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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:
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Submit up to three unpublished poems (100 line limit for each) or one unpublished short story (5000 word limit), any subject, any style, postmarked between July 15 and October 10, 2012.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.
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Submit up to three unpublished poems (100 line limit for each) or one unpublished short story (5000 word limit), any subject, any style, postmarked between July 15 and October 10, 2012.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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