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The Malahat Review – Fall 2009

Despite much evidence to the contrary, or the apparent – or at least underestimated – challenges of doing so, it is possible to write an original and unforgettable speaker-meets-nature poem; or a speaker talks-to-poem poem; or a family story poem; or a poem with diction as casual as a nonchalant conversation; or a poem with images of popular culture; or yet one more poem about the mystery of math. It is possible to write an original and satisfying story from the perspective of a child or an adolescent that is also mature and inventive, not excessively playful or childish. It is possible to write a book review that exhibits intellectual sophistication without resorting to jargon. It is, in fact, possible to find all of these original and exceptional pieces in one place, writing by Susan Gillis, Jefferey Donaldson, Sam Cheuk, Rachel Rose, Eve Joseph, Ross Leckie, Eliza Robertson, Devon Code, Jackie Gay, Eric Miller – in The Malahat Review. Continue reading “The Malahat Review – Fall 2009”

The Meadow – 2009

The Meadow is an annual journal published by Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. Truckee Meadows students serve on the editorial board and represent the largest group of contributors to the magazine, although this issue’s contributors also include several MFA students from large universities and a few more seasoned writers. The centerpiece of the issue is an interview with novelist and memoirist Kim Barnes (A Country Called Home, Finding Caruso, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in an Unknown Country, Hungry for the World), conducted by the journal’s fiction editor, Mark Maynard. They discuss the genesis of Barnes’s most recent novel, the importance of place in that book, her writing process, and her upcoming work. Continue reading “The Meadow – 2009”

Moon City Review – 2009

For twenty years, Moon City Review was a student-run biannual journal published by the Missouri State University department of English. With the 2009 issue, the magazine transitions to a “book annual featuring work in various genres from multiple communities; from current students and faculty to celebrated alums and artists of regional, national, and even international reputation.” The new journal will include a section titled “Archival Treasures from the Ozarks,” which will “’bring back’ artists whose works lie languishing, and largely forgotten.” In their lengthy introduction announcing these changes, the editors invite submissions for future issues, which will focus on special themes, though not to the exclusion of other work, to include “speculative fictions,” an alumni issue, and the art and literature of children and adolescents. Continue reading “Moon City Review – 2009”

Paul Revere’s Horse – Spring 2009

For those of us fortunate to live in Massachusetts, the name Paul Revere nearly conjures magic, in the fairy-tale sense. Perhaps it was by design, then, that the publishers of this journal’s very first edition would use tales that evoke feelings of long-agos, and far, far-aways. Micaela Morrissette’s tale, “The Glowing Light in the Forest” is the perfect ambassador for Paul Revere’s Horse’s first foray, and the perfect example of magic conjured by pen. Truly, I can give but a hint or two of her ingenious story/poem. For example, “In the cool, damp, dark forest, a princess.” If this seems like a slight tease, then I’ll add one of Morrissette’s devilishly clever lists: “The forest. The princess. The well. The tower. The red rose. The frog. The ring. The dog. The tear. The servant. The key. The mirror. The witch. The disguise.” But that is all I will say. To give you, the reader, more would spoil the surprise that is Morrissette’s writing, and her utterly captivating tale. This imagining would be enough to recommend the journal; it’s that good, but Paul Revere’s Horse has so much more to offer. Continue reading “Paul Revere’s Horse – Spring 2009”

Shenandoah – Fall 2009

As usual there are great poems and stories in the latest issue of Shenandoah, though I must say that the two essays, Jeffrey Hammond’s engaging “My Father’s Hats, and a wrenching must-read by Shari Wagner, “Camels, Cowries & A Poem for Aisha,” about harrowing conditions in Somalia, are stand-outs. Set within the frame of a memoir, Jeffrey Hammond’s essay, “My Father’s Hats,” is an entertaining history of the hat, beginning with the snug pilos, the Greek name for a common, helmet-shaped cap made of felt. I sat at my computer as I read, Googling the names of hats as Hammond’s prose moved through the centuries. Continue reading “Shenandoah – Fall 2009”

Updates :: December 2009

Added to NewPages Big List of Literary Magazines:

nthWORD – satires and allegories, articles on politics and pop-culture, fiction, poetry, visual art
Rust and Moth – poetry, photography, art
The Mom Egg – poetry, creative prose, short fiction
Eudaimonia Poetry Review
The Lyric Magazine
nthWORD satire, allegory, articles on politics and pop-culture, fiction, poetry, visual art
The Round
Mythium
moonset
The Poetry Porch
Porchlight
Beatdom
Fact-Simile
Write This
shady side review – fiction, non-fiction, poetry

Added to NewPages Independent Publishers & University Presses:

Palm Press

Added to NewPages Writing Conferences, Workshops, Retreats, Centers, Residencies & Book & Literary:Festivals

Page Turner Literary Festival

Image Inspired Writing Contest :: Underwater New York

From Nicki Pombier Berger, Editor-in-Chief, Underwater New York:

The Underwater New York Shipwreck Story Contest: In conjunction with the American Folk Art Museum

Underwater New York is an online anthology of stories, art and music inspired by the underwater objects and phenomena that surround New York City.

Artists and storytellers have long drawn inspiration from our cityscape, but underneath the water’s surface is another landscape entirely. On the floors of New York City’s waterways, no fewer than one hundred and seventy shipwrecks languish. Although their exact locations must remain secret to thwart the efforts of amateur looters, we are asking you to dive in and mine the wreckage.

Draw your inspiration from our gallery of shipwreck images and tell a story—fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry—in 3000 words or less, that brings these ghost ships back to life.

As with our regular submissions, we are not asking for explanations, but rather the stories that these shipwrecks evoke. Be as creative as possible, but to qualify for the contest, your story must reference a shipwreck specifically in the NYC waterways.

Underwater New York presents the Shipwreck Story Contest in conjunction with the American Folk Art Museum’s exhibition, Thomas Chambers (1808-1869): American Maritime and Landscape Painter.

The winning story will be published in Underwater New York, and its author* will have the chance to read at Underwater New York Free Music Friday: Shipwreck Stories at the American Folk Art Museum on March 5, 2010.

• Submit contest entries online.

• The deadline for submissions is February 12, 2010.

• Contest winners will be announced on the Underwater New York website on February 23rd.

• Visit the site for more details, and to view the gallery of shipwreck images.

*Provided the author is located in, or can travel to, New York City

Narrative 30 Below Contest Winners

Narrative Magazine has announced the winners and finalists of the 30 Below Contest (all entrants are between the ages of 18-30):

First Prize: Montana Ray “The Blessing”
Second Prize: Greg Brown “Smokejumpers”
Third Prize: Christa Hillstrom “Depth of Field”

Finalists:
Carrie Braman
Ashley Kunsa
Kate Levin
Michael Mitnick
Golan Moskowitz
Richard Sonnenmoser
Diana Spechler
Jackie Thomas-Kennedy
Emily Van Kley
Sara Zandieh

MFA Program-Off Contest

Time to make your MFA program shine with this contest from Creative Nonfiction. Win a reading at the 2010 AWP Conference in Denver, publication in the summer 2010 issue of CNF, and bragging rights for your program!

Judge: Barbara Lounsberry, co-author (with Gay Talese) of Writing Creative Nonfiction: The Literature of Reality

Guidelines:

Contest is open to any student currently enrolled in an MFA creative writing program.

Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, no more than 3,000 words, and unpublished.

This is a blind read; your name should appear only in the cover letter, and each page of the manuscript should include the title of the piece.

No excerpts will be considered; your submission should be a single and complete piece.

Only one submission per author will be considered.

Please send submission and a cover letter with your name, university, complete contact information and title of the work to:

Creative Nonfiction Foundation
Attn: AWP Program-Off
5501 Walnut Street, Suite 202
Pittsburgh, PA 15232

New Lit on the Block :: experiment-o

experiment-o is an annual PDF magazine established in 2008. “Its aim is to bring attention to works that do what art is supposed to do and that is to risk.” The magazine is published by Amanda Earl of AngelHouse Press.

experiment-o will consider interviews, reviews, visual art, visual poetry, concrete poetry, poetry, prose, manifestos, maps, rants, blog entries, translations and other digital miscellany.

Issue Two (2009) features works by Jamie Bradley, Peter Cicariello, K. S. Ernst, Caroline Gomersall, John C. Goodman, Jeremy Hanson-Finger, Gil McElroy, Christine McNair, Sean Moreland, and Dominik Parisien.

Issue One (2008) features works by Gary Barwin, Emily Falvey, Spencer Gordon, Camille Martin, rob mclennan, Sheila E. Murphy, Pearl Pirie, Roland Prevost, Jenny Sampirisi, and Steve Venright.

Emerson Society Awards 2010

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces three awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.

*Research Grant*
Provides up to $500 to support scholarly work on Emerson. Preference given to junior scholars and graduate students. Submit a 1-2-page project description by March 1, 2010.

*Pedagogy or Community Project Award*
Provides up to $500 to support projects designed to bring Emerson to a non-academic audience. Submit a 1-2-page project description by March 1, 2010.

*Subvention Award*
Provides up to $500 to support costs attending the publication of a scholarly book or article on Emerson and his circle. Submit a 1-2-page proposal, including an abstract of the forthcoming work and a description of publication expenses, by March 1, 2010.

Send Research, Pedagogy/Community, and Subvention proposals to:

Leslie Eckel
leckel(at)suffolk(dot)edu

and

Daniel Malachuk
ds-malachuk(at)wiu(dot)edu

How Poems Work Essay Contest – Canada

From Arc Poetry Magazine: Write and submit an essay deconstructing a published poem by a Canadian poet. Arc will select a winning essay from each province for publication in their How Poems Work webzine. Arc will select a national winner whose essay will appear in their print magazine, and who will be commissioned to write two new essays for Arc’s How Poems Work webzine. (The winner will also be offered a mentorship opportunity with Arc’s Poet-in-Residence.) All winners receive a free one-year subscription to Arc.

Deadline: February 1, 2010

A Few Fellowships and Residencies

Winter Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. The postmark deadline for the 2010-11 Writing Fellowships is December 1, 2009. 2010-2011 Visual Arts Fellowship applicants may apply online beginning December 1, 2009. Online submissions must be received by midnight February 1, 2010.

The Reginald S. Tickner Writing Fellowship is an annual writer-in-residence position named in honor of Reginald Tickner, whose 41-year career at Gilman impacted thousands of Gilman students. Jan 8 deadline.

Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at The Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Deadline Feb 20.

T-Shirt Subscriptions from McSweeney’s

McSweeney’s is now offering a new subscription: A Year of New Shirts. They’ve asked six artists to each come up with a t-shirt idea, which is then printed and sold as both a subscription and as individual shirts. Currently, subscribers will start with Tucker Nichols’s “Hetch Hetchy”. Visit McSweeney’s website for more info.

Ever Been Autocompleted?

Autocomplete Me is site devoted to submissions of “autocomplete” strands from Google searches. Autocomplete is explained on the site: “Remember that time you were innocently searching for ‘how to avoid swine flu’ but Google assumed you were searching for ‘how to avenge your brother’s death’? Yeah, that totally wasn’t what you were searching for, but it ended up being super helpful after your best friend ‘accidentally’ stabbed Michael.” There are text as well as screen capture submissions, so you can see better how this works. You submit the strand, it could end up on the site, and readers vote for their favorites.

Lit Mag Mentors

A regular section in The Louisville Review, “The Children’s Corner” accepts submissions of previously unpublished poetry from students in grades K-12.

The Fall 2009 issue features works by Kian Brouwer, fifth grade, Danielle Charette, high school senior, Carla Hasson and Katie Metzger, both seventeen-years-olds, and Ema Williamson, eleventh grade.

More importantly, all are young writers who have the support and encouragement of others in their lives who have helped them take this step in sharing their work with others. And most importantly, The Louisville Review has provided this opportunity for them. Let’s call it “Lit Mag Mentoring.” It sure would be nice to see this in more publications; not only does this foster a new generation of writers, but readers of literary magazines. Sounds like a win-win to me.

A Model Year

Aside from the eye catching distressed-look cover design of Gina Myers's new poetry collection, A Model Year, one of the endorsement blurbs on the back cover snared my attention. The blurb wherein critically acclaimed poet Joseph Lease assigns to Myers work a "New York school sprezzetura" informed my reading of Myers's collection, which is one good reason I usually forego the reading of such matter until after my initial opinion has been formed. Not so this time. Continue reading “A Model Year”

The Slow Vanishing

My poetry workshop recently concluded all poems are about loss. To a certain extent, all stories are too. Maureen Sherbondy’s short stories in The Slow Vanishing definitely follow this theme. The title is evidence, as are the stories inside. There are vanishing limbs, vanishing mothers, vanishing children, and vanishing commas. In many cases, Sherbondy literalizes an emotional loss. A husband doesn’t just feel like his wife is lost because she isn’t doing her normal routine; she actually is lost, and he has to deal with it. Parents don’t feel like they’ve lost their children when they head out on their own; the children actually fly away. This literalization is a wonderfully imaginative way to tell a story, as well as great way to raise crucial questions about life, and how it can be lived. Continue reading “The Slow Vanishing”

MLKNG SCKLS

Excerpted from the novel Falcons on the Floor, Justin Sirois’s MLKNG SCKLS is ostensibly the story of a road trip across a war-torn landscape. Actually, these aren’t excerpts but excised texts, deleted Word documents from narrator Salim Abid’s laptop intended for the novel Abid wrote while escaping from Fallujah to Ramadi with his friend Khalil. Salim’s epistolary accounts are composed on his laptop and are sectioned off by how much remaining battery power his laptop has. It’s a striking metafictional device that evocatively suggests that time may also be literally running out for Salim and Khalil. As Salim’s laptop’s battery power percentage decreases, the characters’ uncertainty increases. At any moment, you think that Salim will get the pop-up balloon saying: “Low Battery: You should change your battery or switch to outlet power immediately to keep from losing your work.” Continue reading “MLKNG SCKLS”

Her Highness’ First Murder

Being a bit of a history buff, I was excited to read Her Highness’ First Murder by Peg Herring. I must admit that my knowledge of the Tudor period is mostly confined to the early part of Henry VIII’s reign, but even so, I felt as if Herring accurately portrayed the personalities of her characters during the later part of his reign. Continue reading “Her Highness’ First Murder”

AROHO’s 2009 Contest Winners

A Room of Her Own Foundation’s 1st To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize Winner was Genevieve Kaplan’s manuscript, In the Icehouse. Her book of poetry will be published by Red Hen Press in the fall of 2010.

2nd Annual To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize
Postmark Deadline: August 31, 2010
Judge: Alice Quinn

Fall 2009 Orlando Prize Winners

Orlando Poetry Prize Winner
Mary Ellen Sanger, “Secrets of a Wooden Saint in a Church in Jalcomulco”

Orlando Nonfiction Prize Winner
Patricia Henritze, “Learning to Talk”

Orlando Sudden Fiction Prize Winner
Alyssa Cooper, “Tin Man Tick-Tock”

Orlando Short Fiction Prize Winner
Lyn Hawks, “The Flat and Weightless Tang-Filled Future”

Orlando in 2010, New Deadlines and Information
Orlando Nonfiction & Short Fiction Deadline — 1/31/10
Orlando Poetry & Sudden Fiction Deadline — 2/28/10
New dates and online forms will be available the week of 11/16/09

Glimpse Interns, Guest Editors and Design Leads

Glimpse is an interdisciplinary journal that examines the functions, processes, and effects of vision and its implications for being, knowing, and constructing our world(s). Each theme-focused issue features articles, visual essays, interviews, and reviews spanning the physical sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

Glimpse is currently seeking conscientious, self-directed interns that can commit to meeting in person as a team for 2-4 hours on Saturday mornings in Boston (or via Skype, if necessary), and to working independently for 6-18 hours per week. Internships are available for 10, 15, and 20 hours per week. Glimpse can endorse work for college or graduate credit, or offer access to office and studio resources for your own projects. Their objective is to create opportunities that benefit their interns and the journal equally. Application deadline for Spring interns is December 20.

Glimpse also welcomes inquiries for Guest Editors and Guest Design Leads for upcoming themed issues.

Open Minds Honorable Mentions

The newest issue of Open Minds Quarterly includes poems from the honorable mentions from their seventh annual BrainStorm Poetry Contest: Tracy King, David O’Neal, Michale Conner, Diane Klammer, Benjamin Hawkes, and ky perraun. Open Minds Quaterly is a publication of The Writer’s Circle, a project of Northern Initiative for Social Action. NISA is “built on the premise that consumer/survivors of mental health services are intelligent, creative, and can make a valuable contribution to society if given the opportunity to do so.”

Ugly Duckling Presse 2010 Subscriptions

Another great holiday gift – UDP basic subscriptions (limited to 200) receive more than 20 books throughout the year, sent directly to your home, including new works of poetry, essays, and artist books by emerging and established writers and artists. The books are all uniquely designed, with frequent use of letterpress, hand-sewn binding, and more, demonstrating “a philosophical curiosity about what makes a book a book” (Michael Miller, Time Out New York).

Eudora Welty Review

In 2009, the Eudora Welty Newsletter from Georgia State University metamorphosed into the Eudora Welty Review, an annual journal, published each April. The innaugural issue contains essays chosen from past Eudora Welty Newsletters.

Beginning in 2010, the Eudora Welty Review will publish lengthier scholarly essays, inaugurate a book review section, and maintain regular features for news and notes, textual analyses, checklists, and new archival materials, still with appropriate illustrative materials. Additional scholars have been invited to assist EWR editors as peer reviewers and members of the Advisory Board.

EWR editors are currently accepting essay submissions for the 2010 issue.

Afghan Women’s Writing Project

The Afghan Women’s Writing Project began as an idea during novelist Masha Hamilton’s last trip to Afghanistan in November 2008. Her interest in Afghanistan was sparked in the late 1990s during the Taliban period, when she understood it was one of the worst places in the world to be a woman.

The project reaches out to talented and generous women author/teachers here in the United States and engages them, on a volunteer, rotating basis, to teach Afghan women online from Afghanistan…Portions of the work will be put on a blog on a regular basis…it is intended to instill a sense of pride for these women…it is also intended to educate us, the teachers and readers of the blog, about what the Afghan women’s childhoods and young adulthoods were like under the Taliban, and what they feel about current conditions in their country…[it] is also meant to be a record of the project itself…it is intended to provide a positive link between Afghans and Americans at a time when those relationships have to some degree soured.

Bonfire Broadsides

Run by Sasha Steensen and Gordon Hadfield, Bonfire Press is the Center for Literary Publishing’s letterpress imprint. Using a Vandercook SP15 letterpress, type, and photopolymer plates, Bonfire produces a series of poetry chapbooks and broadsides. Two new broadsides recently added by G.C. Waldrep and Martha Ronk. Great for holiday gifting.

Bigger Burnside

The newest Burnside Review breaks away from it’s trademark 6×6 format for a special “All-Oregon Issue.” According to its publishers, “With the prize money from last year’s Literary Arts publishing fellowship, we decided to give back to our state. The special edition is a truly Oregonian creation; cover art by the Mercury’s art director Justin Scrappers, design and printing and stiching by Pinball Publishing. The issue features 33 of Oregon’s finest writers, including, Willy Vlautin, Kevin Sampsell, Vern Rutsala, Mary Szybist, Michele Glazer and Floyd Skloot.”

Jobs

The MFA Program in Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor, Fiction Writing, Tenure Track to teach creative writing and literature at undergraduate/graduate levels beginning Fall 2010. Corrinne Hales, Search Committee Chair. Materials received by December 21, 2009 will receive full consideration.

The Undergraduate College of Rosemont College invites applications for an adjunct instructor to teach Creative Writing Poetry in the spring 2010 semester.

Fifth Wednesday Editor’s Prize

Every year, Fifth Wednesday Journal reviews the work of contributing artists to make selections for the Editor’s Prize in short fiction, poetry, and photography. The fall 2009 issue includes the editors comments on their selections. This year, Ann Leahy selected the work of Ray Gonzalez (“Canto” fall 2008), with a special note of recognition to Rebecca B. Rank and Mary Biddinger. Andrew Coburn’s fiction (“Hearty Women” spring 2009) was selected by Keith Gandal, and Barbara DeGenevieve selected the photography of Harry Wilson (“Classroom Turkey” fall 2008), with an honorable mention to Leigh Wells.

New Lit on the Block :: Sugar House Review

Sugar House Review is an independent, semiannual poetry journal based out of Salt Lake City, Utah edited by John Kippen, Nathaniel Taggart, Jerry VanIeperen, and Natalie Young.

The first issue is slim but packed with poems by Jeffrey C. Alfier, Rane Arroyo, Ruth Bavetta, Candace Black, Kenneth Brewer, Teresa Cader, Rob Carney, Star Coulbrooke, Tobi Cogswell, Brock Dethier, Cat Dixon, Gary Dop, William Doreski, Justin Evans, Howie Good, Dustin M. Hoffman, Natasha Kessler, Robin Linn, Grant Loveys, Matt Mason, Michael McLane, Paul Muldoon, J.R. Pearson, Nanette Rayman Rivera, Richard Robbins, Jerome Rothenberg, Sam Ruddick, Ki Russell, Natahsa Saj

Open City 2009 RRofihe Winner

Leslie Maslow of Brooklyn, New York is Open City’s 2009 RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest winner for her story “Mum” – which will appear in Open City #28.

Runners-Up
Corey Campbell
Avi Kramer
Adam Gallari
Amy Halloran
Nick Kocz
Renee Hahn

Guidelines for the 2010 RRofihe Trophy For an unpublished short story (up to 5,000), judged by Rick Rofihe. Deadline October 15, 2010.

Writers’ Room Fellowships

The Writers’ Room of Boston, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides affordable, quiet, and secure workspace in downtown Boston for area writers, is now accepting applications for four fellowships for 2010. The fellowships award use of the Writers’ Room to Boston Area residents at no cost for one year. The submission deadline for applications is December 31, 2009. Residencies will begin in February 2010.

Lectureship

Emerging Writer Lectureship Department of English Gettysburg College

One-year appointment, beginning August 2010, for a creative writer who plans a career that involves college-level teaching, to teach three courses per semester, including Introduction to Creative Writing and an advanced course in the writer’s genre, as well as to assist with departmental writing activities. Mentorship for teaching and assistance in professional development provided. M.A., with a concentration in creative writing, M.F.A., or Ph.D. with creative dissertation, required. Teaching experience and literary magazine publications are essential. Competitive salary.

To apply, send letter of application, curriculum vitae, names of three references, and a 5-10 page writing sample to: Emerging Writer Lectureship, Department of English, Campus Box 397, Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Gettysburg, PA 17325, postmarked by January 29, 2010. Electronic applications will not be accepted. Do not send entire monographs, books, etc.

Gettysburg College is a highly selective liberal arts college located within 90 minutes of the Washington/Baltimore metropolitan area. Established in 1832, the College has a rich history and is situated on a 220-acre campus with an enrollment of over 2,600 students. Gettysburg College celebrates diversity and welcomes applications from members of any group that has been historically underrepresented in the American academy. The College assures equal employment opportunity and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, and disability.
Application Information

Postal Address:
Emerging Writer Lectureship
Department of English
Gettysburg College
300 North Washington Street
Box 397
Gettysburg, PA 17325

Phone:
(717) 337-6750

Fax:
(717) 337-8551

TDD:
(717) 337-6833

CFS: Creative Works for Grad Conference

CFS for scholarly and creative submissions for a National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference entitled “The End?” to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington from March 25th-27th, 2010.

Looking for graduate student writers to give readings of their work that engage with the conference theme either thematically or formally (or both). Readings that challenge notions of endings, structure, or traditional formal boundaries, are all welcome, along with work that engages with the conference theme within the piece itself, through narrative or language. This conference hopes to examine how endings and limits are depicted, along with how we surpass (or are constrained by) them as writers.

Other topics might include, but are not limited to:

Endings as beginnings / beginnings as endings
The end of genre, crossing genre
Translation
The apocalypse and apocalyptic literature
The end of the human
Violence, death, grief, trauma
Moments of crisis
War
The ends of the earth
Fringe, margins, outlines
The future of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, etc.

Accepting proposals for individual projects as well as panel proposals organized by topic/theme/form. Organizers are committed to involving as much creative work as possible in the conference and representing a wide variety of writers.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words describing your work and its relation to the conference theme, as well as five representative pages of creative work and as a short description of yourself, by January 15th, 2010: iugradconference-at-gmail-dot-com

Graduate Student Advisory Committee
Department of English
Indiana University

New Lit on the Block :: Eudaimonia Poetry Review

Eudaimonia Poetry Review is new on the web and well put-together by John Boyle, chapbook editor; Elaine Burnet, art editor; Kris Clements, reviews editor; Scott Forence, production design; Allison McEntire, poetry editor.

Publishing poetry and reviews of both new and classic works of poetry, the first issue includes works by Bob Mohrbacher, Liz Garcia, William Doreski, Derek Phillips, Kimberly Sherman, Clay Carpenter, M.V. Montgomery, Joel Solonche, Noah Lederman, Jay Snodgrass, Steven Joyce, Jill Caputo, Samuel Piccone, Caleb Puckett, Cesca Janece Waterfield, Angela S. Patane, Fredrick Zydek.

Eudaimonia is open for submission until November 30 for its next issue (ars poetica on the pursuit of happiness: Ars Joetica) , and is accepting submissions for its first chapbook contest until December 31.

Jobs

The English Department at Missouri State University in Springfield, MO anticipates an August 16, 2010 opening for a 9-month, non-tenure-track Creative Writing (Poetry) Instructor.

The University of Michigan-Flint invites applications for a tenure-track position in Creative Writing at the Assistant Professor level beginning in Fall 2010. Thomas C. Foster, English Department. Review begins Jan 4.

Assistant Professor of English – Creative Nonfiction Writing, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN. Susan Hauser, Chair Department of English.

The Department of English and Writing in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa seeks a candidate for an Assistant Professor of English, tenure track, in creative writing (poetry) to begin August 2010.

Bennington College (VT) seeks two published writers of distinguished literary accomplishment to teach literature and writing to highly motivated undergraduates

Seven Stories Offers Free Books

From Ashley Brooke Roberts, Seven Stories Press:

In honor of the festival of brutal late-capitalist commerce that the day after Thanksgiving, or Black Friday, has become in America, Seven Stories Press wishes to offer — as our contribution to the alternative tradition of celebrating the day after Thanksgiving as Buy Nothing Day — free copies of some of our titles, drawn from the Seven Stories list of titles featuring voices of conscience and works of the imagination from authors including Howard Zinn, Ariel Dorfman, Kristin Dawkins, Kate Braverman, Barry Gifford, Nelson Algren, Rick DeMarinis, Hattie Gossett, Ralph Nader, and more.

The free titles will be available from noon to 4 PM EST on Friday, November 27, 2009. We’ll have a limited number of copies available of each title, which will be up on our website soon. Each customer can take a copy of one book, which will ship with a free catalog and a chapbook containing the opening chapters from our Fall 2009 lead fiction title, The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-yong. No payment of any kind is required — no book price, no shipping, nothing. The books are absolutely free. All that’s required is that you create an account with sevenstories.com, allowing you to buy books from us in the future at a 25% discount, if and when you choose.

This is a perfect chance to discover some of the authors from the Seven Stories Press list, and to intellectually arm yourself for the coming holiday season. Keep up to date by following our Twitter and Facebook feeds, and we’ll see you on Buy Nothing Day 2009.

Glimmer Train September Fiction Winners

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their September Fiction Open competition. This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers for stories with a word count range between 2000-20,000. No theme restrictions. The next Fiction Open competition will take place in December. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: Carrie Brown [pictured] of Sweet Briar, VA, wins $2000 for “Bomb.” Her story will be published in the Fall 2010 issue of Glimmer Train Stories, out in August 2010.

Second place: Ken Barris of Cape Town, South Africa, wins $1000 for “Life Underwater.” His story will also be published in an upcoming issue of Glimmer Train Stories.

Third place: Lydia Fitzpatrick of Brooklyn NY, wins $600 for “Ellijay.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Glimmer Train has also selected the 50 winning entries for their Best Start competition. Each wins $50 and makes Glimmer Train’s Best Start list.

Deadline soon approaching!

November Short Story Award for New Writers: November 30

This competition is held quarterly and is open to writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5000. No theme restrictions. Word count should not exceed 12,000. (All shorter lengths welcome.) Click here for complete guidelines.