Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Deadline: May 1st, 12:00 am CST

Perigee's 2008 Fiction Contest closes in just over 24 hours, at midnight when April becomes May. Be sure to get your stories submitted before this deadline for a chance at $600 in cash prizes, publication in our summer issue, and a Pushcart nomination.

Thomas E Kennedy has generously offered to serve as our guest judge for this competition. You can learn more about him at his website, and you can read some of his recent fiction from our 18th issue.

Contest guidelines are available here, where you can also submit instantly.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Jack Marshall Wins US and Canadian Competition

Results of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's annual United States and Canadian competition have been announced. Among the award winners is Perigee's April 2008 Featured Poet Jack Marshall.

Jack Marshall has published twelve books of poetry, of which Sesame, 1993, was awarded the PEN Center West Award, a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Two other books, Arriving on the Playing Fields of Paradise, 1984, and Gorgeous Chaos; New & Selected Poems, 1965-2001, each won a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. A collection of new poems, The Steel Veil, will be published by Coffee House Press in Fall, 2008. He has also published a memoir, From Baghdad to Brooklyn; Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America, from Coffee House Press, 2005, which was voted a finalist for the PEN Center Award in Creative Non-Fiction. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
 

Sunday, April 06, 2008

5th Anniversary Issue

Perigee 20th IssueOn April 15th Perigee is celebrating its 5th anniversary with an amazing 20th issue containing all new poetry, prose, and visual art. We are also featuring the 2007 Poetry Contest winners, and our recent Pushcart nominees. On top of all that, we've got new features and reviews, and we're wrapping up submissions to our 2008 Fiction Contest.

It will be a great issue, and one which we hope you will enjoy as much as our recent installments. Perigee is up to wondrous things these days, but it is only because of you, our readers, our writers.

Let us continue to celebrate.

Issue 20 Contents:

FICTION–
Cummins, Walter “Randy Andy and Mary Ella”
Drake, Brian E “Don Juan Eats Pastries in the Afternoon”
Drew, Cynthia “A Light in the Water”
Griswold, John “Goodbye, Young Man”
Jersild, Karen “Perfectly Aligned”
Kennedy, Thomas E. “Dancing with Mary Ella”
Marsh, A.R. “Charlie’s First Time”
McCall, Margo “Cabin Fever”
Memmott, David “The Dream Machine.” An Excerpt from Primetime.
Valentine, Neil A “Little Green Stream”

POETRY–
Acharya, Anirban “Drone”
Ahmed, Shurooq Amin "The Other Wife" (3rd place)
Barbere, Danny P “Taking Flowers”
Beach, Sandy “My Pillow: An Alba”
Beach, Sandy “Stillness”
Burchell, Graham “Day of the Dead”
Chaney, Gayla "Stranded Motorist" (2nd place)
Crisafi, Rosemarie “Everything Looks Different in a Carnival Mirror”
Crisafi, Rosemarie “Crows”
Eason, Haines “Four Walls”
Golberg, E. Laura “Lace”
Hilliard, Shanoa “8 Track Tapes and Vinyl Thoughts”
Holmes, Katherine L “Icarus October”
Millner, Jesse “Beyond Death”
Wallisky, Karen "Displacement" (1st Place)

VISUAL ART–
Maxwell, Thomas “Adrift in the Visage”
Wing, Steve “Patina 4”
Wing, Steve “Archangle 2”

MEMOIR–
Shaw, Kevin “The Play’s the Thing, or How I Learned to Act Like a Man in Little League”

NON-FICTION–
Brenna, Duff: Review of Prime Time, by David Memmott
Brenna, Duff: Review of The Other Chekhov, by Okla Elliott and Kyle Minor
Fellows, Sue “Sue’s Column”
Gover, Robert : Review of You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos, Book 1, by Robert R Arthur
Johnson, Greg “Oiling the Tinman’s Jaws: An Interview with David Memmott"
Mood, John “Rilke in American Pop Culture, Part One”
Storie, Jensea "Our Poetry Contest Judge Joseph Millar"


Stay tuned ... big things are in store.

2008 Fiction Contest Closing Soon!

Our 2008 Fiction Contest is closing soon! If you are planning to submit, you only have until the end of April to do so. Why bother? How about a Pushcart nomination, $600 in cash prizes, and publication in this summer's issue of Perigee.

We are honored to have Thomas E Kennedy serve as this year's guest judge.

Click here to read full guidelines and submit through our easy online process.