Marick Press Manuscript Competition

Marick Press Poetry Prize

The First Annual Marick Press Poetry Prize Competition


The First Annual Marick Press Poetry Prize competition will open for
submissions on March 1, 2009. The award consists of a $1,000 cash
award and publication by Marick Press.

Manuscripts must be between 48 and 80 pages in length. Poems must be
original, but may have appeared in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks.
Translations are not eligible for this competition. The competition is
open to all poets writing in English.

Manuscripts must be postmarked by October 15th. They must be typed and
should include a table of contents. The author's name, address, email
address, and telephone number should appear on the cover sheet only.
Manuscripts will not be returned and will be recycled at the end of
the competition. Please include a self-addressed, stamped,
business-size envelope with your submission if you wish to be notified of the
results.

Manuscripts must include a $15 entry, reading, and processing fee.
Checks should be made out to Marick Press. The manuscript, along with
a self-addressed, stamped postcard for notification that it has been
received, if so desired, should be sent to:

Marick Press Poetry Prize
P.O. Box 36253
Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48236

If you send the manuscript via express mail services, the manuscript
should be sent to:
Marick Press Poetry Prize
1342 Three Mile Drive, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan 48230

Manuscripts are screened by the editorial staff, and the Marick Press
Poetry Prize 2009 will be judged by Alicia Ostriker. The winner of the
Marick Press Poetry Prize will be announced March 15, 2010.

Seattle Poet Populist

Hello all!
Sorry I missed you all for beer today; I hope it was festive. I want to share an article (and reader comments) about the Seattle Poet Populist program. Many interesting viewpoints are shared...

November 25, 2008 Feature: It Gets Verse
Why Does Seattle Promote Dumb, Bad Poetry?
By PAUL CONSTANT
Read the whole article at http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=787677 »

GregBee

Raven Chronicles Announces Submission Deadlines for 2009:

Volume 14. No 2.:
Theme: Architecture In Literature: Doors, Windows & Walls.
Deadline: November 1-January 1, 2009

Volume 15. No 1: Theme: Travel, Wish you were here. The Raven Chronicles wants to hear your travel stories, real and imagined. Fiction, poetry, translations, criticism, poetics, food & culture, reviews.

Deadlines: April 1-July 1, 2009. There will be a cash competition for this issue. Stay tuned for details.

We are always looking for work that fits in these categories (ongoing features in each issue):

Spoken Word; Poetics (essays or interviews); Memorials;
Literary Recipes; Odes to Persons, Places & Things;
Mapping the Terrain/Beyond Borders (essays and translations);
Cultural Geography; Food & Culture;
The Northwest; Nature Writing; Rants, Raves & Reviews.

2009 Editors:
Poetry, Elizabeth Myhr
Fiction: Kathleen Alcala
Non-Fiction: Anna Balint
Food & Culture: Thomas Hubbard
Reviews: Stephanie Lawyer

Call for Submissions: New American Press (chapbook contest)

New American Press is pleased to announce its fall/winter chapbook contest.

Winner receives $250 and 25 copies. Final judge is Crab Orchard Review editor and award-winning poet Allison Joseph. Deadline is January 1, 2009.

To submit, send 20-30 pages of your best writing (poetry or prose) to:

New American Press Chapbook Contest
2707 Trenton Way
Fort Collins, CO 80526

Please include $12 reading fee and SASE for contest results. The
committee reads blind, so restrict your name and other contact
information to a separate cover sheet only.

For further information, please visit http://www.newamericanpress.com.

Best,
David Bowen
Editor/Publisher

newamericanpress@gmail.com

Call for Submissions: Big Bridge

HTTP://BIGBRIDGE.ORG

The online poetry journal Big Bridge seeks essays, poems, visual art, performance documentation, eco-criticism, creative writing pedagogy, and other material that addresses or explores issues generated by conversations initiated last summer over Slow Poetry. Arguments, moreover, that offer critical perspectives on Slow Poetry are welcome.

Since Slow Poetry is strictly a descriptive platform, feel free to contribute new ideas, arguments, and issues that may be useful for the ongoing development of a slow poetics. Some critical reflections on Slow Poetry are available at http://possumego.blogspot.com.

Send work that explores definitions, theories, and practices of Slow Poetry to Big Bridge contributing editor Dale Smith (dmsmith@mail.utexas.edu) in word or pdf files by December 31, 2008.

Reading: Untitled [Intersection] (November 21)

MICKEY OCONNOR reading

BETH GRACZYK dance

ANGELINA BALDOZ trumpet

NICO VASSILAKIS reading

+ + +

UNTITLED [INTERSECTION]
Friday 21 November 2008, 7p
at
Phinney Neighborhood Center in Greenwood
6532 Phinney Ave. N

Call for submissions: CRATE

CRATE the magazine of the MFA department of UCR is sending out a call for submissions of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. Maximum 5 poems or 8,000 words depending on the medium. For more information please see the attached link.

Please enclose a SASE a cover letter with a brief bio. All submissions should be 12 pt font, double spaced (poetry excepted) with the author's name on every page. More information can be found at http://crate.ucr.edu/

CRATE will close to submissions MARCH 1, 2009

Sincerely,
Adam Gallari
Editor-in-Chief
CRATE
adam.gallari@email.ucr.edu

Bi-weekly gathering of Seattle poets (#18)

The next gathering takes place at 2pm on Sunday, November 23 at Feierabend (www.feierabendseattle.com), located just a few blocks from the South Lake Union REI.

We're currently alternating between Feierabend and Brouwer's in Fremont.

Feel free to invite whomever you like. I hope to see you there!

Date/time: November 23, 2008, 2:00pm
Place: Feierabend (422 Yale Avenue North, Seattle, WA)

Call for submissions: Monday Night

Monday Night, a journal of literature and art, is now accepting submissions for Issue 8 (Summer 2009). We publish quality prose and poetry from new and emerging writers from across the country and around the world. Monday Night is distributed at independent bookstores and sold on our website.

For more information and to view past issues, visit our website: http://www.mondaynightlit.com

*DEADLINE: December 15, 2008*

GUIDELINES: Please follow our guidelines carefully. You can also find them on our website. If you still have questions, write to: editors@mondaynightlit.com.

POETRY: Send up to five poems. All styles and lengths are welcome.

PROSE: Fiction, nonfiction, and essays up to 5,000 words. Send up to three pieces of prose.

Translations are welcome in all genres.

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK:
NO. We accept unpublished work only. This includes online publications. If you have published the piece in any online or print journal, do not submit it to Monday Night. We do an internet search for all pieces that we accept for publication, to make sure they do not appear anywhere else. Please be honest and respect our parameters.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS:
YES. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere, so we can remove it from consideration.

HOW TO SUBMIT:
Email submissions to editors@mondaynightlit.com. Send one doc, rtf, or pdf file attached to your email. Please title or label all your work clearly within the document. Your name and contact info should also appear on your submission. Your email message should include your name, contact info, the titles of your submissions and whether they are fiction, poetry or non-fiction.

We do not confirm receipt of submissions.

RESPONSE TIME: We will respond to all submissions by February 2009.

PAYMENT: Each published writer will receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears.

Bent Writing Institute Showcase

Howdy Poets,
It was great to meet some of you yesterday!

Coming up this Friday and Saturday (Nov 14 & 15) is the annual student showcase for Bent Writing Institute. Bent is the nation's only queer writing organization and the showcase will include readings/performances by Bent students as well as an extended feature by Kate Bornstein. I'll be the MC for the show both nights and can tell you that it's an amazing night of voices not often heard.

Details about the Showcase: www.bentwriting.com
Details about Kate Bornstein, the feature: www.katebornstein.com

GregB

Call for Submissions: Cervena Barva Press Chapbook Contest

Poetry and Fiction Chapbook Contest
Accepting manuscripts November 1, 2008-January 31, 2009
Manuscripts postmarked after January 31st will not be read. No manuscripts will be returned.

For Poetry:

24 pages of poetry. 8 pages will be added automatically to the winning chapbook, which will make the total 32 pages.

Include the following:
Title page with contact info
Title page with just the title
SASE for the announcement of the winning chapbook. Size 10 envelope only.
Send no cover letter or bio
E-mail address for receipt of manuscript
OK if poems have been published in literary journals. Don't include acknowledgments.


Winner announced March 15. 2009
Winner receives 25 copies and $100.00
$11.00 entry fee/check or money order to:
Cervena Barva Press
P.O. Box 440357
W. Somerville, MA 02144-3222

Event: Reading by Jody Zorgdrager

The Backwaters Press
is pleased to invite you to attend
an evening of poetry by
Jody A. Zorgdrager
in celebration of the publication of her book,
Of Consequence.

Friday, November 7, 2008
7:30 PM
University Heights Community Center,
2nd Floor Auditorium,
5031 University Way NE,
Seattle, Washington.

Complimentary parking is available at the
Community Center parking lot;
there is also street parking nearby.

Books will be available at the reading
($15.00 cash or check only, please.).
A book signing and dessert refreshments
will be provided..

This event is free and open to the public.
Feel welcome to invite a guest.

Please call with questions (425-483-9659).

Call for Submissions: Poetic Responses to the 2008 American Elections

While the He/art Pants: Poetic Responses to the 2008 American Elections

Call for Submissions

Artistic representations, responses, and interrogations of electoral events are very important expressions of the endless conversation between art and historical experience. The 2008 American elections stimulated a lot of artistic responses and there were, in the campaign discourses, some subtle invocations of the postures of presidential aspirants to literature and cultural productions generally. What, as a poet (defined broadly), is the meaning of this whole experience of the 2008 elections? Send us your previously unpublished works (poems, paintings, manipulated photographs, etc) about the 2008 US elections for inclusion in an online anthology: While the He/Art Pants (a title derived from Walt Whitman's poem reproduced below), to soon appear on the Poet's Corner, Fiera Lingue. Images should be in jpeg format. As this promises to be a very interesting project, we request that you send up to five of the most uncompromising and stylistically surprising of your works and a short bio. Other works that do not necessarily focus on the 2008 US elections but are relevant to the dialogue between art and democratic politics will be considered.

Submissions are to be made electronically to:
Obododimma Oha (Guest Editor)
obodooha@gmail.com
udude@full-moon.com

OR

Anny Ballardini (Editor, The Poet's Corner)
anny.ballardini@gmail.com

Link to the main index of the site:
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=3DContent

Bi-weekly gathering of Seattle poets (#17)

The next gathering takes place at 2pm on Sunday, November 9 at Brouwer's (http://www.brouwerscafe.com), located across the street from the Theo Chocolate factory in Fremont.

As usual, feel free to invite whomever you like. I hope to see you there!


Date/time: November 9, 2008, 2:00pm
Place: Brouwer's (400 North 35th Street, Seattle, WA)

Furniture Press Poetry Prize

Deadline: June 30, 2009

Judges: tba

The 1st annual Furniture Press Poetry Prize will be awarded to the writer that best exemplifies the poetics and particularities of Furniture Press editors and judges.

Two judges will be invited to determine a manuscript's pressability and will work with anonymous, unidentified texts. Only the editor of Furniture Press will know the true identity of the applicants and their work. Each text will be assigned a number and distributed to the judges.

After the first round of readings the judges will assign three finalists. The winner of the Prize will receive a publishing contract in which the winning manuscript will be published as a chapbook. S/he will also receive 25 copies of the chapbook. The remaining finalists will have samples of their work published in an issue of Ambit: Journal of Poetry & Poetics. All applicants will receive a copy of the chapbook.

Please follow these guidelines when submitting an application:

1. Send 1 unpublished manuscript per entry. It must be between 20-50 pages in length of poetry and its derivatives.

2. Send a $10 fee per manuscript submitted. 100% of the cash goes to the pressing and publishing of the winning chapbooks. Editors and judges do not get kickbacks. Please send checks or money orders only, made out to Furniture Press.

3. Send manuscripts to Furniture Press Poetry Prize c/o Towson Arts Collective, 406 York Road, Towson, MD 21204.

We strongly encourage you to send us work - it's also a very good way to catch the attention of the editors who may want to publish your work in the future, despite if or not you win the prize.

Poetry in Translation

October 12th and 13th, there'll be a miniature festival of literary translation at Gallery 1412 - foregrounding the translators themselves, the surprises and evils of the practice, the conversation between the worlds here at play - nearly everyone represented in the festival is a poet-translator, though there are many further surprises as well

Both nights start at 7PM, and are free (though donation is encouraged). There'll be snacks throughout and a discussion after the readings. And doubtless lots of beautiful books as a two of the translators are also small press editors/printmakers/those-that-make-books-by-hand.

Sunday:
Paul Manfredi
Sam Lohmann
Matvei Yankelevich

Monday:
Deborah Woodard
Maged Zaher
Don Mee Choi
Simon Wickham-Smith

Call for submissions: Bombay Gin

September 1 - March 1

Please submit 1-8 pages of previously unpublished poetry, prose, translation, artwork, interviews, hybrid work, or otherwise. Submissions will be considered for the fall and spring issues of Bombay Gin as time and space allow.

For TRANSLATIONS, please include both the original language and English versions; it is the writer's responsibility to receive publication rights for the original piece.

ARTWORK should be submitted on a CD as a PDF or jpg, with minimum 720DPI; all artwork will be published as grayscale. Unsolicited manuscripts are read anonymously, so include your name and contact information only on the cover letter. Please include an S.A.S.E. so the board can respond to you once selections have been made.

Bombay Gin accepts electronic submissions at bgin@naropa.edu. Visit our website at www.naropa.edu/bombaygin.

Submissions also accepted at the Writing and Poetics Department in the Arapahoe House or mailed to:

Naropa University
Bombay Gin
Writing and Poetics Department
2130 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder, CO 80302

Bi-Weekly Gathering of Seattle Poets (#15)

The next gathering takes place at 2pm on Sunday, October 12 at Brouwer's (http://www.brouwerscafe.com), located across the street from the Theo Chocolate factory in Fremont.

The later October gathering will be at Feierabend again.

As usual, feel free to invite whomever you like. I hope to see you there!

Jeff Encke


Date/time: October 12, 2008, 2:00pm
Place: Brouwer's (400 North 35th Street, Seattle, WA)

Call for submissions: Versal

Versal wants your poetry, prose, and art for its seventh issue due out in May, 2009. Internationally acclaimed literary annual published in Amsterdam; perfect bound, 100 pages of the urgent, involved, and unexpected. See website for guidelines and to submit: http://versal.wordsinhere.com. We only accept submissions through our(easy-to-use) online submission manager. Inquiries (only) can be directed to: versal@wordsinhere.com. Deadline: January 15, 2009.

Submission guidelines: http://www.wordsinhere.com/guidelines.html

Centrum Workshop: Ilya Kaminsky

On Oct 9 - 12 at Centrum(details at: http://www.centrum.org/writing/autumn-writers-intensive.html,or call 360.385.3102, x114 for more info.) Ilya Kaminsky will be teaching a poetry workshop and Rebecca Brown will be teaching Fiction workshop at the same time and we expect lots of great overlap of energy, creativity, conversation and other good stuff. Tuition, room and board $595.