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	Leslie Ullman	Arts & Letters congratulates Leslie Ullman (for her poem “Mind Returns to Find Itself Absent”) and Mimi Schwartz (for her essay “Telling the Truth That Matters”) whose works were nominated for the Pushcart Prize Anthology to be published in November 2009. Both works were published in Arts & Letters #20 (fall 2008). Leslie was one of our contributors (along with Michael Waters and Fleda Brown) who read from their work at the Arts & Letters Tenth Anniversary celebration in Chicago at the AWP annual national conference. Creative nonfiction writers, teachers, and students may read Schwartz’s essay here.
		Arts & Letters 2009 Prizes Competition: NEW! International Authors: Please note changes to our prizes competition submission guidelines! Submission deadline for competition is March 16, 2009.
	Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Fire: New and Selected Poems, among others. Marc Fitten, author of the novel Valeria’s Last Stand, Paul Lisicky, author of the memoir Famous Builder, among other books of fiction and nonfiction. 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 McIvor-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 2009 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 2009 Arts & Letters Prizes postmark deadline was Monday, March 16, 2009. 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.”
	Cover art for issue 19 by Rob Amberg	Submit to Arts & Letters The regular submission period for Arts & Letters is September 1 through March 1. We are will be asking for work for the Spring 2010 and Fall 2010 issues of Arts & Letters.
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Arts & Letters accepts submissions from September 1 to March 1 (postmark deadlines). For complete information, see submission guidelines.