Intern for Booth Western Arts Museum

The Booth Western Arts Museum (Cartersville, GA) is establishing a series of writers events. They plan to start with the organization of a writers group at their location. They also plan to hold a writers conference, and to have scheduled interaction between interested writers and historical reenactors (period 1860-1895) for those writers to gain detailed insight into subject matter.

Note that the emphasis will be The Old West, so as to take advantage of the extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, and photography in the museum.

They would like to have an intern from the MAPW program assist and give guidance with all this. The intern would help identify key contacts, kindred organizations, and future writer/members. They would also help plan the conference.

Appropriate works (cowboy poetry and short stories) are planned to be published in a new anthology under the museum's name.

Anyone interested in helping us should contact : T.W. Lawrence  tbrennen@kennesaw.edu

literary magazine summer internship

Company:	Las Vegas Review-Journal
Position:	Summer internships in Las Vegas
Location:	Las Vegas, Nevada
Job Status:	Temporary
Salary:	Negotiable
Ad Expires:	December 23, 2013
Job ID:	1470504
Website:	http://reviewjournal.com

 
Description:

Nevada's leading news organization has openings for several interns in Metro, Business and Features for summer 2014.
These 10- to 12-week temporary jobs pay $12 per hour and are open to students and recent graduates nationwide, with preference for those with roots in the region.
We also like to hire interns who show they can perform well in a unique, fast-paced and frequently bizarre news town.
Interested? Send a resume, cover letter and three great clips to James G. Wright, deputy editor, at jwright@reviewjournal.com. Please put "summer internships" in your subject line.

The Lyric College Poetry Contest

The Lyric Magazine Poetry Contest Directed toward undergraduate enrolled full time in an American or Canadian college or university

$500 First Prize
$100 Second Prize

Poems must be original and unpublished, 39 lines or less, written in English in traditional forms, preferably with regular scansion and rhyme. Please send up to 6 poems per student.

Winners will be announced and published in the Winter issue of The Lyric.

Entries may be sent by email to tanyacim at aol dot com or by postal service to:

The Lyric College Contest
c/o Tanya Cimonetti
1393 Spear Street
South Burlington, VT 05403

Submissions must be postmarked or emailed by December 1, 2013.

Rome Area Writers student membership

Rome Area Writers is now offering a student membership for $10. Although anyone may attend their meetings, being a member has certain benefits, including discounted event tickets and automatic publication in the Lavender Mountain Anthology, the RAW publication. For more information, check out http://www.romeareawriters.com/. 

Agnes Scott Writers Festival

The English Department at Agnes Scott College invites you to participate in the 43rd annual Writers' Festival.

$500 first prize in each genre:
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama

Submission deadline: Dec. 4, 2013

Judges: Nick Flynn, Terrance Hayes and Louisa Hill ’09

The Writers’ Festival competition is open to anyone currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program in a college or university in the state of Georgia. Finalists will appear in the festival magazine and will be invited to campus to participate in workshops by the visiting writers on March 28, 2014.

Each entrant may submit up to five poems (up to 100 lines each), two stories (up to 5,000 words each), two essays (up to 5,000 words each) and two plays (up to 30 pages).

Submit entries electronically as Microsoft Word-compatible documents to Nicole Stamant. Documents should be in standard format 12-point Times New Roman font. Author’s name should not appear in attachments. In the email, include the author’s name, address, phone number, school, categories entered and titles of all works in each category. Finalists will be notified by email in January.

For more information and full contest rules, click here.

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Summer Fellowship Opportunity for Undergraduates!

 from the Image website:

The purpose of the Luci Shaw Fellowship is to expose a promising undergraduate student to the world of literary publishing and the nonprofit arts organization, and to introduce fellows to the contemporary dialogue about art and faith that surrounds Image, its programs, its contributors, and its peer organizations.

In short, we're looking for summer fellows who share our vision for the place art has in the life of faith, and who are also diligent, meticulous, and responsible about the daily details.

The fellowship works on the principle of learning-by-osmosis; we think that by hanging around our offices and observing what we do all day, you can begin to understand the field of literary publishing. To wit: in order to make the Image enterprise go, we all need to do a certain amount of non-glorious, non-intellectual detail work, editors included. Your first lesson about publishing: there's a lot of grunt work. Just like the editors, fellows have a balance of grunt work (daily processing) and glory work (more interesting on-going projects).

The workweek is 30 hours, with flexible scheduling. We are willing to accommodate more hours for class credit if needed. Ideally we'd like you to begin in mid-June and work through the end of August—this works best because at Seattle Pacific University we are on the quarter system. We understand that students at semester schools may need to return to school a little earlier. We do ask for a minimum commitment of 10 weeks.

Fellows stay in a one-bedroom apartment less than a mile from the Seattle Pacific University campus, where the Image offices are located. Rent, water, and electricity are covered. The position is unpaid.

Fellows also join us for the Glen Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the first week of August. Travel, room, board, and tuition to audit a class are covered. While the fellow is “on call” all week to help with errands and tasks, you'll also be able to sit in on a writing or art class from a nationally known teacher and attend all the readings and presentations. We'll work you pretty hard that week, but it will also be a great crowning adventure for your summer.

Fellows will also receive complimentary copies of books by Luci Shaw as well as back issues of Image.

To Apply

Eligibility: Any person currently enrolled in a four-year undergraduate institution, or graduating within six months of 

Applications are due February 1, and applicants will be notified by the end of February. Download an application. Note: Your application will be more likely to stand out if you send fiction or creative nonfiction instead of an academic term paper. We are looking for good creative prose writers, although we will accept academic papers as well.

Questions: Anna Johnson
206-281-2988
ajohnson@imagejournal.org

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If you are interested in learning more about applying for this fellowship, please stop by my office in Rome Hall 110 or email me at remerson@shorter.edu

Lee University's Literary Symposium: Call for Submissions

Lee University’s
Eleventh Annual
LITERARY
SYMPOSIUM
Call for Submissions

________________

Submit any upper division academic
or creative writing
 Critical essays
 Literary analyses
 Poetry
 Fiction
 Short Plays or Screenplays
 Creative non-fiction

Maximum of 10 pages in length

deadline for submissions is September 27, 2013.

Please send all submissions in a Word .doc or .docx file to cschrock@leeuniversity.edu.

The conference will be held in Lee’s Humanities Center on October 5, 2013.

Lunchtime plenary session with Anna Silver of Mercer University.

Registration fee (includes breakfast and lunch): $7.

Poetry Reading: Todd Davis

On Thursday, April 18, Shorter University's Livingston Library will host an open mic time for students, faculty and staff, followed by an announcement of the university's creative writing contest winners. The evening will culminate with a poetry reading by poet Todd Davis.

Earlier that day, a master class with Todd Davis will be held from 11:00  - 12:00 in the Hardeman Room of the Livingston Library.

These events are free and open to the public; for more information, please contact Renee Emerson (remerson AT shorter DOT edu)

Crab Orchard Review Student Writing Awards ($500 Prize)

from the website:

COR Student Writing Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

$500 prize in each category 

The Charles Johnson Fiction Award

The Rafael Torch Literary Nonfiction Award

The Allison Joseph Poetry Award

One winner will be chosen in each category (fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry). The three category winners will each receive an award payment of $500 and be published in the 2014 Winter/Spring issue of Crab Orchard Review.

Guidelines: The award competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents currently enrolled (at the time of the submission period) full- or part-time in a U.S. college or university. Beginning in 2013, there will be a small processing fee ($3.00) to pay for the cost of the online submission system. Entrants may only submit one story, one nonfiction piece, or one poem. Do not submit work in more than one genre. All entries will be screened by published and accomplished writers and editors. Entries must be previously unpublished, original work written in English by a U. S. citizen or permanent resident. Simultaneous submissions are considered, but an entry is ineligible to win if accepted for publication elsewhere. Name, address, telephone number, email address, and the name of your current college or university should appear only on a cover letter in the submission process which should not be part of the entry file. Please include the title of the work and the genre of the entry—either “Poetry,” “Fiction,” or “Literary Nonfiction”—on that cover letter. The author’s name should not appear on any page in the submission itself. All entries must be submitted online between February 18, 2013 and March 18, 2013 (online entries will be accepted until 11:59:59 PM (Central Time) on March 18, 2013). All entrants will be notified of results by email.

Page Restrictions: Prose entry length: up to 4000 words for fiction or for literary nonfiction. Poetry entry length: one poem only, up to 3 pages in length. Entrants may only submit one story, one nonfiction piece, or one poem. Do not submit work in more than one genre.

Entry Fee: Beginning in 2013, there will be a small processing fee ($3.00) to pay for the cost of the online submission system. All entries must be made through our Submittable system.

Literary Magazines focused on Undergraduate Writers

Adroit Journal
A  literary magazine run entirely by high school and college students. Adroint publishes poetry, fiction, flash fiction, art/photography, and cross-genre works with separate submissions for "adults" and those "under the age of 21."

Allegheny Review
Only accepts submissions from currently enrolled undergraduates (which could include dual-enrolled high school students). This will link to their temporary web site - their way-cool site crashed. Stay tuned for updates.

The Blue Route
An online magazine of undergraduate fiction and poetry, published biannually by Windener University.

Catfish Creek
Poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction journal from Loras College. Any student currently registered in an undergraduate program is eligible to submit writing.

First Inkling
A publication of writing from students in accredited colleges or universities at the community college, undergrad, graduate, or post doctorate level around the world.

Literary Laundry
An online publication of poetry, prose, and drama. Each issue the editors select works written by undergraduates for outstanding award as well as cash prizes.

North Central ReviewThe North Central Review is one of only a handful of literary journals publishing exclusively the writings and works of undergraduate students. The North Central Review considers all genres, including short fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction, and mixed genre pieces. Submission deadlines Oct 15 and Feb 15.

The Oval
The Oval is an undergraduate-run, non-profit annual literary journal at the University of Montana. They accept previously unpublished poetry, prose, and visual art by currently enrolled undergraduates nationwide.

Pegasus
A regional journal, focused only on Georgia writers who are of high school age or who are freshman or sophomores in Georgia colleges.

Polaris
The undergraduate journal of arts and literature of Ohio Northern University is now accepts submissions for poetry, fiction, visual art, and nonfiction only from undergraduate students worldwide.

Prairie Margins
Prairie Margins is an undergraduate publication at Bowling Green State University. Our reading dates are between September and December. Accepts submissions of unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

A River & Sound Review
If you are between the ages 14 and 21 and enjoy writing, please submit your poems, stories, or essays to be considered for reading at an upcoming live production. "Writers may submit up to three poems, or an essay or story up to 1,000 words in length. Selection of the work will be based on the literary merit of the submission and its appropriateness for our program. Due to our production schedule and limited staff, it may take us up to three months to notify you of our acceptance of your submission."

The Susquehanna Review
Susquehanna University's nationally distributed student-run annual literary magazine contains riginal ficiton, creative nonfiction, and poetry by undergraduate writers currently attending an accredited university in the United States.

Zaum
a literary and art magazine providing college students a venue for publishing their  poetry, prose, fiction and visual artwork. The magazine is distributed and produced by students at Sonoma State University in California.

Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize for Undergraduate Writers

Stony Brook

State University of New York
Short Fiction Prize
Only undergraduates enrolled full-time in American and Canadian universities and colleges for the academic year 2012-2013 are eligible for the prize.
Deadline: Postmark March 1, 2013

Guidelines

Eligibility

undergradates enrolled full time in United States and Canadian universities and colleges for the academic year 2012-13 are eligible. This Prize has traditionally encouraged submissions from students with an Asian background, but we urge all students to enter.

Guidelines

• Entrant's identity and academic institution will not be revealed to judges.
• Submissions of no more than 7,500 words should be typed on 8.5-by-11-inch paper.
• Include one cover sheet with the title of the work only. On a second cover sheet, include your name, permanent address, telephone number and email address. Do not include your name on any pages of your story.
• All entries must be accompanied by proof of current undergraduate enrollment, such as a photocopy of a grade transcript, a class schedule or payment receipt showing your full-time status.
• The institution's name and address must be clear. No fax or electronic submissions will be accepted.
• Manuscripts will not be returned. Submission assumes the right of Stony Brook to publish the winning story on its Web site.
• The winning short story will automatically be considered for publication in The Southampton Review, the literary journal published by the Stony Brook Southampton MFA program in Writing and Literature.

Deadline

March 1, 2013. All applications postmarked after the deadline will be returned unopened. The winner and runners-up will be notified in June 2013.

Mail submissions to:

John Westermann
Director, Stony Brook $1,000 Short Fiction Prize
Stony Brook Southampton
MFA in Writing and Literature
239 Montauk Highway
Southampton, New York 11968

Undergraduate Student Call for Submissions

THE NORTH CENTRAL REVIEW

welcomes submissions of all genres from undergraduate students. Published twice yearly. Deadlines: October 15, February 15. Hard copies, proof of undergraduate status (.edu e-mail address) to NCR, North Central College, CM #235, 30 N. Brainard St., Naperville, Il 60565. For details, see orgs.noctrl.edu/review. E-mail submissions also accepted: nccreview@noctrl.edu.