Washington, D.C. Metro Job Bank
Writing Opportunities
Please review the chapter's Career Seeking Guidelines before beginning your search.
Call for Writing
Description: Seeking 66 original, unpublished flash fiction stories for a story collection to be published spring 2006. Stories between 250-1000 words. No previously published works. $200 1st prize; $100 2nd prize; $25 3rd prize
Contact: For more information, contact thepaperjourney.com/blink.php
Application: Submission deadline 12/15/05
Annual Poetry Award
Description: For previously unpublished poem. $500 award + publication
Website: www.mertonfoundation.org
Application: Resume and letter to Helen Graffy, Merton Foundation, Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, 2117 Payne Street, Louisville, KY 40206. Submission deadline 12/31/05.
Call for Writing
Description: Seeking fiction/essay (2.5K words), drama (10 pages), poems (10 pages/5 poems), B/W or color photos (max 5) for spring issues.
Application: Submissions/contact info/bio to Patricia Cleary Miller, Rockhurst Review, 1100 Rockhurst Road, Kansas City, MO 64110. Application deadline 01/15/05.
Modern Language Book Prize
Description: Seeking scholarly book, outstanding literary or linguistic study or critical biography published in 2005 in any field of Eng, other modern language/lit. $1K prize, certificate. Open to members of Modern Language Association only.
Application: Send 6 copies, confirmation of membership to James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association, 26 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10004; fax 646-458-0030; www.mla.org; email awards@mla.org. Application deadline 03/01/06.
Black American Book Prize
Description: Seeking scholarly study of Black American literature/culture. Required book publication in 2005.
Application: Submit 4 copies to William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association, 26 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10004; fax 646-458-0030; www.mla.org; email awards@mla.org. Application deadline:03/01/06.
Literary Non-Fiction, Poetry, Memoirs
Description: Covering fiction, nonfiction, poetry for semiannual publication. Fiction/nonfiction under 20 K words, poetry up to 10 lines.
Website: www.uaa.Alaska.edu/aqr
Application: For information, contact Alaska Quarterly Review, University of Alaska-Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508; Email ayaqr@uaa.Alaska.edu. Application deadline 05/15/06.
Other Potential Job Sites
(these sites are updated weekly by outside agencies)
U.S. Senate: http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/visiting/a_three_sections_with_
Center for Strategic and International Studies: http://www.csis.org/about/jobs_interns/
Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program: http://www.heritage.org/about/departments/ylp.cfm
