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SSM 2010 - Source of Lit - The Collagist

The May issue of The Collagist is up and it has five excellent short stories - four new ones and a reprint classic from Steve Stern!

The Collagist Non-Fiction Contest

The Collagist is pleased to announce its 2010 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by David McLendon.

The contest is open for entries beginning today, March 15^th, 2010, and will take entries until midnight on May 15^th, 2010. Please see below for complete contest rules.

About the Judge

David McLendon is an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow. He is the founder and editor of Unsaid. He divides his time between Ann Arbor and Brooklyn.

Prizes

The contest winner will receive a minimum of $100 and publication in the June 2010 issue of The Collagist. Any finalists passed on to the editors of The Collagist will also be announced alongside the winner and considered for publication in future issues.

Prize money will be paid only to the final winner, and will increase along with the number of submissions, up to maximum of $500, along the following scale:

Up to 100 entries            $100 and publication
101 to 200 entries          $200 and publication
201 to 300 entries          $300 and publication
301 to 500 entries          $400 and publication
401 or more entries        $500 and publication

Fees

$5 for one entry, which will be submitted as an attachment to [email protected] after your PayPal payment has been processed.

All fees will be used to support and promote Dzanc Books' non-profit ventures. As a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, Dzanc Books publishes excellent books of literary fiction through both open submissions and the Dzanc Prize, as well its imprints, Black Lawrence Press, Monkeybicycle, Keyhole Publications, and OV Books. Dzanc is also fully committed to developing educational programs in the schools through its Writers In Residence programs.

Restrictions

Relatives, close friends, and former students of contest judge David McLendon should not enter this contest, and will not be eligible to win in the case of their entry. If such a winner is selected and the guest judge informs us of the prior relationship, the piece will be disqualified and no refund of entry fees will be granted.

You may enter the contest as many times as you like, but each entry will require its own separate entry fee.

To enter, or for more details, click here.

Source of Lit - The Collagist

The February issue of The Collagist is live and has some great material. 

Editor Matt Bell, and his Poetry Editor, Matthew Olzmann, have found another batch of fantastic writing - great short stories, flash fictions, essays (long and short), and poetry, plus some wonderful book reviews and a couple of great excerpts from forthcoming novels! 

I'll not go into author names or details here as the Table of Contents is readily available for you to peruse.  Having spent some time with these words the past few hours though, I can highly recommend you follow the link and spend some time with them yourself!

Source of Lit - The Collagist Blog

Remember to check on in over at The Collagist every day to see what's new on the blog.  In the past few days there have been interviews with Laird Hunt, Jason Bredle, and Elizabeth Crane and a podcast of Angi Becker Stevens reading her recently published story.

Source of Lit - The Collagist

Dzanc Books is pleased to announce the publication of its newest venture: The Collagist, an online literary journal whose debut issue can be read immediately at www.thecollagist.com.  

 

The Collagist is edited by Matt Bell with Matthew Olzmann as Poetry Editor.  The debut issue includes fiction by Chris Bachelder, Kevin Wilson, Kim Chinquee, Matthew Salesses, and Gordon Lish, plus an excerpt from Laird Hunt's forthcoming novel Ray of the Star. Charles Jensen, Oliver de la Paz, and Christina Kallery each contribute several new poems, and Ander Monson and David McLendon offer  unique takes on the personal essay. The Collagist's first book review section includes coverage of Terry Galloway's Mean Little Deaf Queer, Michal Ajvaz's The Other City, and Brian Evenson's Fugue State, as well as a video review of Jonathan Baumbach's You, or the Invention of Memory.

This issue will also extend onto their blog, which will feature interviews with contributors and audio and video readings of work found in the issue, all of which will also be available as a podcast through iTunes. The blog can be found at www.thecollagist.com/wordpress/.