Dear Friends of Poetry,

The highly-acclaimed second issue of Cloudbank, a new literary magazine, is now available. Fifty poets, including Penelope Schott, Judith Barrington, Vern Rutsala, and Karen Holmberg are featured. Copies are $8 each and can be ordered from our website, cloudbankbooks.com, or by calling Roberta at 541-752-0075 (or toll-free at [877] 782-6762). Please note also that we are running another contest for our third issue. A prize of $200 is offered for a winning poem or short prose piece. We’ve extended the deadline until July 31, 2010.

All the best,

Michael Malan and Peter Sears

Guidelines: 1. The contest fee is $15.00 The check should be made out to Cloudbank. All poets who enter the contest will receive a one-year (two-issue) subscription to Cloudbank magazine. 2. Submissions without payment will also be considered for publication, but will not be eligible for the prize. We read submissions year-round. 3. Please do not send more than five poems for either the contest or regular submissions. 4. For contest submissions, the poet’s name, address, e-mail address, and poem titles should be typed on a cover sheet only, not on the pages of poems. For non-contest submissions, the poet’s name and address should appear on each page. 5. We do not accept electronic submissions. 6. The poems may not have been published elsewhere. 7. Simultaneous submissions: Please let us know if your poems are accepted elsewhere. 8. Your poems will not be returned. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) so that we can notify you of acceptance. 9. Feel free to send us prose poems, reviews, essays on poetry, short fiction (1000 words max.). We are open to all types of quality writing. 10. For those who do not enter the contest, one-year (two-issue) subscriptions to Cloudbank magazine are $15.00. Individual copies are $8. 11. Two contributors’ copies will be sent to writers whose work appears in the magazine. 12. If you already have a subscription and want to enter the next contest, your subscription will be renewed for two more issues. Address any questions to: Michael Malan, Cloudbank, PO Box 610, Corvallis, Oregon 97339-0610 michael@cloudbankbooks.com

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/

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/

Untitled Country Review is accepting poetry submissions. The deadline for Issue #2 is July 15. Guidelines are available atwww.untitledcountry.blogspot.com <http://www.untitledcountry.blogspot.com>.

Oblongata Contest — check the web for details  http://www.themedullareview.com/Oblongata_Contest.html

The Medulla Review is offering a unique opportunity. During approximately the first three weeks of each month the editor-in-chief will review poetry, flash fiction, and fiction submissions for contests. First, second, and third place winners will be chosen for publication out of each category. Works will be published on the first day of every month.

First place winners will receive publication, payment based on 10% of the entry fees per category, and a link with their name on the homepage of  The Medulla Review for one year. The winning writer’s web-page containing their winning piece may also include artwork, lengthy bios, promotions of books, blogs, links to other sites, or a myriad of other things, depending on the specific wishes of the writer.

Second and third place winners will receive publication of their work and a short-bio for one year on a homepage link entitled “Oblongata Winners.”