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New Lit on the Block :: TRACHODON

Editor and Founder John Carr Walker opens the inaugural issue of TRACHODON with this note: “Since January of 2010, when I founded TRACHODON, a print magazine of lit, art, and artisan culture, I’ve heard three questions over and over: 1) Are you out of your mind? 2) Is there a nice, quiet place I can take you until the trip wears off? 3) What is a Trachodon, and why are you naming your lit mag after one?” Walker goes on to address each of these, the third one first – which besides being the easiest one to answer, becomes the basis and connecting point for answering the others.

Joined by Associate Editor Katey Schultz, TRACHODON publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art. The first issue features poetry by Chris Dombrowski and Taylor Altman, fiction by Tom Weller and Jo Ann Heydron, a memoir and images by jewelry-maker Amy Tavern, and an article on Brooklyn’s Urban Glass by Wesley Middleton.

Reading periods are May-July and November-January; no unsolicited poetry or memoirs are being accepted at this time.

Fiction :: Sarah Sorensen

An excerpt from The Bailing Out of Aunt P by Sarah Sorensen:

“Then she stayed at our house for a while. She slept in my Strawberry Shortcake canopy bed. Things were too tough at home, I guess. So there she was. And I liked being there “helping” her. I wanted to ask her things. I wanted to know where you had to go and what you had to do to be a big punk lesbo. I used to think about boy names and try to pick out ones I liked enough to date. I liked girl names better. Aunt P. had figured out a system where it was cool and rebellious to like girls. Who’d she learn that from?”

Read the rest in the Fall/Winter issue of Dark Sky Magazine.

Narrative’s Snowball Challenge

Every week, Narrative runs a Literary Puzzler and invites readers to participate. This week, the Literary Puzzler is Narrative‘s second Snowball challenge.

A Snowball is a poem in which each line consists of a single word, and each successive line contains a word exactly one letter longer than the word above it. You may make a poem of as many lines as you wish, provided each one-word line succeeds the previous line by a single letter.

Here is an example from one of last year’s winners, Maryann Younger:

He
Ran
Away
Until
Sunset
Efforts
Escaping
Discovery
Successful

Send your Snowball to Puzzler by Sunday noon, Pacific daylight time. You may enter as many Snowballs as you wish.

Consequence Prize in Poetry Winner

In 2009 Consequence began the Prize in Poetry, an annual award given for an outstanding poem on the subject of war. Kevin Bowen selected Andreas Morgner’s winning poem, “N’Djamena Chad,” and those of seven finalists published in the Spring 2010 issue: Chris Agee, David Eye, Joseph Hutchinson, Jen Karetnick, Barbara Leon, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, and Danny Wilson.

Morgner’s poem is also available full-text on the magazines homepage.

Books :: Health Care in America

Cover Me
A Health Insurance Memoir by Sonya Huber; Published by University of Nebraska Press

From the Publisher: Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn’t worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her view of the matter was quite different. Huber’s irreverent and affecting memoir of navigating the nation’s health-care system brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political debates and propaganda surrounding health-care reform.

“I look like any other upwardly mobile hipster,” Huber says. “I carry a messenger bag, a few master’s degrees, and a toddler raised on organic milk.” What’s not evident, however, is that she is a veteran of Medicaid and WIC, the federal government’s supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children. In Cover Me, Huber tells a story that is at once all too familiar and rarely told: of being pushed to the edge by worry; of the adamant belief that better care was out there; of taking one mind-numbing job after another in pursuit of health insurance, only to find herself scrounging through the trash heap of our nation’s health-care system for tips and tricks that might mean the difference between life and death.

Georgia Review Offers Nobel Laureate Issues

In honor of Nobel month The Georgia Review is placing on sale two unique Nobel laureate issues from Spring and Winter 1995. Until 31 October, these limited-supply back issues are available as follows: Spring 1995, $20; Winter 1995, $15; both, $30.

During the planning stages for the summer 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and the satellite Cultural Olympiad program, Georgia Review editor Stanley W. Lindberg proposed that the living laureates of literature—they numbered sixteen at the time—should be invited to appear together in Atlanta for an unprecedented multi-day program. His proposal was embraced, and on 23–25 April 1995 eight laureates convened at the Carter Center for readings, panel discussions, press conferences, and social activities. Never before or since have so many of these distinguished prizewinners been in the same room anywhere in the world.

The laureates in attendance were Joseph Brodsky, Czeslaw Milosz, Toni Morrison, Kenzaburo Oe, Octavio Paz, Claude Simon, Wole Soyinka, and Derek Walcott. The introducers and moderators for the event were former President Jimmy Carter, United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove, ABC’s Nightline host Ted Koppel, and Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games President and CEO Billy Payne.

The 350-page Spring 1995 issue of The Georgia Review is entirely given over to the Nobel laureates and comprises the following:

Full texts of the Nobel acceptance lectures given by all sixteen then-living laureates—the eight in attendance plus Saul Bellow, Camilo Jose Cela, Odysseas Elytis, Nadine Gordimer, Halldor Laxness, Naguib Mahfouz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Commissioned original essays on all sixteen laureates, written by a range of notable critics—among them Henry Louis Gates Jr., Trudier Harris, Edward Hirsch, Richard Howard.

Bibliographies, photographs, and original drawings of all the laureates, the last by Darrell Rainey.

The Winter 1995 issue of The Georgia Review includes a sixty-page section of material transcribed from the Nobel laureates’ gathering:

Remarks by Jimmy Carter and Rita Dove.

A panel discussion featuring Joseph Brodsky, Toni Morrison, Kenzaburo Oe, and Wole Soyinka, with Ted Koppel moderating.

A panel discussion featuring Czeslaw Milosz, Octavio Paz, Claude Simon, and Derek Walcott, with Ted Koppel moderating.

Four pages of photographs taken during the events.

New Lit on the Block :: Ghost Ocean Magazine

Ghost Ocean is a new online publication edited by Heather Cox, Emily Hansen, and contributing editors Madeline Phillips and Timothy Moore, who hope that Ghost Ocean will be a “venue for writing that is surprising, engaging, clever, and downright fun to read” and will include both new and established writers.

Issue one features poetry by Brandon Courtney, DSD, Flower Conroy, and Robert Lee Brewer; flash fiction by Cee Martinez and Nick Kimbro; and an interview with Susan Slaviero, author of CYBORGIA (Mayapple Press).

Ghost Ocean is open for submissions of poetry and flash fiction year round. The theme for issue two is “ghost / ocean / ghost ocean / ocean ghost — basically anything somewhat relevant to the title of the magazine.”

New Lit on the Block :: Burner Magazine

Sarah Miniaci and Leah Stephenson are editors of the newly launched online (Issuu) Burner Magazine “a digital pop art magazine” that “aims to take the boring out of the literary and arts scenes, bringing together original and edgy artists of all shapes and sizes. It promises to get your blood pumping, heart racing, and to induce literary and visual crushes. The Burner contributor is a muse and amusing, compelling and never complacent. Burner is about science, art, truth, conspiracies, naturalism, cyborgs, music, beauty, sex and everything in between.”

The first issue of Burner features:

Short Fiction by Kate Baggott. Anne Baldo, Guy Cranwick, Joseph DeSimone, Jeremy Hanson-Finger, and Margaret Zamos-Monteith

Poetry by Walter Beck. Dylan Carpenter , Jack Conway, William Doreski, Gail Ghai, Zakia Henderson-Brown, Meredith Holbrook, Mark Jackley, Alex Linden, Joseph Reich, Robert Spiegal, Ben Zucker, and Leah Stephenson & Sarah Miniaci

Photography and Visuals by Greg Andruszcenko, Josephine Close, Julie Dru, Kelly Evers Jackson, Matt Hannon, Yumi Ichida, Christina Luther, David Platt, Bea Sabino, Jak Spedding, Lisa Stegman, and Grace Suwondo

and an Interview with Nadja Sayej.

Burner is accepting submissions of poetry, short fiction/non-fiction, photography, visual art, music, and “gak” – which is anything that “doesn’t fit into any of the above categories.” Deadline for next issue: October 20

Jobs :: Palehouse Books

From Brent Peterson at Palehouse Books:

We are looking to hire a copy editor, freelance writers, marketing specialists, and sales associates. If you or anyone you know would like to work for an independent publisher please send us an email with resume to: contact-at-palehouse-dot-com – list the position you are applying for in the subject line.

Call for Editor Nominations: BEST OF THE WEB 2011

Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web series is a yearly anthology compiling the best fiction, poetry, and non-fiction published in online literary journals. Previous editions have been guest-edited by Steve Almond, Lee K. Abbott, and Kathy Fish, and have published award-winning writers such as Chris Bachelder, Robert Olen Butler, Dan Chaon, Kim Chinquee, Elizabeth Crane, Brian Evenson, Amelia Gray, Stephen Graham Jones, Ander Monson, Christine Schutt, Terese Svoboda, and Kevin Wilson, as well as many of today’s most exciting emerging fiction writers, poets, and essayists.

This year’s guest editor will be Adam Robinson, the founding editor of Publishing Genius, an independent press based in Baltimore, and the author of two books of poetry, including Adam Robison and Other Poems. Writing inBest of the Web 2011 will be selected Mr. Robinson, series editor Matt Bell, and other in-house Dzanc editors.

Nominations for Best of the Web 2011 will be accepted until October 31st, 2010. Each online literary journal is allowed to nominate up to three works they’ve published, in any combination of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

To be eligible, works must have been published exclusively online between November 1st, 2009 and October 31st, 2010.

For full nomination guidelines and to submit work from your magazine for consideration in Best of the Web 2011, please visit:

http://www.dzancbooks.org/botw-nominations/

Canteen Photo Contest Winners and Non-Winner

Issue Six of Canteen devotes forty pages of the journal to the 2010 Canteen Awards in Photography: Anatomy of a Photo Contest, including a comment about this inaugural event from Stephen Pierson, introductory and individual portfolio remarks from judges Arnold Lehman, Director of the Brooklyn Museum, and Matthew Porter, Photographer. Rowan James was selected as the winner, and Shea Naer, Tracey Mancenido-Tribble and James Frank Tribble as runners-up. There is also the inclusion of a selection of divisive “non-winning” photos with the opposing viewpoints of the judges as well as the comments of the photographer himself, Geoff Smith. An epilogue by Porter with several other non-winners rounds out the collection.

New Lit on the Block :: Arcadia

Arcadia is a new literary journal from the MFA program at the University of Central Oklahoma. Arcadia will publish quarterly online with an print annual “best of” fiction, poetry, and drama (next issue due out in April).

Volume 1 of the publication is in print, and includes works by Jeffrey Alfier, Rilla Askew, Jenn Blair, Andrew Coburn, Robert Dugan, Alana Elyshevitz, Adam Ferrari, Gaynell Gavin, Douglas Goetsch, Andrei Guruianu, Christopher Linforth, Patrick Moran, Tanya Perkins, Johanna Stoberock, and Dallas Woodburn.

Volume 2 will be online this month, and Arcadia is accepting a broad range of submissions: short stories, short films, music, flash fiction, poetry, drama performances, stand-up routines, photographs, artwork.

Babylonian and Assyrian Poetry and Literature: An Archive of Recordings

The Babylonian and Assyrian Poetry and Literature website collects recordings of modern Assyriologists reading ancient Babylonian and Assyrian poetry and literature aloud in the original language. It is the first undertaking of its kind and is intended to serve several purposes, some for Assyriologists, and some for the wider public.

First, it aims to foster interest among students of Babylonia and Assyria in how these civilisations’ works of verbal art were read aloud in the past, and how they should be read aloud today.

Second, it provides a forum in which scholars who have theories about Babylonian and Assyrian pronunciation, metre, etc. can present a concrete example of how their theories sound in practice. (In this function the archive does not of course aim to replace scholarly discussion in established channels, but rather to provide a useful complement to written publications.)

Third, as a record of the ways in which contemporary scholars read Babylonian and Assyrian, it will some day serve a historical function. Many great Assyriologists, including some who had influential theories of Babylonian metre and phonology, passed into history without leaving a single recording of how they read Babylonian and Assyrian. This archive will provide at least some record of how scholars read Babylonian and Assyrian in the twenty-first century.

Finally, but not least, the questions which students of ancient languages most frequently hear from laymen are: “How did they sound? And how do you know?” This website is meant to serve as an introduction to these issues, providing the public with some idea of how modern Assyriologists think Babylonian and Assyrian were pronounced.

Design Matters

Designmatters is an educational department that partners with every discipline at Art Center to focus on art and design education with a social impact agenda and “real-world” outcomes that are implemented through a series of unique partnerships and alliances with global development agencies, government groups, academic institutions, local and national non-profits, and leading industry. Artwork by Ani Gevorgian from a series of posters created by Art Center College of Design students in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Winners

The Fall 2010 issue of The Kenyon Review includes several of the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Award Recipients. Of the 590 entrants, first prize went to Anna Faison (Aiken, South Carolina). Her poem “Han” appears in The Kenyon Review. Runners up whose works were also published include Emma Broder (Hamden, Connecticut) and Megan Gallagher (Greenville, South Carolina). Though their works do not appear in print, special merit recognition was given to Kevin Hong (Needham, Massachusetts), Mallory Weiss (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) and Vienna Wagner (Carmel, Indiana).

The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers is open for electronic submissions November 1 through November 30, 2010. The link to the submissions page for the contest will be active from this webpage on November 1, 2010.

PCA/ACA Rollins Documentary Film Award

The jury for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Peter C. Rollins Documentary Award is currently accepting film and video documentary/nonfiction entries that treat aspects of popular and American culture. Selection for the Rollins Award will be based primarily on strength of message, creativity, technical innovation, and overall style as the work treats popular and American culture topics or themes.

Submission for the award is open to professional and amateur moving-image makers working in film, video, and digital media. Work must be completed within the last three years in order to be considered. Entries may consist of one feature-length or up to three short works and must be provided with the completed entry form below. Entries must be in VHS videotape or DVD formats. Two copies of each work must be submitted. Submitted copies will not be returned. There is no entry fee.

The award includes a $500 travel grant to assist winners in attending the conference. The winning work and a short program of finalists will be exhibited during the 2011 national Popular Culture/American Culture Associations’ meeting April 20-23, 2011, in San Antonio. See the PCA/ACA website for more information about the national meeting.

Send submission copies with completed entry form to the jury chair. Materials must be received by December 20, 2010. Inquiries are welcome via email: dennis_cutchins[at]byu[dot]edu

Mail Submission Entries to:

Dr. Dennis Cutchins, Jury Chair
PCA Rollins Documentary Award
English Department
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602

How To Write About Pakistan

Four authors – Mohsin Hamid, Mohammed Hanif, Daniyal Mueenuddin and Kamila Shamsie – in the same seering, satirical tone as Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa” (originally published in Granta, 1992) have created their own advice on How to Write About Pakistan. Here’s the start of Hanif’s list:

1. Must have mangoes.
2. Must have maids who serve mangoes.
3. Maids must have affairs with man servants who should occasionally steal mangoes.
4. Masters must lecture on history of mangoes and forgive the thieving servant.
5. Calls to prayer must be rendered to capture the mood of a nation disappointed by the failing crop of mangoes.
6. The mango flavour must linger for a few paragraphs.

Read the rest on Granta.com

Many Mountains Moving Contest Winners

The 2010 print annual of Many Mountains Moving: A Literary Journal of Diverse Contemporary Voices features the winners of their contests from the past two years:

2008 Flash Fiction
Winner: Laura Loomis
Runner-up: Maureen O’Briend

2008 Poetry
Winner: Brian Brodeur
Finalists: Susan Deer Cloud, John Jeffire, Mark Wagenaar, and Sarah Zale

2009 Flash Fiction
Winner: Francisco Q. Delgado
Runner-up: Karin Lin-Greenberg

2009 Poetry
Winner: Margaret Walther
Finalists: Brian Brodeur, Ellen LaFleche, Christa Setteducati, and Kathryn Winograd

MMM 2010 Flash Fiction and Poetry Contest is open until December 30, 2010; MMM also has a Poetry Book Prize with an extended deadline of September 20, 2010.

Books :: Voice from the Planet

Edited by Charles Degelman, Voice from the Planet includes award-winning and new authors from Congo to Hollywood joining forces in Harvard Square Editions’ second volume of Living Fiction. Net proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to the Nobel Prize-winning charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Some of the authors whose works make up this anthology are: Alisa Clements, Tom Dolembo, Maya Levantini, Jorge Contreras, Charity Shumway, Stan G. Duncan, Geoffrey Fox, Jonathan Facelli, Phyllis Helene Mattson, Guy Kuttner, Tony Rogers, Lowry Pei, Margot Singer, and J. L. Morin.

New Lit on the Block :: Southern Grit

Kevin Baggett is the sole editorial force behind Southern Grit, an online journal that seeks “to uncover the hidden talents and authentic voices of the American South.” Currently, Southern Grit publishes only fiction.

The inaugural issue features stories by Mike Hampton, M. Alexander Bass III, John Solensten, Michael Smith, Brian Tucker, Jason Stuart, and a review of The Help by John Gifford.

Submissions for Volume 1 Issue 2 are being accepted until December 1.

New Lit on the Block :: Liminal Journal

Young Adult Author Amy K. Nichols is editor of Liminal Journal, a literary journal for teens. Liminal publishes original and unpublished fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, music reviews, poetry, artwork, comics, photography and short film from artists aged 13-19. Liminal will appear online quarterly with biannual print “best of” issues.

The inaugural issue feature poetry by Tiffany St. John, Nina Kentwortz, Roopa Shankar, Mara Kachina and fiction by Nana Kwame Adjer-Brenyah and Antonia Angress.

Liminal is currently accepting submissions on a rolling basis.

Job :: Professor/Editor of Prairie Schooner

The Department of English at the University of Nebraska Lincoln seeks applications and nominations for an advanced associate professor or a full professor to serve as the Glenna Luschei Professor and Editor of Prairie Schooner. Candidates must have a distinguished publication record as a poet, significant experience as an editor of creative works, a record of excellent teaching, and an active creative/research program. The Editor of Prairie Schooner is a tenured member of the English Department faculty with a one-one assignment teaching both undergraduate and graduate classes and is also expected to assume normal service responsibilities. As Editor of Prairie Schooner, the faculty member supervises all aspects of the journal and the Book Prize Series, makes all final production and editorial decisions, monitors budgets, and supervises the managing editor, graduate assistants, and interns.

Qualifications: Candidates must have a PhD or MFA in English or closely related field, a significant nationally recognized record of publication in poetry, substantial editorial experience, and evidence of excellence in teaching.

Applicants must complete the Faculty/Academic Administrative Information form, requisition #100576 and attach required documents.

For information about the application process, contact:

Professor Marco Abel, Recruitment Chair
402-472-1850
mabel2[at]unl[ot]edu

For information about the position, contact
Professor Susan Belasco, Department Chair
402-472-1857
sbelasco[at]unl[dot]edu.

Review of applications will begin October 25, 2010 and continue until a suitable candidate is found.

The University of Nebraska has an active National Science Foundation ADVANCE gender equity program, and is committed to a pluralistic campus community through affirmative action, equal opportunity, work-life balance, and dual careers.

Application Information

Contact:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Online App. Form:
http://employment.unl.edu

Lupus Alliance of America Fundraiser: Clash of the Geeks

Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi and Subterranean Press are proud to announce the publication of Clash of the Geeks, a special and fantastical electronic chapbook featuring stories by Wheaton, Scalzi, New York Times bestseller Patrick Rothfuss, Norton Award winner and Hugo Best Novel nominee Catherynne M. Valente, Hugo and Nebula Award nominee Rachel Swirsky and others, for the benefit of the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America. The chapbook is free to download, but voluntary payment is strongly encouraged, via Paypal or by tax-deductible donation forms. All proceeds go to the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America.

Free Public Domain Digital Comic Museum

The Digital Comic Museum is “the #1 site for downloading FREE public domain Golden Age Comics. All files here have been researched by our staff and users to make sure they are copyright free and in the public domain. To start downloading just register an account and enjoy these great comic books. We do not charge per download and the goal of project is to archive these comic books online and make them widely available.” [via Gerry Canavan]

Millay Colony for the Arts 2011 Residencies

The Millay Colony for the Arts offers one-month residencies to six visual artists, writers and composers each month between April and November. Nurturing the work of artists of all ages, from a range of cultures and communities, and in all stages of their artistic career, the Colony offers comfortable private rooms, private studio spaces, and ample time to work in a quiet, pastoral atmosphere.

To Apply:

NEW: Online application submission for 2011 Residency Program.

Application submissions via mail also available for 2011 season.

Applicants must submit a Millay Colony for the Arts application in addition to an artistic statement and work samples.

Details and form are available on our website. Applications must be postmarked or posted by October 1, 2010 for a month-long residency in 2011. Acceptance letters go out in February.

For more information, please call Residency Director Calliope Nicholas at 518-392-3103 or email at residency[at]millaycolony[dot]org.

Internet Curiosity :: List Magazine

List Magazine does just what it says – publishes lists. Twice a month, nonfiction lists submitted by “guest experts in science, art, and public spectacle, and other serious persons will be posted.” Currently, the first list, from the editor’s desk, is “How to Say a Few Words in 10 Languages That Will Soon Be Extinct.” A footnote reference states: “The Unesco Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger maps 232 extinct and 2,465 endangered languages. Half of the world’s 6500 to 7000 languages are expected to disappear this century.”

This is not silly or superflorus listmaking, but thoughtful and thought provoking, such as the one word entry that will be going up on my office door, “taturaaiiwaatista: ‘I am going to tell a story.’ Pawnee, a Caddoan language spoken by fewer than ten people in Pawnee County, Oklahoma.” And another, “nee’ééstoonéhk bíi3néhk noh héétniini núhu’ hee3éihi’ ee3eihi’: ‘If you do that, if you eat it, then you will be the way we are.’ Arapaho, a Plains Algonquian language spoken by 200 fluent elders on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and by students of the language immersion school they founded in 2008,” which incites the reader to suddenly make connections with much deeper roots and greater meaning to the contemporary saying – ‘You are what you eat.’

List Magazine is edited by Josh Wallaert, poet, fiction writer, and documentary filmmaker, who invites submissions with this limitation: “If you are a non-serious person who trades in fictional lists, such as Rap Lyrics of the 17(90)’s or Heavy Metal Board Games, you may want to send your wares to Mr. Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Timothy keeps a fine collection of that sort.”

Otherwise, List Magazine invites submissions of “lists, queries, and other species of correspondence. Lists can be funny, sad, curious, personal historical, whatever you like, but they must be true, and they must be your original work. List Magazine particularly enjoys lists that demonstrate significant research. (Footnotes and links are appropriate.)”

Additionally, contributors agree to publish their lists under the magazine’s creative commons license. Nice to see that in use – thanks Josh!

John Morse Roadside Haiku

Roadside Haiku: Using the brief format of traditional haiku—three lines of five/seven/five syllables—John Morse transforms the familiar bandit sign into a delivery device for poetic snapshots of the urban condition presented and consumed within the brief seconds of stop and go traffic.

CFS :: Journal of Electronic Publishing – Digital Poetry

Long-time editor, Judith Axel Turner, is retiring from The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP), and Aaron McCollough has been asked to curate one of several issues to be published in the interim before a new editor-in-chief is appointed.

McCollough has chosen to put together an issue broadly dedicated to digital poetry publishing and is seeking articles. He hopes this issue will “bring together many distinct but related conversations concerning relationships between poetry and the wide array of digital prostheses that are shaping and have shaped 21st Century poetics,” as well as “bring the pertinent conversations to the attention of new audiences.” Submission deadline is April 15, 2011.

The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) is a forum for research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of those practices upon users. Contributors and readers are publishers, scholars, librarians, journalists, students, technologists, attorneys, retailers, and others with an interest in the methods and means of contemporary publishing. At its inception in January 1995, JEP carved out an important niche by recognizing that print communication was in the throes of significant change, and that digital communication would become an important – and in some cases predominant – means for transmitting published information.

JEP is published by the Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO), a unit of the University of Michigan Library, which is committed to designing affordable and sustainable publishing solutions in the network era (with a serious commitment to open-access publishing).

Ka Mate Ka Ora & The North Down South


Published by the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (*nzepc*), the ninth issue of Ka Mate Ka Ora: A New Zealand Journal of Poetry and Poetics offers a special focus on North American legacies in the southern hemisphere:

Murray Edmond, Trade and True: Anthologies Fifty Years After Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry
Virginia Gow, The Activity of Evidence: Robert Creeley’s New Zealand
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Hello, America: Christchurch’s 1970s Pacific Moment
Scott Hamilton, Before Erebus: Five Footnotes to Kendrick Smithyman’s ‘Aircrash in Antarctica’
Ian Wedde, Does Poetry Matter?
Roger Horrocks, Leigh Davis (1955-2009)
Paul Millar, Jacquie Baxter / JC Sturm (1927-2009)
Murray Edmond, ‘Landed Poem Upwards’: Martyn Sanderson (1938-2009)
Robert Sullivan, Cape Return: for Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (1925-2009)

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*kmko* is edited by Murray Edmond with assistance from Hilary Chung, Michele Leggott, and Lisa Samuels at the University of Auckland, and with the support of a team of consulting and contributing editors. It publishes research essays and readings of New Zealand-related material and welcomes contributions from poets, academics, essayists, teachers and students from within New Zealand and overseas. Submission guidelines and further information at www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/kmko/about.asp

Emerson Society Awards 2011

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society announces three awards for projects that foster appreciation for Emerson.

Research Grant
Provides up to $500 to support scholarly work on Emerson. Preference given to junior scholars and graduate students. Submit a 1-2-page project proposal, including a description of expenses, by March 1, 2011.

Pedagogy or Community Project Award
Provides up to $500 to support projects designed to bring Emerson to a non-academic audience. Submit a 1-2-page project proposal, including a description of expenses, by March 1, 2011.

Subvention Award
Provides up to $500 to support costs attending the publication of a scholarly book or article on Emerson and his circle. Submit a 1-2-page proposal, including an abstract of the forthcoming work and a description of publication expenses, by March 1, 2011.

Send Research, Pedagogy/Community, and Subvention proposals to:

Jessie Bray
brayjn[at]etsu[dot]edu

and

Daniel Malachuk
ds-malachuk[at]wiu[dot]edu

Award recipients must become members of the Society

New Lit on the Block :: The Common

Editor Jennifer Acker and Poetry Editor John Hennessy head The Common, a biannual print publication from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Inspired by this mission and the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to recapture an old idea. The Common publishes “fiction, essays, poetry, documentary vignettes, and images that embody particular times and places both real and imagined.”

The first issue (00), much of which is available online via PDF, features works by Ted Conover, Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller, Michael Kelly, Honor Moore, Sabina Murray, Mary Jo Salter, Don Share, Jim Shepard, and Marina Tsvetaeva.

The Common is currently accepting submissions for Issue 01. The submission period is September 15-December 1.

Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Winners :: September 2010

Glimmer Train has just chosen the winning stories for their July Very Short Fiction competition. This competition is held twice a year and is open to all writers for stories with a word count not exceeding 3000. No theme restrictions. The next Very Short Fiction competition will take place in January. Glimmer Train’s monthly submission calendar may be viewed here.

First place: J. Kevin Shushtari, of Farmington, CT, wins $1200 for “The Vast Garden of Strangers.” His story will be published in the Winter 2012 issue of Glimmer Train Stories, published in November 2011.

Second place: Graham Arnold, of Downers Grove, IL, wins $500 for “The Story Is in the Reflection.”

Third place: Nahal Suzanne Jamir, of Tallahassee, FL, wins $300 for “In Perfect English.”

A PDF of the Top 25 winners can be found here.

Deadline soon approaching for the September Fiction Open: September 30

This competition is held quarterly and is open to all writers. Word count range: 2000-20,000. No theme restrictions. Click here for complete guidelines.

Banned Books Week Sept 25 – Oct 2

Visit Banned Books Week online for information about book challenges, events, and a Google map marking locations where books were challenged 2007-2009 – see how your state ranks.

The 10 most challenged titles for 2009:

ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: nudity, sexually explicit, offensive language, drugs, and unsuited to age group

And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
Reasons: homosexuality

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: drugs, homosexuality, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, suicide, and unsuited to age group

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Reasons: racism, offensive language, unsuited to age group

Twilight (series), by Stephanie Meyer
Reasons: sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group

Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Reasons: sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group

My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
Reasons: sexism, homosexuality, sexually explicit, offensive language, unsuited to age group, drugs, suicide, violence

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
Reasons: sexually explicit, offensive language, unsuited to age group

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Reasons: sexually explicit, offensive language, unsuited to age group

The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
Reasons: nudity, sexually explicit, offensive language, unsuited to age group

CNF Wants Narrative Blog Posts to Reprint

From Stephen Knezovich, Associate Editor / Mentoring Director, Creative Nonfiction:

Creative Nonfiction is seeking narrative blog posts to reprint in an upcoming issue. We’re looking to get input from folks, like yourself, who are plugged into the online literary community, and we hope you’ll send us your suggestions (or, you know, if you wanted to post this call on your Twitter/Blog/Facebook pages, we’d like that a whole lot, too).

We’re looking for: Vibrant new voices with interesting, true stories to tell. Narrative, narrative, narrative. Posts that can stand alone, 2000 words max, from 2010. Something from your own blog, from a friend’s blog, from a stranger’s blog.

Deadline for nominations: Monday, September 27, 11:59 PM EST.

For more details and to nominate a blog post go here.