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Announcing Finalists for the Drunken Boat Poetry Book Contest
Drunken Boat would like to announce the completion of our 2014 Poetry Contest. A big thank you goes out to all the poets who participated, making this event the huge success that it was.
As you can imagine, we received hundreds of entries and the competition was impressive to say the least. Each entry received the intimate attention it deserved, having been read by no less than two discerning readers. Our competition judge Forrest Gander considered this role as both a great privilege and responsibility. Our winner will be announced soon!
The winning manuscript will be launched in 2015 at AWP with a special DB-hosted reading at Honey in Minneapolis. Excerpts from finalist manuscripts will be published in an upcoming DB folio.
Finalists are as follows:
Words on Edge by Michael Leong
If You Love Error So Love Zero by Stephanie Anderson
Nine Dragon Island by Eleanor Goodman
Alias Irene by Elisabeth Murawski
Hospital Series by Diana Thow
My Hypertropes: Twenty-One Minus One Programmed Poems in Translation and Transversion by Amaranth Borsuk
A Skin, Tendered by Haley Larson
The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground by Collier Nogues
My Cage Is the Size of the World: Selected Poems by Catherine Hammond
[It] Incandescent by Amy Pence
KAFKA, OUR ANIMAL by Meredith Stricker.
Thank you for supporting Drunken Boat and for demanding that we toe the line by publishing the very best in American letters. We hope to hear from you all again in the future. For those contest entrants who purchased one of our books, we are currently at work processing orders.
Congrats again to our finalists, and thank you to everyone who supported this contest!
Still time to submit! Check out our poetry book contest and special folios!
Did you know?
We’ve launched our inaugural Drunken Boat poetrybook contest. Drunken Boat seeks entries for our first book contest in poetry, open to any work of poetry in English (hybrid, multi-authored, and translations into English are welcome). Winner receives publication, $500, 20 author copies, a debut reading at AWP and ads in print and online sources. Though we welcome multi-author and translation projects, we can only afford to pay one honorarium (which may be split as authors / translatorsprefer). Drunken Boat books are distributed by SPD. Excerpts from all finalists judged in house by the Drunken Boat staff will be featured in a special folio in an issue of Drunken Boat, international online journal of the arts. Deadline is June 25, 2014. Judge: Forrest Gander. For more information, visit https://drunkenboat.submittable.com/submit/27945.
Got art? Special Call, Poetry Comix folio. We are issuing a special call for comics, animations, video art and illustrations for a special Poetry Comix folio, to be guest-edited by Michael A. Chaney and Marco Maisto. Along with short animations, we are open to static comix (especially comics poetry) as well as more dynamic, web-based and digital graphic novel constructions. Particularly for comics poetry, we are more interested in work that expresses itself as comics and poetry simultaneously, rather than work that merely illustrates a poem. We want work that makes the relationship between language and art more tense than intuitive, more associative than referentially grounded. The potential crossover between literary and visual art is a rich, ever-expanding horizon, and we’d like to capture snapshots of it in this anniversary issue. So please do send us your best work. If you have poetry or flash fiction in the form of comics or a multimedia/animation project, we want to see it! Deadline is May 15, 2014.
Special Call, Affrilachian Arts folio. Drunken Boat is also calling for submissions of literary and artistic pieces created by, or inspired by, voices of color from the Appalachian region for an Affrilachian Arts Folio, to be guest-edited by Kalela Williams. We are especially looking for work that juxtaposes place and displacement, questioning and confronting how one shapes cultural and personal identity within a physical setting. Submissions of prose, poetry, art, or performance-based work (such as spoken word poetry) will be accepted. Deadline is May 15, 2014. Submit previous unpublished (or published in a small circulation print journal) work as a Microsoft Word attachment, or audio/video links, along with a short bio, to paintedplume@gmail.com.
Announcing Hayles & Coover Awards for E-Lit Crit and Works
Hey digital sailors…
The Electronic Literature Organization is proud to announce the ”The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature” and “The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature.” Below is information including guidelines for submissions for each.
http://eliterature.org/2014/04/announcing-elo-prizes-for-best-literary-and-critical-works/
“The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature”
“The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature” is an award given for the best work of criticism, of any length, on the topic of electronic literature. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation from N. Katherine Hayles and others, this $1000 annual prize aims to recognize excellence in the field.
The prize comes with a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level.
Timeline
Call for Nominations: April 15-May 10
Jury Deliberations: May 15-June 10
Award Announcement: ELO Conference Banquet
For more information, contact Dr. Dene Grigar, President, Electronic Literature Organization.
“The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature”
“The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature” is an award given for the best work of electronic literature of any length or genre. Bestowed by the Electronic Literature Organization and funded through a generous donation from supporters and members of the ELO, this $1000 annual prize aims to recognize creative excellence.
The prize comes with a plaque showing the name of the winner and an acknowledgement of the achievement, and a one-year membership in the Electronic Literature Organization at the Associate Level.
Timeline
Call for Nominations: April 19-May 10
Jury Deliberations: May 15-June 10
Award Announcement: ELO Conference Banquet
For more information, contact Dr. Dene Grigar, President, Electronic Literature Organization. dgrigar@mac.com
There is still time to submit for our book contest and special folios!
Check out the following information on our submission opportunities!
- Spring submission period currently open via new Submittable account. Our reading period hasopened via our new submissions platform at Submittable. Though we’ll be charging a nominal fee for this service, we’re promising a much faster turnaround on submissions out of respect to your time and publication goals. The reading period ends May 1, 2014. For more information: https://drunkenboat.submittable.com/
- Launching inaugural Drunken Boat poetry book contest. Drunken Boat seeks entries for our first book contest in poetry, open to any work of poetry in English (hybrid, multi-authored, and translations into English are welcome). Winner receives publication, $500, 20 author copies, a debut reading at AWP and ads in print and online sources. Though we welcome multi-author and translation projects, we can only afford to pay one honorarium (which may be split as authors / translators prefer). Drunken Boat books are distributed by SPD. Excerpts from all finalists judged in house by the Drunken Boat staff will be featured in a special folio in an issue of Drunken Boat, international online journal of the arts. Deadline is June 25, 2014. Judge: Forrest Gander. For more information, visit https://drunkenboat.submittable.com/submit/27945.
- Special Call, Poetry Comix folio. We are issuing a special call for comics, animations, video art and illustrations for a special Poetry Comix folio, to be guest-edited by Michael A. Chaney and Marco Maisto. Along with short animations, we are open to static comix (especially comics poetry) as well as more dynamic, web-based and digital graphic novel constructions. Particularly for comics poetry, we are more interested in work that expresses itself as comics and poetry simultaneously, rather than work that merely illustrates a poem. We want work that makes the relationship between language and art more tense than intuitive, more associative than referentially grounded. The potential crossover between literary and visual art is a rich, ever-expanding horizon, and we’d like to capture snapshots of it in this anniversary issue. So please do send us your best work. If you have poetry or flash fiction in the form of comics or a multimedia/animation project, we want to see it! Deadline is May 15, 2014.
- Special Call, Affrilachian Arts folio. Drunken Boat is also calling for submissions of literary and artistic pieces created by, or inspired by, voices of color from the Appalachian region for an Affrilachian Arts Folio, to be guest-edited by Kalela Williams. We are especially looking for work that juxtaposes place and displacement, questioning and confronting how one shapes cultural and personal identity within a physical setting. Submissions of prose, poetry, art, or performance-based work (such as spoken word poetry) will be accepted. Deadline is May 15, 2014. Submit previous unpublished (or published in a small circulation print journal) work as a Microsoft Word attachment, or audio/video links, along with a short bio, to paintedplume@gmail.com.
Tonight! White Fire: A Midrash Writing Workshop at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education in New York
WHITE FIRE:A MIDRASH WRITING WORKSHOP
with Alicia Ostriker
An opportunity for a one-time workshop with Alicia Ostriker. You don’t need to be Jewish to attend.
Thursday, April 3, 5:00 to 6:30 pm
at
Drisha Institute for Jewish Education
37 West 65th Street, 5th floor
New York, NY 10023
The role of midrash in Jewish tradition is both communal and personal. When we create new midrash in response to our own spiritual and psychic needs, we are simultaneously adding to and transforming the tradition, growing new twigs on the Tree of Life. This generative workshop is designed for writers and artists who seek to explore Torah as a source for their creative projects, as well as for teachers and therapists who may want to learn how to facilitate the creation of midrash by students and clients.
Alicia Ostriker is a poet, critic and midrashist. Twice a finalist for the National Book Award for poetry, she is also the author ofFeminist Revision and the Bible (1992), The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Re-visions (1994) and For the Love of God; the Bible as an Open Book (2007). She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Poetry Society of America, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her poetry has been translated into many languages including Hebrew and Arabic, and has appeared in numerous Jewish anthologies and journals. She received the 2010 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry for The Book of Seventy, and was named in a list of “10 Great Jewish Poets” in Moment. A Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Ostriker teaches a monthly midrash writing workshop in NYC.
WORKSHOP FEE: $20; $10 students
FREE FOR CURRENT DRISHA STUDENTS/ ALUMNAE
For more information, please email Amy Gottlieb: gottlieb36@gmail.com
Drunken Boat Call for Submissions: Comix Folio
Drunken Boat, international online journal of the arts, is pleased to announce a special call for comics, animations, video art, and illustrations to celebrate its 15th anniversary issue, a folio guest-edited by Michael A. Chaney and Marco Maisto.
Along with short animations, we are open to static comix (especially comics poetry) as well as more dynamic, web-based and digital graphic novel constructions. Particularly for comics poetry, we are more interested in work that expresses itself as comics and poetry simultaneously, rather than work that merely illustrates a poem. We want work that makes the relationship between language and art more tense than intuitive, more associative than referentially grounded.
The potential crossover between literary and visual art is a rich, ever-expanding horizon, and we’d like to capture snapshots of it in this anniversary issue. So please do send us your best work. If you have poetry or flash fiction in the form of comics or a multimedia/animation project, we want to see it!
Deadline for submissions 5/1/14.
Are you in Canada? You should be!
The University of Toronto Film Festival happens tonight, March 31, at 6 p.m.
It’s the World Premiere of Vision and Sound: Action Painting Underground, at the University of Toronto Film Festival. Curtains open at 6 p.m. on March 31 at the Hard House Music Room.
The film focuses on the process and evolution of the artist´s paintings throughout the night, and provides a vision of the musically inspired hand in action.
Featuring Artists and Musicians
Noah Zacharin
Cassandra Cronenberg
Jeannette Hicks
Yehudah Cullman
Jesse Barksdale
Eldan Kahan
Melissa Mather
Jaimie McClyment
Mike Evin
Fatemah Alzubairi
Marty Smith
Nik Beat
Roman Smirnov
Sam Rahimi
Eldan Kahan
Melissa Mather
Jaimie McClyment
Mike Evin
Fatemah Alzubairi
Marty Smith
Nik Beat
Roman Smirnov
Sam Rahimi
HEAVY ETHICS:
ames Scott
Romel Reys
Chris Norman
RED BLUE GREEN:
ames Scott
Romel Reys
Chris Norman
RED BLUE GREEN:
Tom Richards
Andrew Pachero
Jay Sussman
and David Swartz
and David Swartz
You heard, right? Submit for our AffrilachianArts Folio by May 15!
Drunken Boat is calling for submissions of literary and artistic pieces created by, or inspired by, voices of color from the Appalachian region for an AffrilachianArts Folio as part of our 15th anniversary celebration issue. We are especially looking for work that juxtaposes place and displacement, questioning and confronting how one shapes cultural and personal identity within a physical setting. Submissions of prose, poetry, art, or performance-based work (such as spoken word poetry) will be accepted. Deadline is May 15, 2014. Submit previously unpublished (or published in a small circulation print journal) work as a Microsoft Word attachment, or audio/video links, along with a short bio, to paintedplume@gmail.com.
Folio Editor:
Kalela Williams.
Williams is currently the coordinator of One Book, One Philadelphia, an eight-week flagship program of the Free Library of Philadelphia. For more information, visit http://libwww.freelibrary.org/onebook/obop14/.
Drunken Boat Book Contest and Submissions Calls
Sitting on some good work? We have several submissions calls in the works, including a call for our brand-new book contest in poetry! See below for ways to get your submission on.
- Send us your work! Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and a brand new translator-focused translation section. The reading period ends May 1, 2014. For more information: https://drunkenboat.submittable.com/
- Got a book? Forrest Gander will be judging Drunken Boat’s inaugural book contest in poetry, open to any work of poetry in English (hybrid, multi-authored, and translations into English). Winner receives publication, $500, 20 author copies, a debut reading at AWP and ads in print and online sources. Deadline isJune 25, 2014. For more information, visithttps://drunkenboat.submittable.com/submit/27945.
- Poetry Comix & Animation Folio. Guest-edited by Michael A. Chaney andMarco Maisto. Along with short animations, we are open to static comix (especially comics poetry) as well as more dynamic, web-based and digital graphic novel constructions. Particularly for comics poetry, we are more interested in work that expresses itself as comics and poetry simultaneously, rather than work that merely illustrates a poem. We want work that makes the relationship between language and art more tense than intuitive, more associative than referentially grounded. Deadline is May 15, 2014.https://drunkenboat.submittable.com/submit/28339
- Affrilachian Arts Folio. Guest-edited by Kalela Williams. We are looking for submissions of literary and artistic pieces created by, or inspired by, voices of color from the Appalachian region. We are especially looking for work that juxtaposes place and displacement, questioning and confronting how one shapes cultural and personal identity within a physical setting. Submissions of prose, poetry, art, or performance-based work (such as spoken word poetry) will be accepted. Deadline is May 15, 2014. Submit previous unpublished (or published in a small circulation print journal) work.https://drunkenboat.submittable.com/submit/28412
We’ll be posting updates along the way on the Drunken Boat blog, Twitter, Facebook, and our brand-new Tumblr account. If you haven’t yet joined us on these social media platforms, get busy!
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