Posts Tagged: 2017 1/2 K Prize

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#IRHalfK 2017 Twitter Contest Winner!

Indiana Review is proud to announce the winner of our 2017 #IRHalfK Twitter Contest! We received some great ‘e’-less tweets and after careful deliberation we chose one winner who will receive an IR prize pack and free entry to our 2017 Half K Prize.

Join us in congratulating the winner, Eileen Tomarchio!

Runners-up Carrie Jenkins and S.E. Carson will receive an IR Prize Pack and Twitter love.

Thank you to everyone who participated! Make sure to submit your poetry and flash prose to our 2017 1/2 K Prize by August 1st, 2017!

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2017 1/2 K Twitter Contest!

The IR ½ K Prize is all about writing concisely to meet that 500 word limit. Writing with constraints can be a fun way to encourage the experimentation that short forms allow. One type of constraint is called a lipogram, where a work avoids using a particular letter or group of letters. For example, Ernest Vincent Wright wrote his 50,000 word novel, Gadsby, without using the letter ‘e’ one time.

For this summer’s twitter contest, we at Indiana Review are asking you to follow in Ernest Wright’s footsteps: Tweet us a line of original poetry without using the letter ‘e’. Be sure to hashtag your poetry with #IRHalfK. Entries are due by Monday, July 24, 10 AM EST.

Example Tweets:

  • Wright built a world of wood planks and iron pillars / without a solitary nail, it looms. #IRHalfK
  • Traipsing days and groggy months / what awaits is a shadow / in crumbling asylums. #IRHalfK
  • I don’t miss it / that traitorous 5th symbol of my ABCs / its foul curl and dangling tail #IRHalfK

One lucky (and clever) winner will receive a free entry into our 2017 1/2K Prize and an IR Prize Pack. Our favorite runner-ups will also receive an IR Prize pack and, most importantly, winners will be glorified forever in our blog posts and on our twitter page.

Exclude those e’s, and don’t forget to showcase your talents further by entering our 1/2K Prize!

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Interview with 2017 1/2 K Prize Judge Donika Kelly

The 2017 1/2 K Prize is open June 15 through August 1! In this interview, prize judge Donika Kelly discusses bowerbirds and black bears, favorite authors, and what she might be looking for in a prize-winning submission.

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Donika Kelly’s debut collection, Bestiary (Graywolf Press 2016), was selected by Nikky Finney for the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and long listed for the National Book Award. She holds an MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2013, she received a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University, where she specialized in American literature and film studies. Donika is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a June Fellow of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals including Tin House, Indiana Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Donika is an Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University, where she teaches creative writing.

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