We’re excited to announce the release of our Fall 2010 Issue!

This issue features our Greg Grummer and Winter Fiction Contest award winners, as well as beautiful mixed-media art by Dolan Geiman.

Greg Grummer Poetry Award Winner: Aran Donovan
Honorable Mention: Jendi Reiter

Winter Fiction Contest Winner:  Andrew Bynom

…additional poetry and fiction by: y madrone, Mark Wagenaar, Megan Kaminski, Karen Leona Anderson, Miles Waggener, Henry Rappaport, Janaan Dawkins, Roya Khatiblou, Emily Carr, Britta Ameel, Rachel Khong, Peter Mountford, Samantha Erin Tetangco, J. Michael Martinez, Margaret Young, Casey Smith

Thank you to all our contributors and readers for continuing to support Phoebe. We <3 you!

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Phoebe is excited to welcome Shauna Cross as the judge for our first-ever nonfiction contest. Cross is a screenwriter and author, popular with critics and readers alike. Her own experiences in the world of roller derby sport inspired the novel Derby Girl. She later turned the novel into a screenplay for the movie Whip It!, an independent film directed by Drew Barrymore and starring Ellen Page. Cross is currently working on several screenplays for upcoming films.

$250 Grand Prize and Publication

~ Runners Up Published Online ~

Entries should be mailed in and postmarked by September 1st, 2010 and must include a $15 reading fee + subscription ($10 for the reading fee sans subscription) payable to Phoebe/GMU. Note: Online submissions are not being accepted for the contest at this time. 15 page maximum.

ON YOUR ENVELOPE, please indicate: Nonfiction Contest

PHOEBE: A Journal of Literature & Art

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Winners of the contest will be announced January 1st, 2011, at which time the runners up will be published on our website. The grand prize winner will be published in our Spring ‘11 Issue, as well as online at that time.Questions? Comments? Comment below or email us today: PhoebeNonfiction@gmail.com!

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Phoebe is proud and excited to announce we are now accepting submissions of creative nonfiction with an emphasis on avante-garde, experimental voice. Personal narratives are welcome but by no means mandatory. In keeping with the rest of Phoebe’s mission, we insist on openness, which means we welcome both experimental and conventional prose and poetry, and we insist on being entertained, which means the work must capture and hold our attention. We value nonfiction as literature and judge it accordingly.

At this time we are accepting work between 500 and 2,000 words in length for publication on our website (currently being revamped). In addition, during the second week of April we will be announcing the details of our first nonfiction writing contest, both online and at the AWP conference in Denver, CO. Stay tuned for all details, including monetary prizes, a very special guest judge, and full submission guidelines. Be sure as well to keep an eye open for a brand new website in the upcoming months!

Nonfiction submissions can be emailed as .doc attachment to PhoebeNonfiction@gmail.com or printed and mailed to:

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Leave us a comment below or shoot us an email!

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We’re proud to announce the release of our Spring 2010 issue of Phoebe!

Special Feature in Translation:

Regis Bonvincino as translated by Odile Cisneros and Charles Bernstein

The Beowulf Poet in homophonic translation by Theodora Danylevich

Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Parveen Shakir as translated by Ranjani Murali

Angelica Tornero as translated by Krista Ingebretson

Pura Lopez Colome as translated by Forrest Gander

Ales Stegner as translated by Forrest Gander and Aljaz Kovac

Additional poetry by:

Steffi Drewes, Julie Lein, Karina Borowicz, Stephanie Ford, Keith Montesano, Kory M Shrum, Eric Burger, Sandra Marchetti, Grant Souders, Megan Gannon, Cate Whetzel, Michaela Essl, Dina Hardy

Fiction by:

Joe Meno, Claudia Putnam, Julia Pierpont

Cover art and poster insert by Alexis Mackenzie

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Dear Submitters,

We are excited to announce that our contest deadline for the Greg Grummer Poetry Award has been extended to January 15th, 2010! We are honored to have Rae Armantrout as our judge this year. Please see our contest page for details.

Warm regards,

The Editors

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Our new issue is currently making its way through the printer’s facilities.  We’re excited and we’ll send word again once 38:2 comes home.  

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The results are in. Here are Phoebe’s 2009 Contest Winners and Finalists.

Greg Grummer Poetry Contest

Judge: Bin Ramke

Winner: Sarah Blackman - “That Bloody Hammer”

Honorable Mentions: Gina Abelkop - “Godpaper (1930),” Nancy Naomi Carlson - “After I Xeroxed the Sky”

Finalists: Chuck Carlisle - “The Most Kissed Face in the World, 3: Mechanics” & “Where We Are, Where We Are Not,” Haines Eason - “Reservoir,” Sandra Marchetti - “Le Parc des Suicides (The Park of Suicides),” Judith Pacht - “Falcon,” Jonathan Rice - “Matins: Leonids,” Katrin Talbot - “World without end”

Winter Fiction Contest

Judge: Benjamin Percy

Winner: Jim Wyatt - “Blunt Not the Heart”

Runner-Up: Tate Higgins - “Hanging Tree”

Finalists: Vanessa Garcia - “33,” Ross Garrison - “Deer in the Valley,” Burt Michaels - “A Modern Couple,” Michelle Nichols - “The Holiness”

*The editors would like to congratulate our winners and finalists and thanks to all the poets and writers who entered our winter contests. We are indebted to you for yuor support and we thank you for allowing us to consider work of such high caliber.

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Money orders are also acceptable, provided that they too are denominated in U.S. dollars.

(Our apologies to the Canadian who already sent us an uncashable check.  We are currently returning your cash money and submission.)

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