ANNOUNCING

THE FIRST ANNUAL BLOOM CHAPBOOK CONTEST

FOR POETRY & SHORT FICTION


Minnie Bruce Pratt, Poetry Judge

Richard McCann, Fiction Judge


Each winner receives $250 and 25 copies of chapbook.

Deadline EXTENDED: July 1, 2010

Complete Guidelines

Minnie Bruce Pratt is posting poetry regularly on the web in her “Daily Drafts” on Facebook Notes and at mbpdailydrafts.blogspot.com.  Most recently she has completed her forthcoming Inside the Money Machine with Nothing to Lose, poems about surviving under capitalism. Her selected poems, The Dirt She Ate, received a Lambda Literary Award. Some of her previous books include the poems of Walking Back Up Depot Street, the gender-boundary-crossing S/HE, and the award-winning Crime Against Nature. Reach her at www.mbpratt.org.

Richard McCann is the author of Mother of Sorrows, a collection of linked stories that Michael Cunningham has described as "almost unbearably beautiful."  He is also the author of Ghost Letters, an award-winning collection of poems, and the editor (with Michael Klein) of Things Shaped in Passing: More "Poets for Life" Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. His work has appeared in such magazines as The Atlantic, Esquire, Ms., Ploughshares, and Tin House, in such anthologies as The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 and Best American Essays 2000. For his work, he has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He lives in Washington, DC, where he is a professor at American University. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is a Member of the Corporation of Yaddo.

April 7, 2010

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