THE JOURNAL

       
OSU's award-winning, nationally distributed literary magazine
announces the fourth annual JOURNAL Flash Writing Contest
for alumni of Ohio State (any program, any major, any year).
The prize:  $500 and publication
in the Spring/Summer ‘09 issue of THE JOURNAL.

All submissions will be read by Michelle Herman,
THE JOURNAL's longtime editor of fiction and nonfiction.
All entries are read blind.

Deadline: Postmark September 30, 2008.

A donation of any amount (no amount too small--and no amount, it should go without saying, too large) is the reading fee for this contest.

Please make checks payable to The Ohio State University, and put  THE JOURNAL, fund # 312729, on the memo line.

Submissions can be either fiction or nonfiction, but must be under 1000 words. All submissions must be anonymous, with the author’s name and contact information, year of graduation and degree, and title of work, on a separate cover page.

(Simultaneous submission is fine, provided THE JOURNAL is notified immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere.)

Questions? E-mail thejournal@osu.edu or herman.2@osu.edu.

Send your unpublished story or essay with the reading fee to:
THE JOURNAL
Alumni Flash Writing Contest
Department of English
OSU
164 W. 17th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210

All manuscripts will be considered for publication.
We welcome all styles, subject matter, and forms.

Judge: Michelle Herman is the author, most recently, of the novel Dog (2005) and The
Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood (2005). Her other books include the novel
Missing and the collection of novellas A New and Glorious Life, and her stories and essays
have appeared in a wide range of journals--from American Scholar and Story Quarterly to
O, The Oprah Magazine. She has co-edited THE JOURNAL with poet Kathy Fagan since 1990,
and her reputation as a teacher of creative writing is legion.




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