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MVP Series: 2010 Competition
Bookmark HERE for guidelines to this national competition.
Submissions accepted Sept. 15 - Nov. 1, 2010 (postmark)
2009 COMPETITION
WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
Prose Prize:
The Muse of Ocean Parkway,
Jacob Lampart (stories)
(selected by John Dufresne)
Poetry Prize:
Hotel Utopia,
Robert Miltner
(selected by Tim Seibles)
The winning mss. will be published in Fall 2011.
Congratulations to winners and finalists. Thank you to all who submitted manuscripts.
MVP Series: 2008 Winners
We are pleased to announce that the following books have been chosen for publication in 2010.
Mary Hoffman (Brooklyn, NY), At Home Anywhere, stories.
B. J. Best (West Bend, WI), Birds of Wisconsin, poems.
Stephanie Johnson (Duluth, MN), Kinesthesia, poems.
Leif Enger, finalist Fiction Judge;
Joyce Sutphen, finalist Poetry Judge.
American Fiction Prizes
We will also publish American Fiction, Volume Eleven: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, edited by Kris Tsetsi, Bayard Godsave, and Bruce Pratt. Finalist Judge, Clint McCown.
We are pleased to announce winners for this year's American Fiction anthology.
First Prize: "Stickmen," by Andrew Gottlieb.
Second Prize: "Voyeuse," by Cary Groner.
Third Prize: "Souvenirs," by Aimee Loiselle.
Honorable Mentions: "Twenty Tales of Natural Disaster" by Helen Phillips, "Piano" by Terry Roueche, and "Section" by Gregory Williams.
Congratulations to all winners, honorable mentions, and other finalists whose work will appear in the anthology in Fall 2010.
First Prize: $1000
Second Prize: $500
Third Prize: $250
Finalist Judge: Clint McCown
Entry Fee: $12/story
Guidelines: click HERE.
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BROWSE BOOKS
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New Books October 2009
Fallibility, poems
Elizabeth Oness (Houston, MN)
"I am grateful for this beautiful book." Jeffrey Harrison
Friend Among Stones, poems
Maya Pindyck (Brooklyn, NY)
"The best advice re writing a poem is Emily Dickinson's: Tell the truth but tell it slant. Most poets try to do that, most of us fail. Maya Pindyck's poems very often find exactly the right slant, the right channel, the right wire, the right hypodermic--straight to the reader's heart!" Thomas Lux
Susan Barr-Toman (Philadelphia, PA)
“This novel captures the pulse of life—even when I put the book down and go about my day, I think about these characters. Barr-Toman writes with precision and wonderful humor about the human experience, and the need for forgiveness.” Elizabeth Cox
Click HERE to read first chapter.
Finalist Poetry Judge:
Michael Hettich
Finalist Prose Judge:
Ann Hood
American Fiction Series:
Whiskey Heart (novel) by Rachel L. Coyne (Minnesota)
"Coyne understands the human heart - she knows all the dark corners, twisted by the heat and hurt of love, and she knows the odd paths back from ruin. I couldn't put it down." Jonis Agee
Minneapolis Star Tribune review
Interference and Other Stories by Richard Hoffman (Massachusetts)
"The stories in Interference are moving, wise, and bracingly unsentimental. Richard Hoffman writes about male sadness and vulnerability with unusual insight and tough-minded compassion." Tom Perrotta