The 2008 New South Writing Contest Guidelines
Poetry Prize
First Place: $1000
Second Place: $250
Fiction Prize
First Place: $1000
Second Place: $250
Deadline: All entries must be postmarked by March 4, 2008
Reading Fee: $15.00 per entry
Each entry must include the following:
• A check or money order (NO CASH) made payable to GSU (or Georgia State University) for fifteen dollars ($15). Entry fee includes a copy of the Spring / Summer 2008 issue, which will contain the winning entries.
• A cover letter with a 3 to 4-line bio, title(s) of the work submitted, and your name, mailing address, phone number, and email address.
• SASE for result notification. We recycle all manuscripts.
POETRY
• Address poetry submissions to Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Poetry Editor
• Poems must be typed or letter quality printed
• Submit up to three (3) poems per $15 Reading Fee
• All poems must have name, address, phone, and e-mail appearing on each page
FICTION
• Address fiction submissions to Jody Brooks, Fiction Editor
• Manuscripts must be typed or letter quality printed
• Include name, address, phone, email, & word count on the first page of the manuscript only
• Submissions should not exceed 7500 words
• Short-short stories are welcome
• Submit one (1) short story per $15 Reading Fee
While we take the greatest care in handling your entries, we assume no responsibility for lost or damaged manuscripts. Only unpublished work considered. Simultaneous submissions considered with notification. All rights revert to author after publication. Current students, staff, and faculty at Georgia State University are not eligible.
New South publishes quality literary art promoting the work of emerging and established writers. New South holds no subject biases. The staff will select the best work regardless of style or genre.
Send all work to the appropriate editor:
New South
Campus Box 1894
Georgia State University
MSC 8R0322 Unit 8
Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3083
For questions ONLY (no submissions, please):
new_south@langate.gsu.edu
Congratulations to all of our 2007 contest winners and finalists.
2007 Poetry Judge: Jake Adam York
2007 Fiction Judge: Keith Lee Morris
FICTION
First-place
Clifford Garstang, “Nanking Mansion”
Second-place
David Hicks, “It’s Always the Quiet Ones”
Honorable Mention
Starkey Flythe, “Caecum”
Finalists
Sita Bhaskar, “Grievance Cell”
Eleanor Bluestein, “The Cut the Crap Machine”
Paula Brancato, “What Happened to My Mother”
Paula Peterson, “Black Fridge”
Flannery Scott, “In Wolf’s Clothing”
Mary Ziegler, “Angels on Horseback”
POETRY
First-place
C.E. Perry, “Acknowledgements”
Second-place
Veronica Patterson, “The Year of Held Breath”
Honorable Mention
Susanna Childress, “Torn Ragged Like the Kitchen Curtain”
Richard Fox, “The Greenhouse Fire”
Finalists
Charles Atkinson, “The Bishop’s Wife’s Advice”
Carol W. Bachofner, “Mother is Transformed by Cancer And I Need to Know Details”
Caroline Berry Klocksiem, “When You Yawn I Yawn”
Joan Colby, “Dead Horses”
Starkey Flythe, “Once”
Vandana Khanna, “Recipe for Discontent”
Christopher Kondrich, “Dear Occupant Motionless By the Window” & “Hearsay”
Emily Nguyen, “February in Jersey”
C.E. Perry, “No More Medicine”
