New York literary zine birdsong is now accepting submissions for our Summer 2011 Poetry + Prose Contest. A prize of $50, publication in birdsong #15, 10 complimentary copies of the zine (edition of 300, full color, screenprinted cover), and a featured spot in our Brooklyn reading series in mid-June will be awarded a single person in each category. Submit a 12 pt. standard font .doc file of up to three pages of poetry, or 1500 words of double-spaced prose, to birdsongmag@gmail.com with the subject header, “ATTN: Summer Contest Submission” by Monday, April 18. No reading fee.
Birdsong Collective members will review entries, and results will be e-mailed by Monday, May 9. Please include a cover page with your name, contact information, title(s) of the work, and a three-sentence bio to appear in the “Contributors” section of the zine. Entries will be considered anonymously, so your name should not appear on the work itself. All work should be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, as long as we receive immediate notification if entries are accepted elsewhere. One entry per person.
The Birdsong Reading Series is an integral part of birdsong’s publication process, and as such, if you do not live in the New York area or cannot be here in mid-June, you may wish to reconsider submitting your work.
Contest winners will retain all rights to their work, including the right to be identified as the author wherever and whenever their work is published, and the right to use all or part of their work, with or without revision or modification in compilations or other publications. Subsequent publication should acknowledge birdsong as the original publisher. Regular contributors to birdsong and previous contest winners are ineligible for entry.
The Birdsong Collective and Micropress were founded in April 2008 with four goals in mind: to foster sustained collaboration amongst artists, musicians and writers in the form of an ongoing workshop; to continually encourage each other to produce creative work; to host free, public events where members can showcase works in progress; and to circulate members’ creative endeavors in a low-cost, easy to reproduce, and high-frequency format. Birdsong members share commitments to social movements of feminism, anti-racism, queer positivity, class-consciousness, and DIY cultural production. These commitments inform our creative work in many ways, ranging from the concrete to the theoretical to the experimental.
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