Last minute reminder of contest deadline(p/f/cnf) Mid-American Review
The Mid-American Review’s annual Sherwood Anderson (fiction), James Wright (poetry) and Creative Non Fiction contests are all nearing their postmark deadline of October 20th (Saturday). MAR’s a really cool journal with accessible, well crafted work. The contest judges are David Kirby(poetry), Anthony Doerr(fiction), W Scott Olsen(cnf). I’m really excited about the James Wright prize because I love David Kirby’s work. I know this has no effect on luck I’ll have, but still, the possibility of David Kirby reading my poems is pretty awesome. The entry fee for each contest is $10 (which includes a copy of the winning issue) and the prize is $1000 in each division. Send up to 3 poems, or 6,000 words for prose. Also, if you enter more than one contest, you can also move your second free copy to the next issue (ostensibly) so it’s like you get a year’s subscription… Here’s the rest of the information about it. It’s a good opportunity to justify buying a sample issue of a journal you’ve never seen at Barnes and Noble at the very least. You get the satisfaction that you made strides to get your work the acclaim it rightly deserves (right?) and you get to read wonderful work, as well as see what a potential market publishes. Win win win.