Monday, May 04, 2009

Monday Morning Markets/Jobs/Opportunities

The Rumpus is running a book review competition open to all undergraduate and graduate students. First prize is $200 and publication; second prize is $100 and publication; third prize is publication. "The publication date of the book is irrelevant." There's no entry fee. Deadline: June 1, 2009. Details here.
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Get to know literary agent Jim McCarthy via this interview on the Guide to Literary Agents blog. According to the intro to the interview, "Jim is looking for a variety of nonfiction topics as well as genre/commercial fiction and literary fiction."
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The Guide to Literary Agents blog also announces the launch of a new agency: Priot Entertainment Group. Click here to learn more/find out what kinds of fiction and nonfiction the agency is looking for.
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The miniWORDS 2009 competition seeks miniSTORIES (narratives in prose or verse in 50 words or less). Winner receives £250. No entry fee. Deadline: August 10, 2009. Submit up to three entries. Find out more here.
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And a few jobs to round things out:
Full-time, tenure-track position in Creative Writing (poetry), Medgar Evers College/The City University of New York
Lecturer in English (creative writing-poetry), Tufts University (Massachusetts)
Publisher/Managing Editor/Assistant Editor, Jewish Review of Books (Ohio/New York)

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