<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts" <<a href="mailto:Gulf_Coast_A_Journal_of_Literatu@mail.vresp.com">Gulf_Coast_A_Journal_of_Literatu@mail.vresp.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">August 3, 2009 12:00:49 PM 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>Barthelme Prize Deadline Approaching!</b></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>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts" <<a href="mailto:reply-ae943e24e1-98c25d5351-be41@u.cts.vresp.com">reply-ae943e24e1-98c25d5351-be41@u.cts.vresp.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><p align="center" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif; font-size:10px;"><a href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/329560/ae943e24e1/1425000898/98c25d5351/"> Click to view this email in a browser</a></p><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8" bgcolor="0000CC"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" bgcolor="0000CC"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><center><a href="http://www.gulfcoastmag.org"><img border="0" src="http://img.pcdn.vresp.com/media/2/1/f/21fb3f05c1/ae943e24e1/ae943e24e1.gif"></a></center><p><font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">It's almost here...</font></p><p><font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">...the deadline to submit for the 2009 <i>Gulf Coast</i> Barthelme Prize for Short Prose is <b>Monday, August 31</b>. </font></p><p><font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica"><br><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="2"><b> The judge for this year's Barthelme Prize is award-winning author Mary Robison.</b><p><a target="_blank" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/ae943e24e1/98c25d5351/769d5f88d1/n=2&s=900"><img border="0" hspace="5" vspace="5" alt="Image" align="right" src="http://img.pcdn.vresp.com/media/2/1/f/21fb3f05c1/ae943e24e1/eb500c6014/image1.jpg"></a>Mary Robison is the author of four story collections, including <i>Tell Me: Thirty Stories</i>, and four novels including <i>Why Did I Ever</i> and the recently-relesaed <i>1 DOA, 1 on the Way</i>. <br><br><b><u>Guidelines</u>:</b> Submit up to 3 previously unpublished prose poems, short stories, or micro-essays, each no more than 500 words in length. Your name and address should appear on the cover letter <b>only</b>. All entries will be considered for publication, though only one will receive our $500 prize. <br><br>The reading fee for each entry is $15. Each entrant will receive a free one-year subscription to <i>Gulf Coast</i>. Multiple entries are permitted, but free subscriptions are limited to one per entrant. Simultaneous submissions are allowed; please inform us if your piece is accepted elsewhere. Checks can be made payable to Gulf Coast.<br><br><b>Please send all entries to:</b><br>Barthelme Prize<br>Gulf Coast<br>Dept. of English, University of Houston<br>Houston, TX 77204-3013<br></p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/ae943e24e1/98c25d5351/769d5f88d1/n=2&s=900"> Read last year's prize-winning entry</a></p></font></td></tr></tbody></table></font></p><p><font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helvetica">We look forward to reading your entries!<br><br>Sincerely,<br>The <i>Gulf Coast</i> Editorial Staff</font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr><td><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td><font face="arial,verdana" size="1">If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or simply click on the following link: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/u?ae943e24e1/98c25d5351/mlpftw"> Unsubscribe</a></font></td></tr></tbody></table></font></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><font face="arial,verdana" size="1">Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts<br>Department of English<br>University of Houston<br>Houston, Texas 77204-3013<p><a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/content/pm_policy.html"> Read</a> the VerticalResponse marketing policy.</p></font></td><td align="right"><a href="http://www.verticalresponse.com/landing/non-profits/?np/ae943e24e1"><img border="0" src="http://img.pcdn.vresp.com/np_pwrby_vr_logo_126.gif" alt="Non-Profits Email Free with VerticalResponse!"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><img alt="" src="http://cts.vresp.com/o.gif?ae943e24e1/98c25d5351/mlpftw"></blockquote></div><br></body></html>