The shatters between our two worlds have taken place and by the stroke of midnight, it would be you who i face to live alone these days, making note of our endless ways. To have taken my white rose, it's now my heart that goes, broken and lost, the river continues to flow. It was once a smile that use to show, and now the passions of glory is what must go. What is a heart, that which we give love, would be questioned as broken to the one above? what is a man from a boy who is to be considered grown but doesn't know his actions when he leaves a WOMAN alone? My heart beats out of control with anger to know that all my next love hearts shall be in danger. I'm living with a broken heart and the pain is continuous like sharpened darts. The hurt is very clear to the eye can see, but now it's me, who must live this broken hearted world so freely. Let me remain so oblivious until the break of daw,n, looking to the heavens acknowledging his deal and know that my broken heart shall heal, because I now know the truth and that is for real.
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Editorial Paradigms
By Jonathan Neihart
Anyone who has been writing long enough can tell you the internet has changed everything. At first, many editors were not receptive to the digital paradigm shift, but most literary journals of note have either adapted or ceased to exist. Today, more literary journals exist on the web than in print. Many provide both mediums, reserving the web for teasers or “best of” material.
Editors, previously overwhelmed by fresh mountains of daily paper submissions were ambivalent about taking online submissions. The thought was, and they were right to think so, that allowing online or email submissions would open the floodgates to folks too lazy to write a proper cover letter or too juvenile to spell out the word “through” in its entirety. For a little while the formula for submissions was this:
Electronic Format=Electronic Submissions
Paper Format= Paper Submissions
I have to give kudos to the literary editors out there. More and more are accepting online submissions regardless of the medium. The art of writing a quirky yet intelligent cover letters is quickly losing merit to the real meat of the submission. The payoff is in both corners; the editor can now accept material closer to the print deadline because the legal stuff can be handled electronically, the writer gets responses to his/her work exponentially faster. The loser in this equation is the Post Office.
Here comes the shameless plug. Ready? While we’ve got paradigms on the brain, check out my poem published in Paradigm Journal volume 3, http://www.paradigmjournal.com/weiss/Neihart_This%20Pen.html
And yes, they do take online submissions.
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First place winner receives $1000 and publication. Second and Third prize winners receive publication. Check back August 4, 2008 for announcement of the winners.
To enter:
1. Story submissions should not exceed 10,000 words in length.
2. Enclose a cover letter that contains a short biographical sketch and a current email address, mailing address, phone number, and the title of your essay.
3. Send an SASE for acceptance notification.
4. Enclose a $20 reading fee, payable to Fugue, that guarantees consideration and a copy of the journal that includes the contest winners.
Submissions must be postmarked by May 1, 2008 to this address: Fugue Fiction Contest
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First place winner receives $1000 and publication. Second and Third prize winners receive publication. Check back August 4, 2008 for announcement of the winners.
To enter:
1. Poetry submissions should not exceed 3 poems or 5 pages.
2. Enclose a cover letter that contains a short biographical sketch and a current email address, mailing address, phone number, and the titles of your poems.
3. Send an SASE for acceptance notification.
4. Enclose a $20 reading fee, payable to Fugue, that guarantees consideration and a copy of the journal that includes the contest winners.
Submissions must be postmarked by May 1, 2008 to this address: Fugue Poetry Contest
200 Brink Hall
English Department
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-1102
Ann Pancake, our fiction judge, and Mark Halliday, our poetry judge, have awarded the prizes to the following pieces:
Congratulations to the winners of Fugue's Seventh Annual Prose & Poetry Contest!
Fiction
1st Prize ($1,000 & Publication)
"Driving School" by Roger Sheffer
2nd Prize (Publication)
"For Lack of Wood" by Margaret Zamos-Monteith
3rd Prize (Publication)
"Visual Goals" by Sage Katherine Marsters
Poetry
1st Prize ($1,000 & Publication)
"My Sweet Little Pigeons" by Lisa Bellamy
2nd Prize (Publication)
"Letter to Dr. Goldberg" by David J. Corbett
3rd Prize (Publication)
"Getting Enough" by Carol L. Munn
Beginning May 1, 2009 we will be accepting submissions for a summer fiction issue of Mississippi Review Online. Stories for this issue should be 3500 words or less. There is no other theme, idea, concept, rule, or regulation.
Submit May 1 to June 15 to editors@mississippireview.com. The issue will be put online on or about the first of July, 2009.
Editors are Frederick Barthelme, Gary Percesepe, Jane Armstrong, and Jim Whorton.
Meanwhile, check out the poetry book contest detailed below, with three $1000 prizes and three books published by January 2010. Details after this picture here.
POETRY BOOK CONTEST!
Three poetry collections will be selected. All three will be published in January 2010. Three prizes of $1000 will be awarded.
Submission Deadline August 1, 2009!
Judge: Dara Wier
The Mississippi Review Poetry Series is a new annual contest awarding three publication prizes for book-length poetry manuscripts. It is open to all poets working in English except current or former students or employees of Southern Miss. There will be three $1000 prizes and we will produce three full-length (48-64 page) paperback perfect-bound books. Each will bear the cover price of $12 and the three winning books will be packaged as a set for MR subscribers. Each winner will receive the cash prize plus 100 copies of his or her book as payment. Manuscripts may total no more than 56 pages of poetry. Fee is $25 per entry, payable to Mississippi Review. There is no limit on the number of entries an author may submit. Each entrant will receive a set of the three prize-winning books. No manuscripts will be returned.
Contest opened March 15, 2009. Postmark deadline: August 1, 2009. Winners announced: September 2009. Publication scheduled: January 2010. Please put MR Poetry Series, name, address, phone, e-mail, and title on page one of entry. Send to Mississippi Review Poetry Series at 118 College Drive # 5144, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001. With questions call 601.266.5600.
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Writer’s familiar with poetry markets know another element to spring not related to daffodils and peeper frogs. A large “chunk” of the most sought after markets, because they are tied into academia, go into summer hibernation. Submissions sent during this period (typically May 31 to September 1) are not read, nor are they stored outside of the cave where the editors sleep. Provided there is a SASE enclosed, the submissions are simply returned unread.
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