Category Archives: Writing Opportunities

Contests and challenges that we think are relevant to the Accents audience.

Writing in Animal Time with Greg Pape

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Writing in Animal Time with Greg Pape

Animals can offer the poet a means of connection to the natural world and our own deepest natures. 

By imagining the lives of animals or trying to see from an animal’s point of view we can gain perspective and insight into our own lives.  Contemplation of animals’ lives reinforces our sense of connection and empathy with all other creatures, including people.  In this short course we will discuss four facets of writing in animal time: observation, recollection, meditation, and description.  And we will read and consider several poems as examples or models for generating our own work. Electronic copy of Animal Time is included in the enrolment fee.

Thursday, 4/14 6:00 to 7:30pm

$30.00

Online

To register, go to:

https://on.zoom.us/e/view/N6iNkBwnQA-TkN0xBTVSLQ?id=N6iNkBwnQA-TkN0xBTVSLQ

Greg Pape is the author of Four Swans, Animal Time, American Flamingo (Crab Orchard Open Competition Award), Sunflower Facing the Sun (Edwin Ford Piper Prize, now called the Iowa Prize), Storm Pattern, Black Branches, Border Crossings (Pitt Poetry Series), and other books.  His work has received the Discovery/The Nation Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, the Richard Hugo Memorial Poetry Award, the Pushcart Prize, and other awards.  His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Colorado Review, Field, The Florida Review, Iowa Review, The Louisville Review, Miramar, The New Yorker, Poetry, and others.

Updates and Announcements from Accents Publishing

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Dear Friends and Fans of Accents Publishing,

Happy Spring! In Kentucky we’re starting to see new leaves on trees. We spent a busy and productive winter and can’t wait to tell you about our latest accomplishments, opportunities and announcements. Please, read on.

 

New Book

Novella Contest Results

Literary Accents Update

Poetry Class and Manuscript Analysis Workshop

 

New Book

We’re very excited to present Christopher McCurry’s first full-length poetry collection, Open Burning.  It’s a gorgeous hardcover volume, and the poems detail the fallout of a young couple’s divorce. Click on the title to read a sample poem and to learn more about the book and the author. To browse our catalog, please click here.

 

Novella Contest Results

Accents Publishing is proud to announce the results of its Inaugural Novella Competition!

The winning novella is Homegoing, by Toni Ann Johnson!

Toni Ann Johnson will receive the $500.00 award and publication of her manuscript in a separate book volume. Those who have purchased in advance a copy of the winning novella will receive it as soon as the book is out.

We read many wonderful submissions and selected the following manuscripts as finalists:

Under the Seal, by Carol Mauriello

A Hollow, Muscular Organ, by Meg Files

Cheeseburgers, by Dean Crawford

City of Foam, by Ryan Slater

Moonlit Landing, by Ari McKenna

Things Are Not So Ill as They Might Have Been, by Scott Winokur

Accents Publishing is offering publication to the first three of these finalists.

Tremendous gratitude to everyone who sent manuscripts for consideration. We appreciate your trust and support. Please keep in touch. We hope to read your work again in the future.

 

Literary Accents Call for submissions

We’re still finishing up Issue #3 of Literary Accents. We hope to be able to send it to the printer within weeks.

We’re still reading submissions for Issue #4. The theme of Issue #4 is “breakup and heartbreak”. Send 3 – 5 poems to accents.publishing@gmail.com by April 30th. We look forward to reading your work.

 

Poetry Class

Katerina Stoykova (Owner and Senior Editor of Accents Publishing) is seeking eight to ten committed poets for a fast-paced six-week writing class in person or online. In each session, the poets will workshop a poem, then listen to a craft lecture and/or participate in a writing exercise. March 26th to April 23rd. Thursdays, 6 – 8 pm at The Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center. Price for the six-week class: $120. To reserve your space in the class, write to accents.publishing@gmail.com. Deadline to apply: March 16th

 

Manuscript Analysis Workshop and a Poetry Class

Looking for 4 – 5 poets with nearly-ready book-length manuscripts for a weekend-long manuscript analysis workshop lead by Katerina Stoykova (Owner and Senior Editor of Accents). You can participate in person or remotely via Skype. Price: $250. For more information or to reserve your spot, please write to accents.publishing@gmail.com. Exact dates TBD based on participant availability.  Deadline to apply: March 31st

 

Thank you, everyone, for reading to the very end of this email. We appreciate you! Best wishes from the team at Accents Publishing.

 

Exciting Opportunities for Learning

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Accents Publishing School of Unlimited Learning

 

Poetry Class

Katerina Stoykova is seeking eight to ten committed poets for a fast-paced six-week writing class. In each session, the poets will workshop a poem, then listen to a craft lecture and/or participate in a writing exercise.

March 26th to April 23rd. Thursdays, 6-8pm at The Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center.

Price for the six-week class: $120

To reserve your space in the class, write to accents.publishing@gmail.com.

Deadline to apply: March 16th

 

Manuscript Analysis Workshop

Katerina Stoykova is seeking four poets with nearly-ready book-length manuscripts for a weekend-long manuscript analysis workshop. Each participant will read and comment on everyone else’s manuscript and receive feedback from all participants and the workshop leader.

April 18th and 19th. 2-6pm at The Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center.

Price $250.

For more information or to reserve your spot, write to accents.publishing@gmail.com.

Deadline to apply: March 31st

 

Online Workshop Opportunity

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Accents Publishing is offering a two-hour online workshop taught by owner and Senior Editor Katerina Stoykova. The topic is “Developing Your Poetry Collection: From Concept to Publication”. Description below.

Sunday, 10th of November, 2-4pm.
$40.00
Write to accents.publishing@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

Before you get up in front of an audience and read from your book, both you and your manuscript go through various stages. This workshop is designed to provide an insight to the considerations and skills necessary to successfully complete each stage and move on to the next. Be ready to learn what to expect, and hear tips on how not to get stuck, how to recognize if you’re making progress, how to make sure you’re focusing on what you have control over, how to keep yourself motivated through all this, and more.

“Where I’m From” Poetry Submission Deadline December 1st

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image from the Kentucky Arts Council website

image from the Kentucky Arts Council website

Accents readers might be interested in “Where I’m From”: A Poetry of Place, which is an annual celebration of Kentucky poetry originating from George Ella Lyon’s poem of the same name.

One of the goals of this celebration is to collect a “Where I’m From” poem from all 120 counties in Kentucky. For more information and rules, please click here. For a list of your county’s representative, click here.

The deadline to submit a poem is December 1st, 2016.

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Writer’s Block Prize in Poetry: Deadline a Week Away

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Louisville Literary Arts logoThis year’s Writer’s Block Festival Prize of $500 will be awarded in poetry and the deadline is September 15th, one week from today. Please click here for more information.

Aside from the cash prize, The winner of the contest will be featured in The Louisville Review, the literary magazine of Spalding University’s MFA in Writing.

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