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<font size="4">$500 prizes in each genre: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry</font></div><div style="text-align: center; "><font size="4">Plus publication in our landmark 50th issue.</font></div><font size="4">&nbsp;</font><br><font size="4">Judges:</font><br>&nbsp;<br>Nonfiction:<br>Anne Fadiman<br><i>The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down</i><br>National Book Critics Circle Award 1997<br>&nbsp;<br>Fiction:<br>Dinaw Mengestu<br><i>How to Read the Air</i><br>The New Yorker “20 Under 40” 2010<br>&nbsp;<br>Poetry:<br>Eileen Myles<br><i>Inferno: a poet’s novel</i><br>Lambda Literary Award 2010<br>&nbsp;<br>Runners-up will be considered for publication on our website.<br>Entry fee is $14 and includes a copy of Journal 50.<br>Deadline: February 1, 2012.<br><br>Submission Guidelines:<br>Submit up to five poems per entry.&nbsp;<br>One fiction or non-fiction submission per entry fee of up<br>to 15 double-spaced pages in a word document.<br><br>Graduates of Columbia's MFA Writing Program can only<br>enter contest five years after receiving their degrees.<br><br></div></td><td width="10"><br></td></tr><tr><td width="10"><br></td><td align="center" valign="top" width="330"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="330" id="templateFooter"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="middle" width="330" id="utility" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 107, 49); border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 107, 49); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br><div><a href="http://columbiajournal.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=811023a37c5b9f5977cd33445&amp;id=0fa086d332&amp;e=56047d895c" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">Update Subscription Preferences</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>or<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://columbiajournal.us2.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=811023a37c5b9f5977cd33445&amp;id=0fa086d332&amp;e=56047d895c&amp;c=b8f1c3ade6" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">Unsubscribe</a></div><br></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="middle" width="330" id="footerCopy" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><br><div><br><br></div><br><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="10"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td width="20"><br></td><td align="right" valign="top" width="230"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="230" id="templateSidebar"><tbody><tr><td width="30"><br></td><td align="left" height="140" valign="top" width="200"><br><div id="date" style="color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: Arial; font-size: 30px; line-height: 30px; ">Deadline: February 1, 2012<br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" valign="top" width="230"><br><br><br><div id="button" style="background-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); border-top-left-radius: 25px 25px; border-top-right-radius: 25px 25px; border-bottom-right-radius: 25px 25px; border-bottom-left-radius: 25px 25px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; line-height: 14px; text-align: center; width: 207px; "><br><div><a href="http://columbiajournal.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=811023a37c5b9f5977cd33445&amp;id=81109d250a&amp;e=56047d895c" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; ">Submit</a></div><br></div><br></td></tr><tr><td width="30"><br></td><td align="left" valign="top" width="200" id="social" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; "><div><br><br><a href="http://us2.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=811023a37c5b9f5977cd33445&amp;id=b8f1c3ade6&amp;e=56047d895c" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; ">Forward this to a Friend</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></center><img src="http://columbiajournal.us2.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=811023a37c5b9f5977cd33445&amp;id=b8f1c3ade6&amp;e=56047d895c" height="1" width="1" style="display: block; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; text-decoration: none; "></div></span></div><br><div>
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