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SUMMARY:The Louisville Review's National Poetry Book Contest
DESCRIPTION:The Louisville Review is thrilled to announce that Jeanie Thompson will serve as distinguished judge for our 2024 National Poetry Book Contest! \nThis first-book contest invites poets living in the United States who have not yet published a full-length book of poetry to submit manuscripts of 48-70 pages. \nWinner will receive $1\,000 and Publication through The Louisville Review’s Fleur-de-Lis Press\, 25 author copies\, and distribution through Barnes & Nobel and Amazon. \nThe winning book will be reviewed online in North American Review\, the longest running literary magazine in the nation. \nFinalists will receive publication of a selected\, previously unpublished poem in The Louisville Review\, and we will hold an online reading for the winner and finalists. \nThe reading fee of $25 includes a 1-year print subscription to The Louisville Review. \nFull details here: https://louisvillereview.org
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/the-louisville-reviews-national-poetry-book-contest/
LOCATION:Online Submissions only\, The Louisvilel Review\, 1436 St. James Court\, Louisville\, KY\, 40213\, United States
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SUMMARY:Call for Submissions: The George Garrett Fiction Prize
DESCRIPTION:Winner Receives: $2\,000 + Publication \nJudge’s Selection Receives: $1\,000 + Publication \n2024 Judge: Kaveh Akbar \nThanks to generous support from the judge\, Kaveh Akbar\, a Judge’s Selection from this year’s George Garrett Fiction Prize will also receive a $1\,000 advance and publication. \nEstablished in 1998\, The George Garrett Fiction Prize highlights one book a year for excellence in a short story collection or novel. Starting 2024\, the Prize comes with a $2\,000 advance\, a standard royalty contract\, and 10 copies of the published book. \nRecent judges include Manuel Muñoz\, Vi Khi Nao\, Selah Saterstrom\, Joe Wilkins\, and John McNally. \nSubmissions open each year on July 1 and close on September 30.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-submissions-the-george-garrett-fiction-prize/
LOCATION:TRP: The University Press of SHSU\, United States
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SUMMARY:Call for Submissions: The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize
DESCRIPTION:$10\,000 + Publication + Residency at Vermont Studio Center \n2024 Judge: Diane Seuss \nEstablished in 1998\, The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize highlights one full-length collection of poetry per year. Since 2024\, the Prize comes with a $10\,000 advance\, TRP’s X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center\, a standard royalty contract\, and 10 copies of the published book. \nRecent judges include Richard Blanco\, Kimiko Hahn\, Kazim Ali\, Maggie Smith\, and Marilyn Nelson. \nSubmissions open each year on July 1 and close on September 30.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/call-for-submissions-the-x-j-kennedy-poetry-prize/
LOCATION:TRP: The University Press of SHSU\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture (LCLC) - Call for Papers
DESCRIPTION:2025 CALL FOR PAPERS \n52nd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture\nFEB 17-18 – Virtual\nFEB 20-22 – In-Person\nFeaturing Keynote Speakers\nRACHEL KUSHNER\, BEN LERNER\, JAHAN RAMAZANI\,\nand GEORGIE MEDINA MARCANO! \nThe Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture welcomes critical papers and full panel discussions about literature from the 20th and 21st centuries and its connections to other art forms and academic fields. The conference also welcomes creative submissions\, such as literary compositions\, videos\, or hybrid genres. Additionally\, critical-creative submissions exploring poetics\, crafts\, or writing practices are welcomed. \nConfirmed LCLC52 events include The Hero Project of the Century: Tyrone Williams As iZ (Aldon Nielsen\, organizer) and The Function of Music in Poetry (Adeena Karasick and Mark Scroggins\, organizers). And so much more to come! \nVENDORS and EXHIBITORS are welcome. Contact Emily Ravenscraft\, Conference Coordinator at lclc@louisville.edu to learn how you can be a part of LCLC52. \nSubmissions are accepted in English\, Spanish\, Portuguese\, French\, German\, Hebrew\, and Italian. Panels involving global literature and culture in other languages are encouraged. We also encourage proposals that bring together people from different universities or organizations\, with varying levels of experience in academia\, and from various fields of study. Recent society participants include the African American Literature & Culture Society\, Charles Olson Society\, E.E. Cummings Society\, International Harold Pinter Society\, International Lawrence Durrell Society\, International Virginia Woolf Society\, Iris Murdoch Society\, T.S. Eliot Society\, among others. \nConference registrants may participate in up to two of the following activities: (1) a critical\, critical-creative\, or group/society panel; (2) a creative session; (3) or as the leader of a seminar. Additionally\, registrants may also chair one or more panels\, as well as participate in seminars. Submissions are limited to one entry per category. \nDeadline for submissions is 11:59 P.M. EST on September 15\, 2024. \nSUBMISSION PROCESS\nEmail submissions to lclc@louisville.edu\nPlease use the Subject line exactly: LCLC52 Submission\, [Type of submission]\nExample: LCLC52 Submission\, Roundtable Session \nSubmission Components: \nIndividual Critical / Critical-Creative Submissions\nPlease send as 2 separate attachments\n1) Cover sheet: Name as it is to appear in program with any institutional affiliation\, Paper Title\, and a biographical statement (250 words).\n2) Abstract: be sure to omit all references to the author and the author’s name (250-300 words). \nIndividual Creative Submissions\nPlease send as 2 separate attachments\n1) Cover Sheet: Name as it is to appear in program with any institutional affiliation\, Title of Work Submitted\, and a biographical statement (250 words).\n2) Writing Sample: suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation. \nFull Panels\, Roundtables and Societies Sessions (single panels or streams) Submissions:\nSessions are to be designed for a 90-minute time slot. The organizer should submit the following documents:\nPlease send as 2 separate attachments\n1) Cover Sheet: Names and Institutional Affiliations\, Titles of Work Submitted\, biographical statements.\n2) Dependent on the subject of the submission please submit either:\na) Abstract: be sure to omit all references to the author and the author’s name (250-300 words).\nb) Writing Sample: suitable for a 15-20 minute presentation \nSEMINARS. These 120 minutes sessions typically feature informal conversation moderated by the seminar leader(s) on the topic and or activity. If you wish to propose a seminar for LCLC52\, contact LCLC Coordinator Emily Ravenscraft and we will evaluate it in advance of our second CFP which will be circulated in August 2024. See below for the current line-up of for this the current LCLC52 seminars. Each seminar has it’s own process for submission\, so please read the descriptions carefully. \nSEMINAR I\nTranslation Chapbook Workshop and Reading\nDr. Mark Mattes & Dr. Clare Sullivan\nParticipants will take part in a bookbinding workshop led by Dr. Mattes of Louisville-based Hot Brown Press and create chapbooks of their translations. All tools and materials will be provided. Then\, in a subsequent panel\, chapbook contributors will share their work and participate in a group discussion led by LCLC committee member Dr. Clare Sullivan. Participants should submit 1) Cover sheet and 2) Sample of original\, unpublished translations into English from any language. Limit your selection to 150 words – excerpts are fine. Include the source text with your submission and a brief citation. \nSEMINAR II\nPoetry\, Games\, and Magic\nDr. Brandon Harwood & Dr. Robert Eric Shoemaker\nThis seminar explores the interplay between poetry\, magic\, and games. What similarities\, practical and theoretical\, may be drawn from these fields? How can the poetics of play\, or the magic circle of the video game\, inform our understanding and practice of each? What do today’s multimedia games and poetries say about or to ancient rituals\, sociocultural stratification\, or morality and purity rules? What openings do we see in language and culture to bend rules in order to break open systems? Participants should submit 1) Cover sheet and 2) Abstract touching two of these fields: game studies\, poetry/poetics\, and the magical/occult. \nSEMINAR III\nPandemic Studies\nMartha Greenwald\, Seminar Leader\nParticipants will pursue the imaginative structures\, disputed narratives\, cross-pollinating conspiracies\, and contested discourses used to make sense of COVID-19 as well as other past\, contemporaneous\, or future pandemics. As we accept that life now is increasingly lived with the COVID-19 virus as a normalized and never-ending event\, Narrative frameworks and genres of the pandemic experience have shifted and need now additional study. We seek surprising\, ambitious\, theoretically-rich\, and provocative response. Participants should submit 1) Cover sheet and 2) Abstract. Contributions that introduce fiction or generic hybridity are welcome.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/the-louisville-conference-on-literature-and-culture-lclc-call-for-papers/
LOCATION:University of Louisville\, 2301 South 3rd Street\, Louisville\, KY\, 40292\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nancy Owen Nelson and Harry Moore at Pebble Hill
DESCRIPTION:Join poet Nancy Owen Nelson and author Harry Moore for a reading at Auburn University’s Pebble Hill. \nNancy Owen Nelson earned her BA from Birmingham-Southern and her MA and PhD from Auburn University. Her poems have been published in The South Dakota Review\, Graffiti Rag\, What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest\, The MacGuffin\, A Cloud of Possibility\, Oberon\, and This/That/Lit online journal. Published books include her memoirs\, Searching for Nannie B: Connecting Three Generations of Southern Women (2015) and Divine Aphasia: A Woman’s Search for Her Father (2021); her poetry chapbook\, My Heart Wears No Colors (2018); and her poetry book\,Portals: A Memoir in Verse (2019). In 2019\, her poem “Africatown\,” was awarded second place for free verse in the Alabama Writers Conclave competition. \nRecipient of the 2014 Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers\, Harry Moore is the author of the poetry collection Bearing the Farm Away (Kelsay Books\, 2018) and four chapbooks: What He Would Call Them(Finishing Line Press\, 2013); Time’s Fool: Love Poems (Mule on a Ferris Wheel Press\, Huntsville\, AL\, 2014); Retreat: A Way Forward(Finishing Line Press\, 2017); and Beyond Paradise: The Unweeded Garden (Main Street Rag\, 2020). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sow’s Ear Poetry Review\, Plainsongs\, Xavier Review\, Pudding Magazine\, Main Street Rag\, South Carolina Review\, Blue Unicorn\, Slipstream\, Anglican Theological Review\, Ponder Review\, and other journals.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/nancy-owen-nelson-and-harry-moore-at-pebble-hill/
LOCATION:Pebble Hill\, 101 S. Debardeleben St.\, Auburn\, AL\, 36830\, United States
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