SUNY student work sought for literary magazine

Guidelines & Submit

 

Guidelines & Submit

Gandy Dancer publishes writing and visual art by current students of the State University of New York (SUNY) campuses only. We also feature the work of one SUNY alumnus in each edition as our “Post Script.” We only consider previously unpublished work. If selected, Gandy Dancer retains first publication rights. After publication, rights revert back to you and we ask that you credit us with the first publication thereafter. Simultaneous submissions are permitted—if your piece is accepted elsewhere, inform us immediately through Submittable by withdrawing your work or, in the case of poetry and visual art, adding a note to your submission detailing which specific pieces we should no longer keep under consideration. Once an author agreement is signed, work can no longer be withdrawn.

Deadlines: Gandy Dancer uses rolling submission windows. To be considered for fall issues, works must be received by October 8. To be considered for the spring, they must be received by February 23. Any works submitted after these deadlines will be considered for the following issue.

We will accept one submission per genre from an author at a time, but feel free to submit to as many different genres as you like. Text submissions must be formatted as .doc, .docx, or .pdf. Please only use .txt or .rtf if absolutely necessary.

Fiction: We accept submissions up to 25 pages.  Stories must be double-spaced in Times New Roman or a similar font. We are unlikely to accept genre or fan fiction, though stranger things have happened…

Creative Nonfiction: We accept submissions up to 25 pages.  CNF; must be double-spaced in Times New Roman or a similar font. All CNF submissions will be considered for the Parry Family Nonfiction Prize: an award of $100, along with publication in the journal, for the best essay published in Gandy Dancer this academic year.

Poetry: We accept submissions of three to five poems. Poems must be submitted as a single document in Garamond or a similar font. Please do not submit poems separately. Format as you would like to see in print.

Visual Art: We accept up to five submissions of art in the most popular file formats, such as .jpg, .tiff, .png, and .pdf. Quality photos of three-dimensional art are welcomed too. Submitted images should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi and be at least 5 inches wide. Make sure all your works are titled!

We’d like to get to know you, so please include a third-person bio in your cover letter, seventy-five words or less. Here’s a template if you get stuck:

Dean Tripp might be a senior at  SUNY Geneseo. He’s studying creative writing when he’s not at home in Argyle, New York ignoring nature. He plays too many video games and binges Netfix ad nauseam. 

If you have any questions, please contact our managing editors: gandydancer@geneseo.edu. Please allow four months before querying our editors regarding submissions.

Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric

YOUNG SCHOLARS IN WRITING

Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric publishes research and theoretical articles from undergraduates on writing, writers, rhetoric, discourse, language, and related topics.

“Young scholars” refers not to age but to experience with research in writing, rhetoric, and related topics. We invite all undergraduates to submit their research on these subjects!

 

 

Young Scholars in Writing will begin accepting submissions for Vol. 16 in January, 2018.

When we reopen for submissions, visit our Online Submissions page or see the About page.

We will be accepting submissions to our Articles section, our Spotlight on First-Year Writing section (for research by students in first-year college writing courses), and our Comments & Response section (for responses to articles published in previous issues of YSW).

Submissions for Volume 16 will be accepted from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2018.

Visit our Facebook page for updates and community.

Congratulations to the many young scholars who have published in the pages of our journal!

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Young Scholars is generously hosted and supported by Montana State University and edited by Dr. Doug Downs. Please address all inquiries to Dr. Downs at YoungScholars.Editor@gmail.com.

Young Scholars in Writing

Young Scholars in Writing is pleased to announce that Dr. Doug Downs at Montana State University will be taking the reins as editor of the journal beginning with volume 13. The author (with Elizabeth Wardle) of the influential Writing about Writing textbook as well as countless essays and book chapters, Dr. Downs will bring his keen intellect, boundless energy, and astute eye for ground-breaking ideas to the work of editing YSW. Dr. Downs has been a member of YSW’s editorial board since 2008, and he helped launch the journal’s “Spotlight on First-Year Writing.” The editorial board is feels fortunate indeed to have such an outstanding scholar, teacher, and colleague serving as YSW’s leader.

All editorial queries and submissions for volume 13 can be directed to Dr. Downs atyoungscholars.editor@gmail.com.

Young Scholars in Writing new website can be found at Montana State University.

http://arc.lib.montana.edu/ojs/index.php/Young-Scholars-In-Writing/index

Boston Review Aura EStrada Short Story Contest

Aura Estrada Short Story Contest

Ends in 5 days, 9 hours

$20.00 USD

Deadline: October 1, 2017

Judge: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Prize: $1,500

Aura Estrada (1977–2007) was a promising young Mexican writer and student, and the wife of Francisco Goldman. This prize is meant to honor her memory by supporting other burgeoning writers. Aura’s writing, and more about her life, can be found here.

Complete guidelines:
The winning author will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published online on Boston Review’s Web site. Runners up may also be published. Stories should not exceed 5,000 words and must be previously unpublished. Mailed manuscripts should be double-spaced and submitted with a cover note listing the author’s name, address, and phone number. No cover note is necessary for online submission. Names should not appear on the stories themselves. Any author writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current student, former student, relative, or close friend of the judge. Simultaneous submissions are not permitted; if you submit your story to another publication, you must withdraw it from our submissions manager or inform us by email. Submissions will not be returned, and submissions may not be modified after entry. A non-refundable $20 entry fee, payable to Boston Review in the form of a check or money order or by credit card, must accompany each story entered. All submitters receive a complimentary copy of our special literary edition on global dystopias edited by Junot Díaz. Submissions must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2017. The winner will be notified in the spring of 2018 and publicly announced by July on the Boston Review Web site.

Online submissions are strongly preferred; however, they can also be mailed to:

Short Story Contest, Boston Review
PO Box 425786
Cambridge, MA 02142

Read winning stories from past years:
Mikayla Ávila Vilá’s Trumpeteers (2016)
Barbara Hamby’s Dole Girl (2015)
Leslee Becker’s Severance (2014)
Kerry-Lee Powell’s There Are Two Pools You May Drink From (2013)
Alexandra Thom’s The Piano (2012)
Kalpana Narayanan’s Aviator on the Prowl (2011)
Adam Sturtevant’s How Do I explain? (2010)
Jessica Treglia’s Canceled (2009)
Patricia Engel’s Desaliento (2008)
Padma Viswanathan’s Transitory Cities (2007)
Tiphanie Yanique’s How to Escape from a Leper Colony (2006)
Lisa Chipongian’s Intramuros (2005)
D.S. Sulaitis’s If It’s Anywhere, It’s Behind Us (2004)
Gale Renee Walden’s Men I Don’t Talk to Anymore (2003)
Manini Nayar’s Home Fires (2002)
Kate Small’s One Night a Year (2001)
Girija Tropp’s The Pretty Ones Have Their Uses (2001)
Pauls Toutonghi’s Regeneration (2000)
Jacob M. Appel’s Shell Game with Organs (1999)
Kris Saknussemm’s Unpracticed Fingers Bungle Sadly Over Tiny Feathered Bodies (1998)
Kiki Delancey’s Jules Jr Michael Jules Jr (1997)
Mary Ann Jannazo’s No Runs, No Hits, No One Left on Base (1996)
Tom Paine’s The Milkman & I (1995)
Michael Dorris’s Layaway (1994)

The Norton Writer’s Prize

Hello,
This is a great opportunity for students. There is more info available at:
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/norton-writers-prize/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Norton Writer’s Prize will be awarded annually for an outstanding essay written by an undergraduate. Literacy narratives, literary and other textual analyses, reports, profiles, evaluations, arguments, memoirs, proposals, mixed-genre pieces, and more: any excellent writing done for an undergraduate writing class will be considered.

The winner will receive a cash award of $1,500. Two runners-up will each receive a cash award of $1,000.

The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2017.

Competition for the Norton Writer’s Prize is open to undergraduates enrolled during the 2016-2017 academic year in an accredited 2- or 4-year college or university. Employees of Norton and their children are not eligible, nor are children of Norton authors. Please refer to the official contest rules at the bottom of this page for further eligibility requirements.

Each entry must be accompanied by a cover letter on departmental stationery from a nominating instructor. Electronic submissions must include an attached scanned cover letter of departmental stationary. Each instructor may nominate only one student essay. The nominating instructor must provide a one-paragraph summary of the essay’s merits and should type out his or her name, address, phone number, email address, and title. Please refer to the official contest rules at the bottom of this page for more details.

Submissions may be made electronically or by mail. Each student may submit only one essay.

Printed & Mailed Student Essays: must be printed out single-sided and double-spaced with all pages numbered. Entries should be between 1,000 and 3,000 words in length. The student’s name should appear on a separate piece of paper and should not appear on any headers or footers. Students must provide a cover sheet with their name, permanent address (where they can be reached during summer months), permanent phone number and email address, projected year of graduation, and title of the paper. Please refer to the official contest rules at the bottom of this page for more details.

Entries must be postmarked no later than June 15, 2017, and sent to:

The Norton Writer’s Prize
Attn: Marilyn Moller
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110

Multimedia, Electronic Submissions: must be between 1,000 and 3,000 words in length. Students must provide their name, with permanent address (where they can be reached during summer months), phone number and email address, projected year of graduation, and title of the paper in a separate email accompanying the document. Please refer to the official contest rules at the bottom of this page for more details.

Electronic entries must be sent no later than June 15, 2017, with the subject line: Writer’s Prize Nomination and emailed to: NortonWritersPrize@wwnorton.com

Winners will be notified by March 1, 2018.

Norton reserves the right to publish submitted essays, but all students will own the copyright to their work.

I write to imagine things differently—
and in imagining things differently
perhaps the world will change.
—Terry Tempest Williams

JoNelle Toriseva
Assistant Professor of English
Director of English, Communications & Media Arts
SUNY-GCC
B255, Humanities
One College Road
Batavia, NY 14020
Phone: (585) 343-0055 ext. 6627
Email: jrtoriseva@genesee.edu

CURI Spring 2017 Colloquium Registration Open

Registration is now open for the CCURI Spring 2017 Colloquium. Please see below for registration information and registration instructions

Date: April 26-29, 2017
Location: Hilton Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport Hotel & Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Registration link: https://www.etouches.com/ccurisps17
Registration deadline: March 24, 2017

ScholarCon Call for Papers

Undergraduate Research Community (URC)

Call for Undergraduate Student Research Papers
for presentation at ScholarCon

Hilton Orlando, Florida

June 9-12, 2016

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Undergraduate students are eligible to submit research manuscripts, papers, and reports for presentation at the 2016 Research Session at ScholarCon, sponsored by Kappa Omicron Nu.

Research not only bridges the gap between knowledge and experience but has the benefit of laying the groundwork for career exploration and development. The opportunity for undergraduates to participate in a national conference is an added value to the overall educational experience and to the process of self-discovery.

Themes

• Integrative, cross specialization research
• Service-learning research
• Traditional research in the specializations (research manuscripts, research papers, research reports.) See Guidelines for Submissions: http://www.kon.org/urc/urc_authorguidelines.html.

Criteria For Selection – The following five criteria will be used in selecting the papers and reports to be presented:

• Scholarly presentation
• Justification for the study
• Logical organization
• Mastery of the subject
• Appropriate documentation

Specifications – Manuscripts, papers, and reports must meet the following specifications:

• Manuscripts, papers, and reports submitted for consideration may describe student projects or research from seminars, independent studies, research assistantships, or class projects in the student’s major, and must be completed between January 1, 2015 and April 15, 2016.
• Manuscripts, papers, and reports should be from four to six pages in length and the text must be double-spaced.
• List keywords (5-8) on the cover page. The main purpose of keywords is to enable successful searching in a database for the main message of your paper. When selecting keywords always think about how any reader might interrogate the database.
• Only manuscripts, papers, and reports from completed research projects will be considered for the award. Manuscripts, papers, and reports may be submitted once.
• Students who completed their degrees in August 2015 and December 2015 and have graduated are still eligible to be considered for this opportunity.
• APA guidelines (other style manuals may be used)

Application and Review Procedures – The manuscript, paper, or report must be submitted electronically to urc@kon.org.

For further information, contact Lisa W. Booth at
(T) 517.351.8335 – urc@kon.org.

• Applications and submissions will be accepted until slots are filled.
• A cover page must be submitted to identify the author’s name, address, phone number, e-mail address, name of college/university, name of faculty mentor, name of faculty member who served as the writing adviser, student status (e.g., junior), and parent’s address and telephone for emergency contact. No identification of the author or institution should appear on the pages of the application.
• In the case of multiple authors—student authors are preferred; a professor as a last author is acceptable.
• A committee composed of faculty mentors of undergraduate research will review submitted applications. Selection of 8-12 papers for presentation will be completed and authors notified by May 15, 2016.
• Applicants should understand that selection carries the obligation of presenting the manuscript, paper, or report.

Presentation at URC Research Conference – The students whose manuscripts, papers, and reports are selected will present at ScholarCon. Oral presentations will be 8-10 minutes in length with some time for questions and answers. Presentations may include 4 – 8 transparencies or PowerPoint slides for visual support of major concepts and findings. Presenters are responsible for expenses incurred in attending the research conference.  The top two presenters will be awarded a plaque and monetary gift.

Register for the Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative Spring 2016 Student Colloquium!

Hello,

Registration is now open for the Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative Spring 2016 Student Colloquium! This colloquium provides an opportunity for community college students to give poster and oral presentations on scientific research they have conducted in STEM fields.

Registration Link: https://www.etouches.com/s2016colloquium

Registration will remain open until February 22^nd or until space is full.

Please feel free contact me with any questions!

Sincerely,

Heather

Heather Bock

Project Director, CCURI

Finger Lakes Community College

3325 Marvin Sands Dr

Canandaigua, NY 14424

(585) 785-1289

bockhs@flcc.edu

www.ccuri.org

www.facebook.com/ccuriusa

Undergrad Writing Awards

Iris N. Spencer Poetry Awards

Deadline: March 15, 2016

The Iris N. Spencer Poetry Award and Myong Cha Son Haiku Award welcome unpublished, original poems.

Submissions to the Iris N. Spencer Award should be composed in the traditional modes of meter, rhyme and received forms. Both competitions will award a first place prize of $1,500 and a $500 runner-up prize.

The Rhina P. Espaillat Poetry Award celebrates original poems written in Spanish or translations of Spanish poems to English. First prize is $500.

Submission Guidelines:

The annual competition is open to all undergraduate poets who are enrolled in a college or university in the United States.

The author’s name, address, email address, telephone number and the school you attend should be submitted on a separate
sheet.

There is no fee to enter. Submissons may be a combination of poems for the Iris N. Spencer Award, the
Myong Cha Son Haiku Award, or the Rhina P. Espaillat Poetry Award. Multiple entries are accepted.

All submissions must be submitted no later than March 15, 2016 and sent electronically to poetryATwcupaDOTedu

or mailed to:

WCU Poetry Awards

Poetry House

West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383

 

The College Undergraduate Poetry (CUP) Competition

National Federation of State Poetry Societies

 

The College Undergraduate Poetry (CUP) Competition offers two awards of $500 plus chapbook publication for manuscripts of ten poems each by college/university undergraduates. The awards include the Edna Meudt Memorial Award and the Florence Kahn Memorial Award.

Submission Description:

Undergraduates must mail four copies of a manuscript of ten original, unpublished poems, plus a completed application form, signed and witnessed by a notary public, to the College Undergraduate Poetry Competition Chair between December 1 through January 31 (postmark deadline): Shirley Blackwell, Chair, P. O. Box 1352, Los Lunas, NM 87031, sonneteer@earthlink.net.

Prize: $500, publication, and seventy-five copies, invitation to read at the 2016 NFSPS Convention, $300 travel stipend, complimentary registration, dinner, and one-year membership; book release at NFSPS convention
Simultaneous Submissions: Allowed
Submissions Method:

• Postal: Shirley Blackwell, Chair, P. O. Box 1352, Los Lunas, NM 87031

Entry Fee: $0
Deadline: January 31, 2016
Website: http://www.nfsps.com/scholarship.htm
Posted: September 4, 2015