2010 Burnside Review Poetry Chapbook Competition

Judge: Matthew Dickman

Winner:

Dear Jean Seberg
Alexandra van de Kamp, Port Jefferson, NY

 

Runner-up:

Adam Fell
An Optional Wilderness

 

 

Finalists:

Moving On, Ben Berman
Stranger Animal, Justin Dodd
The Discards from The Dainty, Lisa Horner
A Girl-thief’s Illustrated Primer, Lo Kwa Mei-in
The Viola Player and Other Poems, Adam Zdrodowski

Thank you to everyone who entered this year’s contest. The high number of quality and publishable chapbooks we received was overwhelming. Congratulations to all our finalists. Alexandra van de Kamp’s Dear Jean Seberg, will be published this winter by Burnside Review Press. She will also be awarded the cash prize of two hundred dollars. Matthew Dickman said of the chapbook, “The poems that make up Dear Jean Seberg are dynamic and human. These lyric narratives remind me of the immediacy found in Diane Wakoski and the daily electricity of Frank O’Hara. In a world often distanced by Facebook and text messages, these poems (these epistles) remind us of the humane, ecstatic, world we live in.”

Until next year,

Sid Miller
Editor

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5th Annual Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition

Judge: Kevin Sampsell

We are sponsoring our fifth annual fiction chapbook competition. Winner will receive twenty-five copies and a two hundred dollar cash prize. Competition runs September 15th to December 31st. Winner will be announced approximately March 1st, with publication date set for summer. The same dedication and care will go into the production of the chapbook as with our journal—quality cardstock cover with photography, linen paper, excellent layout. We will make the publication process as cooperative as possible.

Guidelines

Contest runs September 15th-December 31st.

—Up to 10,000 words of fiction. This can be one longer story or multiple shorter pieces. The writer’s name should appear nowhere on the manuscript.
—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 work.

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 December 31st to: Burnside Review Fiction 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 send 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-.

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

Kevin Sampsell lives in Portland, Oregon, where he run the independent Future Tense Press . His newest book is A Common Pornography (HarperCollins).

complete guidelines available at www.burnsidereview.org