[CW-Grad] Ploughshares - Contests and Shirts

[Robin Russin]

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Date: March 13, 2012 9:07:42 AM PDT
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Contest, T-shirts, St. Patrick's day, and spring...
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Contest continues!
Our Emerging Writer's Contest continues until April 2nd. Poets, fiction writers, and essayists can all submit. The $20 fee includes a subscription to the magazine; the winner in each of the three genres receives $1,000 and publication. Here are oureligibility rules and some medium-sized print.

(Also, potential contestants, the first issue of your new subscription will be the Nick Flynn issue, which just went to the printers.)

T-shirt vote
As some of you may know from AWP, we are taking votes on potential T-shirt designs to represent the magazine. Here are the three designs from three different graphic designers and artists. Vote for your favorite design here.

Best of the Blog
Our staff rounds up some Irish favorites for St. Patrick's Day, from Brendan Behan to a Boston mayor who "transformed clannish patronage into an art."
Rachel Kadish writes about dead mothers in children's stories, creatingauthenticity in a historical novel (focusing on the writing of "bygone-ese"), and interviews novelist Susan Power.
Thomas Lee writes about men writing female characters (this one provoked aresponse from some readers), how to deal with backstory, and when to stop revising.
Eric Weinstein lists "Five Books That Changed How I Think About Writing," things he wishes he'd been told as a beginning writer, and describes an average day in the life of a writer who works full-time.

Get excited for Spring
The Nick Flynn issue is coming! Read a little bit about it here. If you are in the Boston area, come to a Q&A and reading at Emerson on April 4th. You can also see Nick's movie, Being Flynn, which is out now, or read the memoir that it is adapted from (the memoir has a slightly more striking title).

Ploughshares was founded in 1971 at the Plough and Stars in Cambridge, MA. We are a journal of new writing, and each issue is guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston. Pshares.org
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Robin Russin

Associate Professor and Director
MFA for Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2707
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"I try all things; I achieve what I can." - Ishmael in "Moby Dick," written by Herman Melville

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny in "Unforgiven," written by David Webb Peoples

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