| IR's
2008 '1/2 K' Prize Guidelines
$1000 Honorarium and Publication
Final Judge: Russell Edson
Russell
Edson was born in Connecticut, where he lives
and writes today. He won a Guggenheim fellowship in
1974, and has published one book of plays, The Falling
Sickness, one novel, The Song of Percival Peacock,
and ten books of prose poems, most recently The
Rooster's Wife: Poems.
POSTMARK
DEADLINE: June 9th, 2008
Reading Fee:$15 for US entries, $27 for international
entries
Includes a year’s subscription.
All
entries considered for publication.
All
entries considered anonymously.
Send
no more than 3 pieces, 500 words maximum per piece.
(That's 3 short-shorts or prose-poems max per entry
fee.)
*Each piece must be either a prose-poem or short-short.
Prose-poems should not have any deliberate line breaks
(ie no lineated poems). You may send a combination of
short-shorts and prose poem pieces, as long as you have
no more than 3 pieces per submission.
*No previously published works, or works forthcoming
elsewhere.
*Simultaneous submissions acceptable, but fee is non-refundable.Further,
IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently
affiliated with Indiana University. In addition, IR
cannot consider work from anyone who is a current or
former student of the prize judge. We also will not
consider work from anyone who is a personal friend of
the judge.
*Entry entitles entrant to one-year subscription, an
extension of a current subscription, or a gift subscription.
Please indicate your choice and include complete address
information for subscriptions.
*Entrant's name should NOT appear on the
prose poems/short shorts.
If
submitting electronically:
*Electronic
submissions are now closed. (They closed 8:00 pm EST
on June 9, 2008.)
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submitting by post:
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*Manuscripts will not be returned.
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note that we cannot process either checks drawn on foreign
banks or money orders.
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entries to:
'1/2 K' Prize/Indiana Review
Ballantine Hall 465
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN
47405-7103
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