PUB: Burnside Review - contests

2011 Burnside Review Poetry Chapbook Competition

Judge: Mary Syzbist

We are sponsoring our seventh annual poetry chapbook competition. Winner will receive twenty-five copies and a two hundred dollar cash prize. Competition runs March 15th to June 30th. Winner will be announced approximately September 1st, with publication date set for winter. The same dedication and care will go into the production of the chapbook as with our journal—quality original cover art, linen paper, excellent layout. We will make the publication process as cooperative as possible.

Guidelines

—18 to 26 pages of poetry. Individual poems may be previously published.
—2 cover sheets, one with the title of the manuscript, your name, telephone number, and address. The second cover sheet should list only the title of the manuscript.
—A page acknowledging previously published poems
—A self addressed stamped envelope
—Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

IF BY POST: Include a self addressed stamped envelope and a check or money order for $15- made out to Burnside Review. Entry must be postmarked by June 30th to: Burnside Review Poetry Chapbook Contest, P.O. Box 1782, Portland OR 97207.
IF BY ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: E-mail all of above a single Word file to contests@burnsidereview.org. Send $16- by Paypal to sid@burnsidereview.org. Fee and entry must be submitted within 24 hours of each other. Receipt of entry will be sent after both arrive. (This method will save money and trees.)

The initial readers of the manuscripts will be Burnside Review staff members. They will choose between five and ten manuscripts as finalists to be passed on to the judge for selection of the winning collection.

We ask that former students or colleagues of the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest’s judge—as well as any writer whose relationship with the judge constitutes an unfair conflict of interest—refrain from entering the contest. The Burnside Review staff reserves the right to disqualify entries deemed conflicts of interest and will return those entry fees.

At no time will the judge have the names of the finalists.

Winner will receive 25 copies of the chapbook printed by Burnside Review Press and a cash prize of $200-.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know if the manuscript has been placed elsewhere.

All questions happily answered by e-mail : sid@burnsidereview.org.

Mary Szybist is Assistant Professor of English at Lewis & Clark College, and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of Granted (2003), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She recently received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and is one of two recipients of the 2009 Witter Bynner Award, selected by Poet Laureate Kay Ryan for the Library of Congress.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUB: Switchback Books

Switchback Books

The Gatewood Prize


The Gatewood Prize is Switchback Books' annual competition for a first or second full-length (48-80 pp.) collection of poems by a woman writing in the English language. It is named after Emma Gatewood, the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.

Click here to download our contest flyer [PDF].

 

2011 Judge: Harryette Mullen

 

Reading Period: April 1-June 1, 2011

Harryette Mullen's most recent books are Recyclopedia (Graywolf Press, 2006) and Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California Press, 2002), a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mullen was the 2009 recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Fellowship Award. She teaches African American literature and creative writing in the English Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

 

General Terms:

Poet must be a woman; our definition of "woman" is broad and includes transsexual, transgender, genderqueer, and female-identified individuals.

Multiple submissions are acceptable, but each manuscript must be entered under separate cover and fee.

You must let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted by another publisher while under our consideration.

No revisions to submitted manuscripts will be considered; the winning manuscript may be revised before publication.

Translations ineligible.

Manuscripts by close friends and former students of the judge are ineligible. If the judge would recognize your manuscript for any reason, please wait until next year to enter the contest.

Co-written collections are eligible provided both poets meet all eligibility requirements.

Submissions will be read by Switchback editors and staff members. We will select ten manuscripts to send on to the judge, who will choose the final winner.

Manuscripts remain anonymous until a winner is selected. Please remove any identifying references from your manuscript (including those in the body of the manuscript).

Entries that do not meet these terms may be disqualified. Please email editors at switchbackbooks dot com with any questions.

 

Manuscript Requirements:

Manuscripts should be between 48 and 80 pages, paginated.

Please include a cover page with ONLY the title of the manuscript.

Table of contents recommended.

No acknowledgments page.

 

Notification:

You will be notified of the winner and finalists of the contest via email.

 

Entry Fee:

Option 1: $18 for reading fee only

Option 2: $25 for reading fee and a book of your choice from our catalog (a 50% discount). Please specify which book on the Submishmash form; if you don't specify, we'll send you a random book.

All payments will be accepted via Submishmash. We do not accept cash, checks, or money orders.

 

Submission Format:

Please visit our page at Submishmash to submit your manuscript:

http://switchbackbooks.submishmash.com/submit

 

Deadline:

Manuscripts will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. on June 1, 2011.


We recommend that you familiarize yourself with our aesthetics before submitting a manuscript to our contest. You can do this by reading sample poems on our website, or checking out the work of previous contest winners and finalists:

 

 

 

2010 Gatewood Prize Results

 

2008 Gatewood Prize Results

 

2007 Gatewood Prize Results

 

2006 Gatewood Prize Results

Donations always appreciated!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ECONOMICS: In 12 Years, Income For Richest 400 Americans Quadruples, Tax Rate Nearly Halved > ThinkProgress

REPORT: In 12 Years, Income For Richest 400 Americans Quadruples, Tax Rate Nearly Halved

New data released by the IRS reveals that, over a period of 12 years, tax rates for the richest 400 Americans were effectively cut in half. In 1995, the richest 400 Americans paid, on average, 29.93% of their income in federal taxes. In 2007, the last year for which the IRS has released data, the richest 400 Americans paid just 16.63%.

 

 

In 1995, just 12 of the 400 richest Americans paid an effective tax rat of between zero and 15%. By 2007, that number skyrocketed to over 150. The massive reduction is due to both Bush-era tax reductions for the wealthy and the aggressive exploitation of tax dodges and shelters. (For details, check out this report from BusinessWeek.)

As their tax rates plummeted, the total income of the richest 400 Americans skyrocketed. In 1995, the combined income of the richest 400 was just over $6 billion. By 2007, the combined income of the richest 400 was almost $23 billion.

 

 

If the richest 400 Americans simply paid the same effective rate in 2007 as they did in 1995, the government would have collected over $3 billion in additional revenue. Some millionaires agree that the reduction has been unfair and have formed a group, Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, to demand higher taxes.

 

INFO: ARC Magazine, Volume II > Repeating Islands

GO HERE FOR PDF EXCERPTS FROM ARC MAGAZINE

 

ARC Magazine announces the release of its second volume, which presents a collection of works by contemporary artists practicing in the Caribbean and its diaspora. Featured artists from Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, St. Lucia, Haiti and Jamaica represent a variety of media including photography, film, painting, drawing, graphic design, illustration, performance and sculpture. ARC Magazine is a quarterly, independent visual arts magazine made possible by the subscription and support of its readers. ARC is “a projected motion that ascends, moves outward and beyond into a space of curiosity.” [Also see previous post ARC: New Art Magazine Launched.] The editors explain:

Issue II brings together the work of Andrea Chung, a Jamaican visual artist, who takes an ironic look at tourism and its neo-constructs in the Caribbean. Writer and critic Annie Paul has partnered with Chung to bring a haunting vision to life. A Hand Full of Dirt, the first feature by Barbadian filmmaker Russell Watson, is broken down to its core, and writer/filmmaker Tracy Assing examines funding and organizational structures in place to bring Caribbean filmmaking into 2011. Dalton Narine’s occupation with Peter Minshall’s practice presents a poetic revelation of an artist who for decades lost himself in his creations. Detailing Minshall in his incompleteness and genius, Narine provokes, tempts and enchants us with the power of mas.

Featured artist Brianna McCarthy’s collage and paper constructions strive to redefine our views of the Afro-Caribbean woman; working within repetition and beauty she constructs patterns that challenge the notions of its definition. Haitian artist Manuel Mathieu’s oeuvre is in the making and we expose it, where all good fictions, narratives and observations start, at the beginning. His paintings and drawings embrace a chaos and disorder, and memory, colliding with form. Dhiradj Ramsamoedj’s “Flexible Man” is scrutinized on its metal frame where he gently rocks. Its delicate costuming tells a story of the fierce hybridization of the Caribbean’s multiple cultures through an interweaving of languages and histories, his coat demanding attention and observation – delicate in its beauty – jovial and celebratory in its masquerade.

This collection makes visible these boundaries and the contemporary reality of globalization and its effects on our simultaneously expanding and narrowing fields of perception. Migration, tourism, hybridization, race, the landscape and gender are all referenced in the edition to define a space and a culture that cannot be simplified. The impossibility to make declarations on how to negotiate and reconcile loss, permission and ownership are peripheral spaces that are exposed with full understanding of accountability. We are attempting to understand our dispersal and the potential of ARC’s collective ideologies and content. Larger ideas of supporting emerging artists throughout the duration of their careers will be our first step in defining the collaborative space we occupy.

For more information you may contact Holly Bynoe at holly@arcthemagazine.com and Nadia Huggins at nadia@arcthemagazine.com

 

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Two Vincentians—Holly Bynoe, a visual artist and Nadia Huggins, a digital photographer—have just released the inaugural issue of ARC, a quarterly produced 80-page magazine focusing on works by contemporary artists practicing in the Caribbean and its diaspora. Featured artists from Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, St. Lucia, Dominica, Haiti, and Jamaica, represent a variety of media, including photography, film and video, painting, graphic illustration, mixed media, performance and poetry.

Bynoe and Huggins explain that ARC, as an acronym, refers to Art, Recognition, and Culture, but, they say, “we prefer to refer to it as a projected motion that goes up, out and beyond into a space of curiosity.” 

Description: ARC presents a formula, an experiment, an imaginative body of curatorial work, which shows the trajectory and the motion of artists who practice within a contemporary space that has become scattered and nebulous, one without boundaries. Within their collective networks, they are finding it necessary to make the common man and the aficionado aware of possibilities in art, its evolution, trends and ‘personalities’. They also feel the need to provide a forum that celebrates creativity, its determination, dialogue and pleasure. It is their hope to inspire and give voice to a new generation of independent, emerging artists who remain fearless while battling the parts, fractions and whole of their varied cultures. ARC gives permission to artists to negotiate their own space by offering a neutral ground that permits discourse.

ARC frames its content in sections: SPOTLIGHT highlights emerging artists; 24FPS presents a survey of established and experimental filmmakers; THE GRADIENT features conversations between artists; and COLLECTIONS showcases the portfolios of three artists.

With this collection and philosophy in mind, ARC demonstrates the rich and dynamic undercurrents of the current generation of contemporary Caribbean artists and their global experiences.  ARC Magazine—an independent visual arts quarterly, made possible by the subscription and support of its readers—will unveil a host of engaging features, interviews and portfolios in its upcoming issues.

Launchings for ARC will take place in January and February in New York City, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and will be available online, in select bookstores and other outlets.

For more information you may contact Holly Bynoe at holly@arcthemagazine.com and Nadia Huggins at nadia@arcthemagazine.com.

You can visit the magazine site at www.arcthemagazine.com

 

via repeatingislands.com

 

VIDEO: Peter Abrahams Documentary > UWI-TV

Peter Abrahams photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1955

 

Peter Abrahams (born March 3, 1919) is a South African novelist.

 

His father was from Ethiopia and his mother was classified by South Africa as a mixed race person, a "Kleurling" or Coloured. He was born in Vrededorp, nearby Johannesburg, but left South Africa in 1939. He worked first as a sailor, and then as a journalist in London, at which time, he lived with his wife, Daphne, at Loughton. Whilst in London, he met several important black leaders and writers, such as Jomo Kenyatta. He then settled in Jamaica in 1956.[1]

 

One of South Africa's most prominent writers,[2] his work deals with political and social issues, especially with racism. His novel, Mine Boy (1946), one of the first works to bring him to critical attention,[3] and his memoir Tell Freedom (1954)[4] deal in part with apartheid.[5] His other works include the story collection Dark Testament (1942) and the novels The Path of Thunder (1948), A Wreath for Udomo (1956), A Night of Their Own (1965), the Jamaica-set This Island Now (1966, the only one of his novels not set in Africa) and The View from Coyaba (1985). He also wrote This Island Now, which speaks to the ways power and money can change most people's perspectives.

Works

  • Mine Boy (1946)
  • The Path of Thunder (1948)
  • Wild Conquest (1950)
  • Tell Freedom (1954)
  • A Wreath for Udomo (1956)
  • A Night of Their Own (1965)
  • This Island Now (1966)
  • The View from Coyaba (1985)
  • Lights Out (1994)
  • The Fan (1995)
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VIDEO: “Remixed & Remastered: Defining & Distributing The Black Image In An Era Of Globalization > Shadow and Act

Watch:

"Remixed & Remastered:

Defining & Distributing

The Black Image

In An Era Of Globalization"

Most of you will recall that a couple of weeks ago, I was involved in a 2-day conference at the New School here in NYC, titled Remixed And Remastered: Defining And Distributing The Black Image In An Era Of Globalization.

I was a panelist on the Who gets to tell the story? Representation, appropriation and distribution of the Black Image panel, and was joined by scholars Tracyann Williams (moderator), Pearl Bowser, Fabio Parasecoli, and Raquel Gates, as well as director, producer and writer Frances Anne Solomon.

Every panel at the conference was recorded, and have now been made available for viewing online. I’ve embed the recording of the panel I was on below, which was about an hour long; and, by the way, you can watch the rest of the series via the New School’s YouTube channel HERE):

 

VIDEO: Round 1 of the Shadow and Act Filmmaker Digital Showcase Has Begun! Watch & Vote! > Shadow and Act

Round 1 of the Shadow and Act Filmmaker Digital Showcase Has Begun! Watch & Vote!

Initially announced on the old S&A website, on March 4th… the Shadow And Act Debuts New Digital Filmmaker Showcase, an alliance with CEI Media Partners.

After about a month of receiving submissions, the time has come for the next phase of the competition to begin; and this is the part where YOU all come in.

Feel free to read the instructions below. Otherwise… first watch the 11 short films that follow; and after that, (CLICK HERE TO VOTE) for the films that you like the best. That’s it! Easy enough right?

As a refresher… the gist of it… the Showcase is an online short film competition where viewers vote for their favorite films and the winning filmmakers receive cash prizes. Each of the 5 (1 every 2 months) qualifying round winner receives $1,000; final round grand prize winner receives an additional $4,000. Winners will be determined by the number of votes they receive in each round. Among non-winning entries, one film will be announced as the popular winner at the end of the season based on cumulative votes received and awarded $1,000. Crucial submission criteria: films had to feature a protagonist of African descent and themes reflective of the African Diaspora experience.

If you’d like to read all the details you can download the FAQs in PDF format HERE.

Otherwise… first watch the 11 short films below; and after that, follow the link (HERE) to the survey page to cast your votes for the films that you like the best. That’s it! Easy enough right?

So, without further ado, here are the 11 inaugural Shadow And Act Filmmaker Digital Showcase films (in alphabetical order):

Break-In:

<p>Break-In from Clarendon Entertainment on Vimeo.</p>

Casting Notice:

<p>Casting Notice (Short Film) from Marcus Thomas on Vimeo.</p>

Cocoa Love:

<p>Cocoa Love from Clarendon Entertainment on Vimeo.</p>

Dark Secret:

<p>Dark Secret from Clarendon Entertainment on Vimeo.</p>

Grace Period:

<p>Grace Period from Clarendon Entertainment on Vimeo.</p>

In The Wind:

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Loo$e ¢hange:

<p>Loo$e Change from Clarendon Entertainment on Vimeo.</p>

Lovers:

<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/22107298">
The Man In the Glass Case:
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/22062190">

Their Eyes Were Watching Gummy Bears:

<p>Their Eyes Were Watching Gummy Bears from Clarendon Entertainment on Vimeo.</p>

Thursday:

<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/22107465">

 

VIDEO: Des'ree - Morning Motivation: Sharing Your Anthem > Clutch Magazine

Morning Motivation: Sharing Your Anthem

Tuesday May 3, 2011 – by Leslie Pitterson

Every woman has it.  The song that comes on and makes them feel like the person they know they need to be.  Mine?  It’s “You Gotta Be” by Des’ree.  A track that I first heard watching The Karate Kid. You know the original one, not the one that became Jaden Smith’s big payday.  And I haven’t stopped loving it since.

Now, anyone that knows me can testify, that there is no traffic jam too long, no stretch of highway too wide that can keep me from turning the volume dial in my car all the way up when this song comes on.  In fact, when it came time for my graduation from high school, the video collage my father put together started out with these familiar lines.

Listen as your day unfolds, challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
Lovers, they may cause you tears
Go ahead release your fears, stand up and be counted
Don’t be ashamed to cry
You gotta be
You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser
You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger
You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day

 

Listening to the lyrics of this song always gets me going because it feels like morning every time I hear them float into the air.  The music makes me feel new and makes me want to make everything I touch and anyone I come across feel as loved and better.  And it’s definitely what I will be blasting at least until noon.

Today, share with us the song that makes you feel open to this world.  Clutchettes, what’s your anthem- what song would you choose to wake up to everyday?