Poets & Writers – September 2019

TWO PRESTIGIOUS

Poetry Book Society

& Mslexia Women’s

Poetry Competitions

are now open! Judged

by Malika Booker,

Women’s Poetry

Competition entrants

can win £2000, a

mentorship by Sandeep

Parmar, and Cove

Park writing retreat.

Women’s Pamphlet

Competition winners

will receive £250 and

publication by Seren.

Entries close September

16: http://www.womenspoetry

comp.com/submit.

THE UNIVERSITY

of Arkansas Press is

accepting submissions

for the Miller Williams

Poetry Prize, judged

by Billy Collins. The

winner receives $5,000

in cash in addition to

publication. Applica-

tions are accepted year-

round. The deadline

for the following year’s

prize is September 30.

Website: http://www.uapress

.com.

V PRESS LC SEEKS

submissions for a

$1,000 Poetry Book

Prize and a $500 Poetry

Chapbook Contest.

Torie Amarie Dale will

work with Cathy Smith

Bowers for the Poetry

Book Prize and with

poet Allison Blevins for

the Chapbook Contest

to decide on a winner.

More details: https://

vpress.submittable

.com/submit or www

.vpresslc.com/

submissions.

WHEELBARROW

Books Poetry Prize,

sponsored by RCAH

Center for Poetry at

MSU: Open to authors

of a published full-

length poetry collec-

tion. $1,000 award +

publication, with distri-

bution by MSU Press.

Original, unpublished

poetry in English, min.

64 pages. $25 reading

fee. Postmark deadline:

October 1. Judge: Mark

Doty. Guidelines:

poetry.rcah.msu.edu.

WILDA HEARNE

Flash Fiction Contest.

Deadline: October 1.

$500, publication in

Big Muddy. Best short-

short story, 500 words

or less, any theme. $15

fee includes copy of Big

Muddy with winning

story. Submit through

our Submittable page.

Full guidelines at: www

.semopress.com/

events/wilda-hearne

-contest.

WIN $1,000 FOR

your best short story

of up to 5,000 words in

the Into the Void Fiction

Prize! There are also

prizes for second and

third places. Prizes

include publication in

award-winning literary

journal Into the Void.

For more details and to

submit, visit intothe

voidmagazine.com.

Miscellaneous

AGING WRITERS

Literary Society. Short

stories, memoirs, and

poetry by William

Michelmore, whose

fiction has been

published in the

anthology One Hundred

Voices, the Santa Fe

Literary Review, the

Miami Herald, and

online magazines.

Website: http://www.bill

michelmore.com. By

following this blog,

you support the Aging

Writers Literary

Society.

CONGRATULATIONS

Elise Blackwell,

2019 Inductee South

Carolina Academy of

Authors —Your MFA

Fiction Students at the

University of South

Carolina.

THE NEW YORK

State Council on

the Arts (NYSCA)

annually has offered

translation grants

of $2,500–$10,000

to literary transla-

tors who are NYS

residents for transla-

tions into English of

fiction, poetry, drama

or creative nonfiction.

Translators prepare a

10- to 15-page manu-

script-in-progress from

the proposed project,

and apply through a

qualified NYS non-

profit organization. The

application period

typically opens in

February and closes in

March of each fiscal

year. Guidelines for

the FY2020 application

round (now closed) may

be found at: https://

nysca.org/downloads/

guidelines/FY2020/

FY20_Literature_

Guidelines.pdf (see

Literary Translation

on pg. 9). Please check

the NYSCA website

(https://www.arts.ny

.gov) in early 2020 for

updates on literary

translation opportuni-

ties NYSCA may offer

for FY2021 funding.

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THE PATRICIA DOBLER

POETRY AWARD

This annual contest is open to women writers over the age of 40 who are U.S. citizens

or permanent residents, currently living in the U.S., who have not published a

full-length book of poetry, fiction, or non-fiction (chapbooks excluded).

The winner receives the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, in the

form of $1,000; publication in Voices from the Attic; round-trip

travel, lodging, and a reading at Carlow University in

Pittsburgh with the final judge.

Past judges: Maggie Anderson, Toi Derricotte,

Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Yona Harvey,

Allison Hedge Coke, Patricia Smith, Ann Townsend,

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Judith Vollmer

http://www.carlow.edu/Dobler_Poetry_Award.aspx