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To read the winners of our Winter 2008 Flash Fiction contest, click on the photo below:
Take another bite: To see guidelines for our Winter 2008 Bite Size Contest, click here:
Flash Fiction Contest
Or just click here to pay the entry fees ($5 for up to two 300-word pieces):
Click button below to pay $2 for each additional entry:
2007 POETRY CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED TO
FEBRUARY 1, 2008!
CONSTANCE VOGEL ADAMKIEWICZ TO JUDGE CONTEST
Please note: Unfortunately there was an error in one of the important ads we placed to publicize the 2007 Poetry contest.
We have decided to run a corrected ad, but we will have to change the timetable for the contest. The deadline for "Borders
and Bridges" has been extended to February 1, 2008.
We hope you will choose to remain in the contest. However, if you want to withdraw so that you can place your work elsewhere
we understand. Please contact Linda Mowry, contest administrator, if you would like to have your poems returned and your
entry fee refunded. Email her at indiana@janesstories.org.
Winning poems and short stories from each of Jane's past award competitions appeared in our upcoming Jane's Stories III anthology.
In 2007, we will begin a new cycle of awards in preparation for our next anthology.
JANE’S STORIES POETRY CONTEST GUIDELINES, Winter 2008:
BORDERS AND BRIDGES
The Jane’s Stories Poetry Award from Jane's Stories Press Foundation will be awarded to the best poem submitted by
February 1, 2008 on the theme of "Borders and Bridges." Previously unpublished poems of any length or style, written in English
by women, are eligible. Entries should speak to the Foundation's special interests in work by and about women.
A First Prize of $100 will be awarded. Second Prize of $50, and two Third Prizes of $25 each also will be awarded. All
winning poems and authors will be featured on our web site. Authors also grant JSPF reprint rights to publish winning entries
in its next anthology.
An entry fee of $10 for three poems must accompany each submission. Include $3 for each additional poem submitted beyond
the first three, up to a limit of 5 poems. Enclose an SASE for notification and a list of the winners. All entries will be
recycled rather than returned.
IMPORTANT: Enclose a separate sheet including your name, address, email address, and phone number and a list of
the poems submitted. Do not put your name on the poem itself. The title of each poem should appear at the top of the
page. Entries without SASEs will not be considered. Entries that arrive after February 1, 2008, will be discarded.
Send all entries and fees to:
Jane's Stories Press, 5500 N 50 W, Fremont, IN, 46737.
JSPF adheres to the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
Contest Code of Ethics.
See some of our previous winners below.
Please add $3.00 for each additional poem beyond the first three. NOTE: Poetry entries must arrive by snail mail to our
address (above.)
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BITESIZE CONTEST: FLASH FICTION WINNERS
Flash Fiction.
The assignment was to write a drabble--100 words,
not counting the title--on the theme of "womanliness." Three winners did just that, successfully. Here they are, with their
entries, their biographies, and the judges' comments.
FIRST, THE JUDGES' COMMENTS:
Our first place winner is "A Catholic Funeral" by Judith Robinson. This piece was selected for its subtle use
of the topic, Womanliness, and for its rich language.
Second place goes to Evelyn Delmar for "Womanliness." The judges appreciated its forthright, honest approach
to a difficult issue.
"Hilda's Coat" by Constance Vogel is our third place winner. Good imagery and characters, as well as story line
distinguished this piece.
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FIRST PRIZE WINNER
for "A Catholic Funeral"
JUDITH ROBINSON
Pittsburgh, PA
Judith Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer, and poet. A 1980 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh,
she has been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and anthologies. She was editor of Living Inland, 1989, Bennington
Press; and author of The Beautiful Wife and Other Stories 1996, Aegina Press. She is poetry editor and contributor
to Signatures Volumes 1,2, and 3, 2001, 2003, and 2006, Academy for Lifelong Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
and Ring Road Press. She is senior editor of Only the Sea keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami, 2005, Rupa Publishers, Inc.
and Bayeux Arts. Currently she is editing Along These Rivers, a poetry anthology celebrating the 250th anniversary
of the City of Pittsburgh in 2008. She has taught in and conducted workshops for the Pittsburgh Public Schools and Allegheny
Community College. She currently teaches poetry in the ALL Program at Carnegie Mellon University.
Ms. Robinson's winning entry:
A Catholic Funeral
Though young when she died, Patricia had written with an old woman’s wisdom—ideas multi-layered
for the hungry like flaky pastry that yields more fullness with each bite; beauty, too, subtle, the kind it took eyes fired
by spirit to see.
The lucky saw what she allowed: the intimate parts, body locations that suffered, taut soul wrestling with
frenzy and raw death premonition.
My quarrel is not that she’s gone, but gone without a laurel crown, or even historical context; no, the
praise that day was for Messiah, when I longed to hear her voice, to know her maiden name.
SECOND PRIZE WINNER
for "Womanliness"
EVELYN EMAN DELMAR
Northbrook, IL
Evelyn Eman Delmar, a native New Yorker, has lived in the Chicago area since 1987. As an art student at age 15, she was told
by career counselors who ran her through a battery of tests that she could be a successful writer. She used those skills
to build an award-winning public relations career, followed by pro bono work leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to
children and families. In 2004, Evelyn returned to her creative roots by resuming painting and, in 2006, started writing
fiction. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.
Ms. Delmar's entry:
WOMANLINESS
At age ten, I ignored flat-chested girls taunting, "you've got a braaaa." At fifteen, I shunned smarmy boys who chanted "watch
out, wide load." After all, a well-developed chest and ample hips were proof of my emerging womanliness. In my twenties
and thirties, my endowments attracted many men. Obviously, nature had built me to bear children. At forty, infertility slapped
me down and exposed the betrayal of my own body, crushing me. At forty-five, when my newborn son was handed to me by his
birthmother, I finally learned the truth: womanliness lies not on our bones but in our hearts.
THIRD PRIZE WINNER
for "Hilda's Coat"
CONSTANCE VOGEL ADAMKIEWICZ
Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz taught high school English and Creative Writing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois.
She has published over one hundred fifty poems in literary journals and anthologies, most recently Dire Elegies, Rhino, and
Snowy Egret. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has won many poetry competitions. She is the author of a poetry collection,
Caged Birds, and two chapbooks, The Mulberry and When the Sun Burns Out. In a review of The Mulberry C.J. Laity (ChicagoPoetry.com)
calls her "one of Chicago's most daring, honest and talented artists."
That's right! The third prize winner of our Flash Fiction contest is the judge of our upcoming poetry contest, Constance Vogel
Adamkiewicz. And here's her third-prize winning entry:
HILDA'S COAT
Take mother's camel hair coat, Hilda's daughter says to her mother's friend Mary after the funeral. Take her paisley
scarf, it goes so well. She opens the coat for Mary to try on, stands back. She is so pleased it fits Mary cannot turn her
down. But every time Mary puts on the coat, the shoulders pull too tight, the arms bind as if something is holding them
back.
The Goodwill bag on the porch slumps against the front door like a homeless woman against a building. Mary watches
flakes fall slowly upon it. She had hoped it wouldn't snow.
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