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The 2008 Arts & Letters Prizes
competition will
accept submissions from January 1 to March 17th (postmark deadline). Please check back for information on final
judges. 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 2007 Arts & Letters Prizes
Competition winners
have been selected. We would like to thank
our judges for their participation. The 2007 judges were: In Poetry: A. Van Jordan In Fiction: Robert Boswell In Drama: Michael
Wright NEW! In Creative Nonfiction: Jeanette Walls The 2007 Arts & Letters Prize
winners in Fiction and Poetry will be featured at a special program on
November 9, 2006. If you are interested in attending this event at Click here for more
information on our 2007 finalists and winners. New Name
for 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 will endow a new prize, 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.
All contestants receive a $15
one-year subscription to the journal (2 issues), which is exactly the cost of
the reading fee. 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. |