Bellingham Review 2010 Contests
The following awards are offered once a year by the Bellingham Review.
The 49th Parallel Award for Poetry
1st Prize: $1,000
Final Judge: Allison JosephThe 49th Parallel is the nickname for the US/Canada border that stretches from Washington State to Minnesota. Bellingham, Washington, the home of Western Washington University and theBellingham Review lies just shy of the border.
The Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction
1st Prize: $1,000
Final Judge: Rebecca McClanahanBorn April 30, 1945, Annie Dillard is best known for her nature-themed writing. She has explored her past and present dealings with nature through poetry, essays and novels. Often compared to Thoreau and other transcendentalist writers, Dillard is unique in her defiance of any strict categorization. As she examines the natural world, her subjects move between wildlife, God and the human condition. Among the nine book-length publications Dillard has published over the past twenty years, her use of multiple genres allows her to seamlessly move from Virginia creeks, to the Puget Sound, to the Galapagos Islands.s
The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction
1st Prize: $1,000
Final Judge: Jess WalterBorn in 1945 in Alabama, Wolff has been regarded as the master of memoir and short stories. His best known work, This Boy's Life, recounts the story of his early childhood years in the Northwest and was the basis for a 1993 motion picture starring Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio. A three-time winner of the O. Henry Award, Tobias Wolff is celebrated for his collections of short stories, novels, and memoirs. Wolff's second collection of short stories,Back in the World (1985), was hailed as a sensitive work of fiction focusing primarily on the experiences of returning Vietnam veterans. In literary circles, Wolff is revered as much as a teacher as he is as a writer. After completing a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, Wolff served as the Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at that institution (1975-1978). He later spent 17 years leading the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University (1980-97). In 1997, he returned to Stanford where he currently resides and teaches.
2010 Contest Submission Guidelines
First place winners will be published in the Bellingham Review. Second and third place winners and finalists may be considered for publication.
- Entry Fees:
- $18 for the first entry in each contest (one essay, one short story, or up to three poems).
- Each additional entry is $10. Please make checks payable to: Bellingham Review. Everyone entering the competition will receive a complimentary subscription to the Bellingham Review.
- INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSIONS: The Bellingham Review is only able to process international money orders made out in US dollars. Please include an extra $10 to cover cost of mailing subscription overseas. If you would like to enter the contest without receiving an international subscription, let us know, and you will owe only the $18 entry fee.
- Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked between Dec. 1, 2009, and March 15, 2010.
- For each entry, submit the following:
- 3" x 5" index card stating the title of the work(s), the category (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry), the author’s name, phone number, address and email. PLEASE MAKE SURE THE WRITING IS LEGIBLE ON THIS CARD! The author's name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript; the index card will serve as the only record of your entry.
- A check for the entry fee(s) made out to Bellingham Review.
- A self-addressed stamped envelope for announcement of winners. Manuscripts will not be returned.
- Maximum length for prose is 8,000 words. No previously published works, or works accepted for publication, are eligible. Work may be under consideration elsewhere, but MUST be withdrawn from the competition if accepted elsewhere for publication. Current students, faculty or staff of WWU are not eligible to enter the contests.
- Send entries to: “Contest Name,” {Insert name of contest}, Bellingham Review, Cashier's Office, Mail Stop 9004--Old Main 245, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9004. Send entries for different contests in separate envelopes, with separate index cards and checks.
- Manuscripts will not be returned. Winners will be announced by July.
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