The Calvino Prize
The Calvino Prize is an annual fiction competition sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Louisville. They will be awarded to outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulist experimentalist style of Italo Calvino. (Please note that these prizes are meant to encourage experimental writing, in the mode of Calvino, and are not meant to encourage merely imitative work.)
First Place: $1000 and Publication
Second Place: $300
The first place entry will be published in the Salt Hill Journal of Syracuse University.
Further, the winner will be invited to read the winning entry, all expenses paid, at the Louisville Conference held at the University of Louisville every February. The finalists will be posted on the website.
Third Annual Calvino Prize was awarded to Maud Casey
2007 Finalists
First Place: Fugueur, novel excerpt by Maud Casey
Second Place: Moon Pies by Laurie Foos
Maria and the Mice by Charles H. Antin
Exposure by Jacob M. Appel
Pavilion by Ingril Hill
How Smart Mouse Beat Phat Mouse by Robert Terrence O'Keeffe
Our Fanboys, Who Aren't in Heaven by W.P. Osborn
The Klepsyrda by Michaela Roseener
A Flood Story by Emily Taylor
I Also Dated Zarathustra by Sharon Wahl
Kentuckiana Metroversity 2008 Writing Competition
The 2008 Kentuckiana Metroversity Writing Competition is open to any student registered during the 2007-08 academic year in one or more classes at a Metroversity institution.
Entries will be accepted in four categories: poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction/essay, and academic writing. You may enter up to 2 works in each category, except for poetry, up to 3 poems. Prose entries must not exceed 40 pages in length.
NEW INTERNATIONAL CATEGORY! This category will honor the words and experiences of people who have come to our community from all over the world. This category is open only to undergraduate students whose native language is NOT English. The writing may be in any form--poetry, up to 3 poems, or prose, 1 piece up to 40 pages, and must be in English.
Guidelines- Entries must be unpublished, but they may be entered simultaneously in other competitions. Manuscripts must be typed, double spaced (poetry may be single spaced). Submit two copies of each entry, a poem is an entry. Attach two copies of a completed official entry form, available from your campus coordinator or the competition coordinators, Jean Tucker and Bryan Scichilone. Your name must not appear anywhere on the manuscript; however the title of the work must be on each page. Manuscripts will not be returned. Entries that do not follow these guidelines will be disqualified.
Deadlines and Judging- You may submit your entry to your campus coordinator, Paul Griner, by the deadline February 15, 2008. You mail also mail your entry to either of the competition coordinators, Jean Tucker or Bryan Scichilone; mailed entries must be postmarked by February 14, 2008 at the latest. The judges will be published writers outside Metroversity.
Recognition of Winners- In each general category, prizes of $200 for first place, and $100 for second place, will be awarded in two separate divisions- undergraduate and graduate. In the international category, prizes of $200 for first place, $100 for second place, and $50 for third place will be awarded. Winners will be notified by email and honored at an awards ceremony and public reading in April 2008. Winning entries will also be published in an anthology and winners will receive complimentary copies.
Competition Coordinators-
Jean Tucker or Bryan Scichilone
Jefferson Community and Technical College
109 E. Broadway
Louisville, KY; 40202
Campus Coordinator-
Paul Griner
U of L-Department of English
319 C Bingham Humanities
Louisville, KY 40292
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