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Welcome to Our July Newsletter
 We found three dozen quality free poetry and prose
contests with deadlines between July 15-August 31. View
their profiles now!
In this issue: "Sensations" by Arthur
Rimbaud, illustrated by Julian Peters.
Open Now
TOM
HOWARD/MARGARET REID POETRY CONTEST
14th year. We will award the Tom Howard Prize of $1,500 for a poem in
any style or genre, and the Margaret Reid Prize of $1,500 for a poem
that rhymes or has a traditional style. Ten Honorable Mentions will
receive $100 each (any style). The top 12 entries will be published
online. Length limit: 250 lines per poem. Entry fee: $10 per poem.
Final judge: S. Mei Sheng Frazier, assisted by Jim DuBois. Deadline:
September 30. Submit
online here.
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Congratulations to Cynthia
Leslie-Bole (featured poem: "The
Luminous In-Between"), William Luvaas,
Judy Juanita, Barbara Brockway,
Warwick Newnham, Andre Le Mont Wilson,
Annie Dawid, Gloria Mindock,
W.R. Rodriguez, Trina Porte,
Eleanor Gamarsh (featured poem: "Facets
of the Heart"), Maggie Koger, Thelma
T. Reyna, and Dennis Herrell.
Ellaraine
Lockie's poem "A
Matter of Degree", from her chapbook Where
the Meadowlark Sings (Encircle Publications,
2015), was featured in the Public
Poetry Series. (Ellaraine is the outgoing judge of our Tom
Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest.) This video series was created by
John Gosslee, editor of Fjords Review, who intends the project to bring
a greater audience to poetry by having the significant others of poets
read their poems on YouTube. The poem was read by Ellaraine's husband,
Robert John Goligoski, in a video produced by Kirsten Koths' Oak Leaf
Studios.
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Jendi Reiter's debut novel, Two Natures
(Saddle Road Press, forthcoming September 2016), is now available for pre-order
from Amazon
and Barnes
& Noble. This genre-bending novel
couples the ambitious political analysis of literary fiction with the
pleasures of an unconventional love story.
Praise for Two Natures
We have had so many coming of
age stories that it seems like that the genre has played itself out. I
figured that if there would be any more written, they would have to be
really spectacular. That is exactly what Jendi Reiter's Two
Natures is...
It is a pleasure to read a
novel that is literary in all of its aspects. I also found that the
issue of faith that is so important to me is beautifully handled here.
For those who are dealing with this issue, there is much to be learned
here. We so often substitute things and events that are near for the
goals that we search and one reviewer put it perfectly when he says
that at that time, "Style has become God, sex has become a contact
sport and jobs, money and survival are always around the corner
somewhere else". We all know someone like Julian and many of us
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Last
Call! The annual Rattle
Poetry Prize is once again offering $10,000 for a
single poem to be published in the winter issue of the magazine. Ten
finalists will also receive $200 each and publication, and be eligible
for the $2,000 Readers' Choice Award, to be selected by subscriber and
entrant vote.
With the winners judged in a
blind review by the editors to ensure a fair and consistent selection,
an entry fee that is simply a one-year subscription to the magazine—and
a runner-up Readers' Choice Award to be chosen by the writers
themselves—the Rattle Poetry Prize aims to be one of the most
writer-friendly and popular poetry contests around.
We accept entries online and by
mail. See www.rattle.com
for the complete guidelines and to read all of the past winners.
Enjoy "Equilibrium" by
Tiana Clark, winner of the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize.
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Postmark Deadline: July 31.
Throughout the month of July, Tupelo Press is holding open submissions
for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages) and chapbook-length
poetry collections (28-47 pages), and for the first time in July,
manuscripts of any length of English translations from any language.
Submissions are accepted from
anyone writing in the English language (whether in the United States or
abroad). A reading fee of $28 (U.S.) must accompany each submission.
Our online submission manager, Submittable, will be accepting poetry
manuscripts between July 1 and July 31, 2016. We also accept
manuscripts via postal mail. Your manuscript must be postmarked between
July 1 and July 31, 2016 and sent to:
Open Submissions
Tupelo Press
P.O. Box 1767
North Adams, MA 01247
Please enjoy "The
Humming Lady" by Tupelo author James Byrne, who first
came to Tupelo Press through the July Open Reading Period.
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Deadline: August 15. The 2016 Grayson
Books Poetry Prize is now open to submissions. This is open
to all poets writing in English. Use the submission
manager to submit your 50-80 page manuscript electronically
or send your work in the mail with two cover pages (one with complete
contact info, one with no contact info), reading fee of $25, and SASE
for results to Grayson Books, P.O. Box 270549, West Hartford, CT 06127.
The winner will be awarded a
$1,000 prize, publication, and 10 copies. Simultaneous submissions are
acceptable if we are notified immediately about an acceptance
elsewhere. See www.graysonbooks.com.
Benjamin Grossman will serve as
judge. He has published several poetry collections as well as an
award-winning chapbook. His most recent book is Space
Traveler (University of Tampa Press, 2014). He teaches at
the University of Hartford.
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Deadline: August 29. Creative
Nonfiction magazine is seeking new essays for an upcoming issue
dedicated to HOW WE TEACH.
For our spring 2017 issue,
we're looking for original essays about teaching—whether in a
traditional classroom or online; in summer camp or college; in
preschool or in a prison; in the woods or in a workshop.
We welcome personal stories as
well as profiles, and we're open to a very wide range of experiences
and circumstances. Above all, we are looking for narratives—true
stories, rich with scene, character, detail, and a distinctive
voice—that give insight into what it means to teach.
Submissions must be 4,000 words
or fewer.
$1,000 for best essay; $500 for
runner-up.
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Deadline: August 31. Gulf
Coast is now accepting entries for the 2016 Barthelme Prize
for Short Prose. The contest is open to pieces of prose poetry, flash
fiction, and micro-essays of 500 words or fewer. Jim Shepard will
judge. Submit online or by mail. Click
for the complete guidelines.
Established in 2008, the
contest awards its winner $1,000 and publication in the journal. Two
honorable mentions will also appear in issue 29.2, due out in April
2017, and all entries will be considered for paid publication on our
website as Online Exclusives. The entry fee includes a one-year
subscription to Gulf Coast.
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Deadline: August 31. Gulf
Coast is now accepting entries for the 2016 Gulf Coast
Prize in Translation for Poetry. Send up to ten pages of poetry
translated into English. Idra Novey will judge. Submit online or by
mail. Click
for the complete guidelines.
Established in 2014, the
contest awards its winner $1,000 and publication in the journal. Two
honorable mentions will each receive $250. All entries will be
considered for paid publication on our website as Online Exclusives.
The entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Gulf
Coast.
Please enjoy this excerpt
from The Romantics'
Conspiracy by the winner of our 2015 contest,
Samantha Schnee, who translated El complot de los Románticos by
Carmen Boullosa.
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$1,000 award and publication
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Entry fee: $25
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Submit a manuscript of up to
75-100 pages
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Previously published works may
be entered
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$1,000 award and publication
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Entry fee: $25
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Submit a novella of up to
50,000 words or a manuscript of short stories of up to 200 pages
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Any well-written manuscript on
any topic will be considered
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Previously published works may
be entered
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Deadline: September 2. The
premise of our 28th short story contest is "Darkness".
Write a creative, compelling, well-crafted story between 1,000 and
5,000 words long in which the concept of "darkness" plays an
important role. You may interpret "darkness" any way you
want—literally, metaphorically, or any other way. Darkness doesn't have
to have a value judgment attached to it, and it doesn't have to be symbolic
in any way, although it can.
Please remember that we value
creativity. A story about "the forces of light" fighting
"the forces of darkness" will struggle to rate highly on the
creativity meter. Try something else.
Winners receive between US$60
and US$220, and publication. There is no fee to enter our contest.
GENRE NOTE: Any genre except
children's fiction, exploitative sex, or over-the-top gross-out horror
is fine. We will also never accept parodies of another author's
specific fictional character(s) or world(s). No exceptions!
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Deadline: October 15. The 2016
New Writer Awards at Sequestrum will award over
$500 in prizes and publication to writers of short fiction, nonfiction,
and poetry who have yet to publish a book-length manuscript. Two
first-prize winners (one fiction/nonfiction, one poetry) will receive
$200 each. A minimum of one runner-up per genre will receive
publication and a cash prize. Finalists last year included many new,
emerging, and even first-time writers. All finalists listed on the
website. No length (short story/essay) or theme restrictions. Enter
online.
Sequestrum has an international readership of 1,500+ per
month and publishes poetry and prose on a rolling basis. All
publications are paired with a stunning visual component. Past
contributors include Guggenheim and NEA Fellows, Pulitzer Prize
finalists, as well as many new and emerging voices. More here: www.sequestrum.org/contests
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Some contests are best suited
to writers at the early stages of their careers. Others are better for
writers with numerous prizes and publications to their credit. Here is
this month's selection of Spotlight Contests for your consideration:
Advanced Writers
Shaughnessy
Cohen Award for Political Writing. Awards Can$25,000 for
literary nonfiction books about Canadian politics by Canadian citizens
or landed immigrants and first published in Canada during the calendar
year. Next due date: September 14.
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At 45 years old, Earl Mills was
married with five children, owned his own home, and worked for 25 years
at the same company. Yet he had a secret that few others knew: he could
not read.
His lack of reading skill was
exposed when he was put on the spot at church one night when he was
asked to read a Bible passage. The problem was that at 44 years old, he
couldn't read. No one knew except his wife. Earl says, "When you
can't read, you keep it under a lock and a key and you let hardly
anyone inside of that part of your life."
Earl sought the assistance of
the Craven Literacy Council. When he went to them they assessed him at
a second-grade reading level. He had trouble spelling words like girl
and bird. With sheer determination he embarked on a three-year process
of learning how to read. In addition to improving his literacy skills,
Mills developed his ability to capture the frustrations and triumphs
through his poetry. Today, he has published several books of poetry,
including From Illiterate to Poet and From
Illiterate to Author.
 Earl is now a passionate advocate for literacy. He
recently attended the National ProLiteracy Conference in Charleston,
South Carolina where he was asked to read a few of his inspiring poems
to the audience of 500 literacy professionals. ProLiteracy is a
national nonprofit that develops materials and programs for over 1,000
literacy member programs across the country. When people learn to read
and write, they have the power to change their lives and their
communities.
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In the blue summer evenings, I
will go along the paths,
And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat:
Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet.
I will let the wind bathe my bare head.
I will not speak, I will have no thoughts:
But infinite love will mount in my soul;
And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy,
Through the countryside—joyous as if I were with a woman.
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Book
Notes: Queering Sexual Violence
This book fills a gap in the common understanding of abuse as something
that men do to women and children, and as a social problem best solved
through legislation and policing. This familiar picture excludes
survivors for whom the carceral state does not routinely offer justice:
people of color, the disabled and neurodiverse, and of course the many
LGBTQ people who hesitate to out themselves to the police and the
courts, fearing that their victimization will only be compounded... QSV
is first of all intersectional, with a diverse list of contributors who
explore the ways that both victims and perpetrators may need liberation
from the web of oppression that binds them together.
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