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The 2012 Joy Harjo Poetry Award

& the Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award:

             **First Prize in each genre: $1250 and publication.**

             **Second Prize in each genre: $250 and publication. **

                          **Honorable Mention:  Publication.**

           
                                           2012 JUDGES:

                          LINDA GREGERSON, Joy Harjo Poetry Prize
                  CHARLES BAXTER, Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Prize

Submit up to three unpublished poems (100 line limit each) or one unpublished short story (5000 word limit), any subject, any style, postmarked between July 15 and October 10, 2012.  Winners announced in late December  2012. MAIL:  Author name must not appear anywhere on manuscript.  Include a cover sheet with name, address, phone, email, genre and title(s). MUST include SASE for announcement of winners. A stamped postcard for receipt of ms. is optional.  Manuscripts must be in 12 point font. All paper manuscripts are recycled.  DO NOT STAPLE STORIES OR POEMS!  Submit as often as you wish  (online and
mail). Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as the writer
informs us immediately when a piece is accepted elsewhere.  There is a
$17.00 nonrefundable reading fee per submission (1 story or 3 poems)
for all entries.  Make checks payable to Raven's Word Writers.

ONLINE ENTRIES:  Do not include a cover sheet. AUTHOR  NAME MUST NOT APPEAR ON MS!  There is a $17 entry fee. You will be instructed how to pay this by our submission service. Fiction must be double-spaced. No relatives of or employees of CUTTHROAT, no friends or students of judges are eligible for these prizes. No stories or poems that have been published or have won contests are eligible. All finalists are acknowledged in CUTTHROAT & considered for publication.  Winners announced in POETS & WRITERS, WINNING WRITERS and the AWP Chronicle. THANK YOU TO ALL WRITERS WHO SUBMITTED LAST YEAR.