has poems upcoming in frogpond, Gargoyle, and The MacGuffin. Go, Nancy!

Reminder: OSPA Fall Conference is on October 15 and 16 in The Dalles. Check the OSPA website at www.oregonpoets.org for details about contests, workshops, and registration.

Firewheel Editions announces the third /Sentence /Book Award and the fifth Firewheel Chapbook Award.

The Firewheel Chapbook Award is given to a collection of no more than 20 manuscript pages in any genre. Preference is for innovative work (liberally interpreted), work that crosses genres, work that combines images and text, work in formats other than the traditionally bound book, or work that may have difficulty finding publication elsewhere due to the nature, typography, or format of the work. The recipient of the award will receive 50 copies out of a limited edition. Entry fee: $15 by check to Firewheel Editions or by PayPal at http://firewheel-editions.org. <http://firewheel-editions.org./> Checks and submissions may be mailed to Firewheel Chapbook Award, Box 7, WCSU, 181 White St., Danbury, CT 06810. Electronic submissions may be sent to chapbook@firewheel-editions.org. Postmark/Timestamp Deadline for submissions and fees: November 17, 2010, 11:59 pm PST.

The /Sentence /Book Award will be given to a book-length manuscript of prose poems or a book-length manuscript consisting substantially of prose poems (for example, a book that is half prose poems and half free-verse, or a book-length sequence that mixes passages of prose poetry with other modes). The recipient of the award will receive publication in a trade paper edition with a standard royalty contract and 50 copies of the book. All entrants will receive /Sentence/ #8 (entrants who are already subscribers will have their subscription extended by one issue). Entry fee: $25 by check to Firewheel Editions or by PayPal at http://firewheel-editions.org. <http://firewheel-editions.org./> Checks and submissions may be mailed to /Sentence /Book Award, Box 7, WCSU, 181 White St., Danbury, CT 06810. Electronic submissions may be sent to sentence@firewheel-editions.org. Postmark/Timestamp Deadline for submissions and fees: November 17, 2010, 11:59 pm PST.

Firewheel Editions subscribes to the CLMP Code of Ethics. The recipient of the /Sentence/ Award will be selected by Brian Clements, Editor of /Sentence/ and Firewheel Editions; the recipient of the Firewheel Chapbook Award will be selected by Brian Clements and Tom Nackid, Design Manager for Firewheel Editions. In the event that no recipient is chosen for either award, entry fees will be returned to all of the award’s entrants. Authors who have published a chapbook or book with Firewheel Editions, authors who have served on the Board of Contributing Editors of /Sentence/, graduate or undergraduate students and relatives of Brian Clements and Tom Nackid, and all past and current staff members of /Sentence/ and Firewheel Editions are ineligible. All manuscripts will come to the editors anonymously after screening and preparation by Firewheel staff.

Submission guidelines:- Chapbook Award entrants must explain any special production requirements for their projects in the cover letter. - All entrants must provide email address or SASE for Award results. - Unless SASE with sufficient postage for return is included, manuscripts will be recycled. - Multiple submissions are acceptable with an entry fee for each submission. - Translations are acceptable with proof of permission to publish translations.
- Electronic submissions must be sent as a single attachment in .rtf (preferred for text-only submissions), .doc, or .pdf    format. - All submitted manuscripts must include a one-page cover with author’s name, title, author’s email address, and name of    Award (Chapbook or Sentence); also include a second title page with title only.
- The author’s name should be recognizable nowhere in the manuscript other than on the cover page.
For more information on /Sentence /and Firewheel Editions, visit http://firewheel-editions.org <http://firewheel-editions.org/> or email info@firewheel-editions.org <mailto:info@firewheel-editions.org>

Gulf Coast Announces 3rd Annual Barthelme Prize

Gulf Coast is happy to announce that the 2010 Barthelme Prize for short prose is now open for submissions!

No matter what you call it–flash fiction, prose poems, micro-essays–send us your work of 500 words or less. The winner will receive $1,000 and will be published in the issue of Gulf Coast due out in Spring 2011, along with the two runners-up.

Last year we were happy to publish three excellent pieces of short prose by Matthew Yeager (2009’s winner), Tracy Guzeman, and Joseph Holt. We were especially excited to find that these were the first (but surely not last) publications for Tracy and Joseph!

Entries are due August 31st, 2010 and each entrant will receive a year’s subscription to Gulf Coast. Guidelines at http://gulfcoastmag.org/

Save October 7^th and 8^th (Thursday and Friday) 2010 for the 3^nd Annual POETRY WORKSHOP IN DUFUR, OREGON – THE MUSIC OF SURPRISE: Writing for the Ear as well as the Eye – Work with sound and rhythm to make your poems fresh and unexpected. Start new poems and take old poems a step further. Give yourself two days to fine tune your poetry. Come stay at the charming Balch Hotel in Dufur, Oregon, and practice a better ear for your own writing. Learn to manipulate meter and see what happens as you experiment with the flexible music of our rich English language.

The Music of Surprise is a two-day workshop full of sound-oriented writing prompts and radical revision of new and old material. We will spend one night (Thursday, October 7, 2010) at the hotel with no television or phones to distract us. There we will work in the beautiful parlor and in our own private rooms. On Thursday we will have lunch and dinner at the hotel plus an after-dinner reading just among ourselves followed by a brief homework assignment. Our Friday session will include breakfast and lunch.

The workshop will be limited to nine participants so that everyone gets time and attention. Cost for the workshop itself is $125 plus hotel and meals (both reasonable).

If you are interested, request a registration form and send two recent poems. For more information, please e-mail, phone, or write to: Penelope Scambly Schott at 507 NW Skyline Crest Road, Portland, Oregon 97229 — Phone: 503-291-0159,  e-mail: penelopeschott@comcast.net. Why have a workshop in Dufur? Because it’s a quiet little town with a view of the east side of Mount Hood and a charming small hotel (www.balchhotel.com) where we won’t be thinking our ordinary thoughts. (In case you’re curious, the town is named after Andrew & Enoch Dufur who came in 1859.) Where is Dufur? From Portland, drive out through the Columbia Gorge and turn south.  Dufur is twenty minutes south of Route 84 on 197.  It’s a beautiful trip. From the east side of Portland 1 hour 45 minutes (100 miles), from The Dalles 20 minutes (15 miles),from Bend 2 hours 30 minutes (115 miles), from Pendleton 2 hours 20 minutes (140 miles), from Salem 2 hours 35 minutes (150 miles)

The latest issue of High Desert Journal includes a couple of new poems by LLG member Charles Goodrich, along with prose and poetry by many other fine writers. Great photos and artwork, too.

High Desert Journal is dedicated to further understanding the people, places and issues of the interior West. They invite submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, memoirs, interviews, essays, book reviews, letters to the editor and visual art from residents of the region working with any theme and from anyone living outside the region creating work with high desert themes and elements.

email:  information@highdesertjournal.com

web: http://www.highdesertjournal.com/