September Submissions (Part 2!)

American Literary Review

The American Literary Review's 2011 Literary Awards deadline is looming! Submit your best original fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction by October 1 to be considered. The contest guidelines are below, but please feel free to visit the American Literary Review<http://www.engl.unt.edu/alr/index.html> website and peruse the contest guidelines<http://www.engl.unt.edu/alr/contest.html> there as well.

CONTEST GUIDELINES

• Please note that we do not accept submissions via email.
• Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in the Spring 2012 issue of the American Literary Review will be given for a poem, a short story, and an essay.
• Submit up to three poems, a short story of up to 8,000 words, or an essay of up to 6,500 words with a $15 entry fee by October 1, 2011. Entries submitted after October 1 will be returned unread.

THE DETAILS
Include a cover page with author's name, title(s), address, and phone number. Do not include any identifying information on subsequent pages except for the title of the work.
Enclose a $15.00 reading fee (includes subscription) and a SASE for contest results. Multiple entries are acceptable; however each entry must be accompanied by a reading fee. (Note: only the initial entry fee includes a subscription. Subsequent entry fees go to contest costs only and will not extend the subscription.) Make checks payable to American Literary Review.

Short Fiction: One work of fiction per entry ($15), limit 8,000 words per work.
Creative Nonfiction: One work per entry fee, limit 6,500 words per work.
Poetry: Entry fee covers up to three poems (i.e. one to three poems would require an entry fee of $15; four to six poems would be $30, and so on).
Label entries according to contest genre and mail to ALR's regular submission address:
For example:
American Literary Review Short Fiction Contest
P.O. Box 311307
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-1307

Catch-Up

We at Catch Up have an exciting upcoming issue we think might be perfect for your students and recent alumin. The issue will feature work from writers of a college and graduate school age. Catch Up is a new journal of literature and comics, a print journal with an online aspect.

We’re open to submissions, in general, but we’re also accepting submissions for a special online issue for emerging writers. This issue invites submissions from people between the ages of 20 and 28, who have not previously published a chapbook or full-length book. These writers do not have to be students of creative writing to submit. We will consider unpublished and previously published work (assuming the rights have reverted back to the writer). There are more details at our website http://www.catch-up.us.

Missouri Review

The Missouri Review is now accepting submissions for the 21st Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize competition. In addition to the $15,000 awarded to the first place winners, three finalists in each category receive cash awards and are considered for publication. Past winners have been
reprinted in the Best American series.

Page Restrictions
Fiction and nonfiction entries should not exceed 25 typed, double-spaced pages. Poetry entries can include any number of poems up to 10 pages. Each story, essay, or group of poems constitutes one entry.

Entry Fee
$20 for each entry (checks made payable to The Missouri Review). Each fee includes a one-year subscription (digital or print!) to TMR. Please enclose a complete email and mailing address.

Entry Instructions
Include author’s name, address, email and telephone number on the first page of each submission. Entries must be previously unpublished and will not be returned. Mark
the outside of the envelope “Fiction,” “Essay,” or “Poetry.” Each entry in a separate category must be mailed in a separate envelope. Enclose a #10 SASE or email address for an announcement of winners.

Mailing Address
Missouri Review Editors’ Prize
357 McReynolds Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

We Also Accept Online Submissions!
For details, visit www.missourireview.com/tmrsubmissions/editors-prize-contest/

Toad (The Journal)

Hear ye! Hear ye!

Toad, a new-ish online journal of exciting art, is reading poetry, prose of the fictional and the non-fictional variety, ekphrastic work, and all kinds of writing that stretches, bends, and breaks genres. Toad is also in the market for exciting visual art.

To read our third issue, wade into our artistic response blog, or review submission guidelines, visit

www.toadthejournal.com

{Toad's habitat is protected by conservationist, Bob Hicok, and nourished by the Creative Writing graduate students of Virginia Tech.}