Enter Crab Creek Review's 2012 Poetry Contest (March 1 - May 31)
Guest Judge: Poet Susan Rich
$200 Prize
Enter up to 3 previously unpublished poems ($10 entry fee)
All entries considered for publication
Email submissions only
Please read our complete contest guidelines:
http://www.crabcreekreview.org/contest.htm
To learn more about Susan Rich, visit our
blog.
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Crab Creek Review Announces Fiction Contest
Winner
Contest judge, Kim Barnes has chosen "The Tenant" by Roger Sheffer as the winner of Crab Creek Review's 2011 Fiction
Contest. About her decision to choose "The Tenant", Kim Barnes writes,
"The best fiction takes us to that strange
place where we have never been but instantly
recognize as familiar, and Roger Sheffer's "The
Tenant" is just that kind of story: peculiar,
fascinating, and, finally, heartbreaking in its
portrayal of our need to control the chaos of
emotion and vulnerability when what we desire
most of all is the courage to belong."
Roger Sheffer has been teaching writing at Minnesota State
Mankato since 1980. His most recent book publication is the story
collection Music of the Inner Lakes (New Rivers). His stories
have appeared in The Missouri Review, Northwest Review, Third Coast,
Fugue, Harpur Palate, and many other magazines. His interests,
beyond writing, include hiking, rowboats, composing music, and choir
singing. About his winning fiction piece, Roger writes, "I was
interested in how the power differential between two characters could
change, during the course of a story. That it began with a cough and
ended with an eviction seemed predestined; hopefully, not too
predictable."
Thank you to contest
judge, Kim Barnes and to our fiction editors, Jen Betterley and
Nancy Canyon. Congratulations, Roger!
Look for "The Tenant" in Crab Creek Review 2012 v.
1, available in spring.
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Crab Creek Review
Announces 2011 Pushcart Nominations and 2011 Editors' Prize
Crab Creek Review has nominated the following poets and
writers for this year's Pushcart Prize:
Fiction:
Hal Ackerman: "The Dancer Horse" 2011 v.I
Poetry:
Sarah Cohen: "Summer Was Made of Clicks and Hisses" 2011 v.2
Katrina Hays: "Peaches" 2011 v.2
Kelley Henry: "Because I Might Need One, Twelve Definitions of Crown"
2011 v.I
Sonja James: "Never Ask a Cloud to Marry You" 2011 v.2
Cindy Stewart-Rinier: "Pre-K Pollock" 2011 v.2
The Co-Editors of Crab Creek Review (Kelli Russell Agodon
and Annette Spaulding-Convy) are awarding the Crab Creek Review
2011 Editors' Prize to Portland, OR poet and MFA
student, Cindy Stewart-Rinier, for her poem, "Pre-K
Pollock" (2011 v.2). Our annual Editors' Prize
is awarded for the best poem, short story, or creative non-fiction
essay published by Crab Creek Review in a given year.
We would like to thank all of our 2011 contributors for the
fantastic work they submitted to us.
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Crab Creek Review's
2011 Poetry Contest: The Winner is Announced!
Thank you to all of the poets who entered Crab Creek
Review's 2011 Poetry Contest and special thanks to our wonderful
judge, Dorianne Laux and to our poetry editor, Lana Hechtman Ayers.
Winner:
"Widowing" by Laura E. Davis.
Honorable Mentions:
"The Contours of the Lake Lost to Cloud" by
Jill Osier
"Boundaries" by Claire Zoghb
"Seeing You" by Maya Jewell Zeller
Finalists:
"Gretel Remembers" by Brent Calderwood
"Fairy Tale" by Rebecca Foust
"Someday My Stomach Will Be a Museum" by Jill
Osier
"Love: Sun::" by Ben Purkert
"Relative Identity" by Cindy Stewart-Rinier
"Elegy/Elk River" by Michael Schmeltzer
"Tautology" by Michael Schmeltzer
"Departure" by John Willson
"Divorce on Mars" by Francine Witte
To read more about the contest results and what Dorianne Laux wrote
about the winning poem, please visit Crab Creek Review's
blog. Look for all of these poems in Crab Creek Review 2012 v.I.
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Crab Creek Review is a Media Sponsor for
the 2011-2012 Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series
Crab Creek Review
is pleased to announce that we are a Media
Sponsor for the Seattle Arts & Lectures Poetry Series. We encourage our Seattle area
subscribers and contributors to support
SAL’s mission of presenting programs that further the arts and
invite cultural dialogue. To learn more about
SAL and to purchase tickets to the
Poetry Series and other events, please visit their website:
http://www.lectures.org.
If you attend the Poetry Series, please stop by the Crab Creek
Review table, browse our current issue, and chat with us. We have
subscription and submission information available, as well as back
issues for sale at a reduced price.
The 2011-2012 SAL Poetry Series:
Oct. 5th: Dorianne Laux
Nov. 6th: Peter Cole, Bill Porter, and Nikolai Popov
Dec. 8th: Terrance Hayes
Feb. 9th: Albert Goldbarth
Mar. 15th: Louise Gluck
Apr. 4th: Troy Jollimore and John Koethe
May 15th: Matthew and Michael Dickman
Hope to see you there!