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BOMB Fiction Contest, win $500 and publication, judged by Jonathan Lethem

BOMB Magazine’s Fiction Contest, judged by Jonathan Lethem—win $500 and publication in BOMB’s literary supplement. Deadline April 23. We are extending our deadline by 1 week, please let your students and colleagues know. Thanks for your help! Contact Paul Morris paul@bombsite.com

Visit www.BOMBsite.com for full info.

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From: Allison Astor-Vargas aastor-vargas@repertorio.org

WANTED: FULL LENGTH STAGE PLAYS
METLIFE NUESTRAS VOCES
NATIONAL PLAYWRITING COMPETITION 2009

Postmarked Deadline: Monday, June 1, 2009.
Repertorio Español is looking for unproduced full length stage plays that are relevant and unique to the Hispanic experience in the United States.

• Winning Play will be produced at Repertorio Español.
• Top Five will receive cash awards.
• Finalists will receive a staged reading at Repertorio.

For Guidelines and Application contact Allison at aav@repertorio.org.

PREVIOUS WINNERS:

2007   Kiss Bessemer Goodbye by Tencha Ávila Denver, CO
2006   No Where on the Border by Carlos Lacámara Santa Monica, CA
2005   Bestalia by Marcelo Rodríguez NY, NY
2004   El Vagon by Silvia González Powell Butte, OR
2003   Marido Encadenado (Chained Dog) by Rob Santana Jersey City, NJ
& Mommas Boyz by Cándido Tirado Brooklyn, New York
2002 Quemar las naves by Miguel Falquez –Certain w/ Francisco Alvarez Koki Queens, NY
2001 Búfalo Herido By Jorge Celaya NY, NY
2000 Vieques By Jorge González   NY, NY (Puerto Rico)

Check-out our website at www.repertorio.org http://www.repertorio.org/ for a complete list of descriptions and finalists.
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Glimmer Train - Bulletin 27

Dear reader and writer, in this issue:

Deadlines and results:Family Matters http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=115&F=H competitioncloses April 30.
Jeremiah Chamberlin http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=112&F=H :Workshop Is Not for You
Erica Johnson Debeljak http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=114&F=H :Writing the Memoir (Twice!)
Aaron Gwyn http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=113&F=H : Trouble

Upcoming deadlines and results:

The Family Matters http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=29&F=H competition closes April 30. We're looking for original, unpublished stories on family, word count range: 500 – 12,000. First place wins $1,200 and publication in Issue 76 of Glimmer Train Stories. Second- and third-place winners receive $500/$300 (or, if chosen for publication, $700).
Winners http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=116&F=H and finalists of the January Family Matters competition have been notified, and the Top-25 http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=2&F=H list is posted! (And remember you can always check status of your online submissions by logging in http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=10&F=H and clicking on My Submissions.) 1st place: "What We Can" by Jeremiah Chamberlin http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=112&F=H , 2nd place: "God and Buses" by Yuval Zalkow, 3rd place: "Everything in Its Right Place" by Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

Feel free to forward this bulletin to your writer friends. As you know, the bulletin is free and meant to inform and to promote writers. (We never share your info.) People can sign up for bulletins themselves here http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=32&F=H . Missed a bulletin? They’re all archived here http://mail.glimmertrainpress.com/sendstudionx/link.php?M=2579095&N=135&L=14&F=H.

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

Dispatches from the Front: Graduate Student Essays on Creative Writing Pedagogy

University creative writing is at a crossroads. Creative writing programs continue to proliferate in the American university landscape. MFA programs are thriving—over 150 of them across America—while 37 universities have also begun to offer creative writing PhDs. In addition, 159 undergraduate programs now list creative writing as a specific major within the traditional English curriculum. In this rapidly changing environment, even such long-standing creative writing models as the “master artist” and the workshop-style course have become subjects for intense debate, with the theory-driven pedagogies of literature and composition departments knocking heavily at the door.

Yet, despite the recent flourishing of creative writing pedagogy as a field of inquiry, this is a debate that the “grunts” of the creative writing world—the MFA and PhD teaching assistants who teach introductory courses at most universities—largely have yet to join. As a result, these instructors often flounder in their early courses, skeptical of the workshop model but finding little to take its place. With this anthology, tentatively titled Dispatches from the Front: Graduate Student Essays on Creative Writing Pedagogy, we hope both to remedy this lack of available models and to give creative writing graduate students a much-needed “seat at the table” in these ongoing discussions. Accordingly, we seek papers from current or recent creative writing graduate students on any of the following topics, or other topics of interest to contributors:

*The Workshop
*Alternatives to the Workshop
*Exercises
*Marking Student Work
*Grading
*Classroom Use of Published Authors
*The Student Conference
*Revision
*Literary Theory in the Creative Writing Classroom
*Teaching Other Courses
*Creative Writing Online

Ideal essays will strive to balance pedagogical theory with classroom practice and the instructor’s own experience. Essays should follow MLA documentation format and may run from 4-20 pages, but preference will be given to shorter lengths to include as many contributors as possible. Alternative formats (round table discussions, multi-author articles, etc.) will also be considered, but should follow MLA guidelines wherever possible. Reprints are acceptable if the editors are notified. All submissions should include a cover note with an author bio, the title of the essay, and a brief abstract. Inquiries and submissions must be sent to the editors by e-mail at dispatchesfromthefront@yahoo.com by May 15, 2009.

Co-editors: Chris Drew, Joseph Rein, and David Yost
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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From: John Wang jwang@juked.com

The 2009 Juked Fiction and Poetry Prizes

Now accepting entries!

Winner in each genre receives $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue, Juked #7.
Final Judges: Dan Chaon (fiction) and Dora Malech (poetry)
Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2009
Entry Fee: $10
Fiction: one story per entry, no length requirement
Poetry: up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry
Complete guidelines at: http://www.juked.com/prize/

About our judges:
Dan Chaon is the author of the best-selling novel You Remind Me of Me. He has also published two short story collections, Fitting Ends and Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. Walter Mosley chose his short story, "The Bees," to be included in Best American Short Stories 2003, and his story "Big Me" was selected by Michael Chabon as the second prize story in The O. Henry Awards 2001. His new novel, Await Your Reply, will be published in late August 2009. Chaon is the Houck Associate Professor of the Humanities at Oberlin College.

More on Dan:

"Big Me" at The Gettysburg Review http://www3.gettysburg.edu/academics/gettysburg_review/Previous_Selections/chaon.html
"Raymond Carver" at SmokeLong Quarterly http://www.smokelong.com/flash/6448.asp
Interview with The Believer http://www.believermag.com/exclusives/?read=interview_chaon
Dora Malech's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Redivider, and other journals. She was recently Visiting Lecturer and Primary Convenor for the MA Creative Writing Program at Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand. Her chapbook, Inside & Elsewhere, came out in 1999.
More on Dora:
"Here Name Your" at The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/04/28/080428po_poem_malech
"Makeup" at Poetry http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179577
"Oh Grow Up" at Verse Daily http://www.versedaily.org/2008/ohgrowup.shtml

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Convocatoria

Para más información: www.utep.edu/rlmc
Revista/Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea

The University of Texas at El Paso
Department of Languages and Linguistics
Liberal Arts Building Room 232
El Paso, Texas 79968-0531 USA
Teléfono: (915) 747-7043
revistalmc@yahoo.com
www.utep.edu/rlmc/
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FROM: Kristen Tsetsi, Editor, American Fiction

AMERICAN FICTION PRIZE

Judge: The Member-Guest and The Weatherman author and two-time American Fiction Prize winner Clint McCown

First Prize: $1,000
Second Prize: $500
Third Prize: $250
Entry fee: $12

American Fiction will revive this year with its American Fiction Prize contest, a competition whose past judges include Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Anne Tyler, Louise Erdrich, Tim O’Brien, and Tobias Wolff.

This year’s judge, Clint McCown, teaches in the creative writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University and is a recipient of the Associated Press Award for Documentary Excellence for his investigations of organized crime and corruption in Alabama politics, and the Society of Midland Authors Award. His novel, War Memorials, was designated for Outstanding Achievement in Literature by the Wisconsin Library Association... McCown's short stories and poems have appeared widely, and he has published two books of verse. He has worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. and as an actor with the National Shakespeare Company. He has edited several literary journals, including the Beloit Fiction Journal, which he founded in 1984. was designated for Outstanding Achievement in Literature by the Wisconsin Library Association... McCown's

Contest winners and finalists will be published by New Rivers Press in Fall 2010 and distributed nationally by The Consortium.
Entries must be postmarked by March 15, 2009. Winners and finalists will be announced by September 2009.

Contest Guidelines:

We accept all genres of unpublished literary fiction. Entries must be: unpublished; strictly 7500 words or less; postmarked by March 15, 2009; clearly marked "American Fiction Prize” on both the story and the outside of the envelope; accompanied by a $12 entry fee per story (make checks payable to American Fiction). Please include a cover page with your name, story title, mailing address, and email address. Do not include your name on the pages of the story. Please ensure all stories are typed, double-spaced, and that the title and page number appear on each page. In lieu of an email address, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

We welcome multiple entries ($12/story). For entries outside the U.S.: please send entry fee in U.S. currency or money order. While we cannot return manuscripts, we will forward a list of the winning stories to any entrant who includes an SASE; as well, we will e-mail contest updates to anyone who provides an active e-mail address. Entrants retain all rights to their stories..

Mail entries to:

American Fiction Prize

5712 Briarwick Court

Hermitage, TN 37076

Please e-mail any questions to americanfictionprize@yahoo.com Thank you for your interest, and good luck!
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From: So To Speak [mailto:sts@gmu.edu]
Subject: So to Speak Fiction Contest

MFA Students,

So to Speak, a literary journal founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University, is currently holding a contest in Fiction (Deadline: March 15, 2009).

We are looking for work that addresses issues of significance to women's lives and movements for women's equality and are especially interested in pieces that explore issues of race, class, and sexuality in relation to gender. Please see the details below or visit us on the web for more information:

http://www.gmu.edu/org/sts

Contest details:
Summer/Fall 2009 SHORT FICTION CONTEST
Deadline: March 15, 2009
Judge: Valerie Martin

Submit two copies of your manuscript: one with your name and contact information and one without. Manuscripts should not exceed 5,000 words; they should be typed and double-spaced with numbered pages. Include a cover letter and a SASE for response. The reading fee is $15. Please make checks or money orders payable to George Mason University. Contest entries are not returned.

So to Speak
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MSN 2C5
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
Email: sts@gmu.edu
Website: http://www.gmu.edu/org/sts
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From: Andy Johnson [mailto:johnson.bwr@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:41 AM
Subject: Black Warrior Review

The Black Warrior Review seeks Creative Non-Fiction for our Fall 2009 issue. We accept memoirs, old cars, pon fars, travelougues, jumping frogs, Boss Hoggs, essays, last days, death rays, lists, jists, mists, recipes, next-to-me(s), jujubees, how-to's, boo boos, and cows jumping spoons. Surprise us.

Please send your manuscripts (no longer than 30 pp) to:

Black Warrior Review
P.O. Box 862936
Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-0027
USA
ATTN: Andy Johnson, Non-Fiction Editor