CONTEST
Copper Nickel is pleased to announce its first-ever contests in poetry and fiction.
The poetry contest will be judged by Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of Native Guard. The winner will receive $1000 and publication in Copper Nickel 15 in Spring 2011.
The fiction contest will be judged by Ron Carlson, author of At the Jim Bridger. The winner will receive $1000 and publication in Copper Nickel 15 in Spring 2011.
UPDATE 7/1/10
After more than a month of reading and re-reading and debating and comparing, we now have a list of finalists for our fiction and our poetry contests. E-mails are going out to all who entered.
To protect the integrity of the process, we are announcing only the titles of the finalist entries, and not the names of the authors, so these will remain hidden from the final judges. We will update this list, announcing the names of finalists once a decision has been received from each of the judges in late August.
FICTION FINALISTS
"Life Study"
"The Night Garden"
"Aliens"
"There's Something Else Now"
"The Preservation of Objects Lost at Sea"
"Hotel Grand Abyss"
"Trash"
"A Purposeful Violence"
"Eye of the Night"
"Our Youthful Selves"
"Hotel"
POETRY FINALISTS
"Jacob's Ladder"
"Archaeology of Willendorf / Ascendency of Willendorf"
"When A Series of Pulses"
"Photograph of Faulkner"
"Her Hand, The Compass"
"When I Was A Child"
"Dear Ghost"
"Culture and Anarchy"
"The Epidemics of Desire"
"At Zarha's Salon for Ladies"
"A Patterning of Fire, a Gathering of Ash"
"I'm Singing This Poem"
"If the Dead Could Just Hang Around"
HOW TO SUBMIT
Step One: submit your manuscript using our submission manager system, accessible here: http://www.copper-nickel.org/contest/smgr/index.php.
Even if you have submitted to Copper Nickel before, you will have to re-register to submit to the contest. This only takes about 2 minutes, and it ensures your manuscript will not be lost.
Step Two: Once you've submitted your manuscript via Submission Manger, you will need to mail your entry fee, as a check or money order in US dollars made payable to "University of Colorado," to us here:
Copper Nickel
Campus Box 175
P O Box 173364
Denver CO 80217-3364
Please write the title/s of your entry on the memo line of your check.
We will discard entries without associated entry fees on May 30, 2010.
FAQ
Who will be vetting the entries? The faculty editors of Copper Nickel, including Brian Barker, Nicky Beer, Jennifer S. Davis, and Jake Adam York, will select the pool of finalists.
How many finalists will be named? Approximately 10-15 in each genre.
Can I submit more than one entry? Certainly. Additional entries are welcome, each with its own entry fee. If you submit more than one entry, we will simply extend your subscription, unless you direct us to send the additional subscriptions elsewhere.
Are there word or page limits for stories? No.
When must my entry fee arrive? As long as it's postmarked by May 31st, all is well. We will conduct an internal audit on June 10th and inform any author whose entry fee has not arrived.
