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The Stonecoast Newsletter

May 29, 2012 Greetings Stonecoasters, I hope everyone is doing well and getting a jump on critiques and readings for presentations for this summer’s residency. I have just mailed off the hard copies of my thesis, and I feel a great sense of relief. But I only get to savor this for a little while considering I am still preparing for my own presentation as well, which has been an interesting experience thus far. For this newsletter, I’d like to talk a bit about mentors. No matter what genre you are in, I think we all can come to a general consensus in the fact that in the Stonecoast Program, we really do have some wonderful faculty. For those of you who are coming into the program for the first time, I can’t stress this enough. I think this is a huge part of what makes Stonecoast great. But I also think in general having a mentor is a good thing. When I was an undergraduate, I took every class available to me, and though I got lots of opinions on my work, what I really craved was the one-on-one attention that the graduates had. To have someone sit down and talk with me about my work, and what I could do to make it better and also take me seriously as a writer. It is one of the reasons I picked this program over another that was just as good. There are many professions out there where you can simply take a few courses and ta da! you’re done, you are certified to do “x”. But there are others were you have to apprentice in order to get your “certification”, you learn by doing, you learn by working under a master of sorts, and I think creative writing is that sort of profession. To have a mentor to take you on is not something that can be found everywhere. So I encourage you all, especially the newbies, to take full advantage of that opportunity, learn well and study hard. That’s all for now. Please email your updates to stonecoastnews@usm.maine.edu by Friday, JUNE 8, NOON EST TIME. Send any feedback about the newsletter to Robin Talbot at rtalbot@usm.maine.edu.

Take care mates, Mariel

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Upcoming Important Deadlines & Dates*

Due: June 13, 2012 Final Evaluations All final evaluations of faculty and students must be emailed to stonecoastmfa@usm.maine.edu by the “receive-by” date. Due: June 22, 2012 (4th SEMESTER STUDENTS ONLY) Creative Thesis Submit two copies of the creative thesis with a mentor signature page to the MFA office. If the deadline is not met, the Stonecoast MFA Office cannot guarantee that the grade will be entered in time for the student to graduate.

*Please remember that this is only a partial list of deadlines. A complete list can be found in your Stonecoast Community Handbook.

Summer Graduation Dance Elizbeth Searle’s husband is DJing the dance this year for graduation, and he asks that Stonecoast start running an announcement: For the graduation dance, feel free to submit SONG REQUESTS to our DJ, John Hodgkinson (aka, 'dj jh') via: e.searle@comcast.net

Stonecoast News Current Student News KAREN BOVENMYER'S "Cadaver Feet" science fiction flash story has been accepted for the October 6th "Art & Words" show at the Art on the Boulevard Gallery in Fort Worth, Texas. https://artontheboulevard.com/Art___Words_Show.html

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ALEXIS PAIGE’s recent essay, "The Geography of Consolation," appeared in Ragazine.cc in its creative nonfiction section. Here's the link: http://ragazine.cc/2012/04/alexis-paigecreative-nonfiction/ Alumni News JM MCDERMOTT’s short story “Arachne,” was published in the Journal of Unlikely Entomology and listed as a Notable story in the Story South Million Writers Awards. MARY PAUER's (class of s 2010) two articles, "We Do Dirt" published in September Delaware Today Magazine 2011, and "Me and Irene Cruising the Dual Highway" published in Delaware Beach Life Magazine, March 2011, have been awarded first place in the Delaware Press Association's 2011 Communication Contest, for best arts and entertainment, in special features. BRUCE PRATT'S short play Schubert's Monkey will be included in the Penobscot Theater Company's 2012 Northern Writes New Works Festival, from June 18-23 in Bangor. The play will be presented three times, once off site, once at the Historic Bangor Opera House on a night for shorts, and again during the final Sunday new play marathon. Pratt's previous two plays presented in the festival, Barter and Wednesday, won the audience choice award in 2010 and 2011 respectively. Wednesday is now available from The One Act Play Depot for purchase and performing rights. _obdriveway@aol.com_ (mailto:obdriveway@aol.com) TIGH RICKMAN'S story, 'Inside/Man', will be in the print version of The Conium Review, available in July, www.coniumreview.com KAREN KOWALSKI SINGER‘s poetry chapbook, Field Guide to Hidden Things, was a first prize winner in the Green Fuse Poetic Arts First Chapbook prize, and was published in April. KARRIE WAARALA was recently interviewed by The Collagist (http://www.dzancbooks.org/blog/2012/5/23/choose-your-swords-carefully-an-interview-with-karrie-waaral.html) after her poem "The Sword Swallower's Mother Speaks" appeared in Issue 32 (http://www.dzancbooks.org/the-collagist/2012/3/15/issue-thirty-two.html). In addition, her poems "How to Cook Alone" and "The Right Light Makes All the Difference" can be found in the Spring 2012 issue of Muzzle (http://www.muzzlemagazine.com/spring-2012.html). Faculty News DAVID ANTHONY DURHAM is pleased that several of George RR Martin's Wild Cards novels are to be published in the UK - including two that he had stories in. He's also very pleased to be one of the international guests at this years Imaginales literary festival in Epinal, France! AARON HAMBURGER has just sold an article about how food writing can feed your fiction to Poets and Writers Magazine--inspired by the upcoming food writing panel he's

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doing with Jeanne-Marie Beaumont and Cait Johnson at the July residency! The article will appear in P&W at the end of the year. DEBRA MARQUART received the 2012 David B. Saunders Award for Creative Nonfiction from Cream City Review for her essay, “Ephemera.” Selected by non-fiction judge, Margaret MacInnis. SUZANNE STREMPEK SHEA and her husband, Tommy Shea, have been commissioned to write a book celebrating the 140th anniversary of the Sisters of Providence of Holyoke, Mass. The interviews to date have included a 101-year-old nun who knew the order's founder, and a sister who in the 1970s began the Sisters of Providence's Health Care for the Homeless initiative that since has been duplicated in every state in the union. It'll be the last collaboration for a while for the two, as Tommy soon will be leaving for Abu Dhabi to take a job as an editor at The National (www.thenational.ae), the English newspaper of record for the United Arab Emirates.

Other News & Calls for Submission Meetings, Readings, and Other Interesting Offerings Calls for Submission Eric's Hysterics Call for Submissions! Eric's Hysterics is still looking for short, humorous work to include in its Love Hurts anthology. Details can be found at www.erics-hysterics.com. The New Guard Literary Review The New Guard literary review's 2012 contests are in full swing! Stonecoast's own Rick Bass is judging The Machigonne Fiction Contest, and Jeanne Marie Beaumont is judging The Knightville Poetry Contest. $2K in prizes, publication for the winners and all finalists. KNIGHTVILLE POETRY CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional work of narrative and/or experimental poetry. Three poems per entry. Up to 300 lines per poem. Judged by National Poetry Series winner JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT. MACHIGONNE FICTION CONTEST: $1,000 for an exceptional work of literary and/or experimental fiction. Submit up to 7,500 words: anything from flash to the long story. Novel excerpts are welcome if the manuscript functions as a stand-alone story. We

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do not publish illustrations. Judged by Novelist and Essayist RICK BASS. Entry period is March 1-June 18, 2012 (postmark). Entries are $15. You can submit your contest entry online at http://www.newguardreview.com/ or via postal mail: THE NEW GUARD P.O. Box 10612 Portland, ME 04104 Founding Editor & Publisher: Stonecoast alum Shanna McNair. 2012 Contest Readers: Richard Hoffman, Fiction Shanna McNair, Fiction/Poetry, and Scott Wolven, Fiction. Any questions, please contact us at: info@newguardreview.com In this forthcoming issue, TNG 2012, we will include work by contributors Sharon Olds, Marge Piercy, Madeleine Blais, Erin Belieu, and Stephen Byler, among others, and interviews with Maine writers Patrick Quinlan,Elizabeth Miles, Joe Loughlin and Lewis Robinson. Our letters section for this volume is, simply, "Love Letters." Cover art will be by Maine artist Matt Welch. Stay tuned for more information on this very special forthcoming issue! Please click the link below for more details! http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=5fc02b9c1f19e2853b8fba7c1&id=7c15040a1d&e=e4e942b092 Announcing the £2,500 Sixth Annual Troubadour International Poetry Prize Judged by Jane Draycott & Bernard O'Donoghue (with both judges reading all poems) Sponsored by Cegin Productions Prizes: 1st £2,500, 2nd £500, 3rd £250 - plus 20 prizes of £20 each - plus a Spring 2013 Coffee-House-Poetry season-ticket - and a prizewinners' Coffee-House Poetry reading with Jane Draycott & Bernard O'Donoghue on Mon 26th Nov 2012 for all prize-winning poets Submit by Mon 15th Oct 2012, prizewinners notified by Mon 19th Nov 2012; Submit by post or e-mail, no entry form required; Pay by PayPal or cheque/money-order in Sterling/Euro/US Dollars; All details below and at www.coffeehousepoetry.org/prizes ___ Judges: - Bernard O'Donoghue (b. Cullen, County Cork) is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; a former Reader at Magdalen College and Fellow and tutor at Wadham College, Oxford, he co-edits the Oxford Poets (Carcanet) series with David Constantine. 'Farmers Cross' (Faber, 2011) was shortlisted for the 2011 T S Eliot Prize following poetry collections which include 'Poaching Rights' (1987), 'The Absent Signifier' (1990), 'The Weakness' (1991), 'Gunpowder' (1995, which won the Whitbread Poetry Prize), 'Here Nor There' (1999), 'Outliving' (2003) and a 'Selected Poems' (Faber, 2008). He has written on the

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poetry of Seamus Heaney and translated Czech poet, Zbynek Hejda. - Jane Draycott (b. London) teaches on postgraduate writing courses at Oxford and Lancaster Universities, and is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Aston University: a PBS 2004 'Next Generation' poet, she won the 2002 Keats Shelley Poetry Prize, was shortlisted for the 2009 T S Eliot Prize and has won several awards for her audio work with Elizabeth James. Her latest work, a translation of 14th century 'Pearl' (Carcanet, 2011) was a 2008 Stephen Spender Prize-winner. Earlier publications include (with Two Rivers Press) 'Tideway' (2002) with Peter Hay, and 'Christina the Astonishing' (1998) with Lesley Saunders & Peter Hay, and three full collections, 'Prince Rupert's Drop' (1999), 'The Night Tree' (2004) and 'Over' (2009), all with Carcanet/Oxford Poets. Both judges will read all poems submitted. ___ Rules: - General: Entry implies acceptance of all rules; failure to comply with all rules results in disqualification; submissions accepted by post or e-mail from poets of any nationality, from any country, aged over 18 years; no poet may win more than one prize; judges' decision is final; no correspondence will be entered into. - Poems: Poems must be in English, must each be no longer than 45 lines, must fit on one side of one page of A4, must show title and poem only, must not show poet's name or any other identifying marks on submitted poems (whether by post or as e-mail attachment), must be original work of the entrant (no translations) and must not have been previously broadcast or published (in print or online); prize-winning poems may be published (in print or online) by Troubadour International Poetry Prize, and may not be published elsewhere for one year after Monday 15th October 2012 without permission; no limit on number of poems submitted; no alterations accepted after submission. - Fees: All entries must be accompanied by fees of £5/€6EURO/$8USD per poem (Sterling/Euro/US-Dollars only); entries only included when payment received via - - PayPal: visit www.coffeehousepoetry.org/prizes, follow PayPal instructions at bottom of page, (PayPal account not required), enter Poet's Name & No. of Poems in 'Add special instructions to merchant' box; - Cheque/Money-Order: payable to Coffee-House Poetry, write Poet's Name & No. of Poems on back. - By Post: No entry form required; two copies required of each poem submitted; please include the following details on a separate page: Poet's Name&Address, Phone No., E-Mail Address (if available), List of Titles, No. of Poems, Total Fees, and EITHER PayPal reference OR cheque enclosed; no staples; no Special Delivery, Recorded Delivery or Registered Post; we recommend folding poems in half in C5 envelope as this does not incur 'large letter' charge if less than 5mm thick (UK); entries are not returned. - By E-mail: No entry form required; poems must be e-mailed to CoffPoetry@aol.com as attachments (.doc, .docx, .pdf, .rtf only); please include the following details in your e-mail message: Poet's Name&Address, Phone No., List of Titles, No. of Poems, Total Fees, and EITHER PayPal reference OR cheque to arrive by post within 7 days; no Special Delivery, Recorded Delivery or Registered Post.

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- Acknowledgement/Results: E-mail entries acknowledged within 7 days of receipt of payment; postal entrants may include stamped, addressed postcard or envelope marked 'Acknowledgement' and/or stamped, addressed envelope marked 'Results' if required; results sent to all e-mail entrants after winners announcement; no correspondence will be entered into. - Deadline: All postal entries, and any cheque/postal payments for e-mail entries, to arrive at Troubadour International Poetry Prize, Coffee-House Poetry, PO Box 16210, LONDON W4 1ZP postmarked on or before Monday 15th October 2012. - Prizewinners will be contacted individually by Monday 19th November 2012: prizegiving will be on Monday 26th November 2012 at Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour in Earls Court, London. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anne-Marie Fyfe (Organiser) coffee-house poetry at the troubadour www.coffeehousepoetry.org The Lascaux Review Call For Submissions The Lascaux Review is a start-up online literary journal that provides a showcase for emerging and established storytellers, poets, and essayists. We welcome submissions from students and teachers of creative writing programs, as well as from other aspiring and seasoned writers of fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction. Named after the famous cave in France and its 15,000-year-old wall paintings, Lascaux is richly illustrated and thus also serves as a showcase for artists seeking exposure for their work. The Review will publish anthologies and award annual prizes in fiction and poetry. Payment is commensurate with the operating budget, and to that end donations are solicited. The Review is nonprofit and staffed by unpaid volunteers. The Lascaux Review accepts short fiction, poetry, and narrative nonfiction of literary quality. Pieces that tell a story and appeal to a general readership are most likely to be accepted. For submission guidelines please visit the website at: www.LascauxReview.com For more information email lascauxreview@gmail.com. We look forward to reading your work. Reminder �May 31 is the� Submission Deadline �for �The Black Orchid Novella Award�

Call for novellas! Please submit your novella for the sixth annual Black Orchid Novella Award (BONA). We are looking for original works of fiction in the tradition of the ratiocinative detective, as exemplified by Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe. Your entry must:

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Emphasize the deductive skills of the sleuth Contain no overt sex or violence Not include characters from the original series First prize: $1,000 plus publication in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Entries must be 15,000 to 20,000 words in length, and must be postmarked by May 31, 2012. The winner will be announced at The Wolfe Pack’s Annual Black Orchid Banquet in New York City, December 1, 2012.* Please visit www.nerowolfe.org for official rules and procedures to submit your novella. For questions, contact the Awards Chair, Jane K. Cleland, jane@janecleland.net. * If no acceptable candidates are received, AHMM and The Wolfe Pack reserve the right to declare no winner in any given year. Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition: Deadline Extended Until May 31, 2012 Dear Writers, Because of a web hosting problem - an error caused entirely by our web host - that did not allow certain browsers to access our website between the dates of May 3-May 11, we are extending our late deadline to May 31, 2012 for our 2012 competition only. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and frustration this has caused those who were attempting to submit their stories. All problems have been addressed and rectified by the web host and our site is running smoothly once again. Below please find the updated Guidelines entry page that appears on our website. The update also appears on our Online Submissions page as well. **IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to a web hosting problem that has now been resolved, we have extended our 2012 deadline to May 31. This applies to our 2012 competition only. $2,500 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2012 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a 32-year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are dedicated to enthusiastically supporting the efforts and talent of emerging writers of short fiction whose voices have yet to be heard. Lorian Hemingway, granddaughter of Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway, is the author of three critically acclaimed books: Walking into the River, Walk on Water, and A World Turned Over. Ms. Hemingway is the competition's final judge. Prizes and Publication: The first-place winner will receive $1,500 and publication of his or her winning story in Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. The second - and third-place winners will receive $500 each. Honorable mentions will also be awarded to entrants whose work demonstrates promise.

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Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts was founded by editor-in-chief Pamela Uschuk, winner of the 2010 American Book Award for her book Crazy Love: New Poems, and by poet William Pitt Root, Guggenheim Fellow and NEA recipient. The journal contains some of the finest contemporary fiction and poetry in print, and the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition is both proud and grateful to be associated with such a reputable publication. Eligibility requirements for our 2012 competition are as follows: What to submit: * Stories must be original unpublished fiction, typed and double-spaced, and may not exceed 3,500 words in length. We have extended our word limit for the first time in thirty years to 3,500 words rather than 3,000. There are no theme or genre restrictions. Copyright remains property of the author. Who may submit: * The literary competition is open to all U.S. and international writers whose fiction has not appeared in a nationally distributed publication with a circulation of 5,000 or more. Writers who have been published by an online magazine or who have self-published will be considered on an individual basis. Submission requirements: * Submissions may be sent via regular mail or submitted online. Please visit our online submissions page for complete instructions regarding online submissions. Writers may submit multiple entries, but each must be accompanied by an entry fee and separate cover sheet. We do accept simultaneous submissions; however, the writer must notify us if a story is accepted for publication or wins an award prior to our July announcements. No entry confirmation will be given unless requested. No SASE is required. * The author's name should not appear on the story. Our entrants are judged anonymously. Each story must be accompanied by a separate cover sheet with the writer's name, complete mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, the title of the piece, and the word count. Manuscripts will not be returned. These requirements apply for online submissions as well. * * IMPORTANT NOTICE: EXTENDED DEADLINE: May 31, 2012 for our 2012 competition only. Deadlines and Entry Fees: * The entry fee is $15 for each story postmarked by May 1, 2012. The late entry fee is $20 for each story postmarked by May 15, 2012. We encourage you to enter by May 1 if at all possible, but please know that your story will still be accepted if you meet the later deadline. Entries postmarked after May 15, 2012 will not be accepted. Entries submitted online after May 15, 2012 will not be accepted. Writers may submit for the 2013 competition beginning May 16, 2012. How to pay your entry fee: * Entry fees submitted by mail with their accompanying stories may be paid -- in U.S. funds -- via a personal check, cashier's check, or money order. Please make checks payable to LHSSC or The Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. Entry fees for online submissions may be paid with PayPal.

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Announcement of Winners and Honorable Mentions: Winners of our 2012 competition will be announced at the end of July 2012 in Key West, Florida, and posted on our website soon afterward. Only the first-place entrant will be notified personally. All entrants will receive a letter from Lorian Hemingway and a list of winners, either via regular mail or e-mail, by October 1, 2012. All manuscripts and their accompanying entry fees should be sent to The Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, P.O. Box 993, Key West, FL 33041 or submitted online. For more information, please explore this website or e-mail: shortstorykw@gmail.com From Mike Kimball: En Avant Playwrights is a wonderful resource that lists theatre companies looking for 10-minute plays, one-acts, monologues, full-length plays. http://enavantplaywrights.yuku.com/ Here is an Entry TWISTED, SPOOKY, CREEPY, Little Fish San Pedro, CA, deadline 6/1, no fee Season 4 (2012) CALL FOR SCRIPTS Little Fish Theatre is accepting scripts for our fourth annual "Twisted, Spooky, Creepy" production, presented in October 2012. Scripts can be either comedic or dramatic, and should have one or more of the following themes: Halloween, dark comedy, ghost story, horror, psychological thriller, thriller -- and twisted, spooky, or creepy! Only ONE play may be submitted per playwright. Please DO NOT RESUBMIT anything you may have sent us in previous years. Submission deadline is June 1st, 2012. There is no pay. Preferred plays will: Require no more than 10 actors Run no more than 15 minutes Have minimal set, costume, prop, and special effect requirements Email submissions (in doc or pdf form) to holly@littlefishtheatre.org. Response time: Semi-finalists will be notified by mid-July. Final line-up notified late July. http://www.littlefishtheatre.org/wp/?page_id=50 15th Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/index.php#Fifteenth

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Deadline: June 1 Judge: Matthea Harvey First Prize: $1,500 The winning poet will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in the November / December 2012 issue of Boston Review. Submit up to five unpublished poems, no more than 10 pages total. Any poet writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current student, former student, relative, or close personal friend of the judge. Mailed manuscripts must be submitted in duplicate, with a cover note listing the author's name, address, email and phone number. No cover note is necessary for online submission. Names should not be on the poems themselves. Simultaneous submissions are not permitted, submissions will not be returned, and submissions may not be modified after entry. Please enter online using our contest entry manager or mail submissions to: Poetry Contest, Boston Review PO Box 425786 Cambridge, MA 02142 Previous poetry contest winners include: Heather Tone (2011); Anthony Caleshu (2010); Elizabeth Willis (2007); Susan Wheeler (2003); D.A. Powell (2001); and Stephanie Strickland (1999)

Spindleworks PRESS RELEASE Contact: Liz McGhee 207-725-8820 What: Purr and Caw: talking about species When: May 22nd, 7pm Where: Frontier Café, 14 Maine Street, Brunswick Cost: suggested donation of $5 hosted by Spindleworks and Arts Are Elementary Master of Ceremonies: Jim McCarthy It used to be that the earth and all of it's glory was celebrated on one day, April 22nd, “Earth Day”. Fortunately our society in general has grown to have a less compartmentalized appreciation for the natural wonders of the earth. Spring, which has come early to Maine this year, is a time when our senses reawaken to all the living things around us, especially ones that have gone dormant for the winter, died back, or completely left the state. For the past two years, Spindleworks and Arts Are Elementary have been bringing this awareness and celebration to a community level through the now annual All Species Parade. Last year'sAviary exhibit held at Frontier added to the celebration, as visitors marveled at the flock of winged creatures perching at Frontier for most of the summer. This year as well as an accompanying exhibit, A Natural Order, Spindleworks and Arts Are Elementary will host a spoken word evening to give voice to our appreciation, and further extending the season of celebration. Purr and Caw: Talking about Species will be an evening of poetry and song at Frontier Cafe, surrounded by the Natural Order exhibit . Members of the community are welcome to be part of the event by reading or singing work in the theme of species. Those interested should contact Liz McGhee at Spindleworks 725-8820 or emcghee@iaofmaine.org. There will be no walk in entries.

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Thor That is the 1st cat He came in as a stray We always loved animals sis had 2 cats mom had 4 dogs That is Thor Pure Black he was a full grown cat Sis brought him home. He just waltzed in the door He was all right, not the prettiest thing int the world. Mom almost had a cow. Paula Clearfield Spindleworks is a non-profit art center in Brunswick, Maine. As a program of the Independence Association, Spindleworks provides supplies, studio and gallery space to over 40 artists with disabilities. Artists range in age from 20-80 and work in a wide range of mediums including: painting, drawing, weaving, fiber and fabric arts, wood, sculpture, ceramics, poetry, music, new media, acting, and jewelry. The Spindleworks artists have shown locally, nationally and internationally, and work regularly on commissions throughout the year. Spindleworks gallery, studios and store are open Monday through Friday 9-4, and artists are on site, M-F, 9-2. Spindleworks - 7 Lincoln Street, Brunswick Maine 04011 www.spindleworks.org 207-725-8820 www.independenceassociation.org

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ADRIENNE RICH: A TRIBUTE�

Deadline: July 1, 2012

For an anthology edited by Katharyn Howd Machan. They seek poems inspired by Adrienne Rich or written about her. To be published by Split Oak Press, P.O. Box 700, Vestal, NY,13851. http://www.splitoakpresscom/#!adrienne-rich-submissions

LGBTQ POETS ON THE ART OF TEACHING�

Deadline June 1, 2012 �

Megan Volpert, editor of the forthcoming book, LGBTQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, is seeking submissions from poets who contributed to the previous anthology published by the Sibling Rivalry Press (SRP). She knows Bryan Borland would like to grow and strengthen the SRP family by promoting conversation between the two books and eagerly awaits your poems about teaching! � �You can find details and the call for submissions here: www.thisassignmentissogay.com.

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PALETTES & QUILLS 3RD BIENNIAL POETRY CHAPBOOK COMPETITION �

Deadline: September 1, 2012 �

Award: $200 and 50 copies of the published book �

For submission guidelines: http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/palettes-quills-3rd-biennial-poetry-chapbook-competition/