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Who's the writer on your gift list? Join us for the Hunger Mountain HOLIDAY FUNDRAISING AUCTION, featuring manuscript critiques with notable authors and limited edition letterpress broadsides. All items will be available at http://stores.ebay.com/Carolines-Hunger-Mountain-Store beginning at noon EST on December 6th. Bidding ends at noon EST on Saturday, December 13th. One-on-one critiques in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and writing for children will be conducted by phone, email and mail. This is a great way to study with a writer you admire and support non-profit literary publishing!
Authors offering critiques in the auction include Steve Almond, Ralph Angel, Kathi Appelt, Carolyn Coman, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Sasha Feinstein, Thomas Greene, Mark Halliday, Louise Hawes, Cynthia Huntington, Ravi Shankar, David Jauss, Nancy Lord, Norma Fox Mazer, Victoria Redel, Claire Rossini, David Wojahn, and more. Also available are broadsides from the Stinehour Broadside Award Series including work by authors Alice Hoffman, Neil Shepard, and David Rivard and Lucia Perillo. These letterpress broadsides are all signed and numbered, limited edition, and frame worthy, making them the perfect gift for anyone who appreciates the artistry of literature! All purchases are charitable in support of Hunger Mountain's non-profit mission to bring readers outstanding creative work by both established and emerging writers and artists from around the world.
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Accepting Entries for the 2009 Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry
The sixth annual Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry awards one $1,000.00 prize and two honorable mentions, all published in the Spring 2009 Issue of HUNGER MOUNTAIN, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters. Deadline: December 10, 2008. This year's judge is Major Jackson. For complete guidelines, click here.
Creative Nonfiction Prizewinners to be announced in January
The winners of the second annual HUNGER MOUNTAIN CREATIVE NONFICTION PRIZE will be announced in January, 2009. The deadline for submissions to the third annual Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize will be September 10, 2009.
Prize Winners Announced
Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, is pleased to award the fifth annual HOWARD FRANK MOSHER SHORT FICTION PRIZE to Nora Nahid Khan of Olney, Maryland for her story “The Quarry.” The prize is $1,000 and publication is in the Fall, 2008 issue, due for release in November. Honorable mentions, who each received one hundred dollars, have been awarded to Irene Keliher of Houston, Texas for her story “The Knowledge of Cedar” and Pamela Gullard of Menlo Park, California, for her story, “A Man Like My Father.” Winners were chosen by author Katherine Vaz. The next deadline for the Howard Frank Mosher Fiction Prize is May 10, 2009.
Hunger Mountain is pleased to award the fifth annual RUTH STONE PRIZE IN POETRY to Patricia Hohl of Framingham, Massachusetts, for her poem “Pyre.” The prize is one thousand dollars and publication. Honorable mentions have been awarded to Kathryn Donohue of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for her poem “To a Young Traveler: What Happened” and Elizabeth McLagan of Portland, Oregon, for her poem “This Time, This River.” Winners were selected by Nance VanWinckel.
The first annual HUNGER MOUNTAIN CREATIVE NONFICTION PRIZE has been awarded to Andrew D. Cohen of Portland, Oregon, for his work of creative nonfiction titled, “Gambling with the Family.” The prize is one thousand dollars and publication. Honorable mentions have been awarded to Farnoosh Moshiri of Houston, Texas, for her work titled “Walking on Thorns” and Kathleen McGuire of High Shoals, Georgia, for her work titled “Wrecked.” Winners were selected by Sue William Silverman. Hunger Mountain extends thanks to all prize entrants for your continued support.
Hunger Mountain's Spring 2008 Issue, #12
The Spring 2008 Issue of Hunger Mountain, #12, features work selected by Guest Editors Nancy Eimers, Richard Jackson, Pamela Painter and Christopher Noël, plus the winner of the first annual Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize, Andrew D. Cohen’s “Gambling with the Family,” selected by Sue William Silverman, and the winner of the fifth annual Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry, Patricia Hohl’s “Pyre” along with honorable mentions Kathryn Donohue’s “To a Young Traveler: What Happened” and Elizabeth McLagan’s “This Time, This River,” selected by Nance Van Winckel. The issue also features several black-and-white photo essays including Emma Norman’s photographs of the Elizabeth Bishop House in Nova Scotia with an introduction by Howard Norman, new fiction by Ron Carlson and Alice Hoffman, the short story “Blind Love” by Rosa Montero translated from the Spanish by Claudia Routon, new poems by Stephen Corey, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Sandra Kohler, Lisa Lewis, Khaled Mattawa, Ata Moharreri, and Elaine Sexton. Read more about the spring issue here. Order a copy of Hunger Mountain here.
Hunger Mountain's Fifth Anniversary Issue
Hunger Mountain's Fifth Anniversary Issue (fall 2007, #11), features work selected by Guest Editors Phyllis Barber, Richard Jackson, Ellen Lesser and Natasha Sajé. The issue includes new work from writers Marvin Bell, Gary Fincke, Beckian Goldberg, Robin Hemley, Bob Hicok, Mark Jarman, Randa Jarrar, Shirley Kaufman, Lance Larsen, Sarah Maclay, Sebastian Matthews, John J. McLaughlin, Erín Moure, Bradley Paul, Arthur Smith, Gladys Swan, George Szirtes, Susan Thomas, Pamela Uschuk and many more; also, the winner of the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, selected by Wally Lamb; and a 5th anniversary artwork retrospective including artists Todd Bartel, KK Kozik, Liza Myers, Gail Salzman, Craig Stockwell, Laura Von Rosk and John Willis. Order a copy of Hunger Mountain here.
The Stinehour Broadside Award
The fourth broadside in the Stinehour Broadside Award series features the poem "Breaking News" by Lucia Perillo. The poem was selected by Board of Advisors member Judith Ortiz Cofer from the Fall 2006 Issue of Hunger Mountain. The Stinehour Broadside Award is an annual award honoring a contributor from the previous year’s issues by printing their work on a letterpress broadside. Selections are chosen by a Hunger Mountain Board of Advisors Member and printed by Stinehour Press, an award-winning book press in Lunenburg, Vermont. Each broadside is letterpress printed in a one-time edition of 100, each signed and numbered by the author. Learn more about the Stinehour Broadside Award here.
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