Animal Farm Posted October 30, 2005 **** THE WALRUS ANNOUNCES WRITING CONTEST WITH SUMMER LITERARY SEMINARS IN ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA **** The Walrus magazine, together with Summer Literary Seminars, Inc., is pleased to announce the 2006 Fiction and Poetry Contest. Fiction entries will be judged by Margaret Atwood. Poetry entries will be judged by Robert Hass. The winners will have their work published in The Walrus, and receive airfare, accommodation and free tuition at next year's Summer Literary Seminars program in St. Petersburg, Russia, a month-long program in the heart of St. Petersburg which offers writing workshops with the most important American, Canadian, Kenyan and international writers. The postmark deadline for submission is February 28, 2006. ________________________ SLS 2006 FACULTY INCLUDE Robert Allen Margaret Atwood Jason Camlot Jeff Clark Jonathan Dee Mikhail Epstein Tibor Fischer Jorie Graham Jim Grimsley Eli Horowitz (Managing Editor, McSweeney's) Fanny Howe Christine Hume Mikhail Iampolski Joshua Knelman (The Walrus Magazine) Ramona Koval Sam Lipsyte Josip Novakovich Gina Ochsner Robert Olmstead Eugene Ostashevsky Jayne Anne Phillips Padgett Powell Dawn Raffel Peter Sacks George Saunders Denise Shannon (Agent, Denise Shannon Agency) Thomas Swick Catherine Tice (Associate Publisher, =D4New York Review of Books=D5) Binyavanga Wainaina Noah Wardrip-Fruin Matvei Yankelevich =2E..and many others TBA ________________________ CONTEST GUIDELINES: * First place winners will receive airfare, accommodation and a full tuition waiver to the 2006 Summer Literary Seminars program in St. Petersburg. Second place winners will receive a full tuition waiver, and third place winners will receive a substantial tuition scholarship. * Only unpublished work can be submitted. * Entries must comprise one story or novel excerpt, or no more than three poems. * A $10 (US) reading fee is required for each entry. Checks or money orders must be in US dollars, and made out to Summer Literary Seminars, Inc. * Multiple entries are permissible as long as additional entry fees are included. * Complete contact information (address, telephone, e-mail address) must be included on the manuscript. Entries are not judged blind. * Previous First Place winners may not re-enter. * Do not include an SASE. Cover letters are not required. * Entries must be postmarked no later than February 28, 2006. All entrants will be notified of the winners by e-mail in Spring 2006. Entries should be sent to the following addresses: CANADA: Summer Literary Seminars Fiction/Poetry Contest English Department Concordia University 1455 de Maissonneuve Boulevard West Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8 US/INTERNATIONAL: Summer Literary Seminars Fiction/Poetry Contest PO Box 225 Northampton, MA 01061 For more information, email Summer Literary Seminars at info@sumlitsem.org or sls@sumlitsem.org, or visit their website, www.sumlitsem.org , where full guidelines are available. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
