Audrey Petty Named a Chicagoan of the Year by Chicago Trib

Professor Audrey Petty was named one of the Chicago Tribune's "Chicagoans of the Year" for 2013. Professor Petty's recent critically acclaimed book, High Rise Stories, chronicles the stories of former residents of Chicago's public housing.

calls for submissions 12/13

2013-2014 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award
Submissions open: June 1, 2013 - February 1, 2014

The Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award includes a cash prize of $500, publication by Vine Leaves Press (paperback and eBook), 20 copies of the paperback, worldwide distribution, and promotion through Vine Leaves Literary Journal and staff websites. Author will receive a 50% royalty on all eBook and print sales.

Manuscripts are judged by Vine Leaves Literary Journal staff, and guest judge, Dan Holloway. This competition is open to vignettes in English (poetry and/or prose), written by authors anywhere in the world. Individual pieces in a manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, print or web journals, or anthologies, but the work as a whole must be unpublished (this includes previously self-published books.)

For submission guidelines, please go to: http://www.vineleavesliteraryjournal.com/contests.html

Mississippi Review Prize--Deadline Extended to January 1st, 2014. The winners and finalists will be announced in March 2014 and the issue is set to be published in June 2014. The contest awards prizes of $1,000 in fiction and poetry. Winners and finalists will make up next winter's print issue of the national literary magazine Mississippi Review. Contest is open to all writers in English except current or former students or employees of The University of Southern Mississippi.

Fiction entries should be 1,000-8,000 words and poetry entries should be 3-5 poems totaling 10 pages or less. There is no limit on the number of entries you may submit.

Paper entry fee is $15 per entry, payable by check or money order to "Mississippi Review". Online submission entry fee is $16, payable through SUBMITTABLE.

Entries should have "MR Prize," author name, address, phone, e-mail and title of work on page one.

Send paper entries to:

Mississippi Review Prize 2014
118 College Drive #5144
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-0001

OR: Enter online at SUBMITTABLE

 

 

 

The Fat City Review "exhibits work from the established to the emerging and unrecognized. We recoil from imposing limits or censorship on our content, feeling that it is insincere to classify the breadth of the human experience under narrowly defined parameters. Following this philosophy, we welcome diverse styles, visions, and forms, using excellence as our sole guideline. Welcome to our city." Submissions of text, art, audio, and video art accepted. For complete guidelines, visit http://fatcityreview.com/submit 

 

 

Commons Magazine is now accepting submissions to their poetry column, UNCOMMON/WORD, through December 31 at 11:59 p.m. PST. Commons Magazine reviews work twice yearly, often on a theme or specific subject. The current theme is “water." You can also learn more about On the Commons, and the commons movement, here. Six poets will be selected and featured in the magazine during each submission round. See full submission guidelines, and please note there is a limit of THREE (3) poems per person, per submission round. Email work to poetrysubmissions@onthecommons.org

The 2014 Bristol Short Story Prize is open to all published and unpublished writers, UK and non-UK based, over 16 years of age. Stories can be on any theme or subject and
entry can be made online via the website or by post. Entries must be previously unpublished
with a maximum length of 4,000 words (There is no minimum). The entry fee is £8 (about $13 USD) per story. The closing date for entries is April 30th 2014.

Prizes:
1st £1000 (about $1,600 USD) plus £150 Waterstone's gift card
2nd £700 (about $1,100 USD) plus £100 Waterstone's gift card
3rd £400 (about $640 USD) plus £100 Waterstone's gift card
17 further prizes of £100 (about $160 USD) will be presented to the writers whose stories appear on the shortlist. All 20 shortlisted writers will have their stories published in the Bristol Short
Story Prize Anthology Volume 7.

Full details and rules at www.bristolprize.co.uk

Seeking PROSE ON POETRY for possible inclusion in POETRY CITY, USA, vol. 4, an anthology of poems read at the Great Twin Cities Poetry Read (GTCPR) plus various prose on poetry. Doesn't matter what form the prose takes (review, interview, essay, missive, etc.). No length requirements. The GTCPR is an annual reading, held in April, at which 30 or so poets all read a single poem each. A year after the reading, the anthology comes out. That means that the GTCPR held on April 26, 2014, with be the fifth anniversary reading. That night will also be the night POETRY CITY, USA, VOL. 4 launches. Deadline for submission is Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. Send pieces to mauchmauch [at] gmail [dot] com.

 

Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine is expanding their publication schedule.  On January 1, 2014 they'll begin publishing a new feature every other day. With that in mind they are once again calling for submissions of poetry and flash. Guidelines may be found here.

 

 

Main Street Rag's Poetry Book Award Prize: $1,200.00. Entry fee: $25.00. Deadline: 01-31-2014. Send between 48 and 84 pages of poetry, no more than one poem per page. No restriction on content style or subject. Winner receives 50 books and $1200. Runners up also considered for publication. The Main Street Rag Poetry Award is an annual full-length poetry book contest sponsored by Main Street Rag. Detailed entry guidelines at: http://www.mainstreetrag.com/PoBkCont.html

Michael Madonick's new poetry collection now available

CW Professor Michael Madonick's latest poetry collection, Bulrushes, has just been published by The Backwaters Press. About Bulrushes, William Wenthe writes, "Through extraordinary range and mastery of diction and music, Madonick pits the confusions and destructions of the present, both natural and human, against the consolation and tested experience of lyric."

LeAnne Howe Interview at Superstition Review

A terrific interview with CW Professor LeAnne Howe is featured in the latest issue of the Superstition Review, the online literary journal published at Arizona State University.

VOICE Reading Series, Thursday 12/5

Come hear UIUC creative writing grad students Khaleel Gheba, Roya Khatiblou, and Lucilena Williams read poetry and fiction at the Krannert Art Museum on Thursday, December 5, at 7:30 p.m.