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The 2012 Joy Harjo Poetry Award & the Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award:
For more information call 1-970-903-7914 or email us @ cutthroatmag@gmail.com
    

Mail manuscripts to: 
 
CUTTHROAT Literary Award
(specify genre)
P.O. Box 2414
   Durango, CO 81302
 
             **First Prize in each genre: $1250 and publication.**
             **Second Prize in each genre: $250 and publication. **
                          **Honorable Mention:  Publication.**
            SUBMISSIONS TO OUR 2011 CONTESTS ARE NOW CLOSED.
                                           2012 JUDGES:
                          LINDA GREGERSON, Joy Harjo Poetry Prize
                  CHARLES BAXTER, Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Prize

Submit up to three unpublished poems (100 line limit for each) or one unpublished short story (5000 word limit), any subject, any style, postmarked between July 15 and October 10, 2012.  Winners announced in late December  2011. BY MAIL:  Author name must not appear anywhere on manuscript.  Include a cover sheet with name, address, phone, email, genre and title(s) submitted. Writer MUST include a SASE for announcement of winners. A stamped postcard for receipt of ms. is optional.  Manuscripts must be in 12    point font. All paper manuscripts are recycled.  Submit as often as you wish 
    (online and mail). Simultaneous
submissions are accepted as long as author
         informs us
immediately should a piece be accepted elsewhere.  There is a
           
$17.00 nonrefundable reading fee per submission (1 story or 3 poems)
              for mailed entries.  Make checks
payable to Raven's Word Writers
               Center.  ONLINE ENTRIES: Do not include a cover sheet.  NO  
                AUTHOR NAME ON MS!  There is a $17 entry fee. You will be 
               instructed how to pay this by our submission service.
Fiction entries 
              must be double-spaced.
No relatives of or employees of CUTTHROAT,
             no friends or students of judges are eligible for these prizes. No stories
          or poems that have been published or have won contests are eligible.
All
     finalists are acknowledged in CUTTHROAT and considered for publication.  Winners are announced in POETS & WRITERS, WINNING WRITERS and the AWP Chronicle.
THANK YOU TO ALL WRITERS WHO SUBMITTED LAST YEAR.
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