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The 2004-2005 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest

Entries are being read for the 2004-05 Poetry Book Contest!

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Eligibility:
Open to all poets and writers whose work is in English.
Entries may not be previously or simultaneously published.
Staff members and their family members are ineligible to enter.

Deadline: December 31, 2005 (postmark)

Prizes:
$750 and the winning collection will be published by Many Mountains Moving in 2006.

MMM and its guest judge, TBA, will select the winner of the Third Annual Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest.

Entry Requirements:
Submissions must be previously unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable.
Send manuscripts of 50 to 100 pages of poetry.
Individual poems may have been published previously with permission from publisher to reprint each poem, but entire group of poems may not have been published as a collection.
Author's name must NOT appear anywhere on the manuscript.
Name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and title of poetry collection must appear on the cover letter.

Submission:
Send submissions to:
Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest, Book Contest,
Many Mountains Moving Press/ English / Campus Box 109 / University of Northern Colorado / Greeley, CO 80639
Include SASE with sufficient postage for response. Manuscripts will not be returned.

Entry fee: $25. This nonrefundable fee includes two issues of MMM.

EARLY entries postmarked by 10/15/05 also receive the first MMM Press Poetry Winner, They Sing at Midnight by Alison Stone.

Entry fee is reduced to $20 for past and present MMM contributors.

To order the first contest-winning book, They Sing at Midnight (2003), by Alison Stone, please visit MMM Press for more information.

To order invisible sister, he poetry book by Jeffrey Ethan Lee, please visit MMM Press for more information.

To order the second contest-winning book, Feeding the Fear of the Earth, by Patrick Lawler, send queries to [email protected] or visit MMM Press for more information.

2005 Poetry

& Flash Fiction

Contests:

$200 prizes plus publication online and in print (2006).

All entrants will receive 2 free back issues in January 2006.

POETRY WINNER: "Tilt" by Renato Rosaldo.

(more about the winner)

Top 5 Finalist poems:

"Death in Seven Movements" and "Face" by Marj Hahne

"In the Name of Cleanliness" by Aimee Norton"

4325 Baltimore Ave." by Adam Fieled, and

"Encounter" by Mark Thalman

 

Semi-finalists:

"Rest Stop" and "Another Shirley Temple" by Diane Sahms Guarnieri

"We Regret to Inform You" by Trenton Hickman

"Casual" by Tamara Oakman, and

"Snapshot" by Nancy Tupper Ling.

 

 

 

THE FLASH FICTION WINNER!

Jeff Fearnside "Nuclear Toughskins"

(more about the winner)

Flash Fiction honorable mentions:

"Buyer Be Wary," by Karen F. Groves

"Extraordinary Whiteness," by Andrew McNabb

 

The top Flash Fiction finalists:

Jenny Lentz,"Natural"

John E. Branseum, "Babies"

William Donnelly, "This is Not a Ghost Story"

Deb R. Lewis, "Waiting at One End of Time"

Jennifer L Schultz "Murder"

Sandra Maddux-Creech "Soul Cats on the EL"

Sarah Blackman, "Weather" [withdrawn by author]

The winners in each category receive $200 and publication in the first MMM Online issue as well as the new MMM in print.

Prizes: $200 cash prize for the best poem & $200 cash prize for the best flash fiction.
* Publication online in the first MMM web issue in 2006 and publication in print in 2006.
* The top five finalists in each genre will also be published online.

* ALL entrants will receive 2 free back issues in January as well as a printed announcement of the winners.

Finall Flash Fiction Judge: Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of Roughhouse (Kaya Press) and Tetched (Behler Publications)

Final Poetry Judge: Marcus Cafagña, author of The Broken World (National Poetry Series winner) and Roman Fever (Invisible Cities Press).