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THE DZANC SHORT STORY COLLECTION CONTEST
Congratulations to David Galef, winner of the 2008 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Contest. Dzanc Books is currently holding a second contest for writers who want to submit a short story collection to Dzanc. The winning author will be published by Dzanc in late spring/early summer 2012, and receive a $1000 advance. Entry to the Dzanc SSC Contest will require a $20 reading fee, and a full manuscript sent via email to ssc@dzancbooks.org. The entry fee can be paid either by check made out to Dzanc Books, and mailed to 1334 Woodbourne St., Westland, MI 48186 or via PayPal by going here. The contest deadline is December 31, 2009.

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Where all bad poems go to die.  Here is an interesting website.  All great writing came from a stage or stages of really bad writing, and then again some writing just stayed bad.  This is the place where you can publicly share your bad poems with the world. http://trashcanpoems.wordpress.com/