[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd: student fiction award: $1000 first prize, $500 second, $12 entry fee

[D Charles Whitney]

> From: "Kris Tsetsi" <ktsetsi at gmail.com>
> Date: October 28, 2008 12:26:27 PM PDT
> To: ktsetsi at gmail.com
> Subject: fiction award
>
> Hello -
>
> I'm writing to make you and your department - and your students -  
> aware of a fiction award with a March 15 deadline. I hope you find  
> it useful.
>
> Best,
>
> Kristen Tsetsi
> Co-editor, American Fiction
>
> AMERICAN FICTION PRIZE
>
> Judge: The Member-Guest and The Weatherman author and two-time  
> American Fiction Prize winner Clint McCown
>
> First Prize: $1,000
>
> Second Prize: $500
>
> Third Prize: $250
>
> Entry fee: $12
>
> American Fiction will revive this year with its American Fiction  
> Prize contest, a competition whose past judges include Joyce Carol  
> Oates, Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Anne Tyler, Louise Erdrich, Tim  
> O'Brien, and Tobias Wolff.
>
> This year's judge, Clint McCown, teaches in the creative writing  
> program at Virginia Commonwealth University and is a recipient of  
> the Associated Press Award for Documentary Excellence for his  
> investigations of organized crime and corruption in Alabama  
> politics, and the Society of Midland Authors Award. His novel, War  
> Memorials, was designated for Outstanding Achievement in Literature  
> by the Wisconsin Library Association. McCown's short stories and  
> poems have appeared widely, and he has published two books of  
> verse. He has worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. and as an  
> actor with the National Shakespeare Company. He has edited several  
> literary journals, including the Beloit Fiction Journal, which he  
> founded in 1984.
>
> Contest winners and finalists will be published by New Rivers Press  
> in Fall 2010 and distributed nationally by The Consortium.
>
>
> Entries must be postmarked by March 15, 2009. Winners and finalists  
> will be announced by September 2009.
>
> Contest Guidelines:
>
> We accept all genres of unpublished literary fiction. Entries must  
> be: unpublished; strictly 7500 words or less; postmarked by March  
> 15, 2009; clearly marked "American Fiction Prize" on both the story  
> and the outside of the envelope; accompanied by a $12 entry fee per  
> story (make checks payable to American Fiction). Please include a  
> cover page with your name, story title, mailing address, and email  
> address. Do not include your name on the pages of the story. Please  
> ensure all stories are typed, double-spaced, and that the title and  
> page number appear on each page. In lieu of an email address,  
> please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
>
>
> We welcome multiple entries ($12/story). For entries outside the  
> U.S.: please send entry fee in U.S. currency or money order. While  
> we cannot return manuscripts, we will forward a list of the winning  
> stories to any entrant who includes an SASE; as well, we will e- 
> mail contest updates to anyone who provides an active e-mail  
> address. Entrants retain all rights to their stories.
>
> Mail entries to:
>
> American Fiction Prize / 5712 Briarwick Court / Hermitage, TN 37076
>
> Please e-mail any questions to americanfictionprize AT yahoo DOT  
> com. Thank you for your interest, and good luck!
>
>
>
> -- 
> Kristen
> www.kristentsetsi.com

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