<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI<br><div><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Aura Estrada Short Story Contest</b><br></span></div><br><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br clear="all"></font><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thought your faculty and students would want to know that the
2012 Boston Review Aura Estrada Fiction Contest is now accepting submissions.
Also, last year’s winner, Alexandra Thom’s piece is now published in the July
issue --</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Boston Review</span></i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> is
proud to announce the winner of the 2011 Aura Estrada Fiction Contest, New York
artist and writer Alexandra Thom, with her first published work, “The
Piano.” </span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Judge Samuel R. Delany
writes: "This is an astonishingly moving story…Skillfully the writer
has left ‘silences’ in the tale where we can read our own emotions into the
spaces where they might occur." Read Thom's award-winning story online:
[url]</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The
2012 Aura Estrada Short Fiction Contest deadline is October 1st,</b><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> 2012 — the
judge this year is author Nathan Englander</span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">.
Entries are now being accepted. </span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">The winning author will
receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in </span><i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Boston Review</span></i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">. First runner-up will be published in a following issue, and
second runner-up will be published at the </span><i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Boston Review</span></i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> Web site. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Find
complete details and submit your work:</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/index.php#Estrada"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://bostonreview.net/about/contest/index.php#Estrada</span></a></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best of luck!</font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Daniel</font></span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888">-- <br>Daniel E. Pritchard<br><i>Boston Review</i><br>Marketing & Publicity Director<br>
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