tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12708085962244149622024-03-12T17:57:33.810-07:00Ashland University MFA ProgramA two-year, low-residency program in creative writingAshland MFA Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994624557585148803noreply@blogger.comBlogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1270808596224414962.post-54164769681715835742022-12-14T11:49:00.002-08:002022-12-14T11:49:34.590-08:00Interview with Kyle Winkler<br /><p style="text-align: left;">After talking to Lisa Nik, it only seemed right to keep the good juju going and interview one of our newest fiction faculty members, Kyle Winkler. You can learn everything you ever wanted to know about Kyle from this interview and from his <a href="https://kylewinkler.net/" target="_blank">website</a>. Thanks to our lovely and talented intern, Angela Manasieva for preparing this interview.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"> 1. Where are you from and how do you use your surroundings to write?</h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGTSfLIS7YhIs5zAcx0-mDSzij7n4JEjYOiK2CWB9eY1D-DNj3EsnxNJqaEpOWUBYC1V5cjc7ymsEA_0yx9260KUPC_tWSwIZqC_V2t17ArGp8KktLOSFGJ8v-3IN779CBsYkd1x5q1rkHb1rCWNmbodD6NXCEswd4srczYA-FKNE8wQuv4yAGNmkY" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGTSfLIS7YhIs5zAcx0-mDSzij7n4JEjYOiK2CWB9eY1D-DNj3EsnxNJqaEpOWUBYC1V5cjc7ymsEA_0yx9260KUPC_tWSwIZqC_V2t17ArGp8KktLOSFGJ8v-3IN779CBsYkd1x5q1rkHb1rCWNmbodD6NXCEswd4srczYA-FKNE8wQuv4yAGNmkY" width="240" /></a></div><br />I'm from southwest Indiana originally. Rolling hills, farmland, corn, wheat. LOTS of corn and wheat. My landscapes have affected me heavily in my writing.<br /><br />All that tall crop and the sometimes isolating farmland in the autumn during sunset can do a lot to make one feel...creeped out? Hah. I've tried to use my small town upbringing to good effect, as well. I grew up most of life in a working class to middle-class home in the rust belt. So I'm often trying to evoke the experiences and attitudes of the sorts of folks I grew up around and with. And those experiences were, to some degree, horrific or horror-contingent when I look back on them. However, for all my complaints of the American Midwest, I do have a great affection for it. <br /><br />There is nothing like driving north on St. Rd. 67 to Bloomington in late fall right before and after harvest time.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">2. Where do you draw inspiration from when writing and how is writing implemented in your life?</h2></div><div>I'm a rhetorician and writing teacher by training, so I'm always obsessed with how words come to be, how they mean, why they mean what they mean, and how they sound. Often, I draw inspiration just from the sounds of words or the juxtaposition of two or more words together. That can be enough to trip off an idea or image that I run with. I've always been hyperbolic, esp. as a child, and so it wasn't hard for me to spin out elaborations of descriptions (which, in itself, is a classical rhetorical exercise). Moreover, I get lots of inspiration from my kids, esp. my oldest son right now, who's only 6 years old but is writing small books every day. He has an amazing talent for charming and surprising titles. We feed off each other, I think. He'll see what I'm reading/writing, and then go one up me with a title. So then I am inspired by him to write a cooler line/title. But I've been known to take/borrow/steal his titles or phrases. <br /><br />I'm writing all the time, so it's something I use constantly. There's a rather clichéd phrase that writing teachers throw around, which is: writing is a tool for inquiry. Which isn't wrong! But that's hard to convince young people of in a writing class. However, I believe it and use writing that way. And it's a way for me to learn more about subjects I'm curious about and even make money with. <br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">3. What are your favorite ways to get out of writer’s block? Any tips?</h2></div><div>I view writer's block as a category error. It's not as mystical as history would have you believe. A friend of mine once said, "Inspiration is in the writing." Which means you can't wait for a muse to strike, you have to create the muse/inspiration by doing the hard work. Put butt in seat. Write words. Rinse, repeat. Takes the shine off the writing life, but the writing life is hard labor sometimes. Also: I think that "writer's block" is more about becoming un-enamored of your ideas or writing. Or you've lost the curiosity drive that brought you to writing in the first place. So the key there is to rediscover or create curiosity. Some ways I do this is by reading dense poetry: Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, H.D., any of the Modernists. Gertrude Stein is a go-to. Or I read non-fiction. If I'm writing a horror story, I will turn to a totally different genre to try and reignite my interest in the original genre. This usually works. Sometimes, though, one can deplete their energies over time. And, truly, it seems like you'll never write again. If that happens, I often suggest that you engage in another hobby that's also creative, or something ancillary to writing--editing, being a beta-reader for a friend, teaching a writing class, or trying to arrange a reading of local writers. Find ways to support writing and the arts even if you can't be directly productive.</div><div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">4. How can a low-residency MFA program benefit writers?</h2><div>Low-res is great for someone who wants the intensity and community of a group of writers but isn't interested in or can't uproot their life to move to the campus. Programs like Ashland's allow writers from all across the country to work with one another and with great writing instructors on projects that some folks may've otherwise let go because they couldn't find those likeminded or support peers. So low-res allows you to live your life, work, and so on, while also pursuing the MFA in your own way. In the writing world, I think there's been a perception that there was one right way to pursue an MFA, but we're seeing in the post-COVID world that a low-res program is frequently the best choice for writers who are established where they are and don't have the luxury of moving to a different city for 2+ years. On the flip side, Ashland is great because there's the 2 week residency in August that brings everyone together for a super-intense and thrilling in-person mix of workshops, readings, and socializing. It's kind of a perfect solution.<br /><h2 style="text-align: left;">5. Is there anything else you would like to share?</h2></div><div>Yes, if you're reading this, you've never read Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"--please go do so right now.</div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div>Kyle Winkler is an Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University at Tuscarawas. He received a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Follow him on <a href="http://twitter.com/bleakhousing" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.</div>Ashland MFA Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994624557585148803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1270808596224414962.post-57275172921019901982022-10-06T05:51:00.002-07:002022-10-06T05:51:56.716-07:00Interview with Lisa Nikolidakis<p><span style="text-align: left;">We recently sat down with our wonderful faculty member Lisa Nikolidakis to discuss books, writing, and life.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Where are you from and how do you use your surroundings to write? </h2><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3aus3APfmSfOHBjAFpuW3O9TIC0MB5JCPa7PEO0Bu1Qdo_QiHKec0EmqkBwbVIb6ta1kSTK8MbNc1PXgn3ZXOydGrAIFlaR1vC4d3ZybwYAAAW0U3BybZWeiTAl1XpLcQqetnj3usJNFEcY5MwePo_BKd1WvJDbeQV_0gJOrsSJVbSHxdqiqxFnIF/s1860/Nikolidakis+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1860" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3aus3APfmSfOHBjAFpuW3O9TIC0MB5JCPa7PEO0Bu1Qdo_QiHKec0EmqkBwbVIb6ta1kSTK8MbNc1PXgn3ZXOydGrAIFlaR1vC4d3ZybwYAAAW0U3BybZWeiTAl1XpLcQqetnj3usJNFEcY5MwePo_BKd1WvJDbeQV_0gJOrsSJVbSHxdqiqxFnIF/s320/Nikolidakis+1.jpg" width="172" /></a></div><br />I’m currently in Houston, TX—I’ve been here a little over a year—but in 2021, I had twelve addresses, I think. My life has been a bit upside-down for a bit due to chronic illness, so I’m not precious about process. I can write anywhere, on any device. The constant in all of that flux is nature. No matter where I land, the first thing I do is pull up a map and look for the swaths of green and blue. When I was in north Florida, that meant a lot of time spent at St. Mark’s National Wildlife Refu. In Indiana, Wesselman Woods. And in Houston, I’ve been stalking a flock of roseate spoonbills at Anahuac Wildlife Refuge.<p></p><p style="text-align: left;">Nature grounds and inspires me. It is my church.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Where do you draw inspiration from when writing and how is writing implemented in your life?</h2><p style="text-align: left;">I’m blessed with a great problem for a writer: I am curious about everything. Okay, maybe not everything. I’m not interested in, say, tax codes. But I am riddled with obsessions and questions. As a result, I have more ideas than I have time. The danger lies in the excitement that comes with starting something that I’m newly fascinated with—say, a story about snail farming (that’s real)—and I can easily back burner something that has momentum. For years, I had a lot of starts and fewer finishes. Starting is the easy part, I think. Discipline is what gets you over the finish line. I’ve learned to leave myself notes on the thing I want to start, but I don’t abandon what I’m already working on.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">What are your favorite ways to get out of writer’s block? Any tips?</h2><p style="text-align: left;">Foster as much curiosity about what you want to write as you can. You think you know everything about your story? Ask more questions. This applies across genres.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Also, just write. Let yourself write without worrying about someone reading it or publishing it. Any draft is better than no draft.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">How can a low-residency MFA program benefit writers?</h2><p style="text-align: left;">Our lives are impossibly busy—thanks, capitalism! A low-res can be a great fit for a person who is balancing work, partnerships, family, and other responsibilities but also wants to strengthen their writing. The kind of one-on-one mentorship that students get in a low-res program is awesome.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Is there anything else you would like to share?</h2><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgs-mDM11VJpeEcAl8kAUXc7NVpqKKlvhEeYCSKS0DAJhXrEdbZ6GQMZHCH2lcLpVuAOcIFAMVi7UE7ZAc4jKzATrb19TT13z5jDcdk-guRTxlXDc-cqNejKgAR7-vwals_IdBwrjHIy7WUBkC7oHAhDTKZmVjR-Xl7iHFARtHpGeG1XE0J1G5Mvxm0" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgs-mDM11VJpeEcAl8kAUXc7NVpqKKlvhEeYCSKS0DAJhXrEdbZ6GQMZHCH2lcLpVuAOcIFAMVi7UE7ZAc4jKzATrb19TT13z5jDcdk-guRTxlXDc-cqNejKgAR7-vwals_IdBwrjHIy7WUBkC7oHAhDTKZmVjR-Xl7iHFARtHpGeG1XE0J1G5Mvxm0" width="160" /></a></div><br />Yes! My memoir, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Crosses-Wolf-Memoir/dp/1542037719/" target="_blank">No One Crosses the Wolf</a></i>, came out on September 1, 2022. I worked on it for seventeen (SEVENTEEN) years. While it’s a dark read—lots of trauma—it’s got a hopeful ending, I promise. I write this not just in the hopes that someone buys it (although, please do lol), but also so people can see that sometimes, projects take a heck of a lot longer than we think they will.<p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><hr /><p>Lisa Nikolidakis holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and faculty advisor of P.R.I.D.E.. She teaches in the Ashland University MFA Program. She writes nonfiction and fiction, returning often to themes of trauma, mental health, chronic illness, music, and nature. She also writes humor, mostly for survival.</p><p>Nikolidakis’s memoir, <i>No One Crosses the Wolf</i>, about the traumas of a perilous childhood, a shattering murder-suicide, and a healing journey from escape to survival to recovery is out with Little A. </p><p>Her essay “Family Tradition” was selected by Jonathan Franzen for inclusion in <i>The Best American Essays 2016</i>. Other writing of hers has won various prizes and mentions, including the Annie Dillard Prize for Creative Nonfiction 2021, Gulf Coast Prize, <i>Indiana Review</i>’s Fiction Prize, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Calvino Prize, A Room of Her Own’s Orlando Prize, <i>Cincinnati Review</i>’s Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Prose, <i>Hunger Mountain</i>’s Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, <i>The Briar Cliff Review</i>’s Annual Nonfiction Contest, and <i>The Chattahoochee Review</i>’s Lamar York Prize.</p><p>Her aim is to help demystify the shame of trauma by continuing to write and speak publicly about it.</p>Ashland MFA Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994624557585148803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1270808596224414962.post-88882884642432324752020-10-13T06:25:00.001-07:002020-10-13T06:25:14.692-07:00New Poetry Faculty<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Ashland University MFA program is very pleased to be able to report that we have three new poets joining our faculty team. Tess Taylor, Aria Aber, and Vanessa Angélica Villareal have agreed to join our <span class="il">poetry</span> faculty. These are all wonderful <span class="il">poets</span> and educators and we encourage you to get to know their work if you’re not already aware of it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Aria Aber</u></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjciFpEtZGRqe1iJ5RFKBJDtA9pfHLfrVr6uVb_nMj6MchpP_l3j2pX5URab9lRaUB3aM31iqBJePVE7h3LsEaZlPfnQKY73A8twxMHoYQE3ttFCv8a_lLzLlIoqz3_9jDFkucR44SGBmw/s970/Aria+Aber.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjciFpEtZGRqe1iJ5RFKBJDtA9pfHLfrVr6uVb_nMj6MchpP_l3j2pX5URab9lRaUB3aM31iqBJePVE7h3LsEaZlPfnQKY73A8twxMHoYQE3ttFCv8a_lLzLlIoqz3_9jDFkucR44SGBmw/s320/Aria+Aber.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444;">Aria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book </span><i style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hard Damage </i><span style="color: #444444;">(University of Nebraska Press, 2019) won the 2018 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in </span><i style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, The Yale Review, The New Republic, </i><span style="color: #444444;">and elsewhere. She was the 2018-2019 Ron Wallace Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #444444; line-height: 1.45455em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Books by Aria Aber:</span></p><ul style="border: 0px; color: #444444; line-height: 1.45455em; margin-block-end: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.45455em; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hard Damage </i>(University of Nebraska Press, 2019).</span></li></ul><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Tess Taylor</u></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRUF2ydPCsOubnax0-m02avcFpvdR5fQLuYDNyu1FAhyimzw6cp88G58SzlD01yBjsBu-wYuZx_zPovzyO32z0zmjIBDcztNu0irwHmD4OvmOYAMsZ3g3qk83XZWAcKUcA2t7h8IQ6n-0/s750/Tess+taylor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRUF2ydPCsOubnax0-m02avcFpvdR5fQLuYDNyu1FAhyimzw6cp88G58SzlD01yBjsBu-wYuZx_zPovzyO32z0zmjIBDcztNu0irwHmD4OvmOYAMsZ3g3qk83XZWAcKUcA2t7h8IQ6n-0/s320/Tess+taylor.png" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444;">Tess Taylor is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry, and her criticism and non-fiction appear widely. Critic Stephanie Burt called </span><i style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Work & Days</i><span style="color: #444444;">, her second book “our moment’s Georgic” and it was named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by </span><i style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New York Times.</i><span style="color: #444444;"> She was a Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar to the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and has served as on air poetry reviewer for NPR’s </span><i style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All Things Considered </i><span style="color: #444444;">for over a decade. In spring 2020 she published two books of poems: </span><i style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last West, </i><span style="color: #444444;">part of </span><i style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures</i><span style="color: #444444;">, at the MoMA, and </span><i style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rift Zone</i><span style="color: #444444;">, called “stunning” in the </span><i style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times </i><span style="color: #444444;">and “brilliant” in the </span><i style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LA Times. </i><span style="color: #444444;">She has taught at St. Mary’s, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis, among others. She grew up and lives in El Cerrito, California.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can visit her website at </span><a href="https://www.tess-taylor.com/">https://www.tess-taylor.com/</a> </p><p style="border: 0px; color: #444444; line-height: 1.45455em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Books by Tess Taylor:</span></p><ul style="border: 0px; color: #444444; line-height: 1.45455em; margin-block-end: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.45455em; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last West </i>(Museum of Modern Art, 2020)</span></li><li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.45455em; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rift Zone </i>(Red Hen Press, 2020)</span></li><li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.45455em; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Work & Days </i>(Red Hen Press, 2016)</span></li><li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.45455em; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Forage House </i>(Red Hen Press, 2013)</span></li></ul><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Vanessa Angélica Villarreal</u></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf8edoAPjjSa9-Pp8zW1ChqzJGPeXnH1VeaV91uCZDFGc4tNn-hIVXkHGs-HMzHlE-PrnfliBljuGgiJdpJ2SMasEonmnBNiiaw7aAKtN4DB6V_jBgSmEkrQNhLqgkFOZhBzV83YwX8xA/s970/Vanessa+Angelia+Villarreal.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf8edoAPjjSa9-Pp8zW1ChqzJGPeXnH1VeaV91uCZDFGc4tNn-hIVXkHGs-HMzHlE-PrnfliBljuGgiJdpJ2SMasEonmnBNiiaw7aAKtN4DB6V_jBgSmEkrQNhLqgkFOZhBzV83YwX8xA/s320/Vanessa+Angelia+Villarreal.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press, 2017), a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award, a 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize, and a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Boston Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is pursuing her PhD in English Literature and Creative writing at the University of Southern California.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Books by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal:</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><ul style="border: 0px; color: #444444; line-height: 1.45455em; margin-block-end: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.45455em; margin: 0px 5px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beast Meridian </i>(Noemi Press, 2017)</span></span></li></ul></div><div class="l-main" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="l-content" role="main" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="panel-display container-16 au-panel-display omega-grid au-global-basic-page clearfix" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="panel-panel bottom au-full-width-panel" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="inside" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><footer class="l-footer" role="contentinfo" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="au-footer" style="background-color: #545555; border: 0px; display: table; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 50px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1701px;"></div></footer>Ashland MFA Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994624557585148803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1270808596224414962.post-9736018401848144902020-05-12T09:44:00.000-07:002020-05-14T11:49:28.474-07:002020 Virtual Summer ResidencyGet excited! The Ashland University 2020 MFA Summer Residency is going virtual this year. From <b>July 13 - 31st</b>, we’re hosting workshops, readings, panels, craft classes, open mics, and more--all from the safety and comfort of your home. Stay tuned for schedule updates and registration links!<br />
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Visiting Writers</h1>
<b>Jericho Brown</b>, Visiting Writer in Poetry<br />
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<b>Poetry Reading:</b> Tuesday, July 21, 7:30pm EST<br />
<b>Craft Class: </b>Wednesday, July 22, 5pm EST<br />
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<b>Rebecca Makkai</b>, Visiting Writer in Fiction<br />
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<b>Fiction Reading:</b> Monday, July 27, 7:30pm EST<br />
<b>Craft Class:</b> Monday, July 27, 3pm EST<br />
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<b>Terese Marie Mailhot</b>, Visiting Writer in Creative Nonfiction & Graduation Keynote Speaker<br />
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<b>Nonfiction Reading:</b> Tuesday, July 28, 7:30pm EST<br />
<b>Craft Class:</b> Wednesday, July 29, 3pm EST<br />
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<b>Christopher Feliciano Arnold</b>, MFA Faculty in Creative Nonfiction<br />
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<b>Dexter Booth</b>, MFA Faculty in Poetry<br />
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<b>Marcelo Hernandez Castillo</b>, MFA Faculty in Poetry<br />
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<b>Kirstin Chen</b>, MFA Faculty in Fiction<br />
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<b>Garrard Conley</b>, MFA Faculty in Creative Nonfiction<br />
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<b>Brian Conn</b>, MFA Faculty in Fiction (Sci-Fi/Fantasy)<br />
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<b>Kate Gale</b>, MFA Faculty in Poetry<br />
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<b>Kate Hopper</b>, MFA Faculty in Creative Nonfiction<br />
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<b>Christian Kiefer</b>, Director and MFA Faculty in Fiction<br />
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<b>Lauren Markham</b>, MFA Faculty in Creative Nonfiction<br />
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<img alt="Lauren Markham, Ashland MFA Creative Nonfiction Faculty" data-cke-saved-src="https://www.ashland.edu/cas/sites/ashland.edu.cas/files/styles/faculty_staff_260_high/public/lauren_markham_headshot_1.jpg?itok=4juDGZFZ" height="198" src="https://www.ashland.edu/cas/sites/ashland.edu.cas/files/styles/faculty_staff_260_high/public/lauren_markham_headshot_1.jpg?itok=4juDGZFZ" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 198px; margin: 0px; width: 153px;" title="Lauren Markham, Ashland MFA Creative Nonfiction Faculty" width="153" />Author of <i>The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life</i> (Crown, 2017)<br />
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<b>Sarah Monette</b>, MFA Faculty in Fiction (Sci-Fi/Fantasy)<br />
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Author of <i>The Goblin Emperor</i> (Tor Books, 2014), and<br />
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<b>Angela Morales</b>, MFA Faculty in Creative Nonfiction<br />
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<b>Derek Palacio</b>, MFA Faculty in Fiction<br />
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<b>Katherine Standefer</b>, MFA Faculty in Creative Nonfiction<br />
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<b>Naomi J. Williams</b>, MFA Faculty in Fiction<br />
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<b>Aaron Coleman</b>, Guest Instructor in Poetry<br />
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Issue 2 features work by<span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Segoe, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span>Lisa Dominguez Abraham, Scott Alumbaugh, Mary Biddinger, Bree-Anna Burick, Jason Gaidis, Kate Gale, Christian Kiefer, Arlena Lockard, Jay Robinson, J. L. Scott, Kelly Sundberg, Naomi Williams, and other lovely authors.<br />
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<i>Black Fork Review </i>is a student-edited literary magazine featuring work by the AU writing community (MFA students, undergrads, faculty, and alumni), as well as work by established writers outside of AU. The magazine is edited by MFA students and undergraduates in the creative writing program at Ashland.<br />
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Thanks to the MFA program, the English Department, and The Ashland Poetry Press for their support.<br />
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<br />Ashland MFA Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994624557585148803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1270808596224414962.post-35586567615397865542019-08-20T05:39:00.000-07:002019-09-18T11:34:48.259-07:00All the Summer Fun: A Residency RecapThe 2019 Summer Residency was full & fulfilling <span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—</span> <style>
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</style>the love and support in this community was palpable, and we are so thankful for everyone who made it such a wonderful experience.<br />
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In just shy of two weeks we experienced ten craft seminars by our stunning faculty and visiting writers; eight readings by graduating students, faculty, and visiting writers; a panel on life after the MFA with our amazing alumni; a publishing panel with some super star editors; impromptu open mics late into the night; a trip to the Cleveland Museum of Art; a tear-jerking graduation ceremony <span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12.0pt;">—</span> <style>
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</style>oh, and workshops every morning!<br />
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Thanks again to all of the students, faculty, visiting writers, visiting editors, alumni, all the community who participated in events, and the Ohio Arts Council for its generous support. <br />
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Check out some of the photos from our time together:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hanif Abdurraqib killing it in the Q&A<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Bree-Anna Burick at a craft seminar<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fiction faculty Brian Conn & second year student John Rhodes<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Justin Phillip Reed blowing us away at his reading<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dan Chaon's stimulating Q&A<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Faculty at work in a craft seminar!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Visiting Editor Cassie Donish with graduating CNF student Sarah Battilana</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Onita Morgan Edwards at Michael Spurgeon's craft talk</td></tr>
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Ashland MFA Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994624557585148803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1270808596224414962.post-55294279017447993512019-05-02T10:59:00.000-07:002019-05-02T10:59:46.333-07:002019 Summer Residency Updates!<div style="text-align: center;">
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The May 15th deadline to apply for the July residency as a new student is approaching! If you are planning to apply, please contact Paige Webb, the Administrative Director (<a href="mailto:pwebb2@ashland.edu">pwebb2@ashland.edu</a>), or Christian Kiefer, the Program Director (<a href="mailto:ckiefer2@ashland.edu">ckiefer2@ashland.edu</a>), if you have questions. <br />
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The 2019 Summer Residency is July 22 - August 2, 2019.<br />
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For the summer residency, five visiting editors will come to Ashland to share their expertise in a publishing panel, as well as meet individually with graduating students about their manuscripts. <br />
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Publishing panel: Saturday, July 27 at 1:30 p.m. in Ronk Lecture Hall <br />
Participating editors: Mary Biddinger, Kelly Caldwell, Cassie Donish, Eric Obenauf, Hilary Plum <br />
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Mary Biddinger, Visiting Editor in Poetry</div>
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Mary Biddinger is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including <i>Small Enterprise</i> and <i>The Czar</i>. Her sixth book, <i>Partial Genius</i>, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in August 2019. She teaches literature and creative writing at The University of Akron and NEOMFA program, and edits the <i>Akron Series in Poetry</i> for The University of Akron Press. Biddinger has been the recipient of three Individual Excellence Awards in poetry from the Ohio Arts Council, and received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 2015. Find her online at <a href="http://marybiddinger.com/">marybiddinger.com</a> and @marybid on Twitter.<br />
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Kelly Caldwell, Visiting Editor in Creative Nonfiction </div>
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Kelly Caldwell writes and works at Washington University in St. Louis. Her prose and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of print and online publications, including <i>Fence, The Seneca Review, Phoebe, Small Po[r]tions, Entropy, PopMatters, MAKE Magazine, Slant, Pacific Standard Magazine, The Rumpus,</i> and <i>VICE</i>. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of <i>The Spectacle.</i><br />
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Cassie Donish, Visiting Editor in Creative Nonfiction </div>
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Cassie Donish is the author of the poetry collections <i>The Year of the Femme</i> (University of Iowa Press, 2019), selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and <i>Beautyberry</i> (Slope Editions, 2018). Her nonfiction chapbook <i>On the Mezzanine</i> (2019) was selected by Maggie Nelson as winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition. Her writing has appeared in <i>The Cincinnati Review, Best New Poets, Colorado Review, VICE, jubilat, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review Online, Tupelo Quarterly, </i>and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and she currently teaches and writes at the University of Missouri in Columbia. (Photo by William Youngblood). </div>
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Eric Obenauf, Visiting Editor in Fiction </div>
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Eric Obenauf founded the publishing company Two Dollar Radio with his wife, Eliza. Their publications have been honored by the National Book Foundation, named Notable Books at <i>New York Times</i>, finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and placed on the best-of-the-year lists at <i>O, The Oprah Magazine, the Washington Post, NPR,</i> and others. He was included in Publisher’s Weekly’s “50 under 40” list, and was a finalist in the magazine’s 2016 “Star Watch” program. Two Dollar Radio runs The Flyover Fest, which is a multidisciplinary festival featuring artists working in music, literature, and film over the course of 3 days in Columbus, Ohio. In 2017 they opened a bookstore/bar/plant-based café and event space called Two Dollar Radio Headquarters. Read more at <a href="http://twodollarradio.com/">twodollarradio.com</a>.<br />
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Hilary Plum, Visiting Editor in Fiction </div>
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Hilary Plum is the author of the novel <i>Strawberry Fields</i>, winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose (2018); the work of nonfiction <i>Watchfires</i> (2016), winner of the 2018 GLCA New Writers Award; and the novel <i>They Dragged Them Through the Streets</i> (2013). She has worked for a number of years as an editor of international literature, history, and politics. She teaches at Cleveland State University and in the NEOMFA program and is associate director of the CSU Poetry Center. With Zach Savich she edits the <i>Open Prose Series</i> at Rescue Press. </div>
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Justin Phillip Reed, Visiting Writer in Poetry </div>
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Reading: Tuesday, July 23 at 7:00 p.m </div>
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Craft Seminar: Wednesday, July 24 at 1:30 p.m. </div>
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Dan Chaon, Visiting Writer in Fiction </div>
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Reading: Wednesday, July 24 at 7:00 p.m. </div>
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Craft Seminar: Thursday, July 25 at 1:30 p.m. </div>
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Hanif Abdurraqib, Visiting Writer in Creative Nonfiction </div>
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Reading: Monday, July 29 at 7:00 p.m. </div>
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Craft Seminar: Tuesday, July 30 at 1:30 p.m. </div>
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Hanif Abdurraqib, Visiting Writer in Creative Nonfiction </div>
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Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in <i>Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American,</i> and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in <i>The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker,</i> and <i>The New York Times.</i> His first full length poetry collection, <i>The Crown Ain't Worth Much</i>, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. With Big Lucks, he released a limited edition chapbook, <i>Vintage Sadness,</i> in summer 2017 (you cannot get it anymore and he is very sorry.) His first collection of essays, <i>They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us,</i> was released in winter 2017 by Two Dollar Radio and was named a book of the year by<i> Buzzfeed, Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, Paste, CBC, The Los Angeles Review, Pitchfork</i>, and<i> The Chicago Tribune</i>, among others. He is a Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow, an interviewer at <i>Union Station Magazine,</i> and a poetry editor at <i>Muzzle Magazine</i>. He is a member of the poetry collective <i>Echo Hotel</i> with poet/essayist Eve Ewing. His next books are <i>Go Ahead In The Rain, a biography of A Tribe Called Quest</i> due out in 2019 by University of Texas Press, and <i>They Don't Dance No' Mo'</i>, due out in 2020 by Random House. Yes, he would like to talk to you about your favorite bands and your favorite sneakers. (Photo by Andrew Cenci). <br />
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Dan Chaon’s most recent book is <i>Ill Will</i>, a national bestseller, named one of the ten best books of 2017 by Publishers Weekly. Other works include the short story collection <i>Stay Awake</i> (2012), a finalist for the Story Prize; the national bestseller <i>Await Your Reply</i>, and <i>Among the Missing</i>, a finalist for the National Book Award. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in <i>Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthologies,</i> and <i>The O. Henry Prize Stories</i>. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, and he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Ohio and teaches at Oberlin College. <br />
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Justin Phillip Reed is an American poet and essayist. He is the author of <i>Indecency</i> (Coffee House Press), winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, as well as the chapbook <i>A History of Flamboyance </i>(YesYes Books, 2016). His second full-length collection of poetry, <i>The Malevolent Volume</i>, will be released in Spring 2020. He is the 2019-2021 Fellow in Creative Writing at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. His work appears in <i>African American Review, Best American Essays, Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, Obsidian,</i> and elsewhere. A three-time high school expellee and an ex-college dropout, he received his BA in creative writing at Tusculum College and his MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as Junior Writer-in-Residence. He has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Conversation Literary Festival, La Maison Baldwin, and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. Reed was born and raised in South Carolina. (Photo by Raven Jackson).</div>
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Ashland MFA Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994624557585148803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1270808596224414962.post-91684433438941558702019-04-11T07:24:00.000-07:002019-05-02T10:52:25.969-07:00Ashland MFA at AWP Portland <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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When classes are online for fall and spring, the times that we can all get together become that much more special. AWP this year was a space to reconnect as writers and colleagues and friends in beautiful ways. Below are some photos from our booth and party. Students: remember that you can get free tickets to AWP in the future! Hope to see everyone in San Antonio in 2020. </div>
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<br />Ashland MFA Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16994624557585148803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1270808596224414962.post-58276829748821021422019-03-20T14:05:00.003-07:002019-05-02T10:53:17.512-07:002019 Summer Residency Updates The warmth of spring is on its way, and AWP soon after, but it's the heat of the summer residency that we're most excited about. We are honored to have two new knock-out visiting writers that are coming to Ashland to spread their brilliance. Each visiting writer gives a reading, a craft seminar, and meets with the graduating cohort of MFA students.<br />
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Poetry Visiting Writer: Justin Phillip Reed </h3>
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Justin Phillip Reed is an American poet living in St. Louis. He is the author of <i>Indecency </i>(Coffee House Press), winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, as well as the chapbook <i>A History of Flamboyance</i> (YesYes Books, 2016). His work appears in <i>African American Review</i>, <i>Best American Essays</i>, <i>Callaloo</i>, <i>The Kenyon Review</i>, <i>Obsidian</i>, and elsewhere. A three-time high school expellee and an ex-college dropout, he received his BA in creative writing at Tusculum College and his MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as Junior Writer-in-Residence. He has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Conversation Literary Festival, and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. (Bio from Justin's <a href="http://www.justinphillipreed.com/main">website</a>. Photo credit, <a href="https://www.nicholasnichols.com/">Nicholas A. C. Nichols</a>).<br />
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Fiction Visiting Writer: Dan Chaon </h3>
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Dan Chaon’s most recent book is <i>Ill Will</i>, a national bestseller, named one of the ten best books of 2017 by Publishers Weekly. Other works include the short story collection <i>Stay Awake </i>(2012), a finalist for the Story Prize; the national bestseller <i>Await Your Reply</i>; and <i>Among the Missing,</i> a finalist for the National Book Award. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in <i>Best American Short Stories</i>, The Pushcart Prize Anthologies, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, and he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Ohio and teaches at Oberlin College. (Bio from Dan's <a href="http://danchaon.com/">website</a>). <br />
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We're thrilled that one of our visiting writers will be the amazing <a href="http://www.abdurraqib.com/bio/">Hanif Abdurraqib</a>! Hanif is a Columbus-based poet, essayist, and cultural critic. His most recent book is Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest (University of Texas Press, 2019), which is already a New York Times Bestseller. His essay collection They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Two Dollar Radio Press, 2017) was named book of the year by NPR, The Los Angeles Review, Buzzfeed, Paste, Esquire, Oprah Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and others.<br />
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This year's summer residency brought plenty of unfamiliar faces to our Ashland University campus, so while our students and faculty were able to grow familiar and bond over the course of those two weeks, anyone unable to come to campus this summer might still be yearning for a glimpse.</div>
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Creative nonfiction students during their workshop. </div>
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Faculty members (from left to right) Lily Hoang, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Nayomi Munaweera, and Katherine Standefer</div>
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Featured panelists Eric Obenauf (founder of Two Dollar Radio) and NJ Campbell (author of <i>Found Audio</i>)</div>
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(left to right, top): Kate Hopper, Kate Gale, Dexter Booth, Sandra Simonds, Brian Conn, Douglas Manuel, Lauren Markham, Sarah Monette, Christian Kiefer</div>
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(left to right, bottom): Lily Hoang, Naomi Williams, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Katherine Standefer, Kirstin Chen, Nayomi Munaweera</div>
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Faculty member Derek Palacio sharing his wisdom during his workshop session.</div>
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Once again, we'd like to extend a huge thank you to all of our amazing faculty members and students who made this residency one to never forget.<br />
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Happy Summer! Campus is blooming, workshop packets are coming in, thesis manuscripts are going out to readers. And it's high time we started sharing some of the exciting things brewing for our 2018 Summer Residency. <br /> </div>
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This year's residency begins Monday, July 23, ending with our graduation celebration on Thursday, August 2. In between we'll be welcoming more than 40 talented writers and editors to the microphone and classroom (including 21 of our own graduating students). <br /> </div>
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As in past years, alumni and writers or readers in the community are very welcome to join us for evening readings, weekend events, and afternoon craft classes. But we're also planning a few events out in the community this year. <br /> </div>
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* We'll also have several events at the Ashland Public Library, including a high school creative writing workshop, a presentation on getting published, and readings from our faculty and students. <br /> </div>
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* MFA Fiction Faculty Kirstin Chen will give a book talk at Mansfield's Main Street Books on Wednesday, July 25. <br /><br />* We'll have an Open Mic night at Downtown Perk in Ashland. Come and join us. Listen or share! <br /><br /><a href="https://www.ashland.edu/cas/majors-programs/graduate-programs/master-fine-arts/summer-reading-series#overlay-context=majors/master-fine-arts-creative-writing">Community Events</a><br /><a href="https://www.ashland.edu/cas/master-fine-arts/summer-residency/2018-schedule-events">Full Schedule of Residency Events</a><br /><a href="https://www.ashland.edu/cas/master-fine-arts/faculty-staff">Faculty Page</a><br /><a href="https://www.ashland.edu/cas/majors/master-fine-arts-creative-writing">Ashland MFA Home Page </a></div>
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The 2018 AWP Conference & Bookfair will be in Tampa, Florida, March 7-10. According to their website, the conference features over 2,000 presenters and 550 readings, panels, and craft lectures. The bookfair has more than 800 presses, journals, and literary organizations from around the world. </div>
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If you're heading to this year's AWP conference be sure to stop by <b>booth # 1416 </b>and say hello. And please join us for a social event on Friday evening in the Marriott. Stop in for a drink and appetizers before heading out for off-site readings and after-hours fun. </div>
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Many of our MFA instructors will be presenting at this year's panels. Here's a listing below! </div>
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R174. In Search of Our Essays’ Mother(s): Women and the History of the Essay. (Jenny Spinner, Kyoko Mori, <b>Angela Morales</b>, Mary Cappello, Jocelyn Bartkevicius) While we celebrate this “Golden Age for Women Essayists,” we note that women essayists other than Woolf, Didion, and Dillard are largely absent from historical/critical studies of the essay. Our panelists argue for a more inclusive tradition, taking into account how women essayists have successfully handled the special demands of essaying over the centuries. We will offer perspectives on a diversity of women essayists who have shaped the essay’s history and charted the way to our golden present.<o:p></o:p></div>
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R280. Weaving All Our Tongues: Latinx Editors/Publishers and the Creation of Comunidad. (Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Raina J. León, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, Casandra Lopez, <b>Carmen Giménez Smith</b>) Latinx publishing builds stronger activist, artistic, and scholarly communities. Editors and publishers will discuss the production and maintenance of Latinx, Indigenous, African, womanist, queer/trans, pan-people of color, and multicultural journals, solo/co-authored books, anthologies, and presses. Collaboratively producing diverse texts, panelists will discuss navigating economic, logistical, and institutional challenges, while centering issues of culture, politics, aesthetics, and diversity.</div>
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F173. Workshops that Work, Workshops that Matter. (Tom Williams, Joy Castro, Beth Nguyen, Matthew Salesses) The workshop is the foundation of creative writing classes, but has it evolved to meet literary culture's diverse current needs? What conventions need rethinking? How do we talk about craft and not ignore its cultural implications? What practices might provide an encouraging and inclusive atmosphere for underrepresented students and limit reproductions of power? Four writers of color who teach share strategies to innovate and invigorate the workshop in ways that benefit all participants.<o:p></o:p></div>
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F216. Butler University MFA’s 10th Anniversary Reading. (Kaveh Akbar, <b>Doug Manuel</b>, Andrea Boucher) It’s the 10th Anniversary of that scrappy, don’t-count-us-out Butler University MFA program, and we are proud to celebrate our survival—and flourishing—with a reading that features three of our most successful alumni: Kaveh Akbar (Calling A Wolf a Wolf, Alice James Books 2017), Doug Manuel (Testify, Red Hen Press 2017), and Andrea Boucher (Redivider Beacon Street Prize in Nonfiction 2017).<o:p></o:p></div>
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F252. Undocupoets Speak. (Suzi F. Garcia, <b>Marcelo Hernandez Castillo</b>, Janine Joseph, Christopher Soto) In 2015, Undocupoets published an open petition asking for ten highly visible and renowned first book poetry contests to reconsider and remove the language stating US citizenship as a requirement for submission/publication. In fall 2016, they established the Undocupoets Fellowship. Janine Joseph joined them in order to begin this fellowship to help undocumented writers pay book contest fees. Here they will discuss their goals moving forward and the marginalization of undocumented writers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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S231. This Is Not a Memoir: Thoughts on the Linked Essay Collection. (Sarah Viren, <b>Angela Morales</b>, Kristen Radtke, Ryan Van Meter, Elissa Washuta) What does it mean to publish—or read—a collection of linked essays? How is this nonfiction form different than a traditional essay collection or a memoir? And what characteristics, if any, does it share with a linked story collection? In this panel, writers and editors of linked essay collections will discuss the what and how of writing and publishing a linked essay collection, and why they didn’t just write a memoir.<o:p></o:p></div>
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S237. Draining the Swamp: Writing as Resistance and Social Responsibility in a Post-Truth Era. (Keith Kopka, Ruben Quesada, Heather June Gibbons, Arisa White, <b>Marcelo Hernandez Castillo</b>) Writing has always served as a form of social and political resistance. From the ghettos of war-torn Warsaw to the American civil rights movement, writers have historically been a voice for the unrepresented and catalysts for social change. This panel will explore how our current social and political landscape has galvanized this traditional role of the writer, ways to get involved with current movements, and the importance of writing as a political act.<o:p></o:p></div>
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S262. What I Found in Florida: Essays From the Sunshine State. (Jim Ross, <b>Jill Christman</b>, Corey Ginsberg, Katelyn Keating, Lucy Bryan) This reading will feature five writers whose essays appear in the What I Found in Florida anthology, forthcoming from University Press of Florida (2018). Travel with these authors to a nature preserve in the panhandle, a Miami neighborhood beset by crime, and a centuries-old city in the path of a hurricane. In their works, Florida is not only a backdrop but also a character—one that inspires meditations on motherhood, the meaning of home, the passage of time, and the future of our planet.</div>
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We're very pleased to introduce our spring 2018 Ashland MFA Faculty. We hope you're as excited about these names as we are. Included are a few links to help you get acquainted with these writers and their work: interviews, book reviews, short publications, excerpts. <br />
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For a full listing of faculty including their bios and additional information, visit our website's <a href="https://www.ashland.edu/cas/master-fine-arts/faculty-staff">Faculty Page</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Poetry</span><br />
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<b>Dexter Booth</b><br />
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Author of <i>Scratching the Ghost</i>, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Booth’s poems have appeared in <i>Best American Poetry, Blackbird, VQR,</i> and elsewhere.<br />
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<a href="http://gristjournal.com/a-review-of-dexter-l-booths-scratching-the-ghost/"><i>Grist Journal </i>review of <i>Scratching the Ghost</i></a><i> </i><br />
<a href="https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v12n1/poetry/booth_d/revolution_page.shtml">“Love in the Time of Revolution” (<i>Blackbird</i>)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vqronline.org/queen-elizabeth">“Queen Elizabeth” (<i>VQR</i>)</a><br />
<a href="http://waxwingmag.org/archive/03/writing.php?item=94">“Insomnia Poem” (<i>Waxwing</i>)</a><br />
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<b>Gaylord Brewer</b><br />
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Author of nine collections of poetry including <i>Country of Ghost</i> and <i>Give Over, Graymalkin.</i> Brewer has published over nine hundred poems in journals and anthologies including <i>Best American Poetry </i>and <i>The Bedford Introduction to Literature</i>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.smartishpace.com/interviews/gaylord_brewer/"><i>Smartish Pace</i> Interview</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.ashevillepoetryreview.com/tag/gaylord-brewer">Three Poems from <i>Asheville Poetry Review</i></a><br />
"<a href="https://www.rattle.com/being-a-good-man-by-gaylord-brewer/">Being A Good Man" (<i>Rattle</i>)</a> <br />
<a href="https://connotationpress.com/hoppenthaler-s-congeries/2015-08-19-18-45-41/march-2014/2230-gaylord-brewer-poetry">Three poems from Connotation Press</a><br />
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<b>Douglas Manuel</b><br />
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Author of <i>Testify</i>, a volume called “a breathtaking debut” by the poet David St. John. Manuel’s poetry has appeared at the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Northwest, <i>North American Review</i> and elsewhere.<br />
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<a href="http://dailytrojan.com/2017/08/29/dornsife-fellow-douglas-manuel-publishes-book-identity/">Article on his career from <i>Daily Trojan</i></a><br />
From Poetry Foundation: <br />
"<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143506/testify">Testify</a>" <br />
"<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143503/loud-looks">Loud Looks</a>" <br />
"<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143504/washing-palms">Washing Palms</a>" <br />
"<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143505/heading-down">Heading Down</a>" <br />
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<b>Sandra Simonds</b><br />
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Sandra is not teaching in spring, but she is leading one of our classes this fall and will be our Paris Residency workshop leader in June.<br />
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Author of six books of poetry: <i>Orlando</i> (Wave Books, forthcoming in 2018), <i>Further Problems with Pleasure</i>, winner of the 2015 Akron Poetry Prize, <i>Steal It Back</i> (Saturnalia Books, 2015), <i>The Sonnets</i> (Bloof Books, 2014), <i>Mother Was a Tragic Girl </i>(Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012), and <i>Warsaw Bikini</i> (Bloof Books, 2009).<br />
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<a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9826587-7-2">Publishers Weekly review of <i>The Sonnets</i></a><br />
<a href="http://bostonreview.net/poetry/golden-buddha"> “Golden Buddha” (<i>Boston Review</i>)</a><br />
<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55482/you-cant-build-a-child"> “You Can’t Build a Child” (Poetry Foundation)</a> <br />
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<b>Brian Conn</b><br />
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Author of <i>The Fixed Stars: Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season</i> and editor of <i>Birkensnake,</i> a literary zine. Conn’s work has appeared <i>The Bestiary, Conjunctions, The Cincinnati Review, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet</i>, and elsewhere.<br />
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<a href="http://www.raintaxi.com/literary-geometry-an-interview-with-brian-conn/">Interview with <i>Rain Taxi</i></a><br />
<a href="https://www.pw.org/content/brian_conn_receives_bard_fiction_prize"><i>Poets & Writers</i> announces Conn’s acceptance of the Bard Fiction Prize</a><br />
<a href="https://www.plinth.us/issue03/conn.html"> “The Hub” (<i>Plinth</i>)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.conjunctions.com/online/article/brian-conn-04-01-2011"> “Leisure” (<i>Conjunctions</i>)</a> <br />
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<b>Matthew Salesses</b><br />
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Author of the novels <i>I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying</i> and <i>The Hundred Year Flood</i>. In addition to fiction writing, Salesses is a widely respected essayist on issues of craft, race, and pedagogy.<br />
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<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/matthew-salesses/the-hundred-year-flood/"><i>Kirkus</i> review of <i>The Hundred-Year Flood</i></a> <br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Im-Not-Saying-Just-ebook/dp/B00C7A6NGG">Excerpt</a> from<i> I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying,</i> a novel in flash fiction<br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-Flood-Matthew-Salesses-ebook/dp/B00QUGL1AQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1510759137&sr=1-1&keywords=matthew+salesses">Excerpt</a> from <i>The Hundred Year Flood</i><br />
“<a href="http://therumpus.net/2017/11/loving-america-reading-carlos-bulosan-with-my-students/">Loving America: Reading Carlos Bulosan with My Students</a>” (Recent craft article in the <i>Rumpus</i>)<br />
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<b>Derek Palacio</b><br />
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Author of <i>The Mortifications</i> and <i>How to Shake the Other Man</i>. His work has appeared in <i>The O. Henry Prize Stories</i> and elsewhere. Palacio runs the Mojave School, a free writing camp for rural Nevada teens, with his wife, the writer Claire Vaye Watkins.<br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/books/review/mortifications-derek-palacio.html"><i>New York Times</i> review of <i>The Mortifications</i></a><br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Shake-Other-Derek-Palacio/dp/0983658587">Excerpt from <i>How to Shake the Other Man</i></a> (Nouvella Books)<br />
<a href="https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/533827/the-mortifications-by-derek-palacio/excerpt">Excerpt from <i>The Mortifications</i></a> (Penguin/Random House)<br />
"<a href="https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/vol-xxix-no-1-spring-2016/preparations-for-the-body/">Preparations for the Body</a>" (Short story in <i>Witness</i>)<br />
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<b>Nayomi Munaweera</b><br />
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Munaweera’s debut novel, <i>Island of a Thousand Mirrors</i>, won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia and a Godage Prize from its home country and was a Target Book Club selection. Munaweera’s second novel, <i>What Lies Between Us</i>, a book about a Sri Lanka-American, was hailed as one of the most exciting literary releases of 2016 from venues ranging from Buzzfeed to <i>Elle</i> magazine. It won the Sri Lankan National Book Award for best English novel and the Godage Award for Best English Novel. <br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/books/review/island-of-a-thousand-mirrors-by-nayomi-munaweera.html">New York Times review of Island of a Thousand Mirrors</a><br />
<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/excerpt?isbn=9781250043931">Excerpt from Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Macmillan)</a><br />
<a href="https://us.macmillan.com/excerpt?isbn=9781250118172">Excerpt from What Lies Between Us (Macmillan)</a><br />
<a href="http://thepunchmagazine.com/the-byword/interviews/i-let-narratives-take-their-own-course-nayomi-munaweera">Recent interview with The Punch Magazine</a><br />
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<b>Sarah Monette</b><br />
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Author or co-author of eight novels including the fantasy series <i>The Doctrine of Labyrinths</i> and <i>Iskryne</i>. Monette is a widely-published writer of fantasy, science-fiction, and horror. She sometimes publishes as Katherine Addison. Her work has appeared in <i>Fantasy Magazine, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet,</i> and elsewhere.<br />
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<a href="http://thebooksmugglers.com/2014/04/joint-review-the-goblin-emperor-by-katherine-addison.html">The Book Smugglers review of <i>The Goblin Emperor</i></a><br />
<a href="https://www.apex-magazine.com/coyote-gets-his-own-back/"> “Coyote Gets His Own Back” (<i>Apex Magazine</i>)</a><br />
<a href="http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/draco-campestris/">“Draco Campestris” (<i>Strange Horizons</i>)</a><br />
<a href="http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/monette_09_09/">“White Charles” (<i>Clarkesworld)</i></a><br />
<a href="http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/blue-lace-agate/">“Blue Lace Agate” (<i>Lightspeed Magazine</i>)</a><br />
"<a href="https://uncannymagazine.com/article/the-half-life-of-angels/">The Half-Life of Angels</a>"(<i>Uncanny</i>)<br />
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<b>Lily Hoang</b><br />
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Author of five books including <i>Unfinished, The Evolutionary Revolution</i>, and <i>Bestiary.</i> Hoang’s awards include the PEN Open Books Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Non-Fiction Book Prize. She is editor of Jaded Ibis Press and Executive Editor of HTML Giant.<br />
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<a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9963167-4-3"><i>Publishers Weekly</i> review of <i>Bestiary</i></a><br />
<a href="http://www.zyzzyva.org/2016/06/20/language-to-swarm-and-eat-the-hopelessness-a-bestiary-by-lily-hoang/"><i>Zyzzvya </i>review of <i>Bestiary</i></a><br />
“<a href="http://quarterlywest.com/?p=1522">On My Birthday, Dragons & Intestines</a>” (short nonfiction in <i>Quarterly West</i>)<br />
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<b><br />Kate Hopper</b><br />
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Author of <i>Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood</i> and <i>Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers.</i> Hopper’s work has appeared in <i>River Teeth, Brevity, Los Angeles Review of Books, nytimes.com</i>, and <i>Poets & Writers</i>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.startribune.com/memoirist-kate-hopper/227714081/">Interview with the <i>Star Tribune</i></a><br />
<a href="http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/reviews/useyourwords.shtml"><i>Story Circle</i> book review of <i>Use Your Words</i></a><br />
<a href="https://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/past%20issues/brev32/hopper_stages.html"> “Becoming a Sanvicenteña: Five Stages”</a> (short nonfiction in <i>Brevity</i>)<br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Use-Your-Words-Writing-Mothers/dp/1936740125/ref=pd_sim_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=5M9JVMKZV83S6ERBAK09">Look inside of <i>Use Your Words: A Writing guide for Mothers</i></a><br />
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<b>Bonnie J. Rough</b><br />
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Author of <i>Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA </i>and <i>The Girls Alone: Six Days in Estonia,</i> plus a new book forthcoming from Seal Press in Fall 2018. Rough’s work has appeared in <i>The New York Times, Huffington Post, The Sun, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, </i>and elsewhere.<br />
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<a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781582435787"><i>Publisher's Weekly</i> starred review of <i>Carrier</i></a><br />
<a href="http://www.bonniejrough.com/excerpt/">Excerpt of<i> Carrier </i></a><br />
<a href="https://www.brainchildmag.com/tag/bonnie-j-rough/">"A Yelper Spreads the Love" (short nonfiction in <i>Brain, Child</i>)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.seattlereviewofbooks.com/reviews/help-selfie/">"Help-Selfie"</a> essay-review in <i>Seattle Review of Books</i><br />
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-e-reader-blank-space-20150730-story.html"><i>Chicago Tribune Review</i> of <i>The Girls, Alone</i></a></div>
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poetry that focuses on the relationship between self and nature, self and items
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image poems (macros) and five poems surrounding animals, specifically cats.
Send all submissions with an author bio to </span><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">macropoetics@gmail.com</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> or visit. Rolling submissions accepted. <a href="http://www.macropoetics.com/submit/"><span style="color: #7558a7;">http://www.macropoetics.com/submit/</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b>Platypus Press Wildness</b> wants work that evokes the unknown.
Platypus Press publishes its online edition every two months. A print anthology
will be released once a year. Rolling submissions. No minimum length for poetry
and prose, but please keep stories under 2,500 words and each poem under 80
lines. They currently only accept unpublished works; this includes website and
personal blogs. Rolling submissions accepted.<br />
<a href="http://readwildness.com/submit"><span style="color: #7558a7;">http://readwildness.com/submit</span></a><br />
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<b><i>Palaver</i> </b>was recently named one of Flavorwire’s hybrid
magazines to follow. They are asking for Creative or Academic Submissions that defy
the confines of a single discipline and have accessible language. The written
academic work should be typed, double spaced, and follow MLA guidelines. Due to
the volume of submissions Palaver receives, they ask that the academic pieces
run no longer than twenty-five pages, and they do not accept previously
published work-- be it print or online. Rolling submissions accepted.<br />
<a href="http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/"><span style="color: #7558a7;">http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/ </span></a><br />
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<b><i>Eternal Remedy</i></b> is an online journal dedicated to creative
writing surrounding the topics of existentialism, love, psychology, philosophy,
religion and the human condition in general. In its third year of operation,
the journal is looking to expand its writing selections. Rolling
submissions accepted.<br />
<a href="http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/"><span style="color: #7558a7;">http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/ </span></a><br />
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<b><i>Front Porch Journal</i></b>, the online literary journal of Texas State
University’s MFA program, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The journal
publishes three times a year, highlighting emerging and established writers,
reviews, and interviews. They are looking for new stories, essays, poems,
flash, artwork, and graphic narratives. Rolling submissions accepted.<br />
<a href="http://frontporchjournal.com/submissions/"><span style="color: #7558a7;">http://frontporchjournal.com/submissions/ </span></a><br />
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<b><i>JuxtaProse</i></b> is accepting <span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;">submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and
photography. They pride themselves on providing a venue where emerging writers
can find a voice alongside some of the most respected names in world
literature.</span> Rolling submissions accepted.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b>Found Polaroids</b> is looking for flash fiction to accompany their
collection of “found polaroids.” While submitted stories are unpaid writing
projects, the exposure that students would gain from their stories is
widespread. Found Polaroids has been featured on such news outlets as BBC World
Radio, The Guardian.com, Dazed Magazine, CBC Radio 'As It Happens’,
MutantSpace.com, The Plaid Zebra, and many more. Submissions are rolling.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><i>Glassworks</i></b> publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid
pieces, craft essays, new media, and art both digitally and in print. We also
publish flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays in our online edition
Flash Glass monthly. Submissions for Flash Glass are accepted on a year-round,
rolling basis. <a href="http://www.rowanglassworks.org/"><span style="color: #7558a7;">www.rowanglassworks.org</span></a><br />
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<b><i>Foothill: a journal of poetry </i></b>invites graduate students to
submit up to six unpublished, English-language-based poems composed in any poetic
genre or form. They accept simultaneous submissions, and they read them year
round. As compensation for publication, authors receive one free copy of the
print journal. Foothill is published by Claremont Graduate University.
Year-round submissions.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Quills Edge
Press </span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #292c37; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is
pleased to announce a new and vibrant anthology of women’s voices in poetry.
Each of the poets selected will see two or three of her poems included, so that
her unique voice can be more deeply appreciated by others. This high-quality
anthology will allow new and established voices to submit on a level field,
where previous publications do not come into play. Your poetry will speak for
itself.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Submissions
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Short Fiction Contest of up to 350 words. Prizes range from $150 for third
place, $250 for second place, and $350 for first. The deadline to submit is
October 1. Read more here- https://www.thesouthamptonreview.com/submit. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brittingham and Felix
Pollack Poetry Prizes </span></i></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are now open. Any poet with an original, full-length,
yet-to-be-published collection is eligible. Each manuscript, accompanied by
a $28 reading fee paid online via Submittable, will be considered for both
prizes. Each prize offers $1,000 and a publishing contract with the University
of Wisconsin Press. Up to three additional finalists may be offered publishing
contracts with UW Press as well, though this is not guaranteed. The submission
deadline is September 15. More details <a href="https://creativewriting.wisc.edu/submit.html?utm_source=phplist187&utm_medium=email&utm_content=HTML&utm_campaign=Submissions+Open%253A+Brittingham+%2526+Pollak+Prizes+in+Poetry+%2528%25241K+%252B+Publication+with+UW+Press%2529"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poetry of the Scared</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is open for submissions Friday July 14 trough 11:59 PM on Sunday
August 27, 2017. This year’s final judge, Kentucky Poet Laureate Frederick
Smock, will select three honorable mentions to receive $100.00 and one winning
poem to be awarded the $500.00 <i>Merton Prize in Poetry of the Sacred</i>.
The winning poem will be published in the 2017-2018 Winter issue
of Parabola Magazine, an internationally recognized magazine devoted to
the world’s religious and cultural traditions. View more <a href="https://centerforinterfaithrelations.org/poetry-of-the-sacred/"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glimmer Train</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> now has two contests open, Very Short
Fiction and Fiction. There is $7,400 in prizes. First-place winners will
be published in <i>Glimmer Train</i>. The deadline for both is August
30, 2017.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Second Annual
Ex <i>Ophidia</i> Press Poetry Book Prize</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is now open for submissions! The winning
poet will receive $1,000 in cash and 15 author copies. Open to all
English-language authors (of any age, ethnicity, gender or
orientation) for a book of poetry. Suggested length of manuscript is
between 64 and 84 pages, single-spaced. The deadline is August 15, 2017.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.exophidiapress.org/poetry-book-prize.html</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blue Mesa Review </span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is open to original English language works in
the genres of Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction for a $500 prize. The submission
must be an unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. The
deadline is August 31<sup>st</sup>. For more details read <a href="http://bluemesareview.org/writing-contest/"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i>Kenyon Review</i> Fellowship</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, is a two-year post-graduate residential fellowship at Kenyon
College offers qualified individuals time to develop as writers, teachers, and
editors. The fellowship provides an annual $35,150 stipend, plus health benefits. Applications
are due September 15, 2017. Learn more here: <a href="http://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/fellowship/"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/fellowship/ </span></a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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will be held from September 8-1, 2017 in Lancaster, PA.<span style="background: white; letter-spacing: -.4pt;">This three-day creative writing conference event
features 40+ notable speakers, engaging sessions in four tracks, interactive
panels, readings, social activities, networking opportunities, and optional,
intimate pre-conference workshops in Lancaster, Pa., a city rich in history,
arts and culture. All of this, plus meals and snacks, bundled into a great,
comprehensive conference rate. The deadline to register is August 25. <a href="http://www.hippocamp2017.hippocampusmagazine.com/"><span style="color: #7558a7;">http://www.hippocamp2017.hippocampusmagazine.com/ </span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Each month, the
Ashland MFA Program receives calls for submissions and contest deadlines, which
it publicizes in its monthly newsletter. Listed below are this month's calls
for submissions. </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.5pt;">Journal Submissions</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mothers
Play/Mothers Work </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">is the theme for <i>Mom
Egg Review</i>’s 16<sup>th</sup> annual print issue. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">They publish work by
writers who are mothers or by others about motherhood.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; padding: 0in;">The upcoming issue of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Mom
Egg Review</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will be looking
at PLAY and WORK through the lens of motherhood. Submissions due August
15, 2017. For more information, visit: <a href="http://momeggreview.com/submit/">http://momeggreview.com/submit/</a></span><span style="color: #606569; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Woven Tale Press</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">welcomes unsolicited submissions. Since their mission is to grow
traffic to noteworthy artists and writers on the World Wide Web, they want to
be able to link back your work; you must have a blog or website address.
Rolling submissions accepted.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://thewoventalepress.submittable.com/submit"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">https://thewoventalepress.submittable.com/submit</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Southern Review’s</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> submission period is open, with
submissions for prose remaining open until December 1, 2017. They accept
mail submissions in all genres and online submissions in fiction and
nonfiction. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://thesouthernreview.org/submissions/?utm_content=a51e37b2f4a940eca52d362f075dc7fa&utm_campaign=TSR09-2016&utm_source=Robly.com&utm_medium=email"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://thesouthernreview.org/submissions/?utm_content=a51e37b2f4a940eca52d362f075dc7fa&utm_campaign=TSR09-2016&utm_source=Robly.com&utm_medium=email</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Southeast Review</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> is currently accepting poetry, fiction,
non-fiction, and book review submissions for issues 35.1 and
35.2. They seek quality writing from a range of traditions and styles, with an
emphasis on work that pushes boundaries and uses its craft to evoke emotion
while making the strange seem familiar and the familiar, strange. Rolling
submissions accepted. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://southeastreview.submittable.com/submit"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">https://southeastreview.submittable.com/submit</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b>Upstart literary journal tiny poetry: <i>macropoetics</i></b> is
seeking submissions. While small, its journal is unique and edgy and has
already featured luminary American writers. They are looking for space-based
poetry that focuses on the relationship between self and nature, self and items
(such as household items, books, etc) and self and other (love, friendship,
relationship). They want to curate ten total poems for each issue, twenty-five
image poems (macros) and five poems surrounding animals, specifically cats.
Send all submissions with an author bio to </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="mailto:macropoetics@gmail.com"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">macropoetics@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> or visit. Rolling submissions
accepted. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.macropoetics.com/submit/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://www.macropoetics.com/submit/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b>Platypus Press Wildness</b> wants work that evokes the unknown.
Platypus Press publishes its online edition every two months. A print anthology
will be released once a year. Rolling submissions. No minimum length for poetry
and prose, but please keep stories under 2,500 words and each poem under 80
lines. They currently only accept unpublished works; this includes website and
personal blogs. Rolling submissions accepted.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://readwildness.com/submit"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://readwildness.com/submit</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Palaver</i> </b>was recently named one of Flavorwire’s hybrid
magazines to follow. They are asking for Creative or Academic Submissions that
defy the confines of a single discipline and have accessible language. The
written academic work should be typed, double spaced, and follow MLA
guidelines. Due to the volume of submissions Palaver receives, they ask that
the academic pieces run no longer than twenty-five pages, and they do not accept
previously published work-- be it print or online. Rolling submissions
accepted.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/ </span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Eternal Remedy</i></b> is an online journal dedicated to creative
writing surrounding the topics of existentialism, love, psychology, philosophy,
religion and the human condition in general. In its third year of operation,
the journal is looking to expand its writing selections. Rolling
submissions accepted.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/ </span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Front Porch Journal</i></b>, the online literary journal of Texas State
University’s MFA program, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The journal
publishes three times a year, highlighting emerging and established writers,
reviews, and interviews. They are looking for new stories, essays, poems,
flash, artwork, and graphic narratives. Rolling submissions accepted.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://frontporchjournal.com/submissions/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">http://frontporchjournal.com/submissions/ </span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>JuxtaProse</i></b> is accepting <span style="letter-spacing: .45pt;">submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and
photography. They pride themselves on providing a venue where emerging writers
can find a voice alongside some of the most respected names in world
literature.</span> Rolling submissions accepted.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b>Found Polaroids</b> is looking for flash fiction to accompany their
collection of “found polaroids.” While submitted stories are unpaid writing
projects, the exposure that students would gain from their stories is
widespread. Found Polaroids has been featured on such news outlets as BBC World
Radio, The Guardian.com, Dazed Magazine, CBC Radio 'As It Happens’,
MutantSpace.com, The Plaid Zebra, and many more. Submissions are rolling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i>Glassworks</i></b> publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid
pieces, craft essays, new media, and art both digitally and in print. We also
publish flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays in our online edition
Flash Glass monthly. Submissions for Flash Glass are accepted on a year-round,
rolling basis. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.rowanglassworks.org/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">www.rowanglassworks.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Foothill: a journal of poetry </i></b>invites graduate students to
submit up to six unpublished, English-language-based poems composed in any
poetic genre or form. They accept simultaneous submissions, and they read them
year round. As compensation for publication, authors receive one free copy of
the print journal. Foothill is published by Claremont Graduate University.
Year-round submissions.<br />
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><a href="http://www.cgu.edu/pages/9078.asp">http://www.cgu.edu/pages/9078.asp</a></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Glimmer Train</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> now has two contests open, Very Short
Fiction and Fiction. There is $7,400 in prizes. First-place winners will
be published in <i>Glimmer Train</i>. The deadline for both is August
30, 2017.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Second Annual
Ex <i>Ophidia</i> Press Poetry Book Prize</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> is now open for submissions! The winning
poet will receive $1,000 in cash and 15 author copies. Open to all
English-language authors (of any age, ethnicity, gender or
orientation) for a book of poetry. Suggested length of manuscript is
between 64 and 84 pages, single-spaced. The deadline is August 15, 2017.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Profane's </span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Nonfiction Prize</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> will be judged by <i>Brevity</i> editor
and author Dinty W. Moore. The winner will receive $1,000 and a blurb from the
contest judge, and finalists will be announced and considered for publication.
There is no theme. Send your best flash, essays, journalism, or narratives that
will spoon out some space in our guts and take up residence there. Deadline is
July 31, 2017.<br />
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Profane’s Fiction Prize</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> will
be judged by Devin Murphy. They want stories that are bold, that are daring,
that mock and ridicule, that sneer, that disgust and appall and shock. The
prize is $1,000, publication in their Winter 2017 issue, and a blurb from the
contest judge. They’re accepting submissions through July 31st. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b><a href="https://www.ashland.edu/cas/master-fine-arts/summer-residency">https://www.ashland.edu/cas/master-fine-arts/summer-residency</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Baltic Writing
Residency</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> is extremely
excited to announce the establishment of the Stormé DeLarverie writing
residency, specifically aimed at under-represented writers. They are currently
taking applications. It will offer 6-7 days in a Victorian apartment in
historic Old Louisville, or off of the Blue Ridge Parkway in idyllic Boone, NC
(1.5 hrs from Asheville; 1 hr from Winston-Salem). The deadline in June 15,
2017. The application fee is $15.00, and applicants should identify as member
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"Re-enchanting Catholic Literature" presented by The University of
Notre Dame's Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. It is a literary
gathering from June 22-24, 2017 at The University of Notre Dame featuring Mary
Karr, Bishop Daniel Flores, Heather King, Tim Powers, Brother Guy Consolmagno,
and many more. The conference registration fee is now $100, which includes
refreshments Friday and Saturday and all conference materials. To learn more,
visit </span><a href="https://www.tryingtosaygod.com/about">https://www.tryingtosaygod.com/about</a>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">HippoCamp</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, a conference for creative nonfiction writers, will be held from September 8-1, 2017 in Lancaster, PA.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This three-day creative writing conference event features 40+ notable speakers, engaging sessions in four tracks, interactive panels, readings, social activities, networking oportunities, and optional, intimate pre-conference workshops in Lancaster, Pa., a city rich in history, arts and culture. All of this, plus meals and snacks, bundled into a great, comprehensive conference rate. <a href="http://www.hippocamp2017.hippocampusmagazine.com/" target="_blank">http://www.hippocamp2017.hippocampusmagazine.com/ </a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<i style="font-size: 13.2px; text-indent: -48px;">Walden and Civil Disobedience </i><span style="font-size: 13.2px; text-indent: -48px;">by Henry David Thoreau</span><br />
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Recommended by Steve Harvey<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Walden </i>is the finest
and most influential collection of essays by an American writer.</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">It created an American voice for the personal
essay and took on issues such as nature and personal responsibility that
continue to be explored by American essayists who have followed such as Annie
Dillard in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;">Pilgrim at Tinker Creek</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">
and Edward Abbey in </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;">Desert Solitaire</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">.</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Norton has a fine critical edition which
combines </span><i style="font-size: 13.2px;">Walden</i><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> with another
extremely influential essay, “Civil Disobedience.”</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; text-indent: -0.5in;"> </span><br />
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<i>The Resistance to Poetry</i> by James Longenbach<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">This book
is one of the best I know of about what poems are, why we write them, and why
people read them. It also includes most of Longenbach's very useful THE ART OF
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<i>Let the Bead Bury their Dead </i>by Randall Kenan<br />
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Recommended by our fiction instructors, Erika Krouse, E.J. Levy, and William Haywood Henderson<br />
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This is a good example of the linked-story cycle, illustrating a range of literary modes from magical realism to meta-narration, as it builds across races and centuries.<br />
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* Photo at top of page is "<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mammela/26855819175/" style="color: #7558a7; text-decoration-line: none;">Book and Glass</a>" by Pasi Mämmelä, used courtesy of Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode" style="color: #7558a7; text-decoration-line: none;">license</a> via Flickr</div>
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Ashland MFA Program receives calls for submissions and contest deadlines, which
it publicizes in its monthly newsletter. Listed below are this month's calls
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<b style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><i>BlackLivesMatter </i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">is the theme for the <a href="http://themfamonthly.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">MFA Monthly</a>'s third issue. They are looking for politically mindful poetry, stories, and essays centering on the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Submissions for this issue close on April 1st.</span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">New Delta Review’s</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">general submissions are now open for
fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and artwork.<i> </i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a journal they are committed to publishing
underrepresented voices and aim to foster diversity in their issues. They’re
now accepting submissions for their Spring 2017 issue, submissions closing
April 5th.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Woven Tale Press</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">welcomes unsolicited submissions. Since their mission is to
grow traffic to noteworthy artists and writers on the World Wide Web, they want
to be able to link back your work; you must have a blog or website
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Southern Review’s</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> submission period is open, with submissions for prose
remaining open until<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">December 1, 2017</span>. They accept mail submissions in all genres
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submissions<span style="color: #222222;"> in fiction and nonfiction. </span></span><a href="http://thesouthernreview.org/submissions/?utm_content=a51e37b2f4a940eca52d362f075dc7fa&utm_campaign=TSR09-2016&utm_source=Robly.com&utm_medium=email"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">http://thesouthernreview.org/submissions/?utm_content=a51e37b2f4a940eca52d362f075dc7fa&utm_campaign=TSR09-2016&utm_source=Robly.com&utm_medium=email</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://therushmag.com/" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">The Rush</span></i></b></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> is a literary magazine edited by the graduate students
at Mount Saint Mary's University in Los Angeles. They’re looking for
high-energy pieces (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, photography) that reflect the
rush of life. They encourage and welcome simultaneous
submissions. Submissions close April 1, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Southeast Review</span></i></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> is
currently accepting poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and book review<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="m-6085477001020078494highlight">submissions</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="m-6085477001020078494highlight">for </span>issues 35.1 and 35.2. They seek
quality writing from a range of traditions and styles, with an emphasis on work
that pushes boundaries and uses its craft to evoke emotion while making the
strange seem familiar and the familiar, strange. </span><a href="https://southeastreview.submittable.com/submit" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">https://southeastreview.submittable.com/submit</span></a></div>
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</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Upstart literary
journal tiny poetry: <i>macropoetics</i></span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is seeking submissions. While small, its journal is unique
and edgy and has already featured luminary American writers. They are looking
for space-based poetry that focuses on the relationship between self and
nature, self and items (such as household items, books, etc) and self and other
(love, friendship, relationship). They want to curate ten total poems for each
issue, twenty-five image poems (macros) and five poems surrounding animals,
specifically cats. Send all submissions with an author bio to </span><a href="mailto:macropoetics@gmail.com"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">macropoetics@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> or visit </span><a href="http://www.macropoetics.com/submit/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">http://www.macropoetics.com/submit/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <br />
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<b>Platypus Press Wildness</b> wants work that evokes the unknown.
Platypus Press publishes its online edition every two months. A print anthology
will be released once a year. Rolling submissions. No minimum length for poetry
and prose, but please keep stories under 2,500 words and each poem under 80
lines. They currently only accept unpublished works; this includes website and
personal blogs.<br />
</span><a href="http://readwildness.com/submit"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">http://readwildness.com/submit</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Palaver</i> </b>was recently named one of Flavorwire’s hybrid
magazines to follow. They are asking for Creative or Academic Submissions that
defy the confines of a single discipline and have accessible language. The written
academic work should be typed, double spaced, and follow MLA guidelines. Due to
the volume of submissions Palaver receives, they ask that the academic pieces
run no longer than twenty-five pages, and they do not accept previously
published work-- be it print or online.<br />
</span><a href="http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/ </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Eternal Remedy</i></b> is an online journal dedicated to creative
writing surrounding the topics of existentialism, love, psychology, philosophy,
religion and the human condition in general. In its third year of operation,
the journal is looking to expand its writing selections.<br />
</span><a href="http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/ </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Front Porch Journal</i></b>, the online literary journal of Texas State
University’s MFA program, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The journal
publishes three times a year, highlighting emerging and established writers,
reviews, and interviews. They are looking for new stories, essays, poems,
flash, artwork, and graphic narratives.<br />
</span><a href="http://frontporchjournal.com/submissions/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">http://frontporchjournal.com/submissions/ </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span><b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">JuxtaProse</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is accepting </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">submissions
in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography. They pride themselves
on providing a venue where emerging writers can find a voice alongside some of
the most respected names in world literature. For more details, visit: </span><a href="http://www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/submit/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">http://www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/submit/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b>Submit writing to "Inklight,"</b> a meeting place of creative
writing and photography published on the website of <i>Afterimage: The
Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism</i>. For this unique project,
photographers submit original work, which is selected to be posted on the
Afterimage web site. Writers then submit original creative writing inspired by
one of the images on the web site. New Inklight features will be posted on
their web site regularly and archived indefinitely. For the current selection
of photographs, please visit: </span></span><a href="http://vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/gallery"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/gallery/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">. Submit ONE piece of writing (poetry, fiction,
creative nonfiction) of up to 750 words or 25 short lines as a Word document
email attachment to</span><a href="mailto:afterimage.inklight@gmail.com"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">afterimage.inklight@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> with “Inklight Writing” in the subject
line, and include in your email the title and name of the artist of the work
you are responding to. No critical responses, please.<br />
</span><a href="http://vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Golden Walkman Magazine</i></b>, a literary magazine for your ears, is
accepting submissions. Send your best poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction,
and craft essays. Work can be sent to </span><a href="mailto:submit@goldwalkmag.com"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">submit@goldwalkmag.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">. For guidelines, visit: </span><a href="http://goldwalkmag.com/submit/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">http://goldwalkmag.com/submit/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b>Found Polaroids</b> is looking for flash fiction to accompany their
collection of “found polaroids.” While submitted stories are unpaid writing
projects, the exposure that students would gain from their stories is
widespread. Found Polaroids has been featured on such news outlets as BBC World
Radio, The Guardian.com, Dazed Magazine, CBC Radio 'As It Happens’,
MutantSpace.com, The Plaid Zebra, and many more.<br />
</span><a href="http://www.foundpolaroids.com/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">http://www.foundpolaroids.com/ </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Glassworks</i></b> publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid
pieces, craft essays, new media, and art both digitally and in print. We also
publish flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays in our online edition
Flash Glass monthly. Submissions for Flash Glass are accepted on a year-round,
rolling basis. </span><a href="http://www.rowanglassworks.org/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">www.rowanglassworks.org</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Foothill: a journal of poetry </i></b>invites graduate students to
submit up to six unpublished, English-language-based poems composed in any
poetic genre or form. They accept simultaneous submissions, and they read them
year round. As compensation for publication, authors receive one free copy of
the print journal. Foothill is published by Claremont Graduate
University.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>“Dystopia / Utopia” themed short story </b>Choose either for the theme of the 14th annual Momaya Short Story Competition. Cash prizes for first, second and third place, plus publication for honorable mentions. Entries accepted until 30 April 2017.<br />http://momayapress.com/momaya-short-story-competition/</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Broadsided Press </b></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">is seeking submissions of poetry and short prose that respond to</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> artist Amy Meissner's "The Fragile Domestic." Deadline is</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> April 15, 2017. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">The winning entry will be published on May 1, 2017 as a Broadsided collaboration. </span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sundress
Publications</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> is pleased to
announce its fourth annual chapbook contest. Authors of all genres are
invited to submit qualifying manuscripts during their reading period of
February 1 to April 15, 2017. The winner will receive a $200 prize, plus
publication as a beautiful full-color PDF available exclusively online for
free. Runners-up will also be considered for publication. This year's judge
will be Darren C. Demaree.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Cosmonauts
Avenue</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is thrilled to
announce that </span><a href="https://sable.godaddy.com/c/105283?id=15054.28.1.6c106e05031f47e88d84164cfa44dee5" target="_blank"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">our inaugural Non-Fiction Prize</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is now open for submissions! Their judge
is Roxane Gay. They are looking for writing that is personal, necessary, darkly
funny, unfunny, candid, unique, upsetting, popculture-y, untold– writing that
is deeply good and deeply you. The winner will receive $500 and publication in
Cosmonauts Avenue. Deadline is May
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Press</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is excited to
announce their nonfiction essay contest--the grand prize winner will secure a guaranteed
book contract, which will allow them to expand upon the winning essay (or
another topic). The essay topic is open to the writer. All of the entry money
from the contest will be used to produce the book and hopefully provide an
advance </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;">to the writer.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">is awarded annually to h</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">onor the memory of a celebrated poet and a beloved teacher, Agha Shahid Ali. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">The University of Utah Press and The University of Utah Department of English will award 1,000 and publication to the winnter. The 2017 deadline is April 15.</span><br />
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Caterpillar</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is looking for new
poems to delight and inspire young readers. If you've written a poem you think
would appeal to 7–11-year olds, then why not enter this year's Caterpillar
Poetry Prize? The poem can be on any subject, and there's no line limit. The
deadline is March 31, 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Storm
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hunt for aesthetically ambitious writing for our print journal and for their
Force Majeure Flash Contest. <i>Storm Cellar</i> is a nationally
distributed literary arts magazine rooted in the Midwest. They want your
prose, poems, chimeras, and ideas penned on envelopes in buses and train cars.
The magazine aims to publish amazing work by new and established writers and
artists, present a range of styles and approaches, and be as un-boring as it
can. $500 in prizes, and the deadline is April 4, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Train</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> now has two contests
open, Very Short Fiction and Fiction. There is $7,400 in prizes.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="color: #222222;">First-place winners will
be published in</span> <i>Glimmer Train</i><span style="color: #222222;">. The
deadline for both is August 30, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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submissions. The guest judge is J. Jill Robinson. The winner(s) receives $1,500
in prizes plus publication in EVENT. EVENT reserves the right to award the
prize money as it sees fit (e.g., two prizes valued at $750, three at
$500, or one at $1000 and one at $500, etc.) in accordance with the judge’s
decision. The deadline is April 15, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Second Annual Ex <i>Ophidia</i> Press Poetry Book Prize</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is now open for submissions! The winning poet will receive
$1,000 in cash and 15 author copies. Open to all English-language authors (of
any age, ethnicity, gender or orientation) for a book of poetry. Suggested
length of manuscript is between 64 and 84 pages, single-spaced. The deadline
is August 15, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Book Review</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> welcomes entries in the
2017 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, one of the world’s
leading prizes for an original short story. They are seeking stories of between
2,000 and 5,000 words, written in English. The 2017 Jolley Prize is worth a
total of $12,500, with a first prize of $7,000 and supplementary prizes of
$2,000 and $1,000. The judges will also commend three additional stories, the
authors of which will each receive $850. Entries close at midnight 10 April
2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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currently taking submissions. FoFG is a U.S.–based non-profit organization
interested in advancing human rights through the form of poetry. There is no
entry fee. All winners will be published on FoFG’s website. 1st Place winners
(adult, college, and youth) will appear in print in the Society of Classical
Poets Journal. The deadline is April 30, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Poetry Prize, which being judged by Ada Limón!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The winning book will be published by<i> </i></span><a href="http://shelterbeltpress.org/" target="_blank" title="Link: http://shelterbeltpress.org/"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Shelterbelt Press</span></i></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">in the fall of 2017. Winners receive a
$500 award, 25 copies of their book, plus a trip to the University of Illinois
Springfield for a reading and launch party.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and author Dinty W. Moore. The winner will receive $1,000 and a blurb from the
contest judge, and finalists will be announced and considered for publication.
There is no theme. Send your best flash, essays, journalism, or narratives that
will spoon out some space in our guts and take up residence there. Deadline is
July 31, 2017.<br />
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Devin Murphy. They want stories that are bold, that are daring, that mock and
ridicule, that sneer, that disgust and appall and shock. The prize is $1,000,
publication in their Winter 2017 issue, and a blurb from the contest judge.
They’re accepting submissions through July 31st. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Residency</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is extremely excited
to announce the establishment of the Stormé DeLarverie writing residency,
specifically aimed at under-represented writers. They are currently taking
applications. It will offer 6-7 days in a Victorian apartment in historic Old
Louisville, or off of the Blue Ridge Parkway in idyllic Boone, NC (1.5 hrs from
Asheville; 1 hr from Winston-Salem). The deadline in June 15, 2017. The application fee is $15.00, and applicants should identify as member of an underrepresented group. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Sundress Academy for the Arts </b>(SAFTA) is excited to announce they are now accepting applications for one to three week artist residencies between </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">August 21st and December 31st, 2017. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">For the fall residency period, SAFTA will be pairing with VIDA to offer two fellowships (one full fellowship and one 50% fellowship) for a week-long residency to two women writers of any genre. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Deadline for applications is May 7th, 2017.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">http://www.sundressacademyforthearts.com/</span></div>
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covers process and forms, offers strategies, and has a dandy anthology. It's a
solid introductory book on nonfiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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featuring a broad range of poets from five continents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Each month, the
Ashland MFA Program receives calls for submissions and contest deadlines, which
it publicizes in its monthly newsletter. Listed below are this month's calls
for submissions. </span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Woven Tale Press</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">welcomes unsolicited submissions. Since their mission is to
grow traffic to noteworthy artists and writers on the World Wide Web, they want
to be able to link back your work; you must have a blog or website
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Southern Review’s</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> submission period is open, with submissions for poetry
remaining open until<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">February 1, 2017</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
submissions for prose remaining open until<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">December 1, 2017</span>. They accept mail submissions in all genres
and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">online
submissions<span style="color: #222222;"> in fiction and nonfiction. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://thesouthernreview.org/submissions/?utm_content=a51e37b2f4a940eca52d362f075dc7fa&utm_campaign=TSR09-2016&utm_source=Robly.com&utm_medium=email">http://thesouthernreview.org/submissions/?utm_content=a51e37b2f4a940eca52d362f075dc7fa&utm_campaign=TSR09-2016&utm_source=Robly.com&utm_medium=email</a></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Fiction International</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> will accept submissions in response to the theme of
Fool from</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">October 1, 2016 to February 15,
2017. <i>Fiction International</i></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">publishes an award winning annual print journal that
emphasizes formal innovation and social activism. Each issue revolves around a theme and
features a wide variety of fiction, nonfiction, indeterminate prose, and visuals
by leading writers and artists from around the world.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Interested writers are invited to visit their
submission guidelines page at:<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Southeast Review</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> is
currently accepting poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and book review<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="m-6085477001020078494highlight">submissions</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="m-6085477001020078494highlight">for </span>issues 35.1 and 35.2. They seek
quality writing from a range of traditions and styles, with an emphasis on work
that pushes boundaries and uses its craft to evoke emotion while making the
strange seem familiar and the familiar, strange. </span><a href="https://southeastreview.submittable.com/submit"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">https://southeastreview.submittable.com/submit</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><i>macropoetics</i></span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> seeks poetry on place and power for upcoming issues. Rolling submissions, see their guidelines for more details. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><a href="http://www.macropoetics.com/submit/">http://www.macropoetics.com/submit/</a></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: 10pt;">Platypus Press Wildness</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> wants work that evokes the unknown.
Platypus Press publishes its online edition every two months. A print anthology
will be released once a year. Rolling submissions. No minimum length for poetry
and prose, but please keep stories under 2,500 words and each poem under 80
lines. They currently only accept unpublished works; this includes website and
personal blogs.</span><br />
</span><a href="http://readwildness.com/submit"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">http://readwildness.com/submit</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Palaver</i> </b>was recently named one of Flavorwire’s hybrid
magazines to follow. They are asking for Creative or Academic Submissions that
defy the confines of a single discipline and have accessible language. The
written academic work should be typed, double spaced, and follow MLA
guidelines. Due to the volume of submissions Palaver receives, they ask that
the academic pieces run no longer than twenty-five pages, and they do not
accept previously published work-- be it print or online.<br />
</span><a href="http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/ </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Eternal Remedy</i></b> is an online journal dedicated to creative
writing surrounding the topics of existentialism, love, psychology, philosophy,
religion and the human condition in general. In its third year of operation,
the journal is looking to expand its writing selections.<br />
</span><a href="http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/ </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Front Porch Journal</i></b>, the online literary journal of Texas State
University’s MFA program, is currently seeking flash prose for their website. Rolling submissions on other genres.<br />
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<b><i>Trigger Warning</i></b> is now accepting submissions for its first
edition. This new literary magazine will focus on works that convey what it is
to overcome personal struggles and which accurately illustrate the nature of
the human experience. They accept personal essays, memoir, fiction, creative
non-fiction, poetry and hybrid works. They read year round and publish their
journal three times per year. Reading fee is $5. Accepted writers receive
$25.<br />
</span><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.triggerwarninglit.com/">http://www.triggerwarninglit.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><i><b>Proximity,</b></i> </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">a quarterly collection of true stories exploring place, space, and connections in the modern age, seeks unpublished creative nonfiction of all lengths as well as photo essays/multimedia for their upcoming themed issues. CAMP (deadline February 15), Work (deadline May 1), and Reuse (deadline July 1). </span></span><br />
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<b style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><i>Small Po[r]tions </i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">is accepting submissions for Issue 6! They
aim to curate cross-genre, experimental and multi/intermedia work and hope to
offer a shared space for experimental creative fiction and nonfiction, lyrical fiction,
poetry, and multimedia pieces. </span><i style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">Small Po[r]tions</i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">issues have a print
component with a focus on book arts and an online component featuring
selections from the print issue along with media work. Please submit up to 1000
words [up to 5 pages] or one multimedia work.</span><br />
</span><a href="https://smallportionsjournal.com/submissions/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">https://smallportionsjournal.com/submissions/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography. We pride
ourselves on providing a venue where emerging writers can find a voice
alongside some of the most respected names in world literature. For more
details, visit: </span><a href="http://www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/submit/"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">http://www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/submit/</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b>Submit writing to "Inklight,"</b> a meeting place of creative
writing and photography published on the website of <i>Afterimage: The
Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism</i>. For this unique project,
photographers submit original work, which is selected to be posted on the
Afterimage web site. Writers then submit original creative writing inspired by
one of the images on the web site. New Inklight features will be posted on
their web site regularly and archived indefinitely. For the current selection
of photographs, please visit: </span></span><a href="http://vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/gallery"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/gallery/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">. Submit ONE piece of writing (poetry,
fiction, creative nonfiction) of up to 750 words or 25 short lines as a Word
document email attachment to</span><a href="mailto:afterimage.inklight@gmail.com"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">afterimage.inklight@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> with “Inklight Writing” in the subject
line, and include in your email the title and name of the artist of the work
you are responding to. No critical responses, please.<br />
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<b><i>Golden Walkman Magazine</i></b>, a literary magazine for your ears, is accepting
submissions. Send your best poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and craft
essays. Work can be sent to </span><a href="mailto:submit@goldwalkmag.com"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">submit@goldwalkmag.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">. For guidelines, visit: </span><a href="http://goldwalkmag.com/submit/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">http://goldwalkmag.com/submit/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b>Found Polaroids</b> is looking for flash fiction to accompany their
collection of “found polaroids.” While submitted stories are unpaid writing
projects, the exposure that students would gain from their stories is
widespread. Found Polaroids has been featured on such news outlets as BBC World
Radio, The Guardian.com, Dazed Magazine, CBC Radio 'As It Happens’,
MutantSpace.com, The Plaid Zebra, and many more.<br />
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<b><i>Glassworks</i></b> publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid
pieces, craft essays, new media, and art both digitally and in print. We also
publish flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays in our online edition
Flash Glass monthly. Submissions for Flash Glass are accepted on a year-round,
rolling basis. </span><a href="http://www.rowanglassworks.org/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">www.rowanglassworks.org</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Foothill: a journal of poetry </i></b>invites graduate students to
submit up to six unpublished, English-language-based poems composed in any
poetic genre or form. They accept simultaneous submissions, and they read them
year round. As compensation for publication, authors receive one free copy of
the print journal. Foothill is published by Claremont Graduate
University.<br />
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submissions. The guest judge is J. Jill Robinson. The winner(s) receives $1,500
in prizes plus publication in EVENT. EVENT reserves the right to award the
prize money as it sees fit (e.g., two prizes valued at $750, three at
$500, or one at $1000 and one at $500, etc.) in accordance with the judge’s
decision. The deadline is April 15, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Second Annual Ex <i>Ophidia</i> Press Poetry Book Prize</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is now open for submissions! The winning poet will receive
$1,000 in cash and 15 author copies. Open to all English-language authors (of
any age, ethnicity, gender or orientation) for a book of poetry. Suggested
length of manuscript is between 64 and 84 pages, single-spaced. The deadline
is August 15, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gearhart Poetry Contest, and Narrative Nonfiction Contest are all open! For
each contest, one winner (awarded $1,000) and up to five finalists
will be announced in spring/summer 2017 and will appear in Volume 36.1 (Winter
2018). The deadlines are all on March 15,
2017.<br /><a href="http://southeastreview.org/contests/#stor">http://southeastreview.org/contests/#stor</a></span>y</span></h2>
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Train’s</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Short Story Award for New Writers contest is open to writers
whose fiction has not appeared, nor is scheduled to appear, in a print
publication with a circulation over 5,000. The 1st-place winner will be
published in <i>Glimmer Train</i> and will receive 10 copies of that
issue. Second- and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for
publication, $700. The deadline is February 28, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Book Review</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> welcomes entries in the
2017 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, one of the world’s
leading prizes for an original short story. They are seeking stories of between
2,000 and 5,000 words, written in English. The 2017 Jolley Prize is worth a
total of $12,500, with a first prize of $7,000 and supplementary prizes of
$2,000 and $1,000. The judges will also commend three additional stories, the
authors of which will each receive $850. Entries close at midnight 10 April
2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
Cleveland State University Poetry Center</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt;"> invites submissions for their 2017 Book Competitions. Full-length manuscripts will be accepted
from January 1 - March 31, 2017. There are three competitions: First Book Poetry Competition with
judge Suzanne Buffam; Open Book Poetry
Competition with judges Rebecca Gayle Howell, Lo Kwa Mei-En, & Lee
Upton; Essay Collection Competition
with judge Renee Gladman. Winners will receive a $1,000 prize, publication, and
a standard royalty contract.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt;">Australian Book Review</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt;"> welcomes entries in the eleventh </span><a href="http://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes/calibre-prize?acm=20429_330" target="_blank"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none;">Calibre Essay Prize</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.0pt;">, Australia’s premier prize for a non-fiction essay. Essays
must be between 3,000 and 7,000 words and must be written in English. The
judges are Sheila Fitzpatrick, Peter Rose, and Geordie Williamson. The
first prize is AU$5,000 with a supplementary prize of AU$2,500. Deadline for
entries is 15 March 2017.<br /><a href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes/calibre-prize/calibre-online-entry">https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes/calibre-prize/calibre-online-entry</a></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Friends of Falun </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Gong</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is excited to announce their new poetry contest and is
currently taking submissions. FoFG is a U.S.–based non-profit organization
interested in advancing human rights through the form of poetry. There is no
entry fee. All winners will be published on FoFG’s website. 1st Place winners
(adult, college, and youth) will appear in print in the Society of Classical
Poets Journal. The deadline is April 30, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Turn” essay contest asks readers to write a 2,000-word essay about
any aspect of the writing life. Any topic is fair game, so long as it pertains
to some aspect of writing. Every submitted essay will be considered for
paid publication, and the grand prize is $1,000. The deadline is Februray 25,
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Poetry Prize, which being judged by Ada Limón!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The winning book will be published by<i> </i></span><a href="http://shelterbeltpress.org/" target="_blank" title="Link: http://shelterbeltpress.org/"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Shelterbelt
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the fall of 2017. Winners receive a $500 award, 25 copies of their book, plus a
trip to the University of Illinois Springfield for a reading and launch party.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Residency</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> is extremely excited
to announce the establishment of the Stormé DeLarverie writing residency,
specifically aimed at under-represented writers. They are currently taking
applications. It will offer 6-7 days in a Victorian apartment in historic Old
Louisville, or off of the Blue Ridge Parkway in idyllic Boone, NC (1.5 hrs from
Asheville; 1 hr from Winston-Salem). The date of the residency will be decided
through discussion with the winning writer, as will the choice of KY or
NC. The deadline in June 15, 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">CLMP is seeking readers for the 2017 Firecracker Awards, an awards series devoted to celebrating independent literary publishers and self-published works of high literary merit. Right now we are looking for readers to review book-length submissions in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction. If you are interested please email Natalie Mesnard at nmesnard@clmp.org.</span><br />
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<i> Starting this month, the Ashland MFA will share books recommended by our program’s faculty. We're including instructional guides, anthologies, and classics of the craft, all meant to be helpful tools for developing writers. Listed below are this month’s recommendations.</i><br />
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<i>The Art of the Personal Essay</i>, ed. by Phillip Lopate<br />
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Recommended by Steve Harvey<br />
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This is by far the most influential and extensive collection of personal essays in English. It contains work from antiquity and from Europe in translation as well as classic works by English and American Essayists. Lopate’s choices are judicious and representative and, read as a whole, give a sense of scope of this new and, before him, largely unchartered genre.<br />
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<i> The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them</i> by Stephen Burt<br />
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Recommended by Angela Estes<br />
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This book was just published and offers a terrific introduction to the varied kinds of poetry of the late 20th and early 21st centuries by devoting 2-3 page essays to each poem, examining how and why the poem works. It's a great way, too, for students to expand their reading.<br />
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<i> Lolita </i>by Vladimir Nabokov <br />
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Recommended by our fiction instructors, Erika Krouse, E.J. Levy, and William Haywood Henderson<br />
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This novel is remarkable for having the ultimate unreliable narrator and antihero as well as its powerful narrative voice and style.<br />
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<i> Housekeeping</i> by Marilynne Robinson <br />
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Recommended by the fiction instructors, Erika Krause, E.J. Levy, and William Haywood Henderson<br />
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Readers should pay special attention to this novel’s use of setting and theme.<br />
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* Photo at top of page is "<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mammela/26855819175/">Book and Glass</a>" by Pasi Mämmelä, used courtesy of Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode">license</a> via FlickrAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1270808596224414962.post-87716534729003331902016-11-30T08:13:00.000-08:002017-02-06T06:04:56.992-08:00Ashland University MFA at AWP<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ashland MFA faculty
members and alumni are represented on multiple panels at the </span><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #7558a7; text-decoration: none;">AWP Conference</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> in
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Below is a list of conference sessions involving our Ashland writing community.
Know of a book signing, reading, or other event that we’ve missed? Please let us
know so we can add it to the list: mfa@ashland.edu.<br />
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We’ll be at Booth #167, so stop by
and say hello. Students, faculty, and alumni who would like to help man the booth for an hour or so, please contact Cassy at cbrown44@ashland.edu. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">See you in Washington, DC!</span></div>
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<strong><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">R196.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><strong><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">A 25th Anniversary Reading by CGU's Kingsley Tufts
Poetry Award Winners</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></b></span></span></strong><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Thursday,12:00 pm- 1:15 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Location: Room 206,
Washington Convention Center, Level Two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=estes&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lori Anne Ferrell</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=estes&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Susan Mitchell</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=estes&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Carl Phillips</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/12322/boruch_marianne"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">Marianne Boruch</span></strong></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/10470/estes_angie"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: windowtext; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">Angie Estes</span></strong></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Claremont
Graduate University’s Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is one of the most
prestigious prizes a contemporary poet can receive. The Kingsley Tufts Poetry
Award was created in 1993 to both honor a poet and provide resources to allow
literary artists to continue honing their craft. These past recipients of the
Kingsley Tufts Awards showcase the breadth and depth, as well as geographic and
aesthetic diversity, of the poetry that CGU’s Tufts Awards supports and
celebrates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Book Signing:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Moon City Press Table (125)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Thursday, 2:00-3:00 pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ashland MFA graduate <b>Sarah Freligh</b> will sign copies of her award winning poetry collection <i>Sad Math</i> at the Moon City Press table. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">R257. <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/9929" target="_blank">In the Box/Out of the Box: Writing With/Against Your Gender/Race/Ethnicity/Etc.</a></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Thursday, 3:00-4:15 pm <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Location: Room 202A, Washington
Convention Center, Level Two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">(<a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/36668/nguyen_b"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bich Minh
Nguyen Nguyen</span></a>, <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Christian+Kiefer&type=all"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Luis Alberto
Urrea</span></a>, <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Christian+Kiefer&type=all"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kelly Luce</span></a>, <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/14844/spillman_rob"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Rob Spillman</span></a>,</span></i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; padding: 0in;"> </span></i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><i><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/19089/kiefer_christian"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Christian
Kiefer</span></a></span></i></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">)</span></i></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;"> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0in;">As fiction writers, we often feel
pressure to write inside the confines our own experience, as defined by our
ethnic identity, gender, sexual orientation, economic class, and so on. This
panel explores the edges and interstices of that pressure. In what contexts is
it acceptable to write outside such confines? In what contexts is it not? What
does "diversity" mean when creating a fictional world? As writers,
who has cultural permission to press past the confines of one's own identity?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">R267. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/8584"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">American Meds: The Literature of Medicine</span></a></span></b><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Thursday, 4:30 pm- 5:45 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Location: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marquis Salon 1 & 2, Marriott
Marquis, Meeting Level Two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/7089/wisenberg_s.l._sandi"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sandi Wisenberg</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Larson&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">David Watts</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Larson&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Anita Helle</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Larson&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Irina Ruvinsky</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Larson&type=all"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Thomas Larson</span></b></a></span></i><b><i><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Illness and health, injury and
healing, life and death: medical subjects carry drama and our core humanity. No
wonder ours is a golden age of nonfiction by physicians and nurses. Five
college and MFA faculty present the literary strategies of medical authors they
love to teach. How do these scribes portray patients with diseases, the
vicissitudes of treatment, the healer’s empathy, the toll it takes on all? How
do we teach our students the art and craft of reading and writing medical
narrative?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">F120. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/8702"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Vein of Jade: What a Single Detail can Reveal in Nonfiction</span></a></span></b><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Friday, 9:00 am- 10:15 am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Location: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Capital & Congress, Marriott
Marquis, Meeting Level Four<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/30368/chuang_angie"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Angie Chuang</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/2800/steinberg_michael"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Michael Steinberg</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Mackall&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Marion Winik</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/3462/downs_michael"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Michael Downs</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
<b>Joe Mackall<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"When the vein of jade/is
revealed in the rock," Lu Chi writes in his classic<i> The Art of Writing</i>,
"the whole mountain glistens." Likewise, a single detail can reveal
the meaning and mystery of a scene, an essay, or a book. Practitioners of
various nonfiction forms, from journalism to hybrid, each choose a
particular detail from a well-regarded nonfiction and show how it becomes—by
its context, its imagery, its power to—the vein of jade that allows the whole
to glisten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">F152. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/8733"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Writing in the Internet Age</span></a></span></b><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Friday, 10:30 am- 11:45 am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Location: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Room
101, Washington Convention Center, Level One<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/2260/neely_mark"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mark Neely</span></b></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Mark+Neely&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Esmé Weijun Wang</span></a>, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Mark+Neely&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sandra Simonds</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Mark+Neely&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ashley C. Ford</span></a></span></i><i><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The internet is the most significant
advance in writing and publishing since Gutenberg, and it's also one of the
defining subjects of contemporary literature. It can be a powerful tool and a
supreme distraction, an interruption or inspiration. Writers of fiction,
poetry, and nonfiction talk about how the web has influenced their work and
working lives, and discuss the internet as a subject, compositional instrument,
publishing platform, and (sometimes troubling) extension of the writer’s brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">F151. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/9552"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Craft of Empathy </span></a></span></b><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Friday, 10:30 am- 11:45 am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Location: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Archives, Marriott Marquis, Meeting
Level Four<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=hopper&type=all"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kate Hopper</span></b></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=hopper&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ana Maria Spagna</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/20571/paramo_adriana"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Adriana Paramo</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/6365/stafford_kim"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kim Stafford</span></a></span></i><i><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Writing with empathy in mind, especially in nonfiction, can
create texture in our work and be transformative for both writer and reader. On
this panel we explore various angles of perspective: scenes where narrators
show empathy toward other characters—especially ones who are unlikeable—and
vice versa, reflections that suggest empathy of a memoirist for a younger self,
as well as techniques for showing empathy, as a writer, for the reader, and
from both reader and writer for the nonhuman world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">F187. <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/10111" target="_blank">The Shape of Fiction: A Look at Structuring Novel-Length Prose</a></span> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">12:00 pm to 1:15 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Location: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Salon F, Washington Convention
Center, Level One<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/19089/kiefer_christian"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Christian
Kiefer</span></a>,</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Christian+Kiefer&type=all"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jeff Jackson</span></a>, <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Christian+Kiefer&type=all"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Esmé Weijun
Wang</span></a>, <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/48159/fitch_janet"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Janet Fitch</span></a>, <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Christian+Kiefer&type=all"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kirstin Chen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When we talk about the structure of
narrative, it is often by using the Freytag pyramid: rising action, plateau,
denoument, climax, and so on. This panel will discuss the reality of
plotting/structuring a novel, often using criteria that has little or nothing
to do with Freytag. Structure can be based on criteria unconcerned with plot
and plot can go far from structure. What possibilities exist and how might we
offer such possibilities to ourselves and our students?</span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">F248. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/8494"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Following the Thread of Thought</span></a></span></b><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Location: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Liberty Salon N, O, & P, Marriott
Marquis, Meeting Level Four<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/7112/harvey_steven"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><i>Steven Harvey</i></span></a></span></b><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Steven+Harvey&type=all"><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: windowtext; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">Phillip Lopate</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Steven+Harvey&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ana Maria Spagna</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/8800/einstein_sarah"><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: windowtext; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">Sarah Einstein</span></a></span></i><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How do writers follow the thread of
a thought through the maze of events in an essay or memoir? What is the art of
reflection? Writers of nonfiction may have more latitude than poets or fiction
writers to tell as well as show in their work, but the challenge is to keep
these ruminations from becoming dull, simplistic, or moralistic. Panelists
examine the way writers keep ideas lively and offer techniques for effectively
weaving the thread of thought into the fabric of nonfiction.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">F268. <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/9827" target="_blank">The Village of Your Novel</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Friday, 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Location: Room 207B, Washington Convention Center, Level Two</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Rebecca Smith, Carole Burns, <b>Robin Black, </b> Margot Livesey</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Jane Austen advised that three or four families in a country village was the very thing to work on. Two hundred years since the publication of Emma, the idea of the village of your novel can help you manage a cast of characters, build tension, and create a sense of place. This international panel looks at ways writers create villages (inner city or rural) and demonstrates practical methods and exercises for leading readers into a convincing world, utilizing its spaces and playing with its rules. </span><br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; padding: 0in;">Location: </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marquis Salon 6, Marriott Marquis,
Meeting Level Two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=2017-02-10&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Robbie Maakestad</span></a></span></i><i><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Speer Morgan,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/13039/stanley_jodee"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jodee Stanley</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Sarah
M. Wells</b>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=2017-02-10&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joel Hans</span></a></span></i><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">As readers increasingly turn to the internet for literary content,
journals face a serious question: print or digital? For<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The Missouri Review,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>River Teeth,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Ninth Letter,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Cartridge Lit,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Fairy Tale Review, and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Phoebe, the answer has been a mixture
of both mediums. Editors discuss solutions, such as audio/podcast platforms,
online issues, digital chapbooks, blogs, and digital archival, which their
journals have implemented to fit the evolving literary landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><b>AWP Ashland Gathering</b></span><br />
<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Friday, 5-6 p.m.</span><br />
<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Location: Shaw's Tavern</span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">520 Florida Ave NW</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Join us for refreshments and socializing! </span><br />
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1619397351699185/" target="_blank">Offsite Creative Nonfiction Reading</a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Friday, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Location: Shaw's Tavern 520 Florida Ave NW</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Join <i>Under the Gum Tree</i>, <i>Fourth Genre</i>, and <i><b>River Teeth</b></i> for a happy hour. Three magazines publishing exclusively nonfiction are partnering on this event to bring you a line up of previous contributors. Grap your happy hour drink of choice from the cash bar and toast to some true stories. Readers will include MFA Faculty Steve Harvey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands Pre-Publication Party/Reading</b></span><br />
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Alumni <b>Joseph Hess</b> will read as part of the pre-publication event for the forthcoming <i>Nuclear Impact Anthology: Broken Atoms in our Hands.</i> Joe will have three poems in the collection which comes out in February. </div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Location: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marquis Salon 3 & 4, Marriott
Marquis, Meeting Level Two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Larson&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Susan Petrie</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Larson&type=all"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Thomas Larson</span></b></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Larson&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Amy Ryan</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/2717/patrick_william"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">William Patrick</span></a></span></i><i><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This panel of Hudson Whitman authors—first-time and
established—will read from their books, demonstrating that a small independent
press—devoted to books on nursing, health care, education, and the military—can
be a smart, vibrant, and alternative publisher of socially relevant nonfiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">S180. <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/9503" target="_blank">The Path to Publishing a First Story Collection.</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/9503" target="_blank"> </a></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Saturday, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">12:00 pm to 1:15 pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Location: Liberty Salon M, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>(Erin Stalcup, <b>Robin Black</b>, Lori Ostlund, Melissa Yancy) </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Four authors discuss their different paths to publishing their first books. One of the panelists got an agented two-book deal with a big New York house, one got an unagented contract with a small university press, and two won contests: the Drue Heinz Prize and the Flannery O’Connor Award. They’ll share their stories, and provide resources and handouts to help audience members understand ideal and realistic possibilities, and navigate their own journeys to publication.</span><br />
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">S259B. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/9161"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Poets as Translators: Versionists, Revisionists, or Vehicles? Sponsored
by ALTA</span></a></span></b><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Saturday, 3:00 pm- 4:15 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Location: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Room 203AB, Washington Convention
Center, Level Two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/5932/goldberg_barbara"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Barbara Goldberg</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Mark+Irwin&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">David Keplinger</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Mark+Irwin&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Nancy Naomi Carlson</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Mark+Irwin&type=all"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mark Irwin</span></b></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Mark+Irwin&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alana Marie Levinson LaBrosse</span></a></span></i><i><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do poets who translate produce a new
poem that imitates the source material, or do they bring across the idiom and
word in the full definition of the word "translating"? Are poets
vehicles for the work they translate, or are they called on to recreate? If the
latter, what is permissible within the context of literary translation? The
following languages are used as examples in this panel: Danish, French,
Hebrew, Kurdish, and Romanian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">S246. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/event_detail/8471"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Speculative Essay</span></a></span></b><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Saturday, 3:00 pm- 4:15 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;">Location: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Capital & Congress, Marriott
Marquis, Meeting Level Four<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/community_calendar/user_view/32009/hemley_robin"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Robin Hemley</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Bonnie+Rough&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lia Purpura</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Leila Philip</span></b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Bonnie+Rough&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Nicole Walker</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview?date=all&from_time=&to_time=&event_keyword=&participant=Bonnie+Rough&type=all"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Brian Blanchfield</span></a></span></i><i><span style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many essayists have employed
speculation throughout the form’s history, relying wholly on speculation
(relating nothing verifiable) rather than engaging “fact.” Virginia Woolf’s
“Death of a Moth,” for example, does not require a verifiable moth to achieve
its power. But what are the limits to speculation? Must essayists always signal
their speculative intentions? Can an essayist delve into the traditional realm
of the fiction writer, overturning traditional notions of point of view in the
essay?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Click <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/schedule_overview">here </a>to see the complete AWP Conference schedule.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 18pt;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">Each month, the
Ashland MFA Program receives calls for submissions and contest deadlines, which
it publicizes in its monthly newsletter. Listed below are this month's calls
for submission</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">Tammy Journal</span></i></b><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">is reading (all
lengths, all forms, all genres) for its seventh issue. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Founded in 2009, Tammy is a print
journal and chapbook press publishing work from the esteemed fringes and
unguarded egresses of American letters. Deadline is December 1, 2016.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://tammy.submittable.com/submit"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">https://tammy.submittable.com/submit</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-size: 10pt;">Riprap Literary
Journal</span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-size: 10pt;"> is now accepting submissions for issue 39.
Calling all poets, short fiction, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction
writers, photographers, and artists. Deadline is December 2, 2016. </span><a href="https://riprapliteraryjournal.submittable.com/submit"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">https://riprapliteraryjournal.submittable.com/submit</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-size: 10pt;"> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">The Woven Tale Press</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">welcomes unsolicited submissions. Since their mission is to
grow traffic to noteworthy artists and writers on the World Wide Web, they want
to be able to link back your work; you must have a blog or website
address. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://thewoventalepress.submittable.com/submit"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">https://thewoventalepress.submittable.com/submit</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">The Tarpaulin Sky Press</span></i></b><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;"> biennial reading period for manuscripts in any genre is open.</span></b><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">Two
manuscripts will be chosen for publication — one by guest judge Bhanu Kapil,
the other by TS Press editors. In addition to publication, each author
will receive $1000. The books will be published in spring 2018, in time for AWP
Tampa. Deadline is November 30, 2016. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://tarpaulinsky.com/mss2017/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017%20MFA%20Book%20Prize%20announce&utm_content=2017%20MFA%20Book%20Prize%20announce+CID_c650631ae9d7ed1417befd36c8aeda65&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=manuscript%20submissions" target="_blank">Guidelines </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">The Southern Review’s</span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> submission period is open, with submissions for poetry
remaining open until<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">February 1, 2017</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and
submissions for prose remaining open until<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj">December 1, 2017</span>. They accept mail submissions in all genres
and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">online
submissions<span style="color: #222222;"> in fiction and nonfiction.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://thesouthernreview.org/submissions/?utm_content=a51e37b2f4a940eca52d362f075dc7fa&utm_campaign=TSR09-2016&utm_source=Robly.com&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">Guidelines </a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">Arts and Letters
Journal’s</span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> general </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">reading
period is now open. Send them your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
submissions to be considered for an upcoming issue. They would also love to
read the flash fiction stories you have lying around! Deadline is January 31,
2017. </span><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://artsandletters.gcsu.edu/submit/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt;">http://artsandletters.gcsu.edu/submit/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">Fiction International</span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> will accept submissions in response to the theme
of Fool from</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="background: white;">October 1, 2016 to February
15, 2017. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fiction International</i></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">publishes an award winning annual print journal that
emphasizes formal innovation and social activism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each issue revolves around a theme and
features a wide variety of fiction, nonfiction, indeterminate prose, and
visuals by leading writers and artists from around the world.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="background: white;">Interested writers are invited to visit their
submission guidelines page at:<br />
</span></span><a href="http://fictioninternational.sdsu.edu/wordpress/submit/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt;">http://fictioninternational.sdsu.edu/wordpress/submit/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Catfish Creek</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">, the national
undergraduate literary journal published by Loras College, is now reading for
our seventh edition, to be released in spring of 2017. <span style="background: white;">We welcome submissions of fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction. Any
student currently registered in an undergraduate program is eligible to submit.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.loras.edu/majors-programs/english-creative-writing/catfish-creek/"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.loras.edu/majors-programs/english-creative-writing/catfish-creek/</span></a><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">Arkana</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">,</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> the new, online journal of the Arkansas Writers MFA
Program<i> </i>is excited to begin accepting submissions in Fiction,
Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Illustrated Narrative. They are particularly
interested in the voices of emerging writers and artists. For this inaugural
issue, <i>Arkana </i>encourages writers to submit work that
reflects their mission: to seek and foster a sense of shared wonder by
privileging art that asks questions, explores mystery, and works to discover
and uncover the overlooked, the misunderstood, and the silent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The deadline is February 1, 2017. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://arkana.submittable.com/submit"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">https://arkana.submittable.com/submit</span></span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">The Southeast Review</span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> is
currently accepting poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and book review<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="m-6085477001020078494highlight">submissions</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="m-6085477001020078494highlight">for </span>issues 35.1 and 35.2. They seek
quality writing from a range of traditions and styles, with an emphasis on work
that pushes boundaries and uses its craft to evoke emotion while making the
strange seem familiar and the familiar, strange. </span><a href="https://southeastreview.submittable.com/submit"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">https://southeastreview.submittable.com/submit</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">CALYX, A Journal of Art and
Literature by Women</span></b></i><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">,</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">accepts
submissions of poetry, short fiction, visual art, essays, reviews, and
interviews annually from<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">October 1 - December 31</span></b>.
They are always open for submissions of art and book reviews. </span></span><br />
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Review</span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> is now open for submissions and publishes
original poetry, prose, and art. They are dedicated to publishing writers
marginalized from mainstream literary communities.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="background: white;">The journal is reading for issue #12, due out in July
2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The deadline is December 1, 2016. </span></span></span></div>
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Rush</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">is a new
literary magazine created and run by the MFA creative
writing students at Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles,
and they are reading for its first publication. They’re looking for
high-energy pieces that reflect the rush of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are accepting submissions October 1
through December 1, 2016. Send submissions and see guidelines here: </span><a href="https://therushmag.submittable.com/submit"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">https://therushmag.submittable.com/submit</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></div>
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</span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">Upstart literary
journal tiny poetry: <i>macropoetics</i></span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> seeks submissions for its second issue. While small, its
journal is unique and edgy and has already featured luminary American writers.
They are looking for space-based poetry that focuses on the relationship
between self and nature, self and items (such as household items, books, etc)
and self and other (love, friendship, relationship). They want to curate ten
total poems for each issue, twenty-five image poems (macros) and five poems
surrounding animals, specifically cats. Send all submissions with an author bio
to </span><a href="mailto:macropoetics@gmail.com"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">macropoetics@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> or visit </span><a href="http://macropoetics.com/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">macropoetics.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">.<br />
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<b>Platypus Press Wildness</b> wants work that evokes the unknown.
Platypus Press publishes its online edition every two months. A print anthology
will be released once a year. Rolling submissions. No minimum length for poetry
and prose, but please keep stories under 2,500 words and each poem under 80
lines. They currently only accept unpublished works; this includes website and
personal blogs.<br />
</span><a href="http://readwildness.com/submit"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">http://readwildness.com/submit</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Palaver</i> </b>was recently named one of Flavorwire’s hybrid
magazines to follow. They are asking for Creative or Academic Submissions that
defy the confines of a single discipline and have accessible language. The
written academic work should be typed, double spaced, and follow MLA
guidelines. Due to the volume of submissions Palaver receives, they ask that
the academic pieces run no longer than twenty-five pages, and they do not
accept previously published work-- be it print or online.<br />
</span><a href="http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/ </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Eternal Remedy</i></b> is an online journal dedicated to creative
writing surrounding the topics of existentialism, love, psychology, philosophy,
religion and the human condition in general. In its third year of operation,
the journal is looking to expand its writing selections.<br />
</span><a href="http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/ </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Front Porch Journal</i></b>, the online literary journal of Texas State
University’s MFA program, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The journal
publishes three times a year, highlighting emerging and established writers,
reviews, and interviews. They are looking for new stories, essays, poems,
flash, artwork, and graphic narratives.<br />
</span><a href="http://frontporchjournal.com/submissions/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">http://frontporchjournal.com/submissions/ </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Trigger Warning</i></b> is now accepting submissions for its first
edition. This new literary magazine will focus on works that convey what it is
to overcome personal struggles and which accurately illustrate the nature of
the human experience. They accept personal essays, memoir, fiction, creative non-fiction,
poetry and hybrid works. They read year round and publish their journal three
times per year. Reading fee is $5. Accepted writers receive $25.<br />
</span><a href="http://www.triggerwarninglit.com/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">http://www.triggerwarninglit.com/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Small Po[r]tions </i></b>is accepting submissions for Issue 6! They
aim to curate cross-genre, experimental and multi/intermedia work and hope to
offer a shared space for experimental creative fiction and nonfiction, lyrical fiction,
poetry, and multimedia pieces. <i>Small Po[r]tions</i>issues have a print
component with a focus on book arts and an online component featuring
selections from the print issue along with media work. Please submit up to 1000
words [up to 5 pages] or one multimedia work.<br />
</span><a href="https://smallportionsjournal.com/submissions/"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">https://smallportionsjournal.com/submissions/</span></a> <span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div>
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in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography. We pride
ourselves on providing a venue where emerging writers can find a voice
alongside some of the most respected names in world literature. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/submit/"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">http://www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/submit/</span></a><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b>Submit writing to "Inklight,"</b> a meeting place of creative
writing and photography published on the website of <i>Afterimage: The
Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism</i>. For this unique project,
photographers submit original work, which is selected to be posted on the
Afterimage web site. Writers then submit original creative writing inspired by
one of the images on the web site. New Inklight features will be posted on
their web site regularly and archived indefinitely. For the current selection
of photographs, please visit: </span></span><a href="http://vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/gallery"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/gallery/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">. Submit ONE piece of writing (poetry,
fiction, creative nonfiction) of up to 750 words or 25 short lines as a Word
document email attachment to</span><a href="mailto:afterimage.inklight@gmail.com"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">afterimage.inklight@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> with “Inklight Writing” in the subject
line, and include in your email the title and name of the artist of the work
you are responding to. No critical responses, please.<br />
</span><a href="http://vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Golden Walkman Magazine</i></b>, a literary magazine for your ears, is
accepting submissions. Send your best poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction,
and craft essays. Work can be sent to </span><a href="mailto:submit@goldwalkmag.com"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">submit@goldwalkmag.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">. For guidelines, visit: </span><a href="http://goldwalkmag.com/submit/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">http://goldwalkmag.com/submit/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b>Found Polaroids</b> is looking for flash fiction to accompany their
collection of “found polaroids.” While submitted stories are unpaid writing
projects, the exposure that students would gain from their stories is
widespread. Found Polaroids has been featured on such news outlets as BBC World
Radio, The Guardian.com, Dazed Magazine, CBC Radio 'As It Happens’,
MutantSpace.com, The Plaid Zebra, and many more.<br />
</span><a href="http://www.foundpolaroids.com/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">http://www.foundpolaroids.com/ </span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Glassworks</i></b> publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid
pieces, craft essays, new media, and art both digitally and in print. We also
publish flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays in our online edition
Flash Glass monthly. Submissions for Flash Glass are accepted on a year-round,
rolling basis. </span><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.rowanglassworks.org/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">www.rowanglassworks.org</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"><br />
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<b><i>Foothill: a journal of poetry </i></b>invites graduate students to
submit up to six unpublished, English-language-based poems composed in any
poetic genre or form. They accept simultaneous submissions, and they read them
year round. As compensation for publication, authors receive one free copy of
the print journal. Foothill is published by Claremont Graduate
University.<br />
</span><a href="http://www.cgu.edu/pages/9078.asp"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cgu.edu/pages/9078.asp</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">The 2017 Tennessee
Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival's</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> Writing Contests are now open for submissions! The top
nine finalists for all contests will receive a panel pass ($75 value) to the
Festival (</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">March 22-26, 2017<span style="color: #222222;">), and their names will be published on the Festival's
website. Deadline for the one-act play contest is November 1, 2016; deadline
for the poetry contest is November 15, 2016; and the deadline for the fiction
contest is November 30, 2016.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://tennesseewilliamsfestival.submittable.com/submit?campaignID=194883&patronID=505756472&linkNum=7&memberID=4dc81a740c09eabb328609eda240e31b"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">https://tennesseewilliamsfestival.submittable.com/submit?campaignID=194883&patronID=505756472&linkNum=7&memberID=4dc81a740c09eabb328609eda240e31b</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0f2d; font-size: 10pt;">The 9th Annual Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Competition</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #0b0f2d; font-size: 10pt;"> is open for submissions. Winners will receive an award
of $100 and will be invited to read their poems at the 9th Annual Nazim Hikmet
Poetry Festival, which will be held on Sunday, April 9, 2017 at Page-Walker
Arts & History Center in Cary, North Carolina. Winning poems will be
published in the Festival anthology and on the festival web site. Deadline
is January 15, 2017. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0f2d; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.nazimhikmetpoetryfestival.org/index.php?id=4" target="_blank">Guidelines </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Shelterbelt Press </span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">is
now accepting submissions for its<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></b>first Poetry Prize, which being
judged by Ada Limón!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The winning
book will be published by<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><a href="http://shelterbeltpress.org/" target="_blank" title="Link: http://shelterbeltpress.org/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">Shelterbelt Press</span></i></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">in the fall of 2017. Winners receive a
$500 award, 25 copies of their book, plus a trip to the University of Illinois
Springfield for a reading and launch party.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Permafrost’s</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="background: white;">Book Prize in Poetry is now open for submissions.
Their judge is Jericho Brown, author of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Please</i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The New Testament</i>, which won
the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Winners will receive $1000 and publication and
distribution through the University of Alaska Press. Permafrost </span><span style="background: rgb(248, 252, 255);">prefers that manuscripts are at least 50 pages long.
Deadline is January 15, 2017. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Enter Writer Advice’s </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">SCINTILLATING STARTS Contest for
fiction, memoir, and creative nonfiction.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Grab and hold them with your opening
paragraphs. Send up to 1000 words of your first chapter by December 1,
2016. Guest judges will be last year’s winners<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Carolyn Howard-Johnson</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kevin O’Keefe.</span><span style="color: black;">
If your work is shared on Writer Advice, you’ll be able to tell
prospective agents, publishers, and book buyers that you were one of the
winners of Writer Advice’s Scintillating Starts Contest. A cash award of $210
will be split among those whose work is shared. </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.writeradvice.com/"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.writeradvice.com/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">Glimmer Train’s</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">annual<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">Family Matters<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222;">contest is now accepting submissions. They </span></span><span style="background: rgb(243, 243, 241); color: black; font-size: 10pt;">are looking for stories about families of all
configurations. First place winner will be published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Glimmer Train</i> and will receive $2,500 and 10 copies of the issue.
Second and third place winners receive $500/$300, respectively. The deadline is
January 1, 2017.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/?acm=20429_320" target="_blank"><i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">Australian Book
Review</span></b></i></a><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">, Australia's premier literary magazine, is accepting entries
for their<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>2017 Peter Porter
Poetry Prize<span class="apple-converted-space"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The winner receives
$5,000, and shortlisted poets receive $500. All the shortlisted poems are
published in the magazine</span>.</b> The judges this year are <b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ali Alizadeh, Jill Jones,
and Felicity Plunkett</span></b>. The deadline is December 1, 2016.</span></span></div>
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for poetry, hybrid writing, and cross-disciplinary projects. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">They are particularly
interested in work that exists as a conversation, and the poetry contest theme
is “Call and Response.” TQ11’s Poetry Contest will be judged by Darcie
Dennigan. </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">The winning entry
will be recognized with a cash honorarium and publication in TQ11. The deadline
is December 1, 2016. </span><a href="https://tupeloquarterly.submittable.com/submit"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">https://tupeloquarterly.submittable.com/submit</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></span></div>
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contest is now live and accepting entries in poetry and fiction! Winners get
$250, publication in Bodega, and the opportunity to conduct an interview one of
the amazing judges--Jay Deshpande for poetry and Tracy O'Neill for
fiction--which will also be published in the magazine. Deadline is November 30,
2016. </span></span><br />
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is now open for submissions! CA’s judge is the one and only Eileen Myles! </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">The winner will receive $500, second place $150, and
third place $50.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="background: white;">All three will be published
in an upcoming issue of</span> <i>Cosmonauts Avenue</i><span style="background: white;">. The deadline is November 15, 2016. </span></span><a href="http://www.cosmonautsavenue.com/contest/"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.cosmonautsavenue.com/contest/</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Bayou Magazine</span></i></b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> is pleased to announce its 2016 contests in
Poetry and Fiction. The judge for this year’s</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> Kay Murphy Prize for Poetry is<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">Myung Mi Kim</span>. Deadline is January 1, 2017. The
James Knudsen Prize for Fiction will be judged by Anne Raeff. Deadline is
January 1, 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Winners of both
contests receive $1,000 and a one-year subscription to Bayou Magazine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more about the poetry contest, visit: </span><a href="https://bayoumagazine.org/writing-contests/poetry-contest-guidelines/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt;">https://bayoumagazine.org/writing-contests/poetry-contest-guidelines/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;">. For more about the fiction contest, visit: </span><a href="https://bayoumagazine.org/writing-contests/fiction-contest-guidelines/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt;"></span></a><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://bayoumagazine.org/writing-contests/fiction-contest-guidelines//">https://bayoumagazine.org/writing-contests/fiction-contest-guidelines/</a></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">/</a><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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Contest </span></b><b><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: #333333; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">is open for
submissions. F</span></b><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;">rom all submissions, approximately<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>100</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>poems will be accepted for
publication. First prize winner receives $1,000; second places receives $250;
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of poetry, is extending their deadline for the Atlantis
Award to November 1, 2016. The award is given to a single best poem.
The winning poet receives $200 and will be featured in an interview on The
Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poem will be published and displayed in</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><a href="http://thepoetsbillow.org/literary-art-gallary/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">The
Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication. </span><a href="https://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-atlantis-award/">https://thepoetsbillow.org/<span style="font-size: 10pt;">poetry</span>-awards/the-atlantis-award/</a><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span></div>
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open for submissions! Their judge is Eileen Myles, and the deadline is November
15, 2016.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The winner will receive $500, second place $150, and third place $50.</span> All
three will be published in an upcoming issue of </span><a href="https://sable.godaddy.com/c/68578?id=91796.145.1.37a3afab6fdb1d44da9a5375345fbd94" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">Cosmonauts Avenue</span></i></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<b><i>Profane's </i>Nonfiction Prize</b> will be judged by <i>Brevity</i> editor
and author Dinty W. Moore. The winner will receive $1,000 and a blurb from the
contest judge, and finalists will be announced and considered for publication.
There is no theme. Send your best flash, essays, journalism, or narratives that
will spoon out some space in our guts and take up residence there. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">The Baltic Writing Residency</span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> is currently accepting applications for a<span class="m-8465284097637907667gmail-apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">month-long residency in Stockholm, Sweden</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 10pt;">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: black;">The deadline
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The BWR provides $1,000, and a cottage in Stockholm for one poet, playwright,
or writer of fiction working in English. Though, neither the writer nor their
project need be connected with Sweden</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">. </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Applications can be sent via submittable (</span><a href="http://balticwritingresidency.submittable.com/submit" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 10pt;">http://balticwritingresidency.submittable.com/submit</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">).</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;"></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The<i>
Times Literary Supplement</i></span></b><i> </i>weekly journal is offering
a special price to students in MFA Writing Programs. The regular subscription
price is $185. But they have just instituted a discount price limited to
students in MFA Writing Programs of just $92.50, payable in monthly
installments on a credit card of just $7.70. That saves almost 85% off the
regular price. To subscribe, simply go to </span><a href="http://www.mfa.tls-subscription.com/"><span style="color: #7558a7; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">www.mfa.tls-subscription.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">. To access this rate, you must pay by a valid
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</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;">The 2017 Tennessee
Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival's</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt;"> Writing Contests are now open for submissions! The top
nine finalists for all contests will receive a panel pass ($75 value) to the
Festival (</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">March 22-26, 2017<span style="color: #222222;">), and their names will be published on the Festival's
website. Deadline for the one-act play contest is November 1, 2016; deadline
for the poetry contest is November 15, 2016; and the deadline for the fiction
contest is November 30, 2016.</span></span></span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1270808596224414962.post-51547130587801737902016-10-11T07:33:00.000-07:002016-10-11T07:33:27.133-07:00October/November Calls for Submission<i>The Ashland MFA Program receives many calls for submissions and contest deadlines to share with its students and alumni. </i><br /><br /><h3>
Journal Submissions</h3>
<b>The Woven Tale Press</b> welcomes unsolicited submissions. Since their mission is to grow traffic to noteworthy artists and writers on the World Wide Web, they want to be able to link back your work; you must have a blog or website address. <div>
<a href="https://thewoventalepress.submittable.com/submit">https://thewoventalepress.submittable.com/submit</a> <br /><br /><b><i>Indicia, </i></b>an art, poetry, and fiction publication is open for submissions for its second issue. They are drawn to the experimental, the understated, the othered & outcast, the childlike, and the bizarre. The deadline is October 31, 2016. <div>
<a href="https://indicialit.com/submissions/">https://indicialit.com/submissions/</a> <br /><br /><i><b>Rabbit Catastrophe Review </b></i>is now open for submissions and publishes original poetry, prose, and art. They are dedicated to publishing writers marginalized from mainstream literary communities. The journal is reading for issue #12, due out in July 2017. The deadline is December 1, 2016. For guidelines, visit: <a href="http://rabbitcatastrophepress.com/rabbit-catastrophe-review/">http://rabbitcatastrophepress.com/rabbit-catastrophe-review/</a> <br /><br /><b><i>The Rush </i></b>is a new literary magazine created and run by the MFA creative writing students at Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles, and they are reading for its first publication. They’re looking for high-energy pieces that reflect the rush of life. They are accepting submissions October 1 through December 1, 2016. Send submissions and see guidelines here: <a href="https://therushmag.submittable.com/submit">https://therushmag.submittable.com/submit</a> <br /><br /> Upstart literary journal tiny poetry: <i><b>macropoetics</b></i> seeks submissions for its second issue. While small, its journal is unique and edgy and has already featured luminary American writers. They are looking for space-based poetry that focuses on the relationship between self and nature, self and items (such as household items, books, etc) and self and other (love, friendship, relationship). They want to curate ten total poems for each issue, twenty-five image poems (macros) and five poems surrounding animals, specifically cats. Send all submissions with an author bio to to <a href="mailto:macropoetics@gmail.com">macropoetics@gmail.com</a>. <br /> <a href="http://macropoetics.com/">macropoetics.com</a>.<br /> <b><br /><i> Platypus Press Wildness</i></b> wants work that evokes the unknown. Platypus Press publishes its online edition every two months. A print anthology will be released once a year. Rolling submissions. No minimum length for poetry and prose, but please keep stories under 2,500 words and each poem under 80 lines. They currently only accept unpublished works; this includes website and personal blogs. <br /> <a href="http://readwildness.com/submit">http://readwildness.com/submit</a> <br /> <br /><b><i> Palaver </i></b>was recently named one of Flavorwire’s hybrid magazines to follow. They are asking for Creative or Academic Submissions that defy the confines of a single discipline and have accessible language. The written academic work should be typed, double spaced, and follow MLA guidelines. Due to the volume of submissions <i>Palaver</i> receives, they ask that the academic pieces run no longer than twenty-five pages, and they do not accept previously published work--be it print or online.<br /> <a href="http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/">http://palaverjournal.com/submit-to-palaver/ </a><br /> <br /><b><i> Eternal Remedy</i> </b>is an online journal dedicated to creative writing surrounding the topics of existentialism, love, psychology, philosophy, religion and the human condition in general. In its third year of operation, the journal is looking to expand its writing selections. <br /> <a href="http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/">http://eternalremedy.com/submissions/ </a><br /> <br /><b><i> Front Porch Journal</i></b>, the online literary journal of Texas State University’s MFA program, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The journal publishes three times a year, highlighting emerging and established writers, reviews, and interviews. They are looking for new stories, essays, poems, flash, artwork, and graphic narratives. <br /> <a href="http://frontporchjournal.com/submissions/">http://frontporchjournal.com/submissions/ </a><br /> <br /><b><i> Trigger Warning</i></b> is now accepting submissions for its first edition. This new literary magazine will focus on works that convey what it is to overcome personal struggles and which accurately illustrate the nature of the human experience. They accept personal essays, memoir, fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and hybrid works. They read year round and publish their journal three times per year. Reading fee is $5. Accepted writers receive $25. <br /> <a href="http://www.triggerwarninglit.com/">http://www.triggerwarninglit.com/</a> <br /> <br /><b><i> Small Po[r]tions</i></b> is accepting submissions for Issue 6! They aim to curate cross-genre, experimental and multi/intermedia work and hope to offer a shared space for experimental creative fiction and nonfiction, lyrical fiction, poetry, and multimedia pieces. <i>Small Po[r]tionsissues</i> have a print component with a focus on book arts and an online component featuring selections from the print issue along with media work. Please submit up to 1000 words [up to 5 pages] or one multimedia work. <br /> <a href="https://smallportionsjournal.com/submissions/">https://smallportionsjournal.com/submissions/</a> <br /> <br /> Submit writing to "Inklight," a meeting place of creative writing and photography published on the website of <i><b>Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism</b></i>. For this unique project, photographers submit original work, which is selected to be posted on the Afterimage web site. Writers then submit original creative writing inspired by one of the images on the web site. New Inklight features will be posted on their web site regularly and archived indefinitely. For the current selection of photographs, please visit: <a href="http://vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/gallery">vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/gallery/</a>. Submit ONE piece of writing (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction) of up to 750 words or 25 short lines as a Word document email attachment to<a href="mailto:afterimage.inklight@gmail.com">afterimage.inklight@gmail.com</a> with “Inklight Writing” in the subject line, and include in your email the title and name of the artist of the work you are responding to. No critical responses, please.<br /> <a href="http://vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/">vsw.org/afterimage/inklight/</a><br /> <br /><b><i> Golden Walkman Magazine</i></b>, a literary magazine for your ears, is accepting submissions. Send your best poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and craft essays. Work can be sent to <a href="mailto:submit@goldwalkmag.com">submit@goldwalkmag.com</a>. For guidelines, visit: <a href="http://goldwalkmag.com/submit/">http://goldwalkmag.com/submit/</a><br /> <br /><b> Found Polaroids</b> is looking for flash fiction to accompany their collection of “found polaroids.” While submitted stories are unpaid writing projects, the exposure that students would gain from their stories is widespread. Found Polaroids has been featured on such news outlets as BBC World Radio, The Guardian.com, Dazed Magazine, CBC Radio 'As It Happens,’ MutantSpace.com, The Plaid Zebra, and many more. <br /> <a href="http://www.foundpolaroids.com/">http://www.foundpolaroids.com/ </a><br /> <br /><b><i> Glassworks</i></b> publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid pieces, craft essays, new media, and art both digitally and in print. We also publish flash fiction, prose poetry, and micro essays in our online edition Flash Glass monthly. Submissions for Flash Glass are accepted on a year-round, rolling basis. <a href="http://www.rowanglassworks.org/">www.rowanglassworks.org</a> <br /> <br /><b><i> Foothill: a journal of poetry</i></b> invites graduate students to submit up to six unpublished, English-language-based poems composed in any poetic genre or form. They accept simultaneous submissions, and they read them year round. As compensation for publication, authors receive one free copy of the print journal. Foothill is published by Claremont Graduate University. <br /> <a href="http://www.cgu.edu/pages/9078.asp">http://www.cgu.edu/pages/9078.asp</a> <br /><br /><h3>
Contests</h3>
<b><i>Cosmonauts Avenue</i> </b>is thrilled to announce that their 2nd annual Poetry Prize is now open for submissions! CA’s judge is the one and only Eileen Myles! The winner will receive $500, second place $150, and third place $50. All three will be published in an upcoming issue of Cosmonauts Avenue. The deadline is November 15, 2016. </div>
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<a href="http://www.cosmonautsavenue.com/contest/">http://www.cosmonautsavenue.com/contest/</a> <br /><br /><b><i>Narrative </i></b>invites all writers, poets, visual artists, photographers, performers, and filmmakers between eighteen and thirty years old to send them their best work. Their 30 Below Contest looks for the traditional and the innovative, the true and the imaginary. First prize is $1,500, second prize is $750, third prize is $300, and ten finalists will receive $100 each. The deadline is November 9, 2016.</div>
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<a href="http://www.narrativemagazine.com/30-below-2016">http://www.narrativemagazine.com/30-below-2016</a> <br /><br /><b><i>The Poet’s Billow,</i></b> an organization dedicated to increasing the exposure of poetry, is extending their deadline for the Atlantis Award to November 1, 2016. The award is given to a single best poem. The winning poet receives $200 and will be featured in an interview on The Poet’s Billow web site. The winning poem will be published and displayed in <a href="http://thepoetsbillow.org/literary-art-gallary/">The Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery</a>. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication. </div>
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<a href="https://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-atlantis-award/">https://thepoetsbillow.org/poetry-awards/the-atlantis-award/</a> <br /><b><i><br />Glimmer Train </i></b>announces its short story award for new writers. Most entries run from 1,000 to 5,000 words, but any lengths up to 12,000 are welcome. Dead line is October 31, 2016. The 1st-place winner will be published in Glimmer Train, will receive 10 copies of that issue, and receive $2,500. Second- and 3rd-place win $500/$300, respectively, or, if accepted for publication, $700. <a href="http://www.glimmertrain.com/pages/guidelines/short_story_award_for_new_writers_guidelines.php">http://www.glimmertrain.com/pages/guidelines/short_story_award_for_new_writers_guidelines.php</a><br /><br /><b><i> Profane's </i></b>Nonfiction Prize will be judged by Brevity editor and author Dinty W. Moore. The winner will receive $1,000 and a blurb from the contest judge, and finalists will be announced and considered for publication. There is no theme. Send your best flash, essays, journalism, or narratives that will spoon out some space in our guts and take up residence there.<br /> <a href="http://www.profanejournal.com/contests.html">http://www.profanejournal.com/contests.html</a><div>
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<b>The <i>River Teeth</i> Literary Nonfiction Book Contest </b>is accepting book-length manuscripts through October 31. Final judge is Andre' Dubus III. Winner receives $1,000 and publication through University of New Mexico Press. Since our final judge is not an AU employee, alumni are welcome to submit. </div>
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Conferences, Workshops, and More</h3>
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The 2017 <b>Ashland MFA Summer Residency in Paris</b> will be June 17-July 1 and will be led by Ashland faculty members Angie Estes and Tom Larson. Open to current students, alumni, or other qualified writers. Deadline to apply and deposit is November 1. </div>
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<a href="https://www.ashland.edu/cas/master-fine-arts/residency-paris">https://www.ashland.edu/cas/master-fine-arts/residency-paris</a>. </div>
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The 2017 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival's Writing Contests are now open for submissions! The top nine finalists for all contests will receive a panel pass ($75 value) to the Festival (March 22-26, 2017), and their names will be published on the Festival's website. Deadline for the one-act play contest is November 1, 2016; deadline for the poetry contest is November 15, 2016; and the deadline for the fiction contest is November 30, 2016.<br /><a href="https://tennesseewilliamsfestival.submittable.com/submit?campaignID=194883&patronID=505756472&linkNum=7&memberID=4dc81a740c09eabb328609eda240e31b">https://tennesseewilliamsfestival.submittable.com/submit?</a><br /> <br /><br /> Something to add? Send it to mfa@ashland.edu. We're especially interested in opportunities that cater to new and emerging writers.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> </div>
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