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| Visit citypaper.net/writingcontest for more information. |
Rules
Fiction: Stories should be 3,000 words or less and previously unpublished. No more than one submission per entrant.
Poetry: One entry can consist of up to five poems.
Eligibility: Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware residents are invited to participate. Employees and regular freelancers for the City Paper are ineligible, obvs.
Prizes: Winning story and poem will be published in the Dec. 31, 2009, issue of City Paper and featured in a reading. Top two runners-up will be published at citypaper.net. Additional prizes TBA.
Deadline: We must receive your work before 5 p.m. on Fri., Dec. 11. No exceptions.
Entering
Please include a processing fee of $5 made payable to City Paper Writing Contest at the address below or via PayPal to paypal@citypaper.net. Stories 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.
No phone calls please regarding specific entries. Manuscripts will not be returned.
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Under normal circumstances, the announcement that Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed Iranian coming-of-age story Persepolis will be 2010's One Book, One Philadelphia would be nothing but good news. After all, it's the first time OBOP has featured a graphic novel, and the second time in its eight-year history that a female writer's taken center stage to discuss politics, family and other issues central to OBOP's mission.
From the press release, embargoed till this morning:
Originally published in France in two volumes, The Complete Persepolis is Satrapiâs poignant, humorous, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during a time of political revolution and repression. An outspoken and imaginative child, Satrapi grappled with understanding the ruling power in her country as she witnessed the overthrow of the Shahâs regime, the Islamic Revolutionâs triumph, and the chilling impact of war with Iraq. Detailed in black-and-white graphic images and accompanied by brief text, Satrapiâs story continues through her years as a young adult, as she finds her way as an expatriate student in Austria. Her first-person point of view presents readers with a unique glimpse into Iranâs political repression, the inner-workings of a family, and one womanâs experience as an outsider both at home and abroad.
But as we should all know by now, the Philadelphia library system is in great danger of shuttering -- and we hate to think what might happen to OBOP if, on October 2 (that's only a few weeks away, far before the January 2010 OBOP), no action is taken on the city's budget. We'll have to say goodbye to holds, loans, after-school programs for thousands of young Philadelphians and the amazing programming the Free Library books annually.
Some details from freelibrary.org:
Even as we remain hopeful that the State Legislature will act and pass the enabling funding legislation, we wanted to notify all of our customers of this very possible outcome. If you have any questions about impacts to Free Library services, call 215-686-5322, or visit the Free Library of Philadelphia website at www.freelibrary.org. If you have questions about changes to City services, or if you want to be kept informed about this situation, we encourage you to contact Philly 311 by calling 3-1-1 between the hours of 8am and 8 pm Monday-Friday, and 9am-5pm Saturdays, e-mail philly311@phila.gov, or visit the City of Philadelphia website at http://www.phila.gov.
In the meantime, pick up a City Paper on Thursday to read an interview with Satrapi, who will be at the Central Branch of the Free Library on Wednesday, September 23, to read from Persepolis. Go there — it might be the last chance you get for a while.
Persepolis reading/signing, Wed., Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.
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We're giving away a limited number of PAIRS of tickets to Mike Daisey's How Theater Failed America.
Here's what the guide has to say about the show:
From gorgeous new theaters standing empty as cathedrals, to "successfulâ working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Daisey takes stock of the dystopian state of theater in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year. Ship in freeze-dried actors from New York City? Certainly! Create generations of theater professors who have never worked in theater? Absolutely! Earn no pay and have no hope of a living wage? Sign us up! Daisey gives a darkly hilarious and truthful dissection of the art thatâs being made, the legacy we leave to the future, and just who it is the theater believes it's speaking to.
The whens and wheres and whatnots:
Saturday, Sept. 5
8 p.m.
Suzanne Roberts Theatre
480 S. Broad St.
These tickets run $30 a pop, so answering this theater trivia question is well worth your (and your plus-one's) while:
Which Philadelphia theater company produced a play in its 2008-09 season featuring the unlikely meeting of Sigmund Freud and Salvador DalÃ?
Hit me up at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win! Remember, you'll get two (2!) tickets to the Saturday night showing of How Theater Failed America if you can correctly answer the trivia question (and our tickets are limited, so be quick about it). Please include your name and mailing address with your answer.
[...] this page was mentioned by APS Museum (@aps_museum), avenueofthearts (@avenueofthearts), Megan Wendell (@canarymegan), LiveArtsFringe (@liveartsfringe), Philly City Paper (@citypaper) and others. [...]
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CP's Twitter (which you should be following if you aren't already) just announced a killer giveaway:
7 pairs of tix to KILL ME NOW (http://tr.im/xJb7) 9/6, 7 pm @ Arts Bank. E-mail CAROLYN.HUCKABAY@CITYPAPER.NET w/ name/address to WIN!
Hit me up directly for a chance to win, and follow us at twitter.com/citypaper for Fringe news, reviews links, giveaways and much more!
[UPDATE: 3 p.m.]: Contest is over! We have seven winners. Congrats to you all. And keep watching the Clog — we're giving away tons of tickets to Mike Daisey's How Theater Failed America today and tomorrow.
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