New York, past and future
Furnace Press sends word of a book competition on urban decay.
The “Decomposition Series” will consist of books focusing on noteworthy abandoned sites in New York State. The five books in this series will be 40-60 pages in length with black & white illustrations. The first of these publications will center on the ruins of Sea [...]
Writers on drinking contest
A former City College classmate reports that he’s getting some use from his MA in creative writing.
Crown Royal is having a contest, fifty words or less, as to what makes for a good occasion to drink. (A glass and ice?)
The prize: You get a Nascar Race named after you.
The Douglas Light 400. [...]
The gift of freedom
The “A Room of Her Own” Foundation is sponsoring a gift of freedom: considerable financial support (up to 50,000) to a female fiction writer who is a United States citizen. You can check out the criteria and download an application here. (Thanks to Wah-Ming for the link.)
Opium contest
Speaking of Opium, the magazine has announced its first fiction prize, “a whopping $555 in celebration of our 5-year anniversary.”
The entry fee is $10, and the deadline is May 8.
Author Jonathan Baumbach will judge the submissions.
$20,000 nonfiction anthology contest
We of the soaked prunes are too advanced in age even to qualify for Random House’s competition-based anthology for new and emerging writers in their 20’s, much less to begin to procrastinate on a submission. But you young’uns out there should spiff up your best short nonfiction and send it in:
Random House is looking [...]
Former band geeks: look alive
Stephen Power, a Senior Editor at John Wiley, is looking to commission a memoir or narrative about high school marching band:
It could have an “American High” structure, in which a reporter follows a number of members of a band for a year, but the tone should be “Freaks & Geeks.” It could be [...]