The World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest
Check it out: The Southeast Review presents the World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. Up to 500 words. Deadline March 15, 2008. Judged by Robert Olen Butler. Submit up to 3 short-shorts. $15 entry. They also offer a poetry contest, same prize and entry fee, submit up to 3 poems. Judged by one of my all-time favorite poets, the king of the sprawling compound sentence, David Kirby.
More immediately, LSU’s journal New Delta is running the Matt Clark Prize with a deadline of February 28, either fiction or poetry. Prize is $100. Entry is $5.
Have at ‘em.
Oh, and wish me luck in the mtvU section of the NPS. My manuscript The Very Bottom of the Sky is under consideration for that now. How freaking cool would that be? The winner even gets to meet Yusef Komunyakaa.