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Competition for Graduate Student Writers

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Touchstone, Kansas State University’s Literary Journal, is currently accepting submissions from graduate students from any creative writing program in the United States (the KSU English MA program is excluded). Poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction essays are all welcome. There will be one winner in each genre, who will have his/her work published and will win $50 and two copies of the journal. Submissions must be postmarked or e-mailed by November 11, 2005. There is no entry fee. For more information and full submission guidelines, visit the website.

Voices from the Storm

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flashquake, a web-based literary journal, has announced a “venue where people affected by [hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma] can share their stories and art. Fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, artwork and photographs are welcome from anyone directly affected by the storm. This includes those who endured or were evacuated from the affected areas, their family members, rescuers, volunteers, foster homes and so forth.” Submissions for this “Voices from the Storm” project will be read during three periods: October 21-November 15, 2005; November 16-December 15, 2005; December 16-January 15, 2006. Selected entries will be published in broadsheet form and will receive monetary awards of $25. For more information, read the Voices from the Storm Call for Submissions.

Philip Roth: "Newark is my Stockholm"

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Philip Roth may not have won the Nobel Prize this year (that honor, as you know, went to Harold Pinter). But Roth was celebrated nonetheless on October 23 in his hometown of Newark, New Jersey, where a plaque now marks his boyhood residence on Summit Avenue. Said Roth: “Today, Newark is my Stockholm, and that plaque is my prize. I couldn’t be any more thrilled by any recognition accorded to me anywhere on earth. That’s all there is to say.” To read the New Jersey Jewish News account of the visit, click here.

Announcing the Bellevue Literary Press

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I just revisited the Bellevue Literary Review website and discovered something quite interesting: The Bellevue Literary Press.

According to the website, the Press, a collaboration of the journal and New York University School of Medicine is “a new trade book publishing house” that “intends to publish books of the greatest artistic and intellectual merit from the larger community, both medical and non-medical, while reflecting NYU’s excellence in scholarship, humanistic medicine, and science.” It “will feature original authoritative literary works–both fiction and nonfiction–in the sciences, social sciences and arts.”

For more information, click here.