Joel Brouwer, Judge for 2010 Poetry Prize!

We here at Del Sol Press are so excited to have poet Joel Brouwer as our judge for the 2010 Poetry Prize! 

Joel Brouwer is the author of three books of poems, Exactly What Happened, Centuries, and And So. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in AGNI, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Parnassus, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Progressive, Tin House, Washington Post Book World, and other publications. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and teaches at the University of Alabama.

2010 Del Sol Press Poetry Prize

The 2010 Del Sol Press Poetry Prize

Deadline for the 2010 contest is: March 15, 2010.

We invite contest submissions from both emerging and established poets, published or unpublished. In keeping with the philosophy of Web del Sol, we are only interested in the very best poetry, regardless of source or type.

Finalist manuscripts will also be considered for publication.

Winner Receives

A $1,200 Honorarium, paid in Summer 2010; book publication by Del Sol Press in fall 2010, in The Annual Del Sol Press Poetry Series; and 20 copies of the winning book.

Eligibility

• Poets who are at least 18 years of age and who live inside or outside the United States.
• Translations are eligible.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable (as long as you let us know immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere).
• Individual poems from the manuscript may have been published previously in magazines, journals, anthologies, chapbooks, or self-published books, but must be submitted in manuscript form. Published books in poetry or other genres do not disqualify contestants from entering this contest.
• Employees, volunteers, and board members of Web del Sol, their partners, spouses, and immediate families, and immediate family, friends, and former students of the judge are not eligible.

Competition Guidelines

• Deadline (postmark): March 15, 2010.
• 50 to 100 typed manuscript pages, each poem starts on a new page.
• $18.00 contest fee; Please make checks out to Web Del Sol.
• Include two cover pages: one with your contact information (phone, email, address), and one with the title of your collection (minus your name). Your name should not appear on the manuscript itself.
• Type or word-process on standard white paper, on one side of the page only.
• Paginate consecutively with a table of contents.
• Bind with a binder clip (no paperclips, please).
• Attach publications acknowledgments if any.
• Include a stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification of receipt of manuscript.
• Please keep a copy of your entry. Manuscripts not selected for publication will be recycled.
• Multiple submissions are acceptable; include an additional reading fee of $5.00 with each.

Postmark no later than March 15, 2010 and include $18.00 contest fee to: 
Del Sol Press Poetry Contest
Web del Sol Association
P.O. Box 1550
Tuscaloosa, AL 35403
ATTN: Katie Jean Shinkle/Contest Coordinator


• Queries to Katie Jean Shinkle, Contest Coordinator. Email: katie "at" webdelsol.com (replace "at" with @).

2010 Robert Olen Butler Short Fiction Prize

The 2010 Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize

Del Sol Press announces the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize for the best short story, either published (in a periodical) or unpublished, 2000-8000 words. We invite contest submissions from both emerging and established writers. In keeping with the philosophy of Web del Sol, we are only interested in the very best fiction, regardless of source or type.

Our judge for the 2010 year of the competition will be Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler.

The winning story and ten finalists will be published in book form in Summer 2010.

Winner Receives

A $1,200 honorarium, paid in June 2010, publication in a Fall 2010 Del Sol Press anthology, and 20 copies of the anthology that features their story.

Eligibility

• Writers who are at least 18 years of age and who live inside or outside the United States.
• Translations are not eligible; stories must be in English.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable (as long as you let us know immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, in which case it must be withdrawn unless it will be published before April 2009).
• Multiple submissions are accepted; include a separate reading fee with each.
• Employees, volunteers and board members of Web del Sol, or their partners or spouses, or their immediate families, or immediate family of the judge are not eligible.

Competition Guidelines

• Deadline (postmark): March 1, 2010
• Stories must be between 2000 and 8000 words.
• $16.00 contest fee for the first story and $5.00 for each additional story. Please make checks out to Web Del Sol.
• Include two cover pages: one with your contact information (phone, email, address, where the story has been published if it has been previously published), and one with the title of your submission (minus your name). Your name should not appear on the manuscript itself. Manuscripts are read anonymously.
• Type or word-process on standard white paper, on one side of the page only.
• Paginate consecutively.
• Staple or paper clip/binder clip, or put it in a separate folder with your name on the outside of the folder.
• We will consider unpublished stories as well as stories that have appeared in periodicals (not if they have appeared as part of a story collection, however), provided that the author can obtain reprint rights.
• Include a stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification of receipt of manuscript if you want notification.
• Please keep a copy of your entry. Manuscripts not selected for publication will be recycled.

  Postmark dates between October 1, 2009 and March 1, 2009. Manuscripts received outside of these dates will be returned unread. Mail entries to:

  Katie Jean Shinkle, Contest Coordinator
  Robert Olen Butler Short Fiction Prize 2009
  PO Box 1550
  Tuscaloosa, AL 35403

• Queries to Katie Jean Shinkle, Contest Coordinator. Email: ROBContestDSP "at" gmail.com (replace "at" with @).

2009 POETRY WINNER and Runners Up

Our winner, Frannie Lindsay, has already had her project accepted by another press. We will be selecting one of the runner-ups, thank you.

Editor
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Apologies to everyone out there! It was a chaotic summer for DSP in more ways than one, but we're proud to announce that we're back and rising like a new sun over the Black Sea.

Frannie Lindsay is the winner of the 2009 Del Sol Press Poetry contest. DSP will work with Web del Sol to vigorously promote Frannie's collection. We could not be happier!

Winner and place as follows:

THE URN GARDEN
Frannie Lindsay

THE MOON SPEAKS
Hailey Leithauser

PRAYING TO THE BLACK CAT
Henry Israeli

2009 ROB WINNER AT LAST!

Annie Weatherwax's "The Possibility of Things"

Annie Weatherwax’s stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Quarterly West, Calyx, Other Voices, and others. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, she earns a living as a painter and sculptor sculpting superheroes and cartoon characters for Nickelodeon, Disney, Pixar, DC Comics and others. She is currently working on a novel.

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Finalists:

Jacob M. Appel: "The Appraisal"
Porter Fox: "Caribou"
James Gish Jr. : "Wandering Boy"
Gregory Loselle: "Buried Dinner"
Geraldine Ann Marshall: "Secrets of Wood"
Dolen Perkins-Valdez: "The Clipping"
Michael Schivone: "The Heatseeker"
Erin Soros: "Surge"
Shubha Venugopal: "Lalita and the Banyan Tree"
Mark Wisniewski's "Without Good-byes"

Torch Lake and Other Poems a Finalist for Norma Farber First Book Award

Brian Johnson's Torch Lake and Other Poems, recently released by Del Sol Press, has been named a finalist for the 2009 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Johnson, formerly an editor with The Prose Poem: An International Journal, has published his poems and prose poems in many journals, including American Letters and Commentary, Quarter After Eight, Eclipse, and West Branch. His poetry will appear in the forthcoming anthology An Introduction to the Prose Poem, and his collaboration with the German painter Burghard Müller-Dannhausen will be exhibited at the M. Beck Gallery in Homburg/Saar, Germany, in 2010.  

Del Sol Press Books: Interview with David Blair about Ascension Days from Del Sol Press

Here is a link to Gregory Lawless' interview with David Blair about Ascension Days and various aspects of American poetry. Ascension Days was chosen by Thomas Lux for the 2006 Del Sol Poetry Prize. Click under interviews for a selection of interviews with Gregory Lawless.

http://ithoughtiwasnewhere.blogspot.com/