{"id":176427636,"date":"2013-11-08T00:33:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T06:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176427636"},"modified":"2013-11-08T00:33:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T06:33:53","slug":"pub-lee-smith-novel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2013\/11\/08\/pub-lee-smith-novel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"PUB: Lee Smith Novel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Submissions for the LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZE are open!<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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NEW DEADLINE\u2013November 30, 2013!<\/span><\/p>\n

Carolina Wren Press will choose one unpublished novel to receive the Lee Smith Novel Prize, an award of $1,000 and publication in honor of esteemed Southern author, literary mentor, and teacher Lee Smith. The award will be presented to a novel by an author from, living in, or writing about the American South\u2013authors need only meet one of these qualifications, not all three. It is our hope to find and promote novelists from the South and their novels and, in the process, to explore and expand the definition of Southern literature. Electronic submissions will be accepted from June 15, 2013 through November 30, 2013 via Submittable using the following link:https:\/\/carolinawrenpress.submittable.com\/submit<\/span><\/a>. Submissions must be original, previously unpublished novels, written by one person, in English, at least 50,000 words in length.<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo by Bryan Regan Photography<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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We will open submissions for the Doris Bakwin Award again in January 2014, with a submission deadline of 3\/31\/2014.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our last Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman took entries with a postmark deadline of 3\/15\/2012.\u00a0<\/strong>Chantel Acevedo\u2019s\u00a0A Falling Star<\/em>\u00a0was selected by Moira Crone as winner of the 2012\/3 Doris Bakwin Award for Writing by a Woman.\u00a0More about the winner here\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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CAROLINA WREN PRESS POETRY SERIES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Submissions for the Carolina Wren Press Poetry Series closed on March 31, 2013. Submissions will reopen in late 2014.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Final Judge: Ravi Shankar<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"RAVI SHANKAR\u00a0<\/strong>is the founding editor and Executive Director of\u00a0Drunken Boat<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0 one of the oldest electronic journals of the arts. He has published or edited eight books and chapbooks of poetry and essays, including the 2010\u00a0National Poetry Review<\/em>\u00a0Prize winner, \u201cDeepening Groove,\u201d called the work of \u201cone of America\u2019s finest younger poets,\u201d by Connecticut Poet Laureate Dick Allen, and \u201cInstrumentality,\u201d named a finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he edited W.W. Norton\u2019s\u00a0Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond<\/em>, called \u201ca beautiful achievement for world literature\u201d by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. He has won a Pushcart Prize, been featured in\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0The San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>,\u00a0The Academy of American Poets<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>. He has appeared as a commentator on the BBC and NPR, received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and has performed his work around the world, including at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and for PEN World Voices. He has taught at Queens College, Fairfield University, City University of Hong Kong and for the Wesleyan, Stonecoast and Jackson Hole Writers Conferences. He is currently Chairman of the Connecticut Young Writers Trust,\u00a0 an Associate Professor of English at CCSU and he teaches in the international MFA program at City University of Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  Submissions for the LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZE are open!\u00a0 NEW DEADLINE\u2013November 30, 2013! Carolina Wren Press will choose one unpublished novel to receive the Lee Smith Novel Prize, an award of $1,000 and publication in honor of esteemed Southern author, literary mentor, and teacher Lee Smith. The award will be presented to a novel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176427636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176427636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176427636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176427638,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176427636\/revisions\/176427638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176427636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176427636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176427636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}