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Make a Gift to the Arts & Letters
Endowment Arts & Letters Editorial Staff Learn about the MFA Program
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Can Poetry Matter? In a new on-line supplement to Arts & Letters called Poetry Matters, editor Martin Lammon answers this question and addresses issues, news,
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ZZ Packer will judge the 2008 Arts & Letters Fiction prize. She
will also visit GCSU as part of the MFA Program’s 2008-2009 Visiting
Writers Series Spring
Arts & Letters Prize program, featuring our Creative Nonfiction winner
Julie Wan and Drama winner Glenn Altermann is March
14. See
the GCSU Creative Writing Program calendar for
details. Dates
for programs featuring our 2008 prize winners have not yet been set, but
winners will be brought to the GCSU campus in Milledgeville, Georgia
(expenses paid) to receive their prizes and participate in programs featuring
their work. Usually, the poetry and fiction prize winners come in November
and the drama and creative nonfiction winners come in March. Look for
details, fall 2008! |
2008
Arts & Letters Prizes Final Judges Announced! Fiction ZZ
Packer, author of Drinking Coffee
Elsewhere Arts & Letters/Rumi
Prize in Poetry Michael
Waters, author Darling Vulgarity:
Poems Arts & Letters/Susan Atefat Prize In Creative Nonfiction Dinty
W. Moore, author of Between Panic
and Desire Drama Jeffrey Sweet, author of Porch and other plays For more
information on the 2008 contest, visit the web page for the Annual
Prizes Competition. The 2008 Arts
& Letters Prizes postmark deadline will be Monday, March 17, 2008. 2007
Arts & Letters Prizes Congratulations to the winners of our 2007 Arts & Letters Prizes. Click here for a
complete listing of the 2007 Arts &
Letters Prizes 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
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Issue 18 cover art by
Rob Amberg |
Our current
issue, Arts & Letters #18, features
an interview with poet X. J. Kennedy. The issue also includes poetry by Irene
McKinney, Opal Moore, Alan Williamson, and others; essays by Donald Morrill,
Scott Russell Sanders, and others; fiction by Christine Hale, Andrew Malan Milward, and R. T. Smith; and the 2007 Arts & Letters
Prizes for fiction (Robert Drummond, selected by final judge Robert Boswell),
and for poetry (Greg Rappleye, selected by A. Van
Jordan); and much more. Please note
that our new regular submission period is September 1 through March
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Susan Atefat-Peckham (1970-2004) |
New
Name for the Arts & Letters Poetry Prize The editors
announce the Arts & Letters/Rumi Prize in
Poetry, named for the great Persian poet in honor of the late Susan Atefat-Peckham. New Arts & Letters
Creative Nonfiction Prize This year our
editors have announced the Art & Letters/Susan Atefat
prize in Creative Nonfiction, to be endowed by Susan’s parents. This
prize has been named after our late friend and colleague Susan Atefat-Peckham, former poetry editor and professor in the
GCSU MFA program. Our prizes are
made possible by generous gifts to the Arts & Letters Endowment which is administered by
the GCSU Foundation. |
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Issue 10 |
Arts & Letters, beginning with the fall 2007 issue,
will be distributed nationally by Ubiquity Distributors. If you are
interested in purchasing a subscription to Arts & Letters, please visit our Subscriptions and Sales page. Special Offer on Back Issues of Arts
& Letters: Order
a recent issue (#17 or #18) for $5 plus $1 for postage and handling and
receive a back issue (#2 to #16) free.
See Back Issues to decide
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Arts & Letters accepts submissions
from September 1 to March 1 (postmark deadlines). For complete information, see submission guidelines. |