Jane Stories Press Foundation
Jane Stories Press Foundation no longer accepts unsolicited manuscripts. However, we offer several contests every year and publish an open call for an anthology every five years.
Jane Stories Press Foundation Nonfiction Award
Opportunities
Our congratulations to contest winners:
Bonnie J. Morris, Washington, D.C.
Israel: Devouring the Darling Plagues.
First Place $200
Bonnie J. Morris is a women's history professor at George Washington University and the author of eight books, including three Lambda Literary Award finalists--most recently for the teaching memoir Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor. Next book, due out in spring: Women's History for Beginners. This year she was also a finalist for Professor of the Year and for the Faculty Service award at GWU. she'll be lecturing on an Olivia Cruise in June!
Sheryl Clough, Clinton, Washington.
Shaped by Cedar
Second Place, $50
Sheryl Clough holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She taught literature and composition at UAF and Seattle’s Highline College, and taught three summer terms for Alaska Native youth in the Upward Bound and Della Keats programs in Alaska. Sheryl is widely published in journals and magazines, with credits in poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, interviews and travel writing. She is a Founders Circle member of Soundings Review and 2010 winner of the William Stafford award from Washington Poets Association. Follow Sheryl's blog at Blogspot.
Nancy Penrose, Seattle, Washington
Translating Lebanon
Third Place, $25
Nancy Penrose writes to explore the territories where cultures converge. Her writing has appeared in publications that include Memoir (and), Passager, Transitions Abroad, Marco Polo Arts Magazine, and Carpe Articulum Literary Review, and in essay collections published by Travelers’ Tales. Her website is www.plumerose.net. Check out her website.
And thanks to our final judge Tara Masih
Finalists were judged by Tara Masih, author of Where the Dog Star Never Glows, a collection of short stories, and editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Flash Fiction. Ms. Masih has served on the advisory board for the Robert Frost Foundation, and judges the annual Soul-Making Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay Prize sponsored by the San Francisco branch of the National League of American Pen Women. Ms Masih will edit a compilation of prizewinning essays from this category of the Pen Women competition for publication in 2012.
ISRAEL: Devouring the Darling Plagues
Delicious dark chocolate! Seder tray comes in a reusable basket—maybe like the one in which baby Moses was discovered. The kids are sure to giggle—and shiver—as they devour the darling plagues. “Chocolate Seder Tray and Chocolate Plagues,” www.jewishsource.com
It’s come to this: chocolate plagues. The search for nouveau kosher Passover desserts led the macaroon-weary out of Egypt and into a gourmet Promised Land. What could be a better metaphor for the entire history of Israel?t’s come to this: chocolate plagues. The search for nouveau kosher Passover desserts led the macaroon-weary out of Egypt and into a gourmet Promised Land. What could be a better metaphor for the entire history of Israel? . . .
Shaped by Cedar
Our faces lie captured in an old gutta percha frame still displayed in mom’s living room. My baby sister Jean, her face shining and angelic under a puff of hair the color of dandelion silk, nestles in the crook of my left arm. My other arm holds an open storybook. I remember reading to her; she was always eager to listen.
As for me, my hair is an uninspiring brown, except for the patch of gray over my right ear. I’m a little heavier than Jean, but still active in the outdoor life. My hands begin to show evidence of the liver spots that decorate our mother’s hands. At five-foot-eight, I’m about an inch shorter than Jean. We have both maintained decent muscle tone, although Jean is more disciplined about it. We both have brown eyes, and have passed this dominant eye-color gene along to our daughters.. . .
Translating Lebonon
The best weapons are the stories and every time the story is told, something changes.
Sherman Alexie
There is a story on a mountaintop in south Lebanon. In a sculpture of defeat, the main gun of a tank is jammed nose down into the grip of blocky boulders. The rusted caterpillar tracks the war machine’s wheels are skewed to the sky, exposed and helpless. Curls of razor wire spiral around rocks. Two little girls in blue jeans and matching aqua jackets pose in front of the scene. Each carries a pink purse. A man crouches to capture the photo, camera to eye. This is Mleeta: a war museum, a tourist complex, a theme park . . . .
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We are celebrating the July 2011 release of Jane's Bridges and Borders chapbook and will continue the theme in our scheduled anthology.
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