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The 2010 Arts & Letters
Prizes competition will
accept submissions from January 1 to March 15 (postmark deadline). Please check back for information on final
judges. International
authors: please see new
guidelines relating to submissions
from outside the Submissions
are first reviewed anonymously by the Arts
& Letters editorial staff. The
staff selects our finalists (usually about a dozen or so in each genre) then
sent (again, anonymously) to our final judges. Final judges play no role in this screening
process. Even after we send finalists’
manuscripts, we ask our judges to set aside the manuscript if they have a
strong, personal connection to a writer whose work they’ve recognized. We
also strongly urge writers who have close personal ties to judges not to
submit to our competition. Please do
not write to or contact final judges in any way. If you have any questions, contact the
journal’s editorial staff. Review of
finalists usually concludes in May.
Final judges usually make their decisions in June. If you included a SASE, we will send the
official announcement of winners in July, when we will also list winners and
finalists on our web site. Other
public announcements of winners will also appear later in the AWP Writer’s Chronicle and Poets & Writers. The 2010 Arts & Letters
Prizes Judges have not yet been selected; check back soon! About the Arts & Letters Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Prizes The Arts & Letters/Rumi
Prize in Poetry is named for the great Persian poet, Jelaluddin
Rumi, in honor of our friend and colleague Susan Atefat-Peckham, and her son Cyrus, who died tragically in
a February 2004 car accident. Also in their memory, a generous gift from
Susan’s parents, Bahram and Fari
Atefat have endowed the Arts & Letters/Susan Atefat Prize in Creative Nonfiction, in honor of Susan
and their grandson Cyrus. Of Iranian heritage, Susan was a deeply spiritual
woman who loved Rumi’s poetry. Her National Poetry Series Award-winning
book That Kind of Sleep opens with
this quote from Rumi: |
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If
anyone asks you how
the perfect satisfaction of
all our sexual wanting will
look, lift your face and
say, Like this. When
someone mentions the gracefulness of
the nightsky, climb up on the roof and
dance and say, Like this? If
anyone want to know what “spirit” is, or
what “God’s fragrance” means, lean your head
toward him or her. Keep
your face there close. Like this. From The Essential
Rumi, Translated
by Coleman Barks |
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Learn more about Susan’s life and her work with
Arts & Letters. Since
our first prize competition in 1999, winners have each received
$1,000 and publication in Arts &
Letters. In addition, we have
published many works by authors selected by our final judges for “honorable
mention” (these authors received our normal contributor’s honorarium of $10
per published page, minimum of $50).
In addition, each year we bring our winners to campus where they
receive their prizes and meet the community at All
prizes are privately funded and contestants’ reading fees are never used for
prizes. To help support funding for the prizes, we began
the Arts & Letters Endowments, administered by the editor of Arts & Letters and the Georgia
College & State University Foundation.
If you would like to help us support the prizes, please visit our endowment page. |
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Arts & Letters Campus (478) 445-1289 al@gcsu.edu |
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Arts &
Letters
accepts submissions from September 1 to March 1 (postmark deadlines). For complete information, see submission
guidelines. |