Poetry Publications & Readings

HANDSOME

Call for Submissions

Now accepting poetry, poetry translations, visual art and interviews.

Guidelines:

Poetry:
Submit between 3-6 poems of any length. Please include two copies of each poem with name, address, and email (if applicable) in the upper right hand corneron each poem. They enjoy bios, although they do not require them.

Visual Art :

Submit inquiries regarding featured work to allison@blackocean.org.

Interviews:

They print engaging interviews. Send full interview mss, or query paige@blackocean.org.

Reading Period: Feb 14th - Nov. 30th (postmark dates)
Average response time: 3 months

Handsome pays its authors in two additional copies of the annual.

Send all correspondence to:

Handsome Journal
c/o Black Ocean
PO Box 990962
Boston, MA 02199
editors@ahandsomejournal.com

Glimmer Train Press
Winter Very Short Fiction Award

$1200 and publication in Glimmer Train Stories to winner.
First/second runners-up receive $500/$300, respectively. Open to all writers.
Word count must not exceed 2000. $10 entry fee is required for each story.
Submissions can be made online at www.glimmertrain.org. DL Jan. 31st.
Results will be posted online on May 1st.

Ward 6 Review (http://www.ward6review.com), a monthly online literary
journal seeks submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
We strive to be a premiere destination for literature on the Internet,
so send us some of your best work.

Our second issue, featuring poetry by Alicia Ostriker, Kenneth Ryan,
Gary Corseri, Timothy Liu, Claudia Grinnell, Craig Chisholm, and Diane
Wakoski is now online.

George Bennett Fellowship in Writing

Application Requirements

By December 1, send to:

Bennett Fellowship
Phillips Exeter Academy
Box # 2339
20 Main Street
Exeter, New Hampshire 03833-2460

1. The application, including the names, addresses and telephone number of two people clearly competent to discuss you as a writer and as a person and to judge your qualifications for the Fellowship. Do not have your college or graduate school placement office send the conventional dossier. We will not contact those you name as references unless your manuscript reaches the final stage of competition.
2. A statement of your own testifying to the appropriateness of the Fellowship to your situation. Be specific about the manuscript that possession of the Fellowship would allow you to complete, noting current progress and so forth. 
   
   NOTE: The committee favors applicants who have not yet published a book-length work with a ‘major’ publisher - i.e., a well-financed publisher with national distribution. If your work has enjoyed such publication, your statement should explain why you consider yourself unestablished, as a writer or in the genre represented by your manuscript.
3. Your manuscript: if prose, about 50 typed pages of recent composition (send representative selections from longer works); if poetry, 20 to 30 pages. (Manuscripts not postmarked December 1 or before will be returned.)
4. Five dollars, cash or check payable to Phillips Exeter Academy. If you wish your manuscript returned, also include a self-addressed envelope stamped with adequate postage.

When you have submitted all of the above, you will be informed that your application is complete. A choice will be made, and all entrants notified around March 15.

The manuscripts are the primary basis for the selection of the Fellow, and each manuscript will receive the careful attention of the selection committee, made up of the members of the Academy English Department. We are genuine in our desire to select the most promising candidate, and we are always conscious that the Fellowship is for a writer at the beginning of his or her career and that much of the material we receive is necessarily unfinished.

Visit http://www.exeter.edu/about_us/about_us_537.aspx#APPLICATION_REQUIREMENTS

for more details as well as an engaging essay by Laura Moriarty on her acceptance and subsequent experience.

The Greensboro Review 2007 Robert Watson Literary Prizes

Fiction Prize 500        Poetry Prize $500
Postmark DL: Sept. 15th, 2006

Guidelines:

No previously published works, works accepted for publication, or simultaneous submissions are eligible.   Visit http://www.uncg.edu/eng/mfa/gr/award.html for details.