Special Announcements

THE ELIZABETH MCCORMACK/INKWELL
MAW STUDENT AND ALUMNI
2010 CONTEST GUIDELINES
Contests in Poetry & Fiction

For the 5th year, Inkwell will sponsor Poetry and Fiction Contests for our MAW students and alumni. Here are the guidelines:

Please send well crafted, creative work with a fresh voice.

  1. Who’s eligible? All Manhattanville MAW students and alumni. IMPORTANT: Please indicate MAW Poetry Contest or MAW Fiction Contest on envelope.
  2. There is no reading fee.
  3. Reading period: Only entries postmarked (or brought to the Inkwell office) between August 1 and October 30, 2009 will be considered. All other entries will be disqualified. NO MANUSCRIPTS WILL BE RETURNED.
  4. Manuscripts: Send one unpublished poem (maximum 40 lines) or one unpublished short story (maximum 2,500 words) (Students may submit in both categories.)
  5. Format: Fiction must be typed, double-spaced, with no identifying information on the entry. Poetry must be typed, single-spaced, with no identifying information on the entry. No electronic submissions.
  6. Awards: The judge will select one MAW fiction winner and one MAW poetry winner. The judge decides if there is no winner in a category. Each winner will be awarded a $200 cash prize and publication in Inkwell’s Spring 2009 issue. Winners will be invited to read at Inkwell’s Gala Reception held in September 2010.
  7. Judge:  Laurel S. Peterson was a finalist for the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry for her manuscript Mud Never Forgets.  Her chapbook, That’s the Way the Music Sounds, will be released by Finishing Line Press in July 2009.  She has served as an editor of the literary journal Inkwell, and is the co-editor of (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).  Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, The Distillery, Poet Lore, The Rio Grande Review, The Texas Review, Thin Air, Yankee and others.  She lives with her husband in Vermont and Connecticut, and is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. 

Please Note:
This contest is separate from Inkwell’s Annual Poetry and Fiction Competitions. Submissions to the Annual Competitions or General Submissions have their own guidelines and must be sent under separate cover.

We look forward to reading your work!

The Inkwell 2009-2010 Editorial Staff

 

 


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