<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"John Wang" <<a href="mailto:jwang@juked.com">jwang@juked.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">April 2, 2009 6:12:27 AM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><<a href="mailto:chuck.whitney@ucr.edu">chuck.whitney@ucr.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>2009 Juked Fiction and Poetry Prizes</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Dear Dr. Whitney,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">I’m writing to inform you of our 2009<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Juked</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fiction and Poetry Prizes. The winner in each genre will receive $500 and publication in our upcoming print issue. Our final judges this year are Dan Chaon (fiction) and Dora Malech (poetry). This year we’re also accepting entries online, to help people cut down on costs. Please pass this information along to those in your program who may be interested in the contest. We thank you for your support.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">- J.W. Wang<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Editor,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Juked</i><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">The 2009<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Juked</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fiction and Poetry Prizes</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Now accepting entries!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Winner in each genre receives<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>$500</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and publication in our upcoming print issue,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Juked<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>#7.<span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Final Judges: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Dan Chaon<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(fiction) and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Dora Malech<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(poetry)<span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Submission Deadline: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>August 31<sup>st</sup>, 2009<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><b><o:p> </o:p></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Entry Fee: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>$10</b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Fiction: one story per entry, no length requirement<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Poetry: up to five poems (no more than ten pages total) per entry<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Complete guidelines at: <b><a href="http://www.juked.com/prize/" title="blocked::http://www.juked.com/prize/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: windowtext; ">http://www.juked.com/prize/</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">About our judges:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Dan Chaon is the author of the best-selling novel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>You Remind Me of Me</i>. He has also published two short story collections,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Fitting Ends</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Among the Missing</i>, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. Walter Mosley chose his short story, "The Bees," to be included in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Best American Short Stories 2003</i>, and his story "Big Me" was selected by Michael Chabon as the second prize story in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The O. Henry Awards 2001</i>. His new novel,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Await Your Reply</i>, will be published in late August 2009. Chaon is the Houck Associate Professor of the Humanities at Oberlin College.<br><br>More on Dan:<o:p></o:p></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">"Big Me" at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www3.gettysburg.edu/academics/gettysburg_review/Previous_Selections/chaon.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><i>The Gettysburg Review</i></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">"Raymond Carver" at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.smokelong.com/flash/6448.asp" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><i>SmokeLong Quarterly</i></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Interview with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.believermag.com/exclusives/?read=interview_chaon" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><i>The Believer</i></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">Dora Malech's poems have appeared in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The New Yorker</i>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Poetry</i>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Denver Quarterly</i>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Gulf Coast</i>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Redivider</i>, and other journals. She was recently Visiting Lecturer and Primary Convenor for the MA Creative Writing Program at Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand. Her chapbook,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Inside & Elsewhere</i>, came out in 1999.<br><br>More on Dora:<o:p></o:p></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">"Here Name Your" at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/04/28/080428po_poem_malech" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><i>The New Yorker</i></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">"Makeup" at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179577" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><i>Poetry</i></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; ">"Oh Grow Up" at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.versedaily.org/2008/ohgrowup.shtml" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><i>Verse Daily</i></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><i><o:p> </o:p></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>