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Finishing Line Press has announced their tenth annual New Women’s Voices chapbook competition. Deadline is February 15. Click here for guidelines.
The Heartland Review has announced its third annual short-short fiction contest. Deadline is January 1. Click here for guidelines.
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The Heartland Review’s Third Annual Short-short Fiction Prize
1st Place - $100 and publication in The Heartland Review’s winter issue
2nd Place - $75 and publication in The Heartland Review’s winter issue
3rd Place - $50 and publication in The Heartland Review’s winter issue
Submissions should be no longer than 1000 words, typed, and double-spaced.
There is a $5 entry fee for each story. (Checks should be made out to The Heartland Review.)
Send cover page with name, address, and word count. Name and address should not appear on the pages of the story. Submissions are juried blind by The Heartland Review’s Editorial Board.
Post-mark deadline for entries is November 20, 2007.
Winners will be announced in December and invited to read at the Morrison Gallery Poetry Series.
Include Self Addressed Stamped Envelope for results.
Mail entries to:
The Heartland Review
Short-short Fiction Prize
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community & Technical College
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
For more information e-mail Mick Kennedy at
mick.kennedy@kctcs.edu or call (270) 706-8407
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New Madrid, the literary journal associated with Murray State University’s low-residency M.F.A. program, announces its intention to dedicate its Winter 2008 issue to the theme of Mexico in the Heartland. The purpose of the issue is to acknowledge, investigate and celebrate the degree to which Mexico influences those living in the central United States , especially those in Kentucky and bordering states.
Submissions may include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, translations from Spanish, etc.. The main criterion for acceptance, aside from literary excellence, is how well the submission addresses the theme of the issue.
We will read submissions for this issue between August 15, 2007 and November 15, 2007 . Please check this page for further updates. We will not be accepting submissions unrelated to our theme.
All submissions must be sent via Submissions Manager .
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I have added a new page to the blog site: Links to Kentucky Small Magazines and Presses. You’ll find it in the sidebar. I’ve had this page in the making for some time and have just now got round to finalizing it.
At least, it’s as final as I can make it.
If you know of a Kentucky small magazine or publisher I missed, please let me know.
Please also check the Links to Kentucky Writers, and if you know of any Kentucky writer with a web page that I’ve left out, let me know.
Also let me know about any outdated links.
And, last but not least, I need to tell you that former Kentucky Poet Laureate Lee Pennington and his wife Jo have a new page for their JoLe Productions. Be sure to stop by and take a look at their heritage documentaries.
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The Fall 2007 issue of the New Southerner is out. Here’s a snippet of Bobbi Buchanan’s editor’s note for the issue:
But weaning myself from Wal-Mart was no easy feat. Our grocery bill doubled when I limited shopping to independently owned stores and union-friendly chains. Making the transition to organic has been even more expensive. I tell myself over and over that the prices are more realistic, that I shouldn’t be paying the same price for a gallon of milk that my mother paid 25 years ago.
The theme of the Fall ‘07 issue of New Southerner is organic versus conventional. While all those conventional foods seem like such a bargain, the Fuss feature will educate you on the high price we pay for cheap food. We pay with poor health, the destruction of land and local economies, and the horrific abuse of factory farm animals. Our food chain is being tainted with cloned meats, chemical-laden fruits and vegetables and genetically modified products such as rice produced with human genes. It’s disturbing news.
To some, the organic movement seems ridiculous, particularly with the wide range of humanely raised, pesticide-free products now available. Commercial food producers have invented new organic lines with every item imaginable — right down to corn chips. On the downside, many people are fooled into thinking these processed organic products are actually good for them. Another problem is that the definition of organic varies by country, state, manufacturer and farmer. But at New Southerner, we’re still convinced that buying organic, when possible, is better for our health, the environment and local economies.
Check out
- Leslie Smith Townsend and Ellen Anderson on The High Cost of Cheap Food
- Bobbi Buchanan’s interview with Anne Shelby (If you aren’t familiar with Anne Shelby’s work, you’re in for a treat.)
- Ellen Anderson on A Potter’s Mark on the Postmodern World
- Holly Brockman’s A Tale of Two Beekeepers
- Erin Keane on “Root Hog or Die” — that’s an internet radio show you can listen to here on East Village Radio
With fiction by Sheldon Lee Compton and poetry by Robert M. Kinsey, Michael Beadle, and Aaron Buchanan.
And more.
Check it out.
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Well, they say Friday afternoon is a really bad time for a news release but I didn’t want to waste any time in letting you know that I have a small selection of poems out in the September issue of nth position online magazine.
Edgy formal pieces. Postmodern formalism??
To read my poems, click the link here.
To read the entire September issue (fulled with poetry, fiction, book reviews and opinions pieces!), click here.
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Elaine Fowler Palencia has drawn my attention to this special call for submissions from Rhino:
RHINO is looking for some lively accounts of what’s happening Out There, beyond our isolated circles — for a potential midsection of the magazine. There’s always an Out There, an event, a place, or an idea we’ve not been exposed to. It may be a reading that renders a crowd breathless, a unique conversation in some obscure basement, a literary party so aglitter it puts a peculiar smile on your face, a happening at an artists’ colony you can only recall as a dream, the ceremonious arrival of a foreign poet, etc. — in other words, fabulously written pieces that are witness to — something to do with poetry. Authors may be caught up in the thing encountered. The intent is to refresh and educate, break out of huddles and cocoons, bring in a piece of the outside — however you define it — whether it is wild, weird, foreign, profound, confounding, inspiring or just entertaining.
Full submission guidelines here. The reading period is April 1 to October 1, so there’s still time to submit.
Explore the Rhino web presence here.
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In the dentist’s waiting room this morning, dentist delayed, I finally got a chance to read some of the July/August Poetry that I’ve been carrying around for two months.
Was it my mood? For some reason, the issue seemed jam packed with aphoristic lines of the type that may someday show up on my sidebar here:
The problem with calling our leader a bugger,
she insisted, was her special fondness
for buggerers…
—Robert Wrigley from “Little Prick”And so we drift off to an unformed prayer…
—Brad Leithauser, from “Furnishings of the Moon”Some were jubilant;
others were broken-hearted.
I have always been both.
—Edward Hirsch from “Late March”
and
Nothing means what it says,
and it says it all the time.
—Tony Hoagland from “Big Grab”
And you must read all of Hoagland’s poem “Barton Springs,” especially if you are a human of a particular age, as am I:
When I get my allotted case of cancer,
let me swim ten more times at Barton Springs,
in the outdoor pool at 6 AM, in the cold water
with the geezers and the jocks.…
It was worth death to see you through these optic nerves,
to feel breeze through the fur on my arms
to be chilled and stirred in your mortal martini.
I don’t think I’ll try to memorize this poem — it’s 28 lines long and my brain is a little hardened up with amyloid plaques — but I will remember it.
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is mostly up, says Helen. Not quite dead yet:
HTML and other computer-related issues have ’bout whupped the donkey’s—oops, I mean the mule’s dead—rear end this time. But that should take nothing from the great writing. The Mule prides itself in attracting great writers. Nice ones, too. We’re working hard to make the Mule something that is easily recognized as as special as it is. (Don’t ya just love sentences like a that! The computer swears you’re wrong, but you’re right.)
If this is what the Dead Mule folks can achieve when the karma is bad, think what it must be like when the karma is good!
For myself, I’m grateful for an opportunity to publish my “Worldview,” a group of poems that is very important to me, and to publish it in such good company.
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I am very pleased to say that my short chapbook, Worldview, is up in the current issue of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.
Unfortunately for Valerie MacEwan, the editor/publisher of the Mule, this is the Bad Karma issue, the one that made her lose it.
I’m not real sure what she lost but it wasn’t her ability to publish good poetry. Lots of good poetry in this issue, including a selection from Jane Kretschmann, one of our blogging community here, and Darrell B. Grayson’s chapbook, “Holman’s House.”
Check out the fiction and the essays, too.
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