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Contests a Success!
I am so pleased to announce that our annual Edna Staebler Personal Essay and Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contests are off to an incredible start. Before I tell you the official total, I’d like to express TNQ’s gratitude to the many people who have made this possible: Thank you to the Jernigan family for sponsoring [...]
What makes an essay personal?
The deadline for TNQ’s contests is coming up, and I’m told, with a month to go, we have a flood of occasional verse submissions and only a trickle of personal essays. In part, this was expected—most poets have an occasional verse or two, unpublished, kicking around in their drawer. Pull it out, provide a frame, [...]
Arc Poetry Mag wants you to judge their contest (already!)
Because Arc Poetry Mag has moved their contest from a summer to a winter deadline, they are already seeking your vote for their Readers’ Choice selection of their 2010 contest. If you’d like to voice your opinion, download their pdf booklet of shortlisted poems, and send your top three picks to vote@arcpoetry.ca by April 5, [...]
Contests: Love ‘em or hate ‘em?
The New Quarterly is currently looking at running an annual contest—possibly even a suite of annual contests—in the genres we publish, poetry, fiction, and essay. As management, I’ve recently come to love the idea. But will our writers love it too?
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