Category — Announcements

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Thank you,
S. Dale Knight
webmaster@shortpoem.org

We are very pleased to announce that GSR has been asked to publish the winning plays from the Looking Glass Theatre Spring 2008 Forum. We hope that this alliance proves long and fruitfull.

• First Place: Carolyn Kras for “Sketch”
• Honorable Mention: Pia Wilson for “Whatever and Delicately”
• Honorable Mention: Michelle Bradley for “The Untitled Pregnancy”

Offers prizes of 1st place 200$, 2nd place 100$ and 3rd place 50$ and publication in its fall issue. The entry fee is 10$ for 3 poems, 2$ for additional poems. All poems will be considered for publication. Poems should be less than one page and should have no identifying information on the poem. All entries should include a cover letter with poem titles, poets name, address, phone number and e-mail address. Simultaneous entries are accepted, and previously published on the internet also o.k., otherwise only unpublished are considered. Deadline is September 1st. Make checks payable to Mike Gullickson and send entries to Mike Gullickson p.o. box 1455 Burnet Tx 78611. This issue will have poems by Gary Snyder, Li-Young Lee and Jean Valentine…and you? Any questions? contact Mike. I look forward to seeing your poems.

Please note that Getting Something Read is not associated with The Enigmatist. If you’d like to participate follow the instructions in the announcement above. If you’d like to submit an announcement send it to Nina Peach with the subject: announcement. Announcements must be relevant to our site theme.

From time to time, we like to recognize writers whose submissions reflect their commitment to the art and craft of writing. What does this mean? It means they take their work seriously - and so do we.

At this time we would like to recognize:

• Paul Hostovsky
• Persis M. Karim
• Michael Constantine McConnell

We are very grateful that you chose to submit your writings to our website.

Sincerely,
The Staff and Volunteers at
Getting Something Read