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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 25, 2012 3:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bryan G Bradford<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Last Chance to Enter to Win the $1,000 Barthelme Prize!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#5B6BB6">Just One Week Left to Submit!<br>
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
There are only seven short days left to enter to win <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Gulf Coast</span></em>'s $1,000 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, judged by
<b>Ander Monson</b>. Whether you're a fiction writer, a poet, or an essayist, we want to see your work.
</span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/78d42df9ab/c97fb7adcd/60cb37d56f"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Enter today</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">!<br>
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The Barthelme Prize for Short Prose is open to prose poetry, flash fiction, or micro-essays, all 500 words or fewer. Established in 2008, the contest awards its winner $1,000 and publication in
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Gulf Coast</span></em>, the journal co-founded by Donald Barthelme. Two honorable mentions will also appear in issue 25.2, due out in April 2013. All entries will be considered for paid publication on our
website and all entrants receive a free one-year subscription to <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Gulf Coast</span></em>. We accept submissions via postal mail and via our online submissions manager, but you must submit before the deadline
of <b>September 1st!</b> </span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/78d42df9ab/c97fb7adcd/1a779ff7b1"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Click here for how to enter</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">.<br>
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Last year's winners, selected by </span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/78d42df9ab/c97fb7adcd/ec85ffc2dd/n=2&si=47&s=2928"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Sarah Manguso</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">,
are available on our website: Erica Olsen for "</span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/78d42df9ab/c97fb7adcd/cecdb3d1d2/n=2&si=47&s=2929"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Grand Canyon II</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">,"
Sonja Vitow for "</span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/78d42df9ab/c97fb7adcd/1a565c5250/n=2&si=47&s=2930"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Master Bedroom</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">,"
and Paul Zaic for "</span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/78d42df9ab/c97fb7adcd/5c9d52b438/n=2&si=47&s=2931"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Why I Became a Fireman</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">."<br>
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Please also check out the 2010 winner, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's "</span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/78d42df9ab/c97fb7adcd/3b6fa9df51/n=3&si=44&s=2750"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Animals Do Not
Commit Delusional Acts</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">," selected by
</span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GulfCoastAJournalofL/78d42df9ab/c97fb7adcd/958c4f82e6/n=3&si=44&s=2751"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Joe Bonomo</span></a><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#5B6BB6">About Our Judge<br>
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
<b>Ander Monson</b> is the author of a number of paraphernalia, including a website, a decoder wheel, several chapbooks, as well as five books, most recently
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir</span></em> (Graywolf Press, 2010) and
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The Available World</span></em> (Sarabande Books, 2010). He lives in Tucson where he teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arizona and edits the journal
<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">DIAGRAM</span></em> and the New Michigan Press.<br>
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