POSTED: Monday, December 27, 2010, 2:00 PM
As we told you last week, our fiction and poetry contests — usually a published-in-December-or-January thing — are back, as a published-in-February thing. Now we are proud to tell you who we've cajoled into judging duty this year.
Poetry Judge: Michelle Taransky works at UPenn's Kelly Writers' House and co-hosts the
Whenever We Feel Like It reading series. She's also the reviews editor at
Jacket Magazine, and has been published everywhere from
VOLT to
Ars Poetica to
Drunken Boat. Her book
Barn Burned, Then won the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize.
Fiction Judges: Matthew Quick is the author of
The Silver Linings Playbook —
which we excerpted in 2008 — and the YA novel
Sorta Like a Rock Star.
Alicia Bessette is the author of
Simply, From Scratch (and a kick-ass solo pianist). Together, this literary husband-and-wife duo run the
Quest for Kindness blog, an island of anti-snark that
took Rick Moody aback.
So there it is, Writing Contestants. Get typing. Deadline is Jan. 19. Entry fee is $5. (Entry = one story or up to 5 poems.) Stories should be around 3,000 words or less. Entries should be e-mailed to gimmefiction@citypaper.net or mailed the old-fashioned way to: City Paper Writing Contest, 123 Chestnut St., Third Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
