Sherry Chandler

Announcements

Isn’t that a sterling blog post title?

I was thinking the other morning that, if I got to start over again with this blog, that I would just have numbered the posts. I would now be up to 3,239.

Oh well. Some things.

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Following Lance Mannion, here are some ways to help Haiti.

Doctors Without Borders
American Red Cross

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Mick Kennedy has asked us to remind everybody that they still have three days to get their submission in for The Heartland Review’s 2010 Joy Bale Boone Prize. January 16 is a postmark deadline. Guidelines at the link. Leatha Kendrick is the judge this year.

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The Review has also put out a call for art.

The Heartland Review and Morrison Gallery at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College invite submissions of artwork for a juried exhibition. The theme for the 2010 show is inspired by the idea of “organic setting.” Over the last hundred years artists have continually turned to organic design as a response to the growing ubiquity of mass-produced, machine-made and computer-generated designs. For some, organic is an attempt to reevaluate what it means to be “modern. “ We welcome works of art of every media type and style that address the topic of organic, organic design or organic setting through one or more of the following themes:

• Nature
• Natural Materials
• The Body
• Responses to Modernity
• Identity
• Environmentalism
• Urbanism

The Heartland Review asks for a $10 contribution for up to six entries to support the journal and the contest/show. Artists may submit up to six pieces; however, all artwork must have been created in the last six months prior to submission. The deadline for submissions is 1 February 2010. Finalists will be selected by a committee composed of two professional artists, two Morrison Gallery representatives, and one representative from The Heartland Review.

The artwork of these finalists will be displayed in the Morrison Gallery at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College and be published in the 2010 spring/fall issues of The Heartland Review. The artwork which best depicts an “organic setting” will be awarded the 2010 spring issue’s cover and a $250 cash prize. The gallery exhibit will run from 5 April – 14 May 2010, with a reception to be held on Thursday, 15 April.

Interested individuals should submit:

• A digital image of their work to be considered (no larger than 300 dpi resolution)
• Full identification of the work (artist name, phone number, title, medium, dimension, and value)
• A short artist statement, no longer than one page in length
• $10 contribution, with checks made payable to “The Heartland Review”

Send submissions or questions via email to: Mick.Kennedy@KCTCS.edu or creynolds0077@kctcs.edu; please include “Heartland Art” in the email subject heading.

$10 contribution should be mailed to:

THR Art Exhibit, c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701

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Speaking of Leatha Kendrick, don’t miss the opportunity to read her List Poem at the Public Republic.

Also new at the Public Republic, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s interview of Sheri Wright, “Poetry was a voice I didn’t know I had”.

Joy Bale Boone Prize 2010

Leatha Kendrick is the author of three volumes of poetry, the most recent one, Second Opinion (2008). She currently leads workshops in poetry and life writing at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky, and directs their reading series, New Books by Great Writers. Leatha has also led workshops in writing and healing at regional and national conferences and has been a presenter at several of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs’ annual meetings. Her poems and essays appear widely in journals and anthologies including Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia; The Kentucky Anthology—Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State; and I to I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists. She co-edited Crossing Troublesome, Twenty-Five Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop and wrote the script for a documentary film: A Lasting Thing for the World—The Photography of Doris Ulmann. The recipient of grants in both poetry and fiction from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation of Women, she is at work on a novel, entitled Leavings.

Guidelines:

• THR asks for a $10 contribution for up to 3 poems to support the contest and our journal. Please make checks out to The Heartland Review.
• Send a cover page with name, address, and a short biography (30 words maximum).
• Name and address should not appear on poems.
• Poems should be typed and no longer than 30 lines.
• Send a Self Addressed Stamped Legal-sized Envelope for results.

Mail entries to:

2010 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community & Technical College
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701

Winners will be announced in April and invited to read at the Morrison Gallery Poetry Series Poetry Month Celebration

For more information e-mail: Mick.Kennedy@KCTCS.edu
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*in the event of a tie, prize money will be divided accordingly

Alltech Poetry Slam

Have a poem? want to be in the 1000 poetry slam or the 1000 Equestrian Slam, contact Mark Eleveld at mark@em-press.com. Poems should be 3 minutes in length; you should have 5-6 poems on hand. Pre-registration for the Slam portions of the show.

$2000 in prizes at the Alltech Poetry Slam
starring poetry slam founder Marc Kelly Smith
w/ John Condron & the Benefit, with surprise guests

ALL AGES WELCOME

September 30, 2009 7:30 PM
Downtown Arts Center (Black Box Theatre)
141 East Main Street
Lexington , Kentucky 40507
866-811-4111

$15 dollars tickets; $10 dollars for students

Mark Eleveld recently programmed the first ‘Poetry Jam’ at the White House for President Obama and his family.

Contest deadline extended

Deadline for the Green River Writers 2009 Writing Contest has been extended to August 31.

Full guidelines at this link.

First Annual Ruth Redel Poetry Prize

First Annual Ruth Redel Poetry Prize

First Prize – 200 dollars and publication in the fall issue of the Heartland Review

THR asks for a tax-deductible 3 dollar contribution to support the contest and the publication. Please make checks out to The Heartland Review.

Send a cover page with titles of poems, author’s name, address and a short biography (40 words, maximum.)

Names and addresses should NOT appear on the poems themselves.

Poems should be typed and should be no longer than 30 lines.

Post mark deadline for entries is August 1, 2009.

Winners will be announced in October and invited to read at the Morrison Gallery Poetry Series. Send a self-addressed stamped LEGAL size envelope in order to receive results. Mail entries to:

Ruth Redel Poetry Contest
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
600 College Street Rd
Elizabethtown KY 42701

For more information, call 270-706-8407 or e-mail Mick.Kennedy@kctcs.edu

James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry

New Southerner announces ‘James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry’

New Southerner is pleased to announce the James Baker Hall Memorial Prize in Poetry, an annual award to be offered along with the magazine’s literary prizes in fiction and nonfiction beginning this fall.

Hall, who died June 25 at his home near Sadieville, Kentucky, was slated to serve as final judge in poetry for this year’s contest. His widow, author and poet Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, has agreed to take his place. Her most recent works include Dividing Ridge, a poetry collection, and At the Breakers, a novel.

“Jim’s life and work embody New Southerner’s spirit and the sense of community and creativity we hope to inspire,” said Bobbi Buchanan, editor-in-chief. “We’re proud to honor his memory with an annual award in his name.”

Hall, 74, was a prolific writer, beloved teacher and critically acclaimed photographer. He authored several poetry collections, including Praeder’s Letters and The Mother on the Other Side of the World, as well as the blackly comic coming-of-age novel Yates Paul, His Grand Flights, His Tootings.

Hall graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1957, earned a master of arts at Stanford, and taught at several universities before becoming an English professor at UK in 1973. He served as director of UK’s creative writing program for 25 years and was named Kentucky Poet Laureate in 2001. Among his many awards, Hall received a Stegner Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Prize and an honorable mention in the San Francisco Art Institute Film Festival.

The New Southerner Literary Contest opened April 1, and submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction will be accepted through Oct. 1. The winner in each category will receive $200, publication in the magazine’s winter issue online and publication in the annual print anthology.

In addition to Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, this year’s final judge in fiction is Janna McMahan (author of Calling Home and The Ocean Inside) and in nonfiction, Cathleen Medwick (author of Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul and contributing editor to O, The Oprah Magazine).

A $10 entry fee covers up to three poems, each up to 50 lines; or a single work of fiction or nonfiction, up to 5,000 words. Entries must be the author’s original, unpublished worked and suitable for publication in New Southerner. The quarterly online magazine is dedicated to promoting self-sufficient living, environmental stewardship and local economies. It seeks to publish relevant articles, art and literature, as well as works by writers with a Southern connection, and works written with a Southern slant or that focus on Southern issues, people and places.

Complete contest guidelines are available at www.newsoutherner.com. From the menu, click “Submissions,” then click “Contest Submissions.”

Betty Gabehart Prizes from the Kentucky Women Writers Conference

Submission deadline July 31.

Each year the Kentucky Women Writers Conference offers opportunities for both emerging and established voices to be singled out and cheered on by our community. The Betty Gabehart Prize honors our good friend, patron, and former director who led the conference during its seminal decade in the 1980s.

Three prizes are awarded, in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Each winner receives $100, two 2-day passes, publication of the winning manuscript on this web site (if desired), and the opportunity to read her winning manuscript at the conference.

Guidelines at the link.