FREE BOOKs?

We can help. We have Advanced Reader Copies of all Tarpaulin Sky Press's Spring full-length titles, and we have hundreds of review copies from other publishers, from Ahsahta to Vagabond. Want to review a brand new title from Fence Books? We got 'em. Burning Deck, City Lights, Dalkey Archive, FC2, Graywolf, Salt, Sarabande, Shearsman, Ugly Duckling? No problem. Or how about Counterpath, Dusie, Ellipsis Press, Essay Press, Subito? Or Canada's positively stellar BookThug?

Our Reviews Editors Ross Brighton and Jared Schickling read review and interview submissions all year long. Writers whose work is accepted for publication receive any two Tarpaulin Sky Press trade paperbacks of their choice. Send a brief cover letter and your previously unpublished review to reviews[AT]tarpaulinsky[DOT]com, and be sure to include "Attn: Review Editors" in the subject line. Click here for a list of review copies currently available. Publishers may send review copies to Book Reviews ~ Tarpaulin Sky Press ~ PO Box 189 ~ Grafton, VT 05146

Write some reviews, yo. Get paid. In books.

GOT SOME NEWS TO SHARE YOURDARNSELF?

If you have something to say about a new journal, new book, new press, new reading series; and if said newness will be of interest to the people who read TSky Press's books or journal, or--better yet!--includes TSky Press authors or journal contributors; and if you'd like to share this newness and can do so in a way that includes some chewy content and few superlatives, then please send your brief shoutout, sidebar, or feature article to our News Editor Amish Trivedi at news[AT]tarpaulinsky[DOT]com

Send some work!

Cheers,

Christian Peet, Publisher
Colie Collen, Editor in Chief
& Editors, Tarpaulin Sky Press

Julene's new Web & Blog Sites

2010-01-03T19:50:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year!! We enter a new decade and I've entered the new era by committing to blog! Please visit my two new sites when you have a chance.

My spanking new Website & Blog on Wordpress: Julene Tripp Weaver/TrippWeavePoet

Also, a Blogger site, strictly a blog: Gemini Constellation named for my Moon sign. This one promises to be a shaker upper!

Best wishes in 20-10!

It's About time Writers

2009-12-06T12:12:00.000-08:00

Please see the It's About Time Writers facebook group for schedule.

Thanks,

Esther

Final Drash Reading for 2009

2009-11-25T21:16:00.000-08:00

DRASH Northwest Mosaic Journal: Final Reading for 2009

Place: Fremont Place Books

Date: Thursday, December 3rd at 7 pm

Featuring: Julene Tripp Weaver, Diane Brement, Marilyn Smith and Wendy Marcus

Please come and support this local journal. Also, they are taking submissions for the next issue, Volume IV, to be mailed and postmarked by December 15th. Or, you can bring your submission to the reading and hand it to Wendy! See the website at www.templebetham.org, click on Music and Arts to go to the page for Drash.

Whitman College Readings (for our Eastern Washington friends)

2009-11-18T21:43:00.000-08:00

I'll be reading December 3...

Nov 12th reading

2009-11-12T08:03:00.000-08:00

Please note that if you don't find the About Time announcement here, we are always on facebook. Join It's About Time Writers on facebook to receive a direct mailing.

Thanks and hope to see you tonight,
Esther

Thurs. Nov 12, 2009 #243 Jeremy Halinen, Carol Guess, Elizabeth J. Colen
+ Kim-An Lieberman on The Writer's Craft

Kim-An Lieberman holds a Ph.D. in Vietnamese American literature from the University of California, Berkeley and teaches English at Seattle’s Lakeside School. Her work appears in Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, and other journals. Her first collection of poems, Breaking the Map, was published in 2008 by Blue Begonia Press.

Elizabeth J. Colen’s poetry has recently appeared in The Normal School, Exquisite Corpse, Rhino, and other venues. Her first book of poetry, Money for Sunsets will be released by Steel Toe Books in September 2010. Find out more at http://elizabethjcolen.blogspot.com

Jeremy Halinen is a coeditor and cofounder of Knockout Literary Magazine. Some of his recent poems appear in Best Gay Poetry 2008, Ganymede, New Mexico Poetry Review, Poems Against War, and White Crane. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University.

Carol Guess is the author of five books of poetry and prose, most recently Tinderbox Lawn (Rose Metal Press, 2008). She is Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University, where she teaches Creative Writing and Queer Studies

Nectar Lounge Performance: Stephanie Lee, Kathleen Yearwood & our very own Noel Franklin

2009-11-06T10:27:00.000-08:00

Kathleen Yearwood, Canadian innovator of "folk - concrete" music, will make a rare Seattle appearance at Nectar Lounge Wednesday, November 11th.

She will be joined by local Seattle band, Stephanie Lee & the Northern Lights. Performance poet Noel Franklin will open the show.

Kathleen really is amazing, and I am personally enamored with Stephanie Lee & the Northern Lights--who evoke, at times, The Cowboy Junkies and Natalie Merchant. Kathleen is in a class of her own, and will be performing everything from 15th century french songs to her heart-rending ballad to Steven Jessie Bernstein.

Noel Franklin is coming out of retirement to read some poetry to kick off the set.

Come early! Nectar has great food and drinks. Doors are at 8:00. $3 cover.

Here's links to learn more about these great artists:

http://www.myspace.com/kathleenyearwoodordeal

http://www.myspace.com/stefanieleemusic

Poetry Marathon at King's Bookstore in Tacoma

2009-10-23T02:53:00.000-07:00

Reading: King's Bookstore, Third Annual Open House and Poetry Marathon

When: Saturday, Nov 14th

Place: 218 St. Helens

Tacoma, WA

Schedule for Marathon

10:55-11:00 Welcome, MC: Maggie Kelly

11:00 -11:20 J. Glenn Evans

11:25 -11:45 Gonya Klein

11:45-12:05 Lin Swanson vocals in memory of Al Kamerzell (one of the founders)

12:10 -12:30 Open Mic - Gerald McBreen hosts

12:35-12:55 Jeanne Lohmann

1:00-1:20 Thomas Hubbard

1:25-1:45 Suma Subramaniam

1:50-2:10 Brendan McBreen

2:15-2:35 Lorraine Healy

2:40-3:00 Julene Tripp Weaver

3:05-3:25 Tammy Rohbacker

3:30-3:50 Open Mic - Tammy Rohbacker hosts

3:55-4:15 Michael Dylan Welch

4:20-4:40 Jim Bertolino

4:45-5:05 Marjorie Rommel

5:10-5:30 Josie Emmons Turner

5:35-6:00 Connie Walle and Maggie Kelly

Refreshments will be available

It's About Time Writers Reading Series #242

2009-10-05T15:53:00.000-07:00

Thurs. Oct. 8, 2009

Ballard Library
6 pm - 7:45 pm
for more info visit It's About Time

Terry Grabstein,Julene Weaver, Susan Starbuck + Jane Alynn on The Writer's Craft

Jane Alynn’s chapbook, Threads & Dust, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Calyx, Floating Bridge Review, The Pacific Review, Quercus Review, and StringTown, as well as in many anthologies. In 2004 she won a William Stafford Award from Washington Poets Association. The title of Jane's craft talk is "Bright Smoke: Contradiction in Poetry"

Terry Grabstein earned a Certificate in Nonfiction Writing and a Certificate in Literary Fiction Writing from the University of Washington. She has contributed work to Writers in Performance Anthology, Mercer Island Reporter, The Leaflet, and Between the Lines. Silken Water, (Finishing Line Press, 2009), is her first poetry collection.

Julene Tripp Weaver moved to Seattle from NYC in 1989. Finishing Line Press published her chapbook Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails her Blues, with poems inspired by her work during the past 18 years in HIV Services. Her poems are published in many journals on and off line.

Susan Starbuck, Ph.D., M.F.A., published a biography in 2002, Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment. Then she turned her back on history and converted to fiction. She currently teaches writing and literature at Antioch University Seattle, and she grew two 12-inch diameter pumpkins in her garden.

Key West Literary Seminar Awards

2009-09-12T13:04:00.000-07:00

Passing along this invitation from Arlo Haskell:

I wanted to let you know about three awards for emerging writers offered by the Key West Literary Seminar. I thought you or someone you know might like to apply.

Our Johnson, Russo, and Merrill awards recognize excellence in a manuscript submission from an emerging writer. Each will provide full tuition to our Seminar and Writers' Workshop Program this January 7-14, as well as support for travel expenses to Key West and lodging and living expenses while here. Winners also have an opportunity to appear on stage during the Seminar and present their work to an influential audience of publishers, agents, and other literary professionals.

The deadline for applications is September 30. Our application guidelines can be found at the link below. To stay connected with the Seminar, check out Littoral, our online journal, or find us on Facebook or Twitter.

Arlo Haskell
media director
Key West Literary Seminar
718 Love Lane
Key West, FL, 33040
www.kwls.org
office: 305-293-9291

It's About Time Writers Reading Series #241

2009-09-06T19:55:00.001-07:00

Thurs. Sept. 10, 2009
Ballard Library
6 pm - 7:45 pm
for more info visit It's About Time

Sarah Vap, Todd Fredson, Susan Rich + Jeff Encke on The Writer's Craft

Jeff Encke taught writing and criticism at Columbia University for several years, serving as writer-in-residence for the Program in Narrative Medicine while completing his PhD in English in 2002. He now teaches literature at Richard Hugo House. His poems have appeared in or forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Kenyon Review Online, Salt Hill, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. In 2004, he published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a series of love poems addressed to Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi war criminals printed on a deck of playing cards. Jeff will be reading from his essay Unwinding the Given: On Linda Bierds originally published in Octopus magazine.

Sarah Vap is the author of Dummy Fire, which won the 2006 Saturnalia Poetry Prize, and American Spikenard, which won the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize. She is co-editor of poetry for the online journal 42 Opus, and lives with her husband and their two sons on the Olympic Peninsula. Her next book, Faulkner’s Rosary, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2010.

Todd Fredson's poems have appeared in Poetry International, Blackbird, Court Green, 42 Opus, Gulf Coast, First Intensity, Pistola, Puerto del Sol, RUNES, Slush Pile and other journals. He has received several awards in support of his work. He received his Masters in Fine Arts from Arizona State University in 2007. He is the director of programming at the McReavy House Museum of Hood Canal and a writer for Read Right Systems in Shelton, WA. Todd lives in the Skokomish Valley, with his wife, Sarah Vap, and their two sons.

Susan Rich is the author of three collections of poetry, The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World, Cures Include Travel, and The Alchemist’s Kitchen. She has received awards from PEN USA, The Times (of London) Literary Supplement, and Peace Corps Writers. Recent poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Harvard Review, and Poetry Ireland Review. Susan Rich grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and now makes her home in Seattle.

Chrysanthemum Literary Society Presents: A Poetry Reading

2009-08-21T23:09:00.000-07:00

Free & open to the public!

Featuring:
Dana Guthrie Martin
Noel Franklin
Elizabeth Myhr
Kristen McHenry
Cathy (Cat) Ruiz

with host Koon Woon and special guest Martin Ingerson!

This event is the Inaugaural Poetry Reading of the Chrysanthemum Literary Society Society.
Please join us for poetry, refreshments, and great company!

Time:
Saturday, September 19th
10:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m.

Place:
The Beacon Hill branch of
the Seattle Public Library:
2821 Beacon Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144
(206) 684 - 4711

The location is on bus routes #36 and #60 and the light rail depot, and there is plenty of parking in the library parking lot or on the street.

For further information contact: Koon Woon at 206 - 723 - 6854 or email nooknoow@aol.com

Call for Submissions: 100 Words or Fewer Writing Contest

2009-08-19T20:36:00.000-07:00

Deadline: October 20, 2009

This is our third contest, our third opportunity to receive inspiring short fiction. We are celebrating with two prizes for a total of five. An innovation is the posting, on our website, of our checkmark evaluation grid. Now entrants will see what the "grid" is all about.

The theme is open--We welcome whimsy, allegory, mystery, romance, fable, humor, love, fantasy, even horror.

Awards: $400 (first), $200 (second), $100 (third) $50 (fourth) and $50 (fifth).

Winning stories are published on the website and ten Honorable Mentions listed by name of author and name of story.

Entry Fee: $15; with Scored checkmark evaluation: $18. A critique is $12, or with entry and checkmark, $30.

Please look into our website for guidelines, plus past winning stories and examples of critiques.

http://www.100wordsorfewerwritingcontest.com/

Call for Submissions: Reginald Shepherd Memorial Prize

2009-07-30T23:36:00.001-07:00

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT TO ENTER): The 2009 Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize. Final judge: Carl Phillips. Deadline: 8/1/09. Prizes include $300, $50, and $25 gift certificates to Powell's Books and publication of winning poems in Knockout. Guidelines: http://www.knockoutlit.org/rsprize.htm

Note: Change of Venue

2009-07-10T16:03:00.001-07:00

Last weekend, the few of us who met at Grey Gallery found the cafe closed -- open to install art, but closed to people wanting beer, wine, and crepes. Apparently they weren't getting much afternoon business.

For the time being, we're relocating the Capitol Hill meetings to the Elysian Brewing Company a couple blocks away.

We're meeting at Brouwer's July 19. The Elysian August 2.

Thursday, July 9, 2009 #239

2009-07-04T11:45:00.000-07:00

Authur Tulee, Jeff Encke, Jane Alynn + Laura McKee on The Writer's Craft

Laura McKee holds a B.A. in French and English from the University of Utah, and an M.F.A from the University of Washington. Her work has appeared in Rhino, Mid-American Review, Campbell’s Corner, Identity Theory, Konundrum, Cutbank, and Denver Quarterly. Her book, Uttermost Paradise Place, was chosen this year by Claudia Keelan for the APR Honickman 1st Book Prize and will be published in the fall. She works at Cornish College of the Arts.

Arthur Tulee was born and raised on the Yakama Indian Reservation and graduated from Washington State University in 1990, receiving a B.A. in English. He is currently living and working in the Seattle metropolitan area. He is excited to read all brand new material for this It's About Time.

Jane Alynn is a poet and fine-art photographer. Alynn’s first collection of poems, Threads & Dust, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, such as Calyx, Floating Bridge Review, The Pacific Review, Quercus Review, Manorborn, Snowy Egret, StringTown, and Switched-on Gutenberg, as well as in many anthologies. In 2004 she was awarded a William Stafford Award from Washington Poets Association. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and currently lives in Anacortes.

Jeff Encke taught writing and criticism at Columbia University for several years, serving as writer-in-residence for the Program in Narrative Medicine while completing his PhD in English in 2002. He now teaches literature at Richard Hugo House. His poems have appeared in or forthcoming from American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Fence, Kenyon Review Online, Salt Hill, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. In 2004, he published Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse, a series of love poems addressed to Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi war criminals printed on a deck of playing cards.

Wave Books Poetry Weekend, Aug 14-16

2009-07-02T13:25:00.001-07:00

Here's a note Matt Zapruder posted on Facebook. They're offering an amazing lineup of readers, including my friends Rachel Zucker and Maggie Nelson. Not to be missed.

Purchase tix here: http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/79

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Hello to you all. We are writing to you with an update about the Wave Books three-day poetry event, this coming August. We've received enthusiastic responses, both from people who have confirmed their attendance, and also from some of you who are excited to attend, but are finding yourselves unable to afford the current price. We want to make it possible for as many of our readers and supporters to attend, so we are reducing the price, and have added an additional option for attending:

Festival tickets grant you access to:

READINGS -- in the Henry Auditorium, with smaller, exclusive readings in the James Turrell Skyspace -- featuring Joshua Beckman, Noelle Kocot, Dorothea Lasky, Anthony McCann, Richard Meier, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Geoffrey Nutter, Matthew Rohrer, Mary Ruefle, Dara Wier, Jon Woodward, Matthew Zapruder and Rachel Zucker;

SCREENINGS OF FILMS starring John Ashbery, Robin Blaser, Jane Freilicher, Denise Levertov, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, John Wieners, and others;

poetry book DISCOUNTS at fourteen participating local, independent bookstores (a map will be provided);

a BOOK ARTS PRESENTATION by Sandra Kroupa, the Book Arts and Rare Book Curator in Special Collections at the University of Washington;

the Henry Art Gallery and EXHIBITIONS, including exhibitions of work by Chio Aoshima, Jasper Johns, Ann Lislegaard, Jeffrey Mitchell & Tivon Rice; new video from China; and photographic work by Imogen Cunningham, Nan Goldin, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Andy Warhol, and others, from the Henry's permanent collection;

and more, to be discovered...

We are REDUCING THE PRICE OF THE EVENT PASSES to $75 ($50 students). The passes will get you into all of the readings, the film screenings, book arts presentation, with access to the Henry Art Gallery and exhibitions. The pass also grants you local bookstore discounts, and includes a welcome packet with additional information and materials.

We are also offering a FULL SCHOLARSHIP to 10 people who would be otherwise unable to attend, and who can confirm they will be in attendance for all three days. Through the generosity of a donor, we are able to offer 10 Full Scholarships, which include all of the benefits and materials for a regular Event Pass. We are hoping that these Scholarships will make it possible for those who cannot otherwise attend to be there for the entire weekend. Please email us at wavepoetryweekend@gmail.com, and let us know a little bit about yourselves. Act soon, as this offer will disappear quickly.

Please let us know if you have any questions at all. You can reach us at wavepoetryweekend@gmail.com, or visit the Wave website at http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/79. We greatly appreciate your interest, and we look forward to seeing you here in Seattle this August!

Sincerely,
Wave Books

1938 Fairview Avenue East, Suite 201
Seattle, Washington 98102
http://www.wavepoetry.com
http://www.wavepoetry.com/catalog/79
http://www.henryart.org/