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WINTER CONTEST
THE MATT CLARK PRIZE
New Delta Review is proud to announce
the 2010 winners of the Matt Clark Prize:
Fiction: David James Poissant “The Husband”
Poetry: Sharon Charde “The Story”
featured in the upcoming Spring Issue
New Delta Review 27.1
Poetry Judge: Jennifer L. Knox
from her web site:
Jennifer L. Knox's new book, The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, is forthcoming
in Fall 2010 from Bloof Books. Her other books, Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me, are also available through Bloof.
Jennifer was born in Lancaster, California—home to Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart,
and the Space Shuttle. She received her B.A. from the University of Iowa, and her M.F.A. in poetry writing from New York University. She has taught poetry writing
at Hunter College and New York University.
Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 1997, 2003 and 2006, Best American Erotic Poems, Great American Prose Poems: From Poet to Present, and
Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books.
Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Fence, Ploughshares, Verse
and others.
Fiction Judge: George Singleton
from his web site:
George Singleton has published short stories in a variety of magazines and journals including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Playboy, Zoetrope, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, North American Review, Fiction International, Epoch, Esquire.com, New England Review, Carolina Quarterly, Greensboro Review, Arkansas Review, American Literary Review, and so on. His stories have been anthologized in eight issues of New Stories from the South, and also in 20 Over 40, Surreal South, Writers Harvest 2, They Write Among Us, and Behind the Short Story. His non-fiction has appeared in Bark and Oxford American, and has been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2005, Dog is My Co-Pilot, and Howl. He has published four collections of stories: These People Are Us, The Half-Mammals of Dixie, Why Dogs Chase Cars, Drowning in Gruel; and two novels: Novel and Work Shirts for Madmen.
George was born in Anaheim, California and lived there until he was seven. He grew up in Greenwood, South Carolina. He graduated from Furman University in 1980 with a degree in philosophy, and from UNC-Greensboro with an MFA in creative writing. Singleton has taught English and fiction writing at Francis Marion College, the Fine Arts Center of Greenville County, and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. He has been a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina and UNC-Wilmington, and has given readings and taught classes at a number of universities and secondary schools.
His papers are reposited at the Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Pickens County, South Carolina, with the clay artist Glenda Guion and a number of stray dogs and one cat.
About the Prize:
Named for Matt Clark, beloved teacher and coordinator of creative writing at Louisiana State University, who died of colon cancer at the age of 31, the Matt Clark Prize literary competition awards achievement in both fiction and poetry.
Prize: $250 in each genre and publication in New Delta Review. Finalists will also be considered for publication.
Deadline: February 5th, 2010 (postmark date)
$10 submission fee includes option to purchase discounted one-year subscription to New Delta Review for an additional $10.
Submit:
• previously unpublished short story or maximum 5 poems
• completed entry form/title page with all contact information
• $10 entry fee
to:
Matt Clark Fiction/Poetry Prize
New Delta Review
Department of English
15 Allen Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5001
Unlimited submissions are welcome; each submission must be accompanied by $10 fee.
Simultaneous submissions with notification are welcome.
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FALL CONTEST
New Delta Review is proud to announce
the 2009 winner of the Nonfiction Contest:
Bobbie Darbyshire “Beads on a string”
Attention, nonfiction writers!
Announcing the 2009 New Delta Review Creative Nonfiction Contest
Judge: Peggy Shinner
“Nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and, often, more accessible." –Lee Gutkind
We agree. NDR seeks pieces that activate the compelling bits of “real” life. We welcome hybrid essays, ones that expose the insides of things to risk making language do new things. Personal essays are welcome, too. Use a slice of memoir, but use also a dose of self-awareness. Autobiographical moments which are digested and used to engage the reader, not prove something to the reader, delight us.
Prize: $150 and publication in New Delta Review. Finalists will be considered for publication.
$10 submission fee includes option to purchase discounted two-issue subscription to NDR for an additional $10.
Submit:
• previously unpublished nonfiction piece (up to 4,000 words)
• completed entry form/title page with all contact information
• $10 entry fee postmarked by December 7th
to:
Nonfiction Editor/2009 Nonfiction Contest
New Delta Review
Department of English
15 Allen Hall
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5001
Unlimited submissions are welcome; each submission must be accompanied by $10 fee.
Simultaneous submissions with notification are welcome.
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About the judge: Peggy Shinner's stories and essays have appeared in The Southern Review, Daedalus, The Gettysburg Review, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Western Humanities Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Bloom, River Styx, and others. One of her stories, “Jack’s Things, ” was selected as one of the 100 Distinguished Stories in the Best American Short Stories 2007. She's been awarded two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships, several Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, and residencies at the Ucross and Ragdale Foundations. Her work has been anthologized in Chick-Lit: On the Edge: New Women's Fiction Anthology and Her Face in the Mirror. Currently, she's working on a book of essays about the body.
