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Literary Contests @ anderbo.com for 2012

New Contest!
2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award
Postmark Deadline: October 25
For a self-published book (fiction or nonfiction)
Winner receives: $500 cash and publication of a book-excerpt on anderbo.com
Judged by Rick Rofihe; Contest Assistant: Carolyn Wilsey;
Contest Readers: Anderbo Associate Editors Emily Kokoll, Tricia Brock,
H.M. Sheldon-Dean, Hannah Frederick, Angela Polidoro, Anne Heltzel
Reading Fee: $20
Guidelines @ http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/ander...
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7th Year!
2012 Anderbo Poetry Prize
Postmark Deadline: December 15
For up to six unpublished poems
Winner receives: $500 cash and publication on anderbo.com
Judged by Sidney Wade
2012 Contest Assistant: Anderbo Poetry Editor Charity Burns
Reading fee: $10
Guidelines @ http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/ander...
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9th Year!
2012 Open City Magazine pic.twitter.com/8jU6I8QP
RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest
– FREE TO ENTER
Postmark Deadline: December 31
For an unpublished short story (3,500 to 5,000 words)
Winner receives: Trophy, $500 cash and publication on anderbo.com
Judged by Rick Rofihe; Contest Assistant: Carolyn Wilsey; Contest Reader: Jean Hartig
No fee to enter
Guidelines @ http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/no-fe...

Anderbo.com guidelines for submitting work are at
http://www.anderbo.com/guidelines.html

Anderbo is always looking for new voices:

Fiction - submit stories up to 3500 words
Poetry - submit up to 6 poems
"fact" - submit Creative Nonfiction and Personal Essays up to 1500 words
Send submissions to editors@anderbo.com

Got a story of more than 3500 but less than 5000 words?
Go to The 2013 Open City Magazine RRofihe Trophy Short Story Contest @ Anderbo
Now in its 10th Year! No Fee To Enter!
Postmark Deadline: January 7th, 2014
Guidelines @ http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/no-fe...

Read the 2012 RRofihe Trophy-Winning Short Story "Her Voices. Her Room" by Martha Clarkson @ http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/no-fe...

We will also consider nonfiction features, short memoirs, novellas, published-book excerpts, photography, essays, and photo essays.

There were close to 100 entries received for the
2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award contest.
http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/ander...

The ANDERBO 2012 SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD Winner is:
Robert Flatt of Houston, Texas, for the nonfiction book RICE'S OWLS.
Visit Robert Flatt's website here http://www.robertflatt.com/about.html

TOP FINALIST BOOK:
VIGNETTES & POSTCARDS: Writings from The Evening Writing Workshop at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris, Fall 2011, Edited by Erin Byrne and Anna Pook

TWO TOP MEMOIRS:
Albert Flynn DeSilver of Woodacre, California for the memoir BEAMISH BOY
Alan Boreham (North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Peter Jinks (Sydney, Australia), and Bob Rossiter (Pyatt, Arkansas) for the memoir
BEER IN THE BILGES: Sailing Adventures in the South Pacific

THREE TOP NOVEL-ENTRIES:
Shari A. Brady of Vernon Hills, Illinois, for the novel WISH I COULD HAVE SAID GOODBYE
Laine Cunningham of Hillsborough, North Carolina, for the novel MESSAGE STICK
Shannon Hamann, of Brooklyn, New York, for the novel BRAD PITT WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE

15 OTHER ENTRIES OF NOTE:
Felice Cohen of New York City for the novel WHAT PAPA TOLD ME
Frank Talaber of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, for the novel WINDSONGS
Alle Wells of Spencer, North Carolina, for the novel RAILROAD MAN
Cathy Holt of Asheville, North Carolina, for the nonfiction book THE CIRCLE OF HEALING
Christina Rauh Fishburne of El Paso, Texas, for the novel ANCORA
Luisa Smith of San Jose, California, for the novel A FATHER'S LOVE
Rita Cerisi of Wesley Chapel, Florida, for the novel BRING BACK MY BODY TO ME
Marian Manseau Cheatham of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, for the novel MERELY DEE
Jonathan Lynch of Dublin, Ireland, for the novel THE GIFT
Nath Jones of Chicago, Illinois, for the short story collection LOVE & DARTS
J.D.R. Hawkins of Horn Lake, Mississippi for the novel A BEAUTIFUL GLITTERING LIE
Robert P. Johnson, of Santa Barbara, California, for the novel THE MOMENTUM OF FOLLY
Jonathan Lyons of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, for the novel SIGNAL TO NOISE
K. C. Wilson, of Neptune Beach, Florida, for the novel THE ROUTE
Katherine Hauswirth of Deep River, Connecticut, for the nonfiction book HARRIET'S VOICE: A WRITING MOTHER'S JOURNEY

2 ENTRIES OF PROMISE:
Jay Antani of Culver City, California, for the novel THE LEAVING OF THINGS
Niki Tulk of Jersey City, New Jersey, for the novel SHADOWS AND WINGS