Wyomingarts attended a reading and release party at Laramie County Community College for the 2011 High Plains Register. Congrats to Amanda Fry who won the HPR Prize for her story, "The Ring." She joined other contributors reading from their work: Bob Simkins, Jack Kirk, Nicole McGee, Jeff Eatmon, Eugene Shea, Danielle Sage, Tina O'Toole, Ruth Kannaris, Kristin Abraham, Alicia Padilla and Steve Harrington. Photographers Heidi Gurov and David Larsen showed some of their work and talked about it.
Copies of the issue will be available May 13 at the Wyoming Arts Council offices, the LCCC Bookstore and City News in downtown Cheyenne.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
New Jackson Hole Review launch party set for April 29
I'm emailing to inform you about the re-launch of Jackson Hole Review, a biannual literary publication featuring literature and art from all over the country concerned with the American West. We're holding a launch party on April 29. We're in the midst of updating the website and the hard copies will be here a day or two before the party. Here are some of the details:
The party is 6-9 p.m., Friday, April 29, at Factory Studios, 1255 Gregory Lane, Jackson.
The JH Review's inaugural issue, themed "connect/disconnect," features contributions from writers, poets, photographers and visual artists from all over the country. Our featured contributor for this issue is Idaho essayist/poet/fiction writer Kim Barnes, who has generously given us an essay and submitted to an interview.
Sponsored by Teton Artlab and JH Weekly. $10 includes a copy of the Review, refreshments, entertainment and special prizes for attendees. Find out more about connect/disconnect at www.jhreview.com and at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31218906942
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Sponsored by Teton Artlab and JH Weekly. Special thanks to the Teton Library Foundation, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Grand Teton Music Festival, Falls Printing, Valley Bookstore, Jackson Hole Writers' Conference and the Jackson Hole Public Art Initiative for making JH Review possible.
Sponsored by Teton Artlab and JH Weekly. Special thanks to the Teton Library Foundation, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Grand Teton Music Festival, Falls Printing, Valley Bookstore, Jackson Hole Writers' Conference and the Jackson Hole Public Art Initiative for making JH Review possible.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Call for entries: Copper Nickel journal
From Jake Adam York, director of creative writing at University of Colorado at Denver and editor of Copper Nickel:
Copper Nickel, the journal of art and literature my colleagues and students and I edit here in Denver, will open its second contest this coming week, and I'm hoping you'll help spread the word in your writing communities.
Daniel Alarcon will judge our fiction contest, and Kevin Prufer will judge our poetry contest. We'll accept entries through March 31, 2011. Entrants will get not only a shot at the $1000 prize (one prize in each genre) but as well a one-year subscription (2 issues) to Copper Nickel for only $15 (which is the cost of a normal subscription).
All the details are also online at http://www.copper-nickel.org/contest/
Copper Nickel, the journal of art and literature my colleagues and students and I edit here in Denver, will open its second contest this coming week, and I'm hoping you'll help spread the word in your writing communities.
Daniel Alarcon will judge our fiction contest, and Kevin Prufer will judge our poetry contest. We'll accept entries through March 31, 2011. Entrants will get not only a shot at the $1000 prize (one prize in each genre) but as well a one-year subscription (2 issues) to Copper Nickel for only $15 (which is the cost of a normal subscription).
All the details are also online at http://www.copper-nickel.org/contest/
Monday, January 3, 2011
Call for entries: Crazyhorse
Winners receive $2,000 each and publication in Crazyhorse.
The deadline to enter this year's prizes: January 15, 2011.
Enter by uploading a file of your manuscript online or by mailing in a paper manuscript. Each manuscript entered should consist of up to twenty-five pages of fiction or up to three poems (up to 10 pages total of poetry). For each manuscript entered, include a reading fee of $16 per manuscript, which includes a one-year/two-issue subscription to Crazyhorse. More than one manuscript may be entered. For each additional fiction or poetry manuscript entered and entry fee paid, your subscription to Crazyhorse will extend by one year/two issues. Subscriptions begin with Crazyhorse Number 79, Spring 2011; the winning manuscripts will be published in Crazyhorse Number 80, Fall 2011.
To enter, go to http://www.crazyhorsejournal.org/page.php?id=108
Monday, December 27, 2010
B.J. Buckley poems in HoboEye journal
Cheyenne native and Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship recipient B.J,. Buckley has three poems featured on the online journal HoboEye. B.J. now lives in Lolo, Mont.
Read "Bitter," "Shakespeare's Monkeys" and "Cold Prairie" here.
Excerpt from "Bitter:"
Call it snow
but this dust from the moon’s basement
coats the windows of the
sky
until nobody can see out.
Read "Bitter," "Shakespeare's Monkeys" and "Cold Prairie" here.
Excerpt from "Bitter:"
Call it snow
but this dust from the moon’s basement
coats the windows of the
sky
until nobody can see out.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Call for entries: Jackson Hole Review
JH Weekly Editor Matthew Irwin sends this info:
The alt-weekly Jackson Hole Weekly recently acquired a fledgling lit mag, called Jackson Hole Review. We will be redesigning the publication and the website, but in the meantime, we're seeking submissions for our winter issue, themed "connect/disconnect." The cutoff date is January 12, 2011. For submission guidelines, an explanation of the theme and our mission, visit http://www.jhreview.com/.
The alt-weekly Jackson Hole Weekly recently acquired a fledgling lit mag, called Jackson Hole Review. We will be redesigning the publication and the website, but in the meantime, we're seeking submissions for our winter issue, themed "connect/disconnect." The cutoff date is January 12, 2011. For submission guidelines, an explanation of the theme and our mission, visit http://www.jhreview.com/.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Call for entries: Matter Journal's "Animal" issue
Matter Journal is looking for writing, photography, and artwork that speaks to the animal in all of us. We like well-written stuff best, especially if it comes with something interesting to say and strives for deeper meaning. Prose that howls us into seeing the world a new way. Poems that knock our zebra-striped socks off. Photographs, illustrations, and paintings to drool over.
See our submission guidelines on our web site and then send your best work to Matter, P.O. Box 814, Fort Collins, CO 80522, attn: Matter 14 Animal. It can take 3-6 months for us to respond, so please be patient.
Matter 14: Animal Fiction Prize
If you would like your short story to be considered for the Animal Fiction Prize, include something to that effect in your cover letter and on the envelope, a $5 reading fee, and an SASE or e-mail address for notification purposes. Award is $250, publication, and 2 complimentary copies of the issue in which your work appears. All contest submissions will be considered for publication as well.
Deadline for both submissions and contest: Wednesday, October 15, 2010, postmark date.
See our submission guidelines on our web site and then send your best work to Matter, P.O. Box 814, Fort Collins, CO 80522, attn: Matter 14 Animal. It can take 3-6 months for us to respond, so please be patient.
Matter 14: Animal Fiction Prize
If you would like your short story to be considered for the Animal Fiction Prize, include something to that effect in your cover letter and on the envelope, a $5 reading fee, and an SASE or e-mail address for notification purposes. Award is $250, publication, and 2 complimentary copies of the issue in which your work appears. All contest submissions will be considered for publication as well.
Deadline for both submissions and contest: Wednesday, October 15, 2010, postmark date.
Meet the Equality State Book Festival presenters: Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Jaimee Wriston Colbert is one of the presenters for the Equality State Book Festival Sept. 24-25 in Casper.
Here's some info about Jaimee:
Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of a new novel, Shark Girls, nominated for the ALA Notable Books of 2010 List and a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards; a linked stories collection, Dream Lives of Butterflies, which won the gold medal in the 2008 Independent Publisher Awards; a novel in stories, Climbing the God Tree, winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize; and the story collection Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile, winner of the Zephyr Publishing Prize. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tampa Review, Connecticut Review and New Letters, broadcast on “Selected Shorts,” archived in “New Letters on the Air,” and anthologized. Two recent stories won the Jane’s Stories National Short Story Award, 2008, and the Isotope Editors’ Fiction Prize, 2009. Originally from Hawai’i, she is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY, Binghamton University.
Jaimee will wrap up the festival with “Stories that Bite Back: A Reading from Shark Girls” from 8-9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25, in the Aley Fine Arts Center, Durham Hall, Casper College. The event is free and open to the public.
Shark Girls has been nominated for the ALA Notable Books of 2010 List and as a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards. The novel takes place in Hawai’i and follows the lives of two sisters, from Hawai’i to Maine, in the aftermath of a shark attack in Oahu. Books will be available for purchase and signing at this event.
For a full schedule of bookfest events, go to http://www.equalitystatebookfest.com/
Here's some info about Jaimee:
Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of a new novel, Shark Girls, nominated for the ALA Notable Books of 2010 List and a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards; a linked stories collection, Dream Lives of Butterflies, which won the gold medal in the 2008 Independent Publisher Awards; a novel in stories, Climbing the God Tree, winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize; and the story collection Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile, winner of the Zephyr Publishing Prize. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tampa Review, Connecticut Review and New Letters, broadcast on “Selected Shorts,” archived in “New Letters on the Air,” and anthologized. Two recent stories won the Jane’s Stories National Short Story Award, 2008, and the Isotope Editors’ Fiction Prize, 2009. Originally from Hawai’i, she is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY, Binghamton University.
Jaimee will wrap up the festival with “Stories that Bite Back: A Reading from Shark Girls” from 8-9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25, in the Aley Fine Arts Center, Durham Hall, Casper College. The event is free and open to the public.
Shark Girls has been nominated for the ALA Notable Books of 2010 List and as a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards. The novel takes place in Hawai’i and follows the lives of two sisters, from Hawai’i to Maine, in the aftermath of a shark attack in Oahu. Books will be available for purchase and signing at this event.
For a full schedule of bookfest events, go to http://www.equalitystatebookfest.com/
Monday, August 30, 2010
Call for entries: Ruminate Magazine
From Ruminate Magazine in Fort Collins, Colo.:
We are now accepting entries for the 2011 Short Story Prize. We are proud to announce that our annual short story prize is now being sponsored by the William Van Dyke Charitable Fund and is being renamed The William Van Dyke Short Story Prize. The prize award has also been generously increased to 1,000.00. We are so grateful for this generous gift.
The entry deadline is October 15th, 2010.
FMI: http://www.ruminatemagazine.org/contests/short-story.html
We are now accepting entries for the 2011 Short Story Prize. We are proud to announce that our annual short story prize is now being sponsored by the William Van Dyke Charitable Fund and is being renamed The William Van Dyke Short Story Prize. The prize award has also been generously increased to 1,000.00. We are so grateful for this generous gift.
The entry deadline is October 15th, 2010.
FMI: http://www.ruminatemagazine.org/contests/short-story.html
Monday, March 22, 2010
Call for entries: Copper Nickel literary journal
This contest announcement comes from Copper Nickel, the University of Colorado at Denver literary journal:
Copper Nickel is pleased to announce its first-ever contests in poetry and fiction.
The poetry contest will be judged by Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of Native Guard. The winner will receive $1000 and publication in Copper Nickel 15 in Spring 2011.
The fiction contest will be judged by Ron Carlson, author of At the Jim Bridger. The winner will receive $1000 and publication in Copper Nickel 15 in Spring 2011.
The contest is open to anyone. Writers may submit either one story or up to three poems with an entry fee. Each entrant also receives a one year subscription to Copper Nickel with each entry. For writers living in the United States or Canada the fee is $15 US.
Writers living outside the US or Canada, please contact us via e-mail at element29[at]copper-nickel[dot]org for a fee schedule and alternative payment methods.
We will accept entries until May 15th.
Finalists will be announced June 15th, winners by August 15th.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Step One: submit your manuscript using our submission manager system, accessible here: http://www.copper-nickel.org/contest/smgr/index.php.
Even if you have submitted to Copper Nickel before, you will have to re-register to submit to the contest. This only takes about 2 minutes, and it ensures your manuscript will not be lost.
Step Two: Once you've submitted your manuscript via Submission Manger, you will need to mail your entry fee, as a check or money order in US dollars made payable to "University of Colorado," to us here:
Copper Nickel
Campus Box 175 P O Box 173364
Denver CO 80217-3364
Please write the title/s of your entry on the memo line of your check.
Copper Nickel is pleased to announce its first-ever contests in poetry and fiction.
The poetry contest will be judged by Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of Native Guard. The winner will receive $1000 and publication in Copper Nickel 15 in Spring 2011.
The fiction contest will be judged by Ron Carlson, author of At the Jim Bridger. The winner will receive $1000 and publication in Copper Nickel 15 in Spring 2011.
The contest is open to anyone. Writers may submit either one story or up to three poems with an entry fee. Each entrant also receives a one year subscription to Copper Nickel with each entry. For writers living in the United States or Canada the fee is $15 US.
Writers living outside the US or Canada, please contact us via e-mail at element29[at]copper-nickel[dot]org for a fee schedule and alternative payment methods.
We will accept entries until May 15th.
Finalists will be announced June 15th, winners by August 15th.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Step One: submit your manuscript using our submission manager system, accessible here: http://www.copper-nickel.org/contest/smgr/index.php.
Even if you have submitted to Copper Nickel before, you will have to re-register to submit to the contest. This only takes about 2 minutes, and it ensures your manuscript will not be lost.
Step Two: Once you've submitted your manuscript via Submission Manger, you will need to mail your entry fee, as a check or money order in US dollars made payable to "University of Colorado," to us here:
Copper Nickel
Campus Box 175 P O Box 173364
Denver CO 80217-3364
Please write the title/s of your entry on the memo line of your check.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Nina McConigley to celebrate new story in American Short Fiction with Texas reading
Wyoming fiction writer Nina McConigley (upper right) is one of the writers featured in the new issue of American Short Fiction. Casper's Nina Swamidoss McConigley (now teaching at UW in Laramie) has a new story out this fall in American Short Fiction magazine. The story is "Curating Your Life." A reading featuring contributors to this issue of ASF will be at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18, at the Austin, Texas, home of Kelty Christman. This is free and open to the public.
The event features readings by writers Nina McConigley and Josh Weil. Actor Gabriel Luna, fresh from his title role in Cambiare Productions’ Orestes, will also read. Buzz Moran and LB Deyo of Dionysium will emcee. Music from the fall issue's diskette will also be played.
FMI: http://www.americanshortfiction.org/blog/?p=1236
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