Topic: February 2005
Just a week remains to get your submissions in for the PERIPHERY flash fiction/prose poem contest! Theme for 2005: PERIPHERY 3 ~"Reasonable Facsimiles: Twins, Mirrors and Doppelgangers."
Postmark deadline: February 15, annually. Winner and honorable mentions published in Periphery, released August 1 annually.
Prize: $50, 3 copies of collectible print zine and publication. All manuscripts also considered for general publication in Margin (www.magical-realism.com). Sim subs okay with notification, but entry fee nonrefundable. Previously published okay; please credit first publisher in cover letter. Entries not returned.
Entry fee: $7.50 covers up to 5 poems or short shorts (each 500 words or less); additional submissions, $2 each. Make checks payable to Tamara Kaye Sellman. Proceeds go to produce the August collector's edition of Periphery and to pay the prize. Judged blind by staff. See general guidelines at the website (www.angelfire.com/wa2/margin/contests.html) for complete details. Questions:
magicalrealismmaven@yahoo.com (no electronic submissions, please)
Winner of the 2004 PERIPHERY contest, "The Living Landscape" ~ Marjorie Manwaring of Seattle, WA for her prose poem, "Sculptor."
Not sure what magical realism is, or aren't certain you can differentiate a prose poem from a flash fiction? Kill two birds with one stone! Buy the 2004 edition, PERIPHERY 2: THE LIVING LANDSCAPE for $5 and see what we're all about! Make checks payable to Tamara Kaye Sellman.
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