Blog Leslie Maxwell and Danielle Harms

And yet on the other hand, being a memoir writer apparently, to a lot of people, means that your entire personal life is fair game. Because you have done such a good job of putting your experience to the page, many people, it seems, think that all of your experiences, emotions, feelings, are fair game....
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Fiction judged by David Means

Poetry judged by Matthea Harvey

Nonfiction judged by Mary Roach

POETRY AND NONFICTION NOW EXTENDED TO DEC 31
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Blog Leslie Maxwell

Suzanne Berne writes about her search for a grandmother she never knew, a mother her father never knew: her grandmother died when her father was a little boy....I’m curious: Do you write about the past you weren’t there for in nonfiction? How do you handle it?
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Poetry Josh Fomon

You wrinkle in this palace you will curdle

this pony as it molds to my face. My love

shrieks from postured sculpture. This space

is elegant with rooms caked in honey
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Blog Traci Cox

Roach: "The whole wall behind his desk was filled with television screens of eyes that were currently being operated on! So, I’m trying to interview him, and behind his head are twenty-four blow-up eyeballs staring at me..."
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Fiction Dan Moreau

There was no room for artistic license. The towers were warehouses for books and people. If people wanted art or beauty, they could look for it in a book. Each tower was a concrete shell for books, with five feet thick walls capable of withstanding tornadoes, earthquakes and nuclear Armageddon...
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Nonfiction Jessica McCaughey

The pitch of the accordion begins low in the dark, but as the spotlight slowly focuses, I see the bellows of the instrument open up, the top ahead of the bottom, like a giant fan in the musician’s arms. As the invisible reeds vibrate, one note becomes two in the air above us...
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Blog Ken Israel

Munoz: "It’s camera movement. When a camera closes in on someone, I’m startled every time, it’s almost unnoticeable. And I’m sort of mimicking that, where I can start a paragraph with a very wide angle view of things, but then let the sentences narrow down..."
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Visual Art Meredith Steele

She moves color around the surface and plops it quickly into positive and negative spaces. Edges are often repainted to keep them bold and contrasting. There is a constant search for dynamic compositions, active surfaces, and intense color combinations.
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Blog Daniel D'Angelo

We’re so self-interested that we’ll buy anything that supposedly will make us better, happier—we’ll buy things that explain our memories to us, that tidy up our mistakes, our car crashes, the deaths (physically and emotionally) we’ve observed. These poems do, perhaps, demonstrate our ability to create solutions...
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