Fall Lines – a literary convergence is a new literary journal based in Columbia, SC and presented by Jasper Magazine in partnership with Richland Library, the University of South Carolina Press, Muddy Ford Press, and One Columbia. With a single, annual publication, Fall Lines is distributed in lieu of Jasper Magazine’s regularly scheduled summer issue. […]
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, America’s last large-scale romantic-style garden, will award prizes totaling more than $2,000 to poets – young and old – who best capture Magnolia as an idyllic “garden of romance.” Judges will award prizes to poets who emulate the sensibility of romantic poets, stir the emotions and celebrate the natural world. Entries […]
Dear Educators: LILA would like to draw your attention to South Carolina’s official statewide competition for the 2013-2014 Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. Contestants must register with the S.C. Arts Commission by Friday, November 1st. To register, please visit http://www.southcarolinaarts.com/poetry/outloud.shtml. Just a reminder for teachers, coordinators, administrators, and regional partners to mark your calendars! […]
The Arts Council of York County presents its 10th Annual Literary Competition, highlighting the best in short stories and poetry from across the Southeast United States; and the 2nd Annual Youth Literary Competition, highlighting the best in short stories and poetry from across York County, SC. The postmark deadline for entries is Friday, September 20, […]
Human trafficking is the fastest growing crime in the world. Criminals buy, sell and trade human beings into the commercial sex industry and forced labor. Take up your pen to help combat this horrific form of modern-day slavery by submitting a poem to the Poetry For Their Freedom Contest on human trafficking and victims’ restoration […]
The Charleston-based organization, People Against Rape (PAR) is seeking submissions for a poetry competition designed to help raise awareness about the need to speak out against sexual violence. With the theme of “Shatter the Silence. Stop the Violence”, poets are invited to submit a one page poem, copyright free only, of no more than 32 […]
The Charleston-based organization, People Against Rape (PAR) is seeking submissions for a poetry competition designed to help raise awareness about the need to speak out against sexual violence. With the theme of “Shatter the Silence. Stop the Violence”, poets are invited to submit a one page poem, of no more than 32 lines, to the […]
LILA is putting out A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for a chapbook of poems dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. This project is sponsored by LILA (Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts) and all proceeds from the sale of the chapbook will be donated to services helping survivors […]
This in from Dr. Ed Madden, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina: “I”m looking for poems, good poems– for a chapbook, for a performance, and for Jasper, the Columbia arts magazine. (Please feel free to forward this.) “First, I helping to organize a poetry component to the annual “What’s Love” Valentine’s […]
