Sherry Chandler

Significant Finds

The Herald Sparrow is sponsoring a Significant Finds Contest to benefit New Southerner. The winner will receive $500.

A significant find is a natural object or an artifact not originally intended as art, found and considered to have aesthetic value. Some examples: A cool rock; the symbolism of an extension cord plugged into itself; milk jug rings found under the refrigerator; what Lincoln Logs reveal about life. (See www.heraldsparrow.com for more examples.) According to Herald Sparrow editor Fred Miller, “Significant finds are the kinds of discoveries that can change the way we see ourselves and the world we live in. Or, not. But they can still be fun.”

GUIDELINES:

Contest entries should include the following.

1. a headline
–there is a separate prize of $50.00 for the best headline.

2. a find
–images are not required and finds may be entirely conceptual. An image can be included but photographic images of persons will not be considered in support of any contest entry.

3. a brief report about the significance of the find, any theories, speculation, and maybe the usual calls for further study.

4. Entry fee of $10.00.

DEADLINE: October 1. Awards will be announced in November and in the winter issue of New Southerner.

HOW TO ENTER:
Send your entry by mail, with checks made out to Swallowtail Press, to:

Herald Sparrow
Box 4006
Louisville, KY 40204

Send your entry by e-mail (you will be prompted to pay your entry fee electronically via a secure Paypal link) to:
sparrowentries@newsoutherner.com

HOW TO WIN:
There are no rules, but keep it clean. The dumbest thing you can think of has about as good a chance as the most brilliant, so don’t try too hard. Show or tell something you’ve noticed and what you guess it means.

JUDGES:

* Fairleigh Brooks, the first Kentuckian to win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, and author of Notes Of A Would-Be Astronaut
* Chuck Swanson of Swanson Reed Gallery and Swanson Reed Contemporary
* Lynn Winter of Lynn’s Paradise Café

QUESTIONS: editor@heraldsparrow.com.

I’m pretty sure I have some readers who have the humor to do well in this contest. It’s in a good cause. The New Southerner, the mainstream magazine of alternative thinking, is a wonderful undertaking that’s been going for about two years now. They’ve been known to publish work by yours truly.

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