Dogwood: A Journal of Prose and Poetry - annual contest, $1,000 prize

Dogwood welcomes entries in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for its annual contest with a $1,000 grand prize for one winning entry. The grand prize winner will be chosen from winners in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Winners in the other two genres will receive prizes of $250.

Deadline: October 15, 2012
Submit here.

Entry fee is $15. All submissions will be considered for publication in the 12th annual edition of this print and e-pub journal. Results of the contest will be announced in Spring 2013 and published in the 2013 issue of Dogwood.

Judges
FICTION: Roxane Gay's work has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012, NOON, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Oxford American, The Rumpus, and many others. She is a columnist for Salon, edits various publications, teaches, and lives in the Midwest.

POETRY: Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil's Garden (Alice James Books, 2003), Mixology (Penguin, 2009) which was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series, and The Big Smoke (Penguin, forthcoming in 2013). He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Lannan Foundation. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and Poetry among other journals and anthologies. He teaches creative writing at Indiana University.

NONFICTION: Adriana Páramo is a cultural anthropologist and author of My Mother's Funeral and Looking for Esperanza, winner of the 2011 Social Justice and Equality Award. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Consequence Magazine, So to Speak, Carolina Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Review, and others. She has worked for Voice of Witness, a book series focusing on contemporary social injustice.

Current and former employees and students of Fairfield University are ineligible for publication. All work is considered anonymously. Contest entries will be given priority for publication. For more information, please email <shuber(at)fairfield.edu>.

Book contest: Patricia Bibby First Book Award

Tebot Bach announces The Patricia Bibby First Book Award

Prize: $1,000 and Book Publication
Judge: Ralph Angel

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, 2012. Entries postmarked after October 31, 2012 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 acknowledgments at this time. 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.

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

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

Call for submissions: Toad

Toad, a quarterly journal of exciting art, is currently reading submissions for Issue 2:3. We want your prose, your poetry, your visual art, your multimedia projects. We want them 365 days a year. You can check out Issue 2:2, featuring work by Joseph Salvatore, Wendy Rawlings, Andrea Cohen, Matt Mauch, Nathan McClain, John Popielaski and more at www.toadthejournal.com

Please send a PDF or Word document to <toadthejournal(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @ in sending email). If your work stretches the boundaries of those formats, send us a link, a bio, a sample--something that makes us excited to see more of your work.

Sundress Publications: Best of the Net Anthology

Submissions are open for the seventh volume of the Best of the Net Anthology from Sundress Publications.

Send nominations for the 2012 edition to <bestofthenet(at)sundresspublications.com> (replace (at) with @) between July 1 and September 30, 2012.

Further submission guidelines can be found at http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/.

Back To The Beat - reading opportunity at Wallingford Center

Got this message a while back. I've been meaning to post it on the blog:

Good morning Jeff: I thought you might be interested in learning about the Spoken Word forum at our art gallery. We had a very successful opening last night and would like to extend an invitation to your members to share their writings of poems in an intimate setting. We call this project Back To The Beat. We are located in the Wallingford Center in north Seattle, at 1818 N 45th St (45th and Wallingford Ave). Back to the Beat is held Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 pm. The building itself closes at 8 pm, so those wishing to participate need to be inside by that time. For more information see our blog: http://kerfinternationalexhibits.blogspot.com/ Best Regards, Tony Huss

Multi-genre contest: Alligator Juniper - $1,000

Alligator Juniper's annual contest awards $1,000 plus publication for the first place winners in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Finalists in each genre will be recognized as such, published, and paid in copies. Cost of entry: $15, checks or money orders payable to Alligator Juniper. Every entrant receives one copy of the 2013 issue, a $10 value. The issue will come out in late spring 2013. There is no theme for this issue; work is selected upon artistic merit. By entering our contest, you agree to allow us to select your work for publication, as a finalist. We encourage submissions from writers of all levels, including emerging or early-career writers. We accept simultaneous submissions; inform us in your cover letter and contact us immediately, should your work be selected elsewhere.


Postmark deadline: October 1, 2012
Entry fee: $15
Prize: $1,000


Submission guidelines

Gazing Grain Press: 2012 Fall for the Book Chapbook Contest

Gazing Grain Press is open to submissions for its inaugural Fall for the Book chapbook contest,which promotes socially-conscious poetry to and by writers of all genders and sexualities.

Award includes chapbook publication, contributor copies, and an invitation to read at a celebratory event at the Fall for the Book literary festival (including continental U.S. travel and accommodation).

Final Judge: Brian Teare

A former National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. He is the author of The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda-award winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses, forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2013.His chapbooks include Pilgrim, Transcendental Grammar Crown, and ]up arrow[ , as well as the forthcoming volumes Paradise Was Typeset, Helplessness and Black Sun Crown. An Assistant Professor at Temple University, he lives in Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Reading period: June 15th-August 1st

Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in chapbook or book form, 15-25 pages. Simultaneous submissions are welcome as long as the manuscript is withdrawn immediately upon its acceptance elsewhere. The entry fee is $20.

Submit online via Submittable.

Book contest: Pavement Saw Press 2012 Transcontinental Award

The Transcontinental Award is for first or second full length books of poetry. All contributors receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee.
Electronic and mailed entries must meet these requirements:

1. The manuscript should be at least 48 pages of poetry and no more than 70 pages of poetry in length. Separations between sections are NOT a part of the page count.
2. A one page cover letter. Include a brief biography, the book's title, your name, address, and telephone number, and, if you have e-mail, your e-mail address. This should be followed by a page which lists publication acknowledgments for the book. For each acknowledgement mention the publisher (journal, anthology, chapbook, etc.) and the poem published.
3. The manuscript should be bound with a single clip and begin with a title page, including the book's title, your name, address, and telephone number, and, if you have e-mail, your e-mail address.
4. The second page should have only the title of the manuscript. There are to be no acknowledgments or mention of the author's name from this page forward. Submissions to the contest are blind judged.
5. There should be no more than one poem on each page. The manuscript can contain pieces longer than one page.
6. Pages should be numbered, beginning with the first page of poetry.

Each year Pavement Saw Press publishes at least one book of poetry and/or prose poems from manuscripts received during this competition. Selections are chosen through a blind judging process. The competition is open to anyone who has not previously published one, or more than one, volume of poetry or prose poetry. The author receives $1,000 and five percent of the 1,000 copy press run.

Previous judges have included Judith Vollmer, David Bromige, Bin Ramke, and Howard McCord. This year David Baratier will be the judge; past students, Pavement Saw Press interns, and employees are not allowed to submit. All poems must be original, all prose must be original, fiction or translations are not acceptable. All writers without a full length book or those who have published only one full length book are eligible. Writers who have had a second volume of poetry and/or prose poetry under 40 pages printed or printed in limited editions of no more than 500 copies are also eligible. Submissions are accepted during the months of June, July, and until August 15th. All submissions must have a Monday, August 15th, 2012, or earlier, postmark. This is an award for first or second books only.

If you wish to send via regular mail your manuscript should be accompanied by a check in the amount of $20.00 made payable to Pavement Saw Press. All US contributors to the contest will receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee. Add $3 (US) for other countries to cover the extra postal charge. Do not include an SASE for notification of results, this information will be sent with the free book. Do not send the only copy of your work. All manuscripts are recycled and individual comments on the manuscripts cannot be made. Entry Fee: $20 for mailed US and Canadian entries, $23 for mailed overseas entries, $27 to submit electronically (all entries, world wide).

If you wish to submit electronically, you should send $27.00 via Paypal to<info(at)pavementsaw.org> (replace (at) with @). We will then send you an e-mail confirmation as well as instructions on where to e-mail the manuscript. Electronic submissions need to be sent as PDF files or as word (.doc) files. Other formats are not accepted. The extra cost is to cover the Paypal fees as well as the time, labor, ink, and so on, to print out your manuscript. In addition to the prize winner, sometimes another anonymous manuscript is chosen, if enough entries arrive. This "editors choice" manuscript will be published under a standard royalty contract. A decision will be reached in December or January.

Entries should be sent to:

Pavement Saw Press
Transcontinental Award Entry
321 Empire Street
Montpelier, OH 43543

Trio House Press Open Reading Period, July 1-July 31

Trio House Press is open for submissions of full-length poetry poetry manuscripts (48-70 pages) during its open reading period, July 1-July 31. Poets whose manuscripts are selected must serve as Collective Members of Trio House Press for 24 months.

All submissions are through Submittable (link will go live on July 1).

Include a detailed cover letter, approximately two pages, with bio, publication history, and marketing plan at the beginning of the file in front of your manuscript. Open reading fee is $20.

Tennessee Williams Poetry Contest - $1,000 and a reading in New Orleans

Send two to four unpublished poems on any theme with a combined length of up to 400 lines.

Prize: $1,000, public reading, VIP Festival pass ($500 value) at the 27th annual New Orleans Literary Festival (March 20-24, 2013), and publication.

 Judge: Ava Leavell Hayman
 Deadline: August 15, 2012
 Entry fee: $20

 For more information, visit the contest website.

Red Sky Redux at the Hopvine Pub - June 24 at 7:30pm

Presented by Les Morely and Raven Chronicles, Red Sky Redux will feature Marion Kimes, Willie Smith, Martha Linehan, and Doug Nufer, as well as music by Wally Shoup.

Sunday, June 24, 7:30pm
The Hopvine Pub
507 15th Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98102

Red Sky Poetry Theater was the longest continuously running poetry open mic on the West Coast (1980-2005).

NaNoWriMo! Now What? - Richard Hugo House course taught by Corinne Manning

I highly recommend this summer course at Richard Hugo House, taught by the lovely Corinne Manning, an editor at Dark Coast Press and one of the members of our poets gathering.
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NaNoWriMo! Now What?

For a month you wrote like a maniac, accumulated words and got that story out. This class will dive into the next step: turning that tangle of notes and ideas into a manuscript. Collectively students will work on the following: take stock of the information they have written and zero in on the actual story they want to tell. We’ll do this through a series of assignments, which will include synopsis writing, the one sentence pitch, time lines and other techniques to help a big project remain coherent in the author’s mind. Writing a book is like building a house from the ground up, and then decorating every room. By the end of this class students will juggle literary masonry and interior decorating like champs.

Corinne Manning is the managing editor of Dark Coast Press. Last year she was the recipient of a year-long writer-in-residence fellowship from the Hub City Writer’s Project. She received her MFA from UNC Wilmington where she was awarded the Stanley Colbert Chapbook Award. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Drunken Boat, Arts and Letters, Hoarse and Qarrtsiluni. She is at work on a novel.

For registration information, visit the Hugo House website.

The Breadline Performance Series: poetry from Gregory Laynor and Robert Lashley, music from Single Malt

Gregory Laynor
Robert Lashley
Single Malt

7pm, June 20, Vermillion

Free!

Residencies: Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City

The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska offers two- to eight-week residencies year-round for writers, visual artists, and music composers. Housing, studio space, and a stipend of $100 per week are provided.

The Center awards approximately 60 residencies per year, with two annual deadlines: March 1 for July through December residencies and September 1 for January through June residencies. Application fee: $35.

The next deadline for applications is September 1, 2012.

2012 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press - $3,000

Deadline: August 31, 2012

Established in 1998, in honor of the poet Benjamin Saltman (1927-1999), this award is for a previously unpublished original collection of poetry. Awarded collection is selected through an annual competition  open to all poets. This year's final judge will be Katharine Coles.

Award is $3000 and publication of the awarded collection by Red Hen Press. Entry fee is $25.00. Name on cover sheet only, 48 page minimum. Send SASE for notification. Entries must be postmarked by August 31.

The award is open to all writers with the following exceptions:

• Authors who have had a full-length work published by Red Hen Press, or a full length work currently under consideration by Red Hen Press

• Employees, interns, or contractors of Red Hen Press

• Relatives of employees or members of the executive board of directors

• Relatives or individuals having a personal or professional relationship with any of the final judges where they have taken any part whatsoever in shaping the manuscript, or where, for whatever reason, selecting a particular manuscript might have the appearance of impropriety.

To be certain that every manuscript finalist receives the fairest evaluation, all manuscripts shall be submitted to the judges without any identifying material.  Bios, acknowledgments, and other identifying material shall be removed from judged manuscripts until the conclusion of the competition.

Red Hen Press shall not use students or interns as readers at any stage of its competitions.

Red Hen Press is committed to maintaining the utmost integrity of its awards. Judges shall recuse themselves from considering any manuscript where they recognize the work. In the event of recusal, a manuscript score previously assigned by the managing editor of the press will be substituted.

Submit materials to:

Attn: Benjamin Saltman Award
Red Hen Press
P.O. Box 40820
Pasadena, CA 91114

Red Hen Press will only accept submissions that have been mailed to the above address; please no email attachments or faxes.

Stand Up & Read - Friday, June 15, 7:30 at Western Bridge

STAND UP & READ

Like a Loser

Friday, June 15, 7:30pm

Western Bridge

Please join us this Friday evening for the fifth program in our spring project series, presented by Robert Mittenthal of Seattle, WA. And feel free to pass on this invitation.

Literary Event Grants from Poets & Writers

Poets & Writers's Readings/Workshops program is accepting applications for literary events taking place in its new fiscal year, which begins July 1. The Readings/Workshops program provides small matching grants ($50-$500) to pay the honoraria of writers who give readings or teach writing workshops at all types of community venues in California, Houston, Seattle, and Tucson.

Guidelines and an application are available atwww.pw.org/funding. Organizations must apply on a writer's behalf, but writers may initiate the application process. Applications must be received at least eight weeks in advance of the event date.

Poets & Writers is especially interested in supporting workshops with teens, seniors, and other underserved populations, and events taking place in rural areas of California. Contact Assistant Director Jamie FitzGerald with questions at 310-481-7195.

Marie Alexander Poetry Series: White Pine Press

A prize of $1,000 and publication by Marie Alexander Poetry Series, an imprint of White Pine Press, is given annually for a collection of prose poems or flash fiction by a U.S. writer. Submit a manuscript, which can include only a small percentage of lineated pieces, of at least 48 pages during the month of July. Marie Alexander Poetry Series, Prose Poetry & Flash Fiction Reading, Attention: Nickole Brown, English Department, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 South University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72204. For questions, email:<editor(at)mariealexanderseries.com> (replace (at) with @)

Most Wanted - 48 more hours

GOOD NEWS: I was able to add two more days...If you have a Kindle, you can download Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse Thursday and Friday of this week (through midnight Friday, Pacific time). To get a free copy, beginning 12am Thursday (midnight tonight), go here.

Sold over 2,000 copies in print....now the deck's only available digitally.

Dozens of rare book libraries bought most wanted, including those at Yale University, University of Alabama, SUNY Binghamton, University of Colorado at Boulder, Brown University, University of Miami, University of Pennsylvania, Colorado College, Carleton College, Stanford University, Mills College, The University of Iowa, University College London, UC San Diego, Maryland Institute College of Art, New York Public Library, and many others.

Reviews, comments, and interviews related to Most Wanted:

• Jeff Encke. “Spinal Liberation: A Manifesto for Chance Operation” (response to Nathan Moore for his Just One Thing feature). Read Write Poem. January 19, 2010. 
• Sarah Vap. “Jeff Encke Potty Trained My Son While I Wrote This, and Other Miracles of the Gamble in Verse.” Hayden’s Ferry Review Blog. October 5, 2009. 
• Alexis Vergalla. “I was taught to read in a linear fashion” (review). Web Del Sol Review of Books. Issue 6. 2009. 
• Jeremy Voigt. “Most Wanted: A Gamble in Verse” (review). Arbutus: Reviews & Criticism. 
• Pirooz Kalayeh. “In Dialogue: Encke and Kalayeh” (interview). BABEL Webzine. January 2007.

2012 Fall for the Book Chapbook Contest: Gazing Grain Press

On June 15, Gazing Grain Press will open submissions for its inaugural Fall for the Book chapbook contest, which promotes socially-conscious poetry to and by writers of all genders and sexualities.

Award includes chapbook publication, contributor copies, and an invitation to read at a celebratory event at the Fall for the Book literary festival (including continental U.S. travel and accommodation).

Final Judge: Brian Teare

A former National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. He is the author of The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda-award winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses, forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2013.Hischapbooks include Pilgrim, Transcendental Grammar Crown, and ]up arrow[ , as well as the forthcoming volumes Paradise Was Typeset, Helplessness and Black Sun Crown. An Assistant Professor at Temple University, he lives in Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Reading Period: June 15th-August 1st

Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in chapbook or book form, 15-25 pages. Simultaneous submissions are welcome as long as the manuscript is withdrawn immediately upon its acceptance elsewhere. The entry fee is $20.

Submit online via Submittable.

Visit our full guidelines page here.