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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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The editors
are currently working to endow the Arts & Letters Prizes in Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. As the
endowment grows, we shall also be able to eventually increase prize money for
the winning authors (currently, $1,000 for each prize). Each year’s
winning works are published in the journal.
The prizes also offer an opportunity that’s rare among literary
competitions: Our winners attend (expenses paid) special programs in their
honor on the GCSU campus and in the Milledgeville community, where they also
give a public reading of their work. If you would
like to know more about the Arts & Letters Prizes endowment and how you
can help, please contact Martin Lammon at the Arts
& Letters office, or if you prefer, contact him directly at his office
phone (478-445-3508) or office email (martin.lammon@gcsu.edu). If you would like to make a gift, just open
and print the gift form.
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Susan Atefat-Peckham 1970-2004 |
New Name
for the Arts & Letters Poetry Prize and a new prize in Creative
Nonfiction. The editors announce the Arts & Letters/Rumi
Prize in Poetry, named for the great Persian poet in honor of our late friend
and colleague Susan Atefat-Peckham, poetry editor and professor in the GCSU
MFA program from 2002-2004. 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
a quote from Rumi, translated by the American poet
Coleman Barks (who is a member of the Arts & Letters editorial advisory
board). In addition, we have created a new prize, thanks to a generous gift
from Susan’s parents, Bahram and Fari Atefat, the Arts &
Letters/Susan Atefat Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Susan and her six-year old son Cyrus died tragically in a February 2004
car accident while she was living in Jordan on a Fulbright fellowship. Even though she was only 33 years-old, she
had accomplished so much as a poet and as a mentor to her students and
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To make a gift, follow the link below, print the gift form, and send
with your gift to the Arts & Letters office. Would you like to attend the fall 2005 (poetry and fiction) or spring
2006 (drama) Arts & Letters Prizes events? Follow this link: Visiting Writers |
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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. |