Calvino Prize $1000 and Publication The Calvino Prize is an annual fiction competition sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Louisville. It will be awarded to an outstanding piece of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino. (Please note that the prize is meant to encourage experimental writing, in the mode of Calvino, and is not meant to encourage merely imitative work.) The winning entry will be published in the Salt Hill Journal of Syracuse University. Further, the winner will be invited to read the winning entry, all expenses paid, at the 20th Century Literature Conference held at the University of Louisville every February. Guidelines: 1) Submit up to 25 pages of a novel, novella, short story, or short collection. Workpreviously published is eligible, and simultaneous submissions are accepted. An excerpt from larger works is allowed. 2) Please enclose a copy of the work (not the original manuscript) held by binder clip or staple. The author’s name should not appear on the work. All entries will be read anonymously. 3) Please send two cover pages: one listing only the title of the manuscript; the other listing the title, author,s name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. 4) Please do not send publication history of the author. 5) Deadline: October 15, 2005. Winner announced December 15, 2005. 6) The entry fee is $15 and should be made payable to: The University of Louisville. 7) Mailing address: The Calvino Prize English Department Room 315, Bingham Humanities Bldg. University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 8) If you would like confirmation of receipt of manuscript, please enclose a SAS standard USPS post card. 9) If you would like notification of contest results, please enclose a business-size SASE. 10) For questions, email Paul Griner, Director, Creative Writing, at: pfgrin01@gwise.louisville.edu 11) Faculty and employees of the University of Louisville and the University of Syracuse may not enter the contest. 12) The judges reserve the right to withhold the award if no entry is deemed worthy.
The Barefoot Muse - This new e-zine of formal/metrical poetry will be launched in July 2005. Send 3-6 poems using meter (rhyme optional) in the body of an email to evnsanna@comcast.net with the title SUB: Barefoot Muse. Deadline June 30th No simultaneous submissions or previously published poems. NO FREE VERSE! Please see the websitehttp://home.comcast.net/~evnsanna/barefoot.htm for complete guidelines.
Attention Christian Authors!!!! Writing Contest Pubrika, a self-publishing company, is sponsoring a contest to help first time authors get published. This is a unique opportunity and is worth several hundred dollars. The prize is the free publishing of an e-booklet and the marketing of the booklet. There is also an opportunity to get a discount on the publishing of a paperback booklet and the accompanying marketing. See the contest parameters and rules below. Don’t pass up this opportunity! Contest Parameters: The booklet must be between 20-100 pages and is to written on the theme “How I was able to forgive the impossible through God’s help.” It should be a true-life story and clearly express the process you went through in forgiving in an impossible situation. The contest begins today and goes until September 2005 (because of good response we have extended the contest time). A team of writers that have worked with our company will judge all entries. The winner will be posted on our website and will be notified and given a contract before the end of the Summer. Your e-booklet will be published and marketed beginning in September 2005 and we will work out details to help you get paper published during that time. We prefer that you send us the booklet done in Word either in single or double spaced form, no less than 20 pages and no more than 100. It is best if you sent your story by e-mail. You may also send us a CD version. We cannot accept a paper copy since we will be doing a free e-book for the winner and a paper version will complicate the process. Please send your booklet to: Pubrika Publishing P.O. Box 1514 Danville, CA. 94526 Or by e-mail to: Rose.Kuo@Pubrika.com Please also feel free to visit our website: www.Pubrika.com . Though we can only pick one winner we will contact all authors who send in well-written articles. Thank you, Rose Kuo (Managing editor Pubrika Publishing)
RHINO, the little magazine with the big horn, is reading submissions of poetry, short-shorts and translations through October 1. Our aesthetic ranges from the traditional to the experimental in both form and subject, and we welcome work from both established and emerging poets. Please check out our website (http://www.rhinopoetry.org/ for information on ordering copies and for submission guidelines (http://rhinopoetry.org/pages/submit.html Submissions are read by multiple editors with various tastes, all looking for quality work. We have published formal poems, free verse, very accessible poems, wild experimentations with language, visual poems, prose poems, poems of stark beauty, and even funny poems. Sometimes we call ourselves œeclectic in the best sense of the word. We are proud of the content and variety of each issue we publish. Every year, we recognize several outstanding poems with Editors' Prizes, accompanied by a modest cash honorarium. Submit 3 to 5 poems, short-shorts, or translations. Please send typed manuscript along with a short cover letter telling us a little bit about you, how you heard about RHINO, and/or your past publications. Simultaneous submissions are fine, as long as you notify us immediately if work you have sent to RHINO is accepted elsewhere. Submission address: RHINO, PO Box 591, Evanston, IL 60204.