[CW-Grad] FW: Ploughshares - Love and Contests

[Bryan G Bradford]

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From: Ploughshares Literary Magazine <pshares at emerson.edu<mailto:pshares at emerson.edu>>
Date: February 14, 2012 7:54:25 AM PST
To: Robin <robin.russin at ucr.edu<mailto:robin.russin at ucr.edu>>
Subject: Ploughshares - Love and Contests
Reply-To: Ploughshares Literary Magazine <pshares at emerson.edu<mailto:pshares at emerson.edu>>


Contest underway, the literature of love, MFA debates, and more...

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Emerging Writer's Contest!
The contest is open! We are now ready for submissions<http://pshares.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=c60578170f&e=0c8d9f4c19> in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Winners in each genre receive $1000 and publication, and your $20 entry fee includes a one-year subscription. We are open for submissions until April 2nd, and you can read all of the details here<http://pshares.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=3c0134eeda&e=0c8d9f4c19>.
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Books for Valentine's Day
Roundup on the literature of love<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=d14cb37137&e=0c8d9f4c19>! Good romance, bad romance, and weird romance: check out our selections from Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde<http://pshares.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=9d1d5f25f2&e=0c8d9f4c19>, and add your own.
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Best of the Blog

  *   Eric Weinstein<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=b70621fe05&e=0c8d9f4c19> starts two spirited discussions on The Great MFA Debate<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=50c2e7e0c3&e=0c8d9f4c19> and the question of simultaneous submissions<http://pshares.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=2b0a35f438&e=0c8d9f4c19>.
  *   Thomas Lee<http://pshares.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=fbcd69d0b7&e=0c8d9f4c19> posts about finding time to write<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=a1e226b97f&e=0c8d9f4c19>, when workshops go bad<http://pshares.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=dcffc4ffbb&e=0c8d9f4c19>, andKorean-American identity<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=7bb5e8cc10&e=0c8d9f4c19>.
  *   Rachel Kadish<http://pshares.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=086860585c&e=0c8d9f4c19> writes about literary friendship across political borders<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=b5111ef2f9&e=0c8d9f4c19> (on getting to know Hada Salah Eldin Hussein); plus an interview with Carol Gilligan<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=32dedcfbfa&e=0c8d9f4c19>, and her thoughts on radio drama<http://pshares.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=10045d68f7&e=0c8d9f4c19>.
  *   New book review<http://pshares.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=780bb8fcf9&e=0c8d9f4c19> features: our editor writes about "blurbese"<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=e2ecae23f6&e=0c8d9f4c19> -- (first entry, the gendered use of the term "haunting<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=aabcce3cfb&e=0c8d9f4c19>"); Anne Gray Fischer writes about the anarchist Emma Goldman<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=cdbb14addd&e=0c8d9f4c19> for her new column, "Women in Trouble<http://pshares.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=10b81b4018&e=0c8d9f4c19>"; and Shannon Wagner kicks off "Dear Dr. Poetry<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=5dc2bdbb07&e=0c8d9f4c19>" by responding to a question about selling out<http://pshares.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=c412bef666&e=0c8d9f4c19>.

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Ploughshares at AWP (soon!)
February 29 - March 3 in Chicago: If you'll be at AWP<http://pshares.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=cba30c5ebb4b3723489ca1328&id=feccf071be&e=0c8d9f4c19>, look for the Ploughshares table. We'll have discount subscriptions and issues, and other exciting inducements (we promise).
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