"Mid-American Review" Contests--Deadline Oct 1

Mid-American Review

Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award

Creative Nonfiction Award

James Wright Poetry Award

1st Prize, each genre: $1000 + Publication
Four Finalists: Notation + Possible Publication
2008 Final Judges

Fiction: Kim Edwards Author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter and The Secrets of a Fire King

Nonfiction: Debra Marquart Author of The Horizontal World: Growing Up in the Middle of Nowhere: A Memoir

Poetry: Larissa Szproluk Author of Embryos & Idiots, Isolato, Dark Sky Question, and The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind

Guidelines Postmark deadline: October 1, 2008. $10 entry fee (check or money order, made out to Mid-American Review) for each set of three poems or each story/essay up to 6,000 words. For previously unpublished work only. Submissions will not be returned; send SASE for early results. All participants will receive MAR v. XIX, no. 2, where the winners will be published. Open to all writers not associated, past or present, with respective judge or MAR. Judges¹ decisions are final.