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Alligator Juniper holds an annual contest in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and black-and-white fine arts photography. Our reading period is May 1- October 1 (photography submissions are accepted until December 1--EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 8 THIS YEAR). We are currently accepting contest entries.
We will be reading general
submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry for a special section on international writing
from October 15 through December 15, 2009 (postmark).
2009 National Writing Contest in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry
$15 Entry Fee
$500 First-Place Prize
Postmark Deadline: October 1, 2009
Our annual contest awards $500 plus publication for the first-place winner in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Finalists will be noted as such in our journal, selected for publication, and paid in copies. $15 entry fee, checks or money orders payable to Alligator Juniper. Every entrant receives one copy of the 2010 issue, a $10 value. The issue will come out in summer 2010. There is no theme for the 2010 issue. Work is selected upon artistic merit. By entering our contest you agree to allow us to select your work for publication even if it does not place first. We encourage submissions from writers of all levels, especially emerging or early-career writers. We accept simultaneous submissions; please inform us in your cover letter and contact us immediately if your work is selected elsewhere.
Submission Guidelines
- Submissions accepted May 1 through October 1, 2009 (postmark deadline).
- Include a brief cover letter, including the statement below.
- Include S.A.S.E for response only; manuscripts are recycled, not returned.
- Include a $15 entry fee payable to Alligator Juniper for each story or essay (30-page limit per entry), or up to five poems.
- Additional entries require additional fee.
- Indicate category with a large F, NF, or P on cover letter and mailing envelope.
- Manuscripts must be typed with numbered pages. Prose double-spaced.
- Double-sided copies encouraged. No email submissions.
- Send to: Alligator Juniper, Prescott College, 220 Grove Ave., Prescott, AZ 86301.
IMPORTANT: Unfortunately, due to past problems with misinformed entrants and withdrawals, we ask that you include the following statement in your signed cover letter: "I have read and understand the guidelines for Alligator Juniper’s national writing contest."
Back issues are available for all but 1995 (the premier issue) and 2001.
Send $8 to above address and request a copy from any year, 1996 to 2007, or $10 for a copy from 2008 or 2009.
Selection Process
All entries are read and discussed by Prescott College students in the Alligator Juniper practicum class. This class is overseen each fall by two faculty members, each of whom is a working writer in the genres of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
All entrants receive a personal letter from one of our staff regarding the status of their submission. We usually inform in late January. The individual attention we devote to each manuscript takes time. We appreciate your patience.
2009 National Photography Contest
$20 Entry Fee (1-5 prints); $30 Entry Fee (6-10 prints)
$500 First Place Prize
Postmark Deadline: December 1, 2009--EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 8, 2009
Alligator Juniper seeks quality black-and-white photography for its 2010 issue. $500 prize for one winner; finalists will be noted as such in our journal, selected for publication, and paid in copies.
The judge for the 2009 Photo Contest will be David Taylor.
Taylor earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. His photo constructions, multimedia installations, and artist’s books have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso; El Paso Museum of Art; SF Camerawork, San Francisco; Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO; and Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University, Tempe. His work is in a number of permanent collections, including Columbia College Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia; University of Washington, Seattle; and El Paso Museum of Art. In 2004 he was awarded a major public commission by the U.S. General Services Administration for artwork to be installed in a new federal courthouse to be built in Las Cruces, NM, with an anticipated completion date of 2009. In 2006 Taylor was awarded a commission to produce artwork for a newly constructed U.S. Border Patrol Station in Van Horn, TX; the project was completed and the building opened in spring 2007. Previous awards include a residency from the Nexus Press at the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art (2001) and a private commission for the El Paso law firm of Ryan and Sanders, LLP (2003). Taylor’s ongoing examination of the U.S.-Mexico border is currently supported by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Submission Guidelines
- Photographs must be black and white, unmounted, not exceeding 11 x 14 inches.
- Labeling should be placed on the back of each photograph, including your name, address, phone number, title of photograph, date made, and indication of top.
- Those submitting digital images must also submit a digital file on CD, in TIF format, no larger than 100mb.
- Include a brief artist’s statement, one that could be excerpted in the credits of Alligator Juniper, should your image be selected.
- Appropriate packaging and return postage should be included for return of your photo(s). Entries without return postage will be discarded after judging.
- Include entry fees as follows: $20 for one to five prints; $30 for six to ten prints. Ten-print maximum. Make checks payable to Prescott College/Alligator Juniper.
- Payment of fee does not guarantee that any photographs will be published; payment does guarantee that all entrants receive a copy of the 2010 issue, a $10 value.
- Prescott College reserves the right to publish winning images in any college publication.
- While we handle all entries with care, we cannot take responsibility for damage that may occur to submissions.
- No slides accepted.
- Postmark Deadline: December 1, 2009--EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 8, 2009 . Entries postmarked after that date are returned unopened. We return entries with response in late spring. Winning photos will be returned in the summer of 2010.
- Send to: Alligator Juniper Photo Contest, Prescott College, 220 Grove Ave., Prescott, AZ 86301.
The 2010 issue comes out in the summer of 2010. Back issues are available;
send $8 to above address and request a copy from any year, 1996 to 2007, or $10 for a copy from 2008 or 2009.
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