Hopefully you’ll find the things-to-avoid highlighted in Bern Mulvey’s “5 Easy Ways to Lose a Poetry Contest” over at The Missouri Review pretty familiar. Hopefully you’d never do any of these things. But sometimes it doesn’t hurt to be reminded.
Check out the nifty new Web site over at The Chattahoochee Review (where I’m a contributing editor). And if you have a moment, go ahead and read my review of Camus at Combat (it’s now online).
echolocation, a journal based at the University of Toronto, is looking for “poetry, prose poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction and interviews with writers.” Unpublished work only. No simultaneous submissions.
“Pay for the Winter 2007 issue is $10/page” (my guess would be that’s Canadian dollars, folks).
This (print) journal accepts only electronic submissions. “We accept submissions year-round; however, the deadline for our Winter 2007 publication is November 10th, 2006.”
Check the Web site for more information.
(via placesforwriters.com)
You may already have heard that President Bush’s summer reading included Albert Camus’s The Stranger. Poets & Writers tells us about some of the other titles on his recent list online.
Wonder if the President would now enjoy my review essay on Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947, in the Winter-Spring 2006 Chattahoochee Review.
That piece is only available in print, but I’ll give you (and the President, of course) a peek here into the first several paragraphs:
Albert Camus entered my life in 1986, when I was a high school junior assigned to read The Stranger in French IV class. As a college sophomore studying Modern European History and Literature a few years later I read The Plague. And our relationship could have ended there. That’s about as much Camus as most Americans will ever read.
But Camus, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 (he was then 43 years old) and died in an automobile crash three years later was, as I learned during my junior spring semester in Paris, much more than a mere novelist. He was a journalist, too.
And he was a journalist in difficult times, including the moment of German occupation. In fact, it was en pleine occupation that Camus became editor-in-chief of Combat, a resistance newspaper published clandestinely and irregularly until the liberation in the summer of 1944. This translation of Camus at Combat, which was originally produced in France in 2002, collects 165 of his Combat editorials and articles, some attributed to him from Combat‘s clandestine phasae, but most dating from the post-liberation and early postwar period.
It is a tremendous book. And it is significant not only for those, like me, with longstanding intellectual and emotional attachments to the author and the original texts (that junior spring I chose the postwar purges of French writers and journalists as my senior honors thesis topic; before I left France that summer I spent many hours in the French National Library, reading Camus’ many Combat editorials on the subject on microfilm), but for anyone interested in history, politics, or journalism.
Here’s a bit of news I picked up over at Duotrope’s Digest: The King’s English, an international online literary journal publishing novellae, personal essays, book reviews, and poetry, will begin paying its authors as of its Fall 2006 issue. Pay rates will be $20/story or essay, $10/review, and $10/poem (maximum of $20/poet per issue). Check the journal’s Web site for more information.