Call for Film and Video Interpretations of Poetry

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Call for film and video
"Deadline: postmarked by January 30th, 2008
Entry fee: $15.00 (non-refundable)
Notification by February 15th, 2008
Festival dates: March 20th-23rd, 2008
Poems of Provocation & Witness
Poets have long played a central role in movements for social change. Today, at a critical
juncture in our country’s history, poetry that gives voice to the voiceless, names the unnamable, and speaks directly from the individual and collective conscience is more important than ever. The festival will explore and celebrate the many ways that poetry can act as an agent for change:reaching across differences, considering personal and social responsibility, asserting the centrality of the right to free speech, bearing witness to the diversity and complexity of human experience through language, imagining a better world.

Film & Video Submissions:
We are looking for artistic, experimental, and challenging film/video interpretations of poetry
that explore critical social issues. Selected work will be screened during the Split This Rock
Poetry Festival film program. Entries must be submitted on DVD (NTSC only) or CD (.mov format only), no HD formats. Please note: videos with h264, divx compression or any format not mentioned above will not be accepted.

• Running time for entries should not exceed 15 minutes.
• All entries must be in English.
• All work submitted must be original. If portions of the submitted work contain material from
• third parties, author must have and be able to provide written permission to use such material.

All entries must include:

• - Completed entry form
• (download at: http://www.poetrycenter.org/calls/Split_this_Rock-ENTRY.pdf)
• - $15 entry fee (check made payable to: The Poetry Center)
• - A short synopsis, artist's bio, and artist's statement (on one page only)

Please label all DVDs and CDs with title, running time, director’s name and contact email.
Please mail entries to: For more information:
The Poetry Center of Chicago www.SplitThisRock.org
37 S. Wabash, Suite 704
Chicago, IL 60603
info(at)splitthisrock.org
www.poetrycenter.org
Attn: Francesco Levato/Split This Rock submission
NO PHONE CALLS ACCEPTED"

Call for Submissions: Cold-Drill

cold.drill: "cold-drill is published annually by the MFA Department of Boise State University and is actively looking for fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction from the traditional to the experimental for our 38th issue. We strive to publish work that goes beyond the obvious and that provokes and stimulates us and our community of readers. We are also interested in innovative and interesting visual art. We take great pride in our design and the finished product, which includes first-time published writers side-by-side with established authors and poets, and feel that a journal should be both visually appealing and mentally stimulating. Submissions are read from September 15 through January 5."

Call for Poets: 2008 Julia Peterkin Award

Information on the Julia Peterkin Award from the English Department of Converse College: "2008 Julia Peterkin Award The winner of the 2007 Julia Mood Peterkin award is Sharon May of Paradise, California. Eligibility The 2008 Julia Peterkin Award is open to all poets. Works previously published in periodicals are eligible for inclusion in the submission. Only original works in English may be submitted. Manuscript Format Guidelines Entries must be typed on quality paper, 8 1/2 by 11. Photocopies or copies from letter-quality printers are acceptable. Each entry should include up to 10 pages of poetry (blind submissions ), along with a cover page including the writer’s name, address, daytime phone number, and titles of submission. Also include a one-paragraph biography. Entry Requirements
* A handling fee of $15 made payable to: Converse College English Department.
Deadline: February 15, 2008.
* Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like direct notification of contest results. Results will be mailed in May of 2008. No manuscripts can be returned.
* Send one copy of the manuscript prepared according to format guidelines.
* The winner will receive $1,000 and travel expenses for a reading at Converse College. Winner should be willing to read at Converse during Fall 2008."

Tongue & Groove: Reading in Los Angeles

"Tongue & Groove"
A monthly offering of short fiction, personal essays, poetry, spoken word and music. This month featuring: Jose Montoya "In Formation: 20 Years of Joda", Richard Montoya -Culture Clash, Luis Rodriguez "Always Running", Mario Rocha and Pocho Joe.

Sunday the 9th of December
6:00-7:30 pm
The Hotel Café
1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
1/3rd of a block below Hollywood Bl.
Hollywood, Ca 90028
$5.00

Leave yourself time to find parking and get there early. Seating is limited and we're starting at 6:05!

* For more info on the writers go the blog on www.tongueandgroovela.com

Conrad Romo (323) 937-0136
www.hotelcafe.com

Bluecat Screenplay Competition

This just in from the folks at BlueCat:

2008 BlueCat Screenplay Competition CALL FOR ENTRIES

The BlueCat Screenplay Competition is open for entries of feature length scripts for our tenth year!
*Grand Prize:$10,000
*Four Finalists: $1500
*Every writer who enters receives written script analysis

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE: JAN 2, 2008
All screenplays submitted by JAN 2 will receive their analysis by FEB 1
(entries must be received by midnight Wed, Jan 2)

Entry fee $50
SUBMIT NOW: http://www.bluecatscreenplay.com

Since 1998, BlueCat has become the screenwriter's screenplay contest, with unmatched and genuine support for all writers. More community than contest, BlueCat writers rally, stopping, listening and looking for their space to grow as screenwriters.

BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Hollywood, CA 90038
www.bluecatscreenplay.com
www.myspace.com/bluecatscreenplay
info@bluecatscreenplay.com

So Many Contests, Plenty of Time ~

You name it, ByLine has a contest for it. Poetry? Fiction? Articles? Creative Non-fiction? Character Sketches? Genre fiction? Humor? Memoir? Regarding eating or guilt, it's all there on their website. Entry fees are low: from $3 to $5, and prizes range from $10 to $40, plus publication. And what particularly appealing, they have contests scheduled all the way up until June 2008!

Franklin-Christoph Free Poetry Contest

Plenty of time left to fine-tune up to 3 of your poems and submit them to the Franklin-Christoph Free Poetry Contest: the deadline isn't until December 31st. First prize is $1000 and publication on Franklin-Christoph.com. 5 Merit Award winners will each receive a $290 1901 fountain pen (or alternate FC product of your choice of equal or lesser value), and publication on Franklin-Christoph.com. They are open to all poetry, on all subjects, short or tall, large or small. No fee? Possible $1000? Maybe a really cool pen? Being published? Nothing to lose!