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From: Joseph, Allison E <aljoseph@siu.edu> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2022 12:23 PM To: aejoseph.crwropps@blogger.com <aejoseph.crwropps@blogger.com> Subject: CRWROPPS Post: Dancing Poetry Contest Deadline is April 15   Subject: Dancing Poetry Contest Deadline is April 15 Subject: Enter our Dancing Poetry Contest 2022

The 2022 Oversound Chapbook Contest is open through April 30th! View this email in your browser The Oversound Chapbook Prize is now open!  Judge: Sawako Nakayasu $1000 and 25 copies to winner. $18 to enter. Domestic subscription to  Oversound  included. March 1-April 30, 2022 Manuscript length: 15-30 pages. For a manuscript outside this range, please contact us prior to sending. Submit Here Judge's Bio: Sawako Nakayasu  is an artist working with language, performance, and translation – separately and in various combinations. She has lived mostly in the US and Japan, briefly in France and China, and translates from Japanese. Her books include  Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From  (Wave Books),  Pink W...

Miami Book Fair's Emerging Writer Fellowships (EWF) program offers a life-changing experience to   fresh and exciting literary voices . Through the generous sponsorship of the Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at the Miami Foundation, on March 1 we launched a search for the program's next cohort: four writers who will enjoy critical mentorship from a nationally established author in their respective genre –   fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and new this round, Spanish-language   – as well as a host of other strategic supports.   These fellowships support previously unpublished writers who demonstrate exceptional talent and promise by providing them with time, space, and an intellectually and culturally rich artistic community. The program's goal is to actively support these writers – who are working to complete their first book-length project within a year – and help them launch their literary careers. Emerging Writer Fellows are granted professional experie...

Subject: Dancing Poetry Contest Deadline is April 15 Subject: Enter our Dancing Poetry Contest 2022

Subject: The 2022 Emerging Writer's Contest is open for submissions!   Ploughshares is pleased to announce that the 2022 Emerging Writer's Contest is now open for submissions ! Awarded annually, the Emerging Writer's Contest recognizes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by writers who have yet to publish a book of their work. One winner in each genre will receive $2,000, a conversation with Aevitas Creative Management , and publication in Ploughshares . This year's Emerging Writer's Contest judges are Chen Chen (Poetry), Danielle Geller (Nonfiction), and Amelia Gray (Fiction). The deadline for submissions to the Emerging Writer's Contest is May 15, 2022 . We hope you will share the attached flyer with your writing communities and encourage them to review the contest guidelines on our website . Ploughshares 120 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116-4624 617-824-3757 Twitter: @pshar...

  Hello lovely writers! Our shortest-form contest is open for submissions until April 15th ! The Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms is judged by PRISM's editorial board. We're ready to dig into your flash fiction, micro-memoir, poetic hybrids and everything in between of  300 words  or less. Anything goes—as long as it's short! Entry fee:  $15 PS—we offer  free entries for self-identifying Black and Indigenous writers for all our contests. We also have a number of free entries to offer to low-income writers, and we encourage writers for whom the contest entry fee is prohibitive to contact us at promotions@prismmagazine.ca to arrange contest entry. As always, we encourage submissions from writers of co...

Assistant/Associate Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University   About the Center Located at James Madison University and housed in the College of Arts and Letters, Furious Flower Poetry Center is the nation's first academic center for Black poetry. Furious Flower is committed to ensuring the visibility, inclusion, and critical consideration of Black poets in American letters, as well as in the whole range of educational curricula. Our programming seeks to cultivate an appreciation for poetry among students of all levels—from elementary to graduate school and beyond. In addition, Furious Flower seeks to support and promote Black poets at all stages of their careers and to preserve the history of Black poets for future generations.    Position Overview  The Furious Flower Poetry Center (FFPC) at James Madison University welcomes applications for the position of Assistant /Associate Director ...