Artsmith Literary Award
The 2012 Artsmith Literary Award is now closed for entries. Poet, nonfiction author, and editor of Terrain.org, Simmons Buntin will judge the 2012 contest. He selected the contest theme: "It's the end of the world as we know it." The winner receives 50% of the contest proceeds. Winners will be announced on the Artsmith website at the end of March 2012.
Guidelines:
- Submit one page of poetry or prose on the contest theme "It's the end of the world as we know it" by email to contest (at) orcasartsmith.org by December 30, 2011
- The writer's name and contact info should not appear anywhere on the contest entry
- In the body of the email, include your name, email address, and submission title
- The contest is open to all writers writing in English
- Entries should not have been previously published
- Pay the contest fee online: $15 for first entry, $5 for each additional entry up to three entries
Simmons B. Buntin is the author of Bloom and Riverfall, published by Salmon Poetry. His award-winning poetry and prose have appeared in numerous North American, European, and Asian journals and anthologies including Orion, North American Review, Kyoto Journal, Versal, Isotope, Snowy Egret, Mid-American Review, and Verse Daily.
He is the founding editor of the acclaimed international journal Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments, for which he also writes a regular editorial. He is the recipient of the Colorado Artists Fellowship for Poetry, an Academy of American Poets prize, and grants by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and Tucson Pima Arts Council.
He is an avid photographer, website designer, and all-around rabble-rouser who lives with his wife and two daughters in the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona. Catch up with him at www.SimmonsBuntin.com.
Contest Pre-Judges:
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Noah Ashenhurst's first novel, Comfort Food, won the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Regional Fiction (West-Pacific). His short fiction has appeared in Beyond the Margins: A Literature and Art Magazine, Apparatus Magazine: a literary journal from the internal machine, and Brittle Star. Noah currently teaches in Olympia, Washington and is completing both a collection of short stories and his second novel. |
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Erin Hollowell is a writer, editor, teacher, and poet who lives in Alaska. Her poetry has most recently appeared in Blue Earth Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Weber Studies. |
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Julie Riddle is the craft-essay editor for Brevity and the creative nonfiction editor for Rock & Sling, published by Whitworth University, where she also serves as senior writer for marketing and development and associate editor of Whitworth Today. |
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Michael Schmeltzer is a poetry co-editor for "A River & Sound Review" and is a three-time nominee of the Pushcart Prize. The 2011 winner of the Artsmith Literary Award, Schmeltzer is also the recipient of the Gulf Stream Poetry Award, and Blue Earth Review's Eighth Annual Flash Fiction Prize. |
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Tina Schumann's chapbook As If (Parlor City Press) was awarded the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize for 2010, and her poem “Calculations” is the recipient of the 2009 American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal. Her poems have appeared in various publication including The American Poetry Journal, Ascent, Cimarron Review, Crab Creek Review, Harpur Palate, PALABRA, PARABOLA, Poemeleon, Poetry International and Raven Chronicles. |
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Juniper White is a mom, writer, teacher, graphic artist and fine letterpress printer who cultivates handwork in northwest communities. Her works have appeared in City Arts and the Tacoma Arts Museum 20/20: Tacoma in Images and Verse broadside show. In 2010 she founded Dwell Press. |
