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Attention Poets!

 

 

The submission guidelines for poetry have been updated: please submit no more than 6 poems at any one time. 

 

 

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Arts & Letters 2010 Prizes Competition: NEW!

 

International Authors: Please note changes to our prizes competition submission guidelines!

 

Submission deadline for competition is Monday, March 15, 2010.

 

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Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Fire: New and Selected Poems, among others.

 

 

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Marc Fitten, author of the novel Valeria’s Last Stand,

 

 

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Paul Lisicky, author of the memoir Famous Builder, among other books of fiction and nonfiction.

 

 

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William Missouri Downs, author of Dead White Males, Innocent Thoughts, and other plays.

 

2009 Arts & Letters Prizes Competition Judges

 

Each winner will receive a $1,000 prize, publication in Arts & Letters, and an expenses-paid visit to the GCSU campus to receive the prize and participate in readings and other special events.

 

Rumi Prize for Poetry

Winner: Jennifer Chapis

Honorable Mention: Danielle DeTiberus

Selected by Mark Doty

 

Fiction Prize

Winner: Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Selected by Marc Fitten

 

Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Winner: Josh MacIvor-Andersen

Honorable Mention: Laura Madeline Wiseman

Selected by Paul Lisicky

 

Drama Prize

Winner: Andrew Ade

Honorable Mention: Kevin Snipes

Selected by William Missouri Downs

 

 

For more information on the 2010 competition, visit the web page for the Annual Prizes Competition.

 

Click to See a List of Finalists.

 

The Arts & Letters Prizes in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction are named in honor of Susan Atefat-Peckham and her son Cyrus Atefat-Peckham, who died tragically in a car accident near Amman, Jordan. These prizes are made possible by gifts to Arts & Letters, including a generous gift from Susan’s parents, Bahram and Fari Atefat. To learn more about Susan’s life, please follow this link.

 

The 2010 Arts & Letters Prizes postmark deadline is Monday, March 15, 2010. The submission fee remains $15 (U.S.). Submission fees do not fund our prizes. Our prizes are made possible by generous gifts to the Arts & Letters Endowment administered by the GCSU Foundation.

 

Read Martin Lammon’s Poets & Writers article “One Editor’s Take on Clean Competition.”

 

 

 

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Cover art for issue 19

by Rob Amberg

 

 

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The regular submission period for Arts & Letters is September 1 through March 1. We are will be asking for work for the Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 issues of Arts & Letters.

 

 

 

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Cover art for issue 20

By Margaret McCarthy

 

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Arts & Letters accepts submissions from September 1 to March 1 (postmark deadlines).  For complete information, see submission guidelines.