Winners in each genre will receive $1,000 and publication in the spring/summer issue.
Send your entry to:
Fiction Contest or Poetry Contest
Black Warrior Review
Box 862936
Tuscaloosa, AL 35486
Each entry must include name, phone number, and email on cover sheet only, as well as SASE and reading fee.
The Reading Fee is $15 per short story (up to 7500 words) and $15 per group of up to 3 poems. Make checks payable to The University of Alabama. All contestants will also receive a complimentary one-year subscription. That’s $1 less than ordering by conventional means.
Black Warrior Review only considers previously unpublished work. Finalists in each category will receive notation in the Spring 2009 issue and are also considered for publication.
You’ll find more details HERE
]]>National Nurses Week is celebrated May 6-12 annually. May 12 is the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. “Nurses – Building a Healthy America,” is reflective of the crucial role nurses play in continuing to provide quality and accessible health care even when challenged by the national economic crisis which has left many without jobs and insurance.
States Bettie J. Glenn, associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Nursing, “Nurses are the “glue” holding together the health care system. Nurses continue to provide illness and wellness care for people in need. The complexities and challenges are viewed by nurses as opportunities to re-examine traditional health care practices and generate relevant, evidence-based best practices to increase access to and quality in patient care. Therefore, we celebrate the local nurses who make a difference each day in the lives of many.”
UNCW broke ground on a new nursing building in fall 2008. The facility will house the nursing school’s baccalaureate and graduate programs, including its baccalaureate program in Clinical Research. The building is slated for occupancy in fall 2010.
]]>Creative Writer Wanted (san jose south)
I am looking for a creative writer who can take my story to a different level. Would prefer someone with ghostwriting experience and knowledge of novel writing.
This is a very short term project and does not pay a lot. To be honest the pay would be $100 for 50 pages and a possible bonus if the project is complete in a timely manner.
I cannot be responsible for paying your bills, rent, or for groceries. This is just a side job for a little extra money. If interested please email.
it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
Compensation: $100 for every 50 pages plus bonus
Well I’ll not insult my readers by giving the guys name
]]>Regular readers will also have noticed that look of the site has changed from a pretty standard WordPress layout to a vibrant Magazine Theme – I suppose this is more in keeping with a writer site anyway. Let me give you a brief walk though of how the present site is laid out.
This section that you’re reading now is really the notice board and like any notice board it is designed to draw your attention to a specific issue and like any notice board you can’t really predict what it will show – sometimes it could be a major news story, sometimes a human interest story, sometimes it could be an important message, just like this one. A section which changes as the need arises.
The left hand corner we are keeping primarily for book reviews. They need not necessarily be new releases they are just books which we want to write about for one reason or another. We’ve always wanted to encourage our readers to post in this blog so if you fancy reviewing a book then have a go. Usual restrictions apply, of course, no adult content and while you are most welcome to give a critical review remember there is a libel law. So start reviewing. One final point here, I said at the top of this paragraph that the section was, ‘primarily for book reviews,’ from time to time we will review other things e.g. Sony’s new electronic book reader.
The centre column hosts the last contest that we’ve received information about for the next three months: e.g. Dec. Jan, and Feb. It also leads you into the last post for our ‘writing articles/tips’ section and our ‘resource’ section. Again they’ll display the latest post in that particular section.
Moving on the right column here’s where you will get a complete listing of all current writing contests that we know about – organized on a monthly basis.
The archives, as you can guess will let you know what we’ve been on about since adopting a blog outlay.
From time to time we’ve written articles that we fell you might like to visit on a regular basis, you’ll find them in our pages section.
One final word – well maybe two, this is a new outlay for our site so don’t be to surprised if over the next few weeks things change slightly. And finally we really would appreciate posts from you – feel free to post.
Kevin
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About a month back I received, wait for it over 700 spam emails in the one day. 400 at one sitting and 300 at another – not I have to be honest and say that was a one off. Normally I would receive anywhere in the region of between 20-30 in the day, and that’s part of the price you pay if your email address is out there on that big network we call the world wide web.
Well you can guess I was pretty mad with my ISP, who I have to say was not particularly helpful and I was almost changing my ISP to another firm all that kept me back was the fact that I have a number of other websites and blogs and I didn’t want the hassle of changing them all over.
For those of you who don’t live in the UK “Which?” is the largest and the most respected consumer association in the UK and I subscribe to a number of their publications, including “Computing Which?” Well about a week back I received my monthly copy and they carried a recommendation for a third party spam filter called 0spam (that’s zero) which was completely free. I’ve been trying it, teaching it what’s Spam and what is not Spam and it is now stopping almost 100 of the spam I was receiving on a regular basis.
If you are haveing Spam problems I suggest you try it. It is completely free – no catches. Here’s the link 0SPAM
]]>Like the name says it’s an information service and basically I carry out reviews on products. At the moment they are all reviews of digital products, ie. products you can download right away.
Christmas is just around the corner and many parents will be looking out for presents to buy for their children. One of the most popular presents this year is likely to be a laptop computer. Great fun to write on, great fun to read from, but parents and guardians have to be careful. That’s why I carried out a review on a product called PC Tattletale; it is a parental control software, which inessence means you can watch every keystroke and see every password that your child enters into the computer. It is a surefire way of making sure they don’t stumble across undesirable sites online.
If your child has a computer, if you are thinking of getting one then I highly recommend PC Tattletale, it will certainly lift a weight from your shoulders
]]>Entrants (children, teens and adult age categories) submit work to be voted on, and at the end of each month the winning entry becomes the next chapter of a book, which will be published in December 2008, with all proceeds going to The Woodland Trust.
The Green Story is a creative writing competition, where each month you can read the previous chapters and then write what you think the next chapter should be by submitting your own entry, or read and then vote on the latest entries.
So whether you see yourself as a reader or writer, you can take part in creating and shaping the Green Story. Just remember it’s your story, you decide how it goes!
There are adult, teen and children’s versions of the story and each story must have a ‘green’ theme which encourages all readers, young and old, to think about how we can best look after the environment.
The competition will run for 10 months to create a book with 10 chapters and then be published as ‘The Green Story’ book at the end of the year.
Each chapter must be written in the third person, rather than ‘first person’ viewpoint and should follow on from the previous winning chapter.
Full Details HERE
]]>The need for words that inspire action and optimism have never been so great with repossessions and bankruptcies at a record high.
What type of poems are we looking for?
The first prize for the best and most inspiring poem is £300.
Second Prize is £200, and
Third Prize £100.
Entries must be with us no later than 31st October 2008.
Full Details HERE
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