The 2009 Summer Literary Seminars-Kenya program (Nairobi-Lamu; December 13-28) is currently accepting applications. Visit the program’s website — www.sumlitsem.org/kenya — for all the details. Individuals who were offered SLS Literary Contest merit fellowships in the past — between 2005-2009 — can apply them to this year’s program. Former SLS participants are eligible for a partial tuition waiver….
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SLS 2010 Unified Literary Contest
SLS (Summer Literary Seminars) is pleased to announce its 2010 unified (SLS-Montreal, SLS-Lithuania, and SLS-Kenya) literary contest, held this year again in affiliation with Fence Magazine. Mary Gaitskill is judging the contest fiction, and Mary Jo Bang is judging the poetry. Contest winners in the categories of fiction and poetry will have their work published in…
Decameron Magazine (Quite) Short Stories Contest
Decameron: an anthology of quite short stories is hosting a contest for the best story fewer than one thousand words long. First prize is $300. Submissions are due by September 30th, 2009. Decameron is an annual anthology of one hundred quite short stories, under one thousand words each. Decameron seeks a variety of fiction but…
Call for conference papers: post-moot (April 22-25, 2010)
The second Post-Moot Convocation, an international conference to be held at Miami in spring of 2010 to foster creative exchange among poets in the early 21st Century, will present papers / performances / presentations on a range of contemporary issues in poetics. Topics will likely include but will not be restricted to: – ecopoetics –…
Alimentum Announces First Poetry Contest
Alimentum, a literary journal featuring fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction about food, has announced its first poetry contest. The submission period opened September 1, 2009. Deadline is December 1, 2009. First prize is $500 and publication for a single poem. There are also two second prizes of publication. The final judge is internationally renowned poet Dorianne Laux….
Delirious Hem: Noverbal Reviews/Adaptations of Women’s Poetry + Call For Work
O SAY CAN YOU SEE Nonverbal reviews and adaptations of Women’s Poetry, exhibited at Delirious Hem. Abi Stokes collages Matthea Harvey Tyler Flynn Dorholt splices Sandy Florian, Joyelle McSweeney, Laura Solórzano, and Kim Hyesoon Jennifer Karmin street teams Kristin Prevallet Daniela Olszewska puts a bow on Chelsey Minnis Christine Neacole Kanownik horses around with Jennifer…
Work from CRTW alumnus John Biando in Digital Artifact Magazine
Check out work from John Biando, alumnus of EMU’s Creative Writing Graduate Program, in the third issue of Digital Artifact. Digital Artifact is an online magazine. Find it here: http://digitalartifactmagazine.com/issue3 In this issue, works by twenty-eight writers and artists take up the problem of how to make art, and make meaning, in a time of scarcity….
Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism – Sept 24-25, 2009
Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism: A Gathering is a conference taking place September 24-25, 2009 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. EMU faculty Christine Hume and Carla Harryman will both be presenting. The conference is free to all. Registration is requested. For a full schedule of events, visit: http://belladonnaseries.org/adfemposchedule.html For participant bios, visit:…
Review: Adorno’s Noise by EMU professor Carla Harryman
Adorno’s Noise EMU Creative Writing Professor Carla Harryman recently had her new book, Adorno’s Noise, reviewed in the current issue of Rain Taxi (Summer ‘09). Check out the review below: Carla Harryman Essay Press ($14.95) by Kit Robinson I first read Carla Harryman’s new book, Adorno’s Noise, on a plane. Flying home from Detroit, aided…
Call for Papers: MCEA Conference 2009
Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Friday, October 2, 2009 Theme: In Times of Crisis Speakers: Sari Adelson & Mary Heinen, Coordinators, Prison Creative Arts Project, a program that collaborates with incarcerated youth and adults, urban youth, and the formerly incarcerated to do creative expression, especially in theater, poetry, and art Location & Co-Sponsor: Eastern…