Monday, January 05, 2009

Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

The Kenyon Review has announced its aecond annual Short Fiction Contest for writers under the age of thirty. "Richard Ford will be the final judge. Submissions will be accepted February 1st-February 28th, with the winner announced in late spring. Submissions must be 1200 words or less. There is no entry fee." Prize includes publication in the Winter 2010 issue and a scholarship to attend the 2009 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Full guidelines here.
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For updates on how the economic downturn is affecting inflight magazines, click here.
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Five fellowships from New York University's Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity are open to graduate students in the final year of dissertation-writing; postdoctoral students who have completed dissertations within the past three years; and "professionals transitioning to academic careers (for those in fields for which the doctorate is not the terminal degree)." Deadline: January 15, 2009. No application fee. Details here.
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"Kaplan Publishing, the publisher of a broad range of educational and consumer books by and for nurses, physicians, paramedics, and other healthcare workers, is now accepting stories for a new and exciting anthology, To The Rescue: Stories from Healthcare Workers at the Scene of Disaster." Pays: $100, plus two copies. Deadline: February 21, 2009. See the announcement posted on the AbsoluteWrite.com forums.
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Applications for the Summer Poet in Residence Program at the University of Mississippi (deep in the heart of Faulkner country) are due by January 15, 2009. There is no application fee for this residency, which is designed "for poets who have at least one book (either published or under contract) and no more than two books. Details about the residency program (which offers a travel reimbursement and a $1,500 honorarium) and application instructions, are available here.
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"ReadMe Publishing is offering a FREE writing contest for all poets where winning poems will receive cash prizes and the top entries will be published in a print collection." Seeks poems "covering life in a daily setting." Prizes range between $10-$50. See the announcement here.
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Not too many university-based jobs to report this week, but I still managed to find a few:
Staff Writer, Northeastern University (Massachusetts)
Media Specialist in the Office of Public Relations, Langston University (Oklahoma)
Editor, University Magazine, University of Michigan

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