NORTHERNPROS.COM ANNOUNCES STORY CONTEST
TO LAUNCH LITERARY REVIEW
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CARMEL VALLEY, CA - NorthernPros.com is proud to announce a short story contest to launch a journal of writing that champions the work of innovative and accomplished writers from around the world.
The deadline for short story submissions of up to 20 pages is January 20, 2006. The contest judge is Peter Orner*, award-winning author of Esther Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2001). Entry is $10 per story. The winning story from this contest will receive a $250 award and be published in Cadillac Cicatrix next summer. Announcements will be made online and in journals.
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“Peter Orner is the perfect judge for this contest,” said Benjamin Spencer, founding editor of NorthernPros Creations and Cadillac Cicatrix. “Peter’s prose is crafted with these delicate emotional grenades. His stories continue detonating even after you’ve finished reading. That’s what we want from this contest and Cadillac Cicatrix.”
Orner is the 2002-2003 winner of the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He holds both an MFA from the University of Iowa and a degree in law.
Spencer’s theory for the new literary journal is simple – “start a grassroots effort to promote and publish incredible writing.” Spencer, who has been editing and designing news and literary publications since 1995 said, “The writing is most important. It’s not enough to simply publish writers anymore. The writing has to leap like a frog chasing a fly down the street.”
“The unique thing about Cadillac Cicatrix is that it’s giving attention to new and accomplished writers and the Monterey Peninsula,” said Wendy Goldman*, a screenplay analyst with NorthernPros. “Carmel and Monterey and Big Sur have expansive literary histories. We are very proud to contribute to that past and the future of the peninsula’s literary reputation with this journal.”
Chaz Reetz-Laiolo* is a prose and screenplay editor with NorthernPros. “It is so important that authors are encouraged to develop the craft of story. The best stories are retold for generations,” he said. Reetz-Laiolo was a Merit Scholar at the acclaimed School at the Art Institute in Chicago.
With a publishing date set for summer 2006, NorthernPros Creations hopes to announce the winner and three finalists next spring. Cadillac Cicatrix will be published online and distributed nationally in print.
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* Peter Orner is the 2002-2003 winner of the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection, Esther Stories, was a New York Times Notable Book, a Finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award, and winner of the Samuel Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction. Orner holds both an MFA from the University of Iowa and a degree in law. His work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize Anthology and has appeared in a number of national publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and The Paris Review. Orner currently lives in San Francisco and teaches at San Francisco State University.
* Cadillac Cicatrix was founded by former students of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder; the School at the Art Institute, Chicago; and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, Iowa City.
* Wendy A. Goldman has held executive positions at Magnusfilms; The Polone Company; The Knight Company, and the Monterey County Film Commission.
* Chaz Reetz-Laiolo was a Writer’s Grant recipient from the Vermont Studio Center. He has a story forthcoming in Fourteen Hills Review.
* Benjamin North Spencer has been a member of the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa; the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics; the Unpublished Underground Gallery, New York; and the Monterey County Film Commission, California.
