Bananagrams® Contest - First Entry!
Posted by Kate on June 27th, 2010 filed in Writing, Updates, Contests, Uncategorized
Newport Review’s editors are excited to announce that we have had our first entry in the 2010 Bananagrams® Writing Contest. As promised, the first writer to send in her entry to the contest will receive a special thank-you package from Newport Review, including a book by one of our published authors, a matted print by one of our featured photographers and a Newport Review bumper sticker.
Our fortunate first entrant is Rebecca Webber of Cranston, RI. She submitted a creative nonfiction story for her entry. Congratulations, Rebecca, and good luck in the contest!
If you haven’t submitted your entry yet, please take a look at our Bananagrams® writing prompt and take the plunge! $500 in prizes await the winners.
Remember, you can enter with poetry, prose or both. We have extended the deadline to the end of September to accommodate as many writers as possible. If you’re a writer, encourage your writing friends to enter; if you’re a teacher, encourage your students (the contest is open to all writers ages 13 and up). It’s a great opportunity to play with words for fun AND profit!
Bananagrams Contest News
Posted by Kate on June 17th, 2010 filed in Updates, Submissions, Contests, UncategorizedAll of us at Newport Review were sad to hear of the death of Abraham Nathanson, inventor of Bananagrams®, in Bonnet Shores on Sunday, June 6. All of us at Newport Review are grateful for his generous donation of $500 to sponsor our Bananagrams® Writing Contest. So play a game of Bananagrams® in honor of Abe … and try our Bananagrams® writing prompt.
We have decided to extend the deadline to September 30 to allow more time for people to enter. Just a reminder: the contest is open to adults AND students (age 13 and up), and you can enter a story, poem, or both!
Books on the Square Reading, June 4, 7 p.m.
Posted by Kate on May 27th, 2010 filed in Rhode Island Events, Updates, ReadingsPlease mark your calendars for a reading featuring Newport Review writers and editors, including some writers scheduled for our summer issue. This free event is hosted by Books on the Square, a great indie bookstore in Providence, and some of the poets and fiction writers who will be sharing their work are Maggie Cleveland, Susan Hradil, Kara Provost, Eve Rifkah, Kenneth Schneyer, Barbara Schweitzer and Alexandra Van de Kamp. Don’t miss this one!
It’s Good to Be First!
Posted by Kate on May 6th, 2010 filed in UncategorizedOK, writers … get to pushing those pens. The Newport Review Bananagrams® Writing Contest is now open. Entries of prose and poetry will be accepted May 1 through September 1, 2010. (Full details here.)
If $500 in prizes, publication, accolades and honors aren’t enough of an incentive, we’ve also got a special bag o’swag for the very FIRST person to send in an entry. This lucky writer will receive Newport Review original artwork, the poetry collection Pondicherry Square by Newport Review published poet Amanda Surkont, and a Newport Review bumper sticker.
Who will be the first writer to enter? It just might be you!
Bananagrams Contest - Now Open!
Posted by Kate on May 1st, 2010 filed in Writing, Contests, UncategorizedContests
New for 2010: Bananagrams® Writing Contest - $500 in Prizes for Poetry and Prose
Complete Contest Guidelines:
Format: Writers must use all seven words from the 21-letter Bananagrams® grid that will be displayed on this site as of May 1, 2010. Writers may use words more than once. Words can be changed from singular to plural when necessary, but writers may not change words to a different tense or form (for example, “book” could be changed to “books,” but not to “booking” or “bookie.”)
Deadline: Opens May 1, 2010, at midnight; Closes September 1, 2010, at 11:59 p.m.
Word Count: Stories up to 1,400 words; poems up to 21 lines
Entry fee: $7 per story, 3 for $20
Entries will be accepted by email only; payment by PayPal. Writers are asked to pay with PayPal first, then submit their work online.
Send all contest entries to newportreviewcontest@gmail.com. Manuscripts should be sent in Word or Rich Text Format.
- Please underline or bold-face the contest words in your manuscript.
- Please format manuscripts so that the first page is a cover sheet with the writer’s name and complete contact information, including email and phone, but do not include the writer’s name on the text itself.
- Writers may submit a total of six entries.
- The contest is open to all writers ages 13 and above, except writers who have close personal affiliations with Newport Review, its editorial staff, contest judges or advisory board. Past contest winners and those who have been published in past issues of Newport Review are eligible to enter.
- Winners will be notified and posted on our blog and web site.
Guest judges are poet John Landry and fiction writer Jincy Willett.
$500 in prizes, along with publication and Bananagrams® game sets, will be awarded.
Two First Prizes (Story and Poem): $200, Bananagrams®, and publication in Newport Review
Two Second Prizes (Story and Poem): $50, Bananagrams®, and publication in Newport Review
Honorable Mention (Stories and Poems): Bananagrams® and publication in Newport Review
Prize-winning poems and stories will be published in Newport Review. Other poems and stories may also be considered for publication. All entries may be used by Bananagrams® for promotional purposes.
Contest winners will be announced in November, 2010, on this site.
Your words are below. As we say in Bananagrams-land: SPLIT!
Newport Review - National Poetry Month Reading!
Posted by Kate on April 2nd, 2010 filed in UncategorizedNEWPORT REVIEW BRINGS POETRY AND STORIES TO LIFE AT THE LIBRARY
Join authors and editors from Newport Review for an Evening of Poems and Stories, Wednesday, April 28th at 7PM at the Davisville Free Library. An Open Mic will follow. Newport Review (http://newportreview.org) is an independent, online literary journal spotlighting poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction by writers from around Rhode Island and around the world. Local poets and prose writers featured in Newport Review, including poet Audrey Friedman and fiction writer Kathryn Kulpa, will share selections from their work. Newport Review editors will also be on hand to talk to local writers, artists and other members of the arts community about how they can submit their work for publication or volunteer to be part of this locally published, internationally-read online zine.
This year, Newport Review is sponsoring a writing contest sponsored by the Bananagrams® word game, with $500 in prizes plus publication in Newport Review. Editors will discuss this exciting new contest, open to poets and writers age 13 and up.
The reading is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For directions or information, contact Davisville Free Library at 401-884-5524, or email Newport Review directly at edit@newportreview.org.
Davisville Free Library: http://www.davisvillefreelibrary.org/
$500 in Prizes for Bananagrams® Writing Contest!
Posted by Kate on March 9th, 2010 filed in UncategorizedNew for 2010: Bananagrams® Writing Contest!
Contest Guidelines
Format: Writers must use all the words from the 21-letter Bananagrams® grid that will be displayed on the Newport Review site as of May 1, 2010.
Deadline: Opens May 1, 2010, at midnight; Closes September 1, 2010, at 11:59 p.m.
Word Count: Stories up to 2,100 words; poems up to 21 lines
Entry fee: $7 per story, 3 for $20
Entries will be accepted by email only; payment by PayPal.
$500 in prizes, along with publication and Bananagrams® game sets, will be awarded.
Two First Prizes (Story and Poem): $200, Bananagrams®, and publication in Newport Review
Two Second Prizes (Story and Poem): $50, Bananagrams®, and publication in Newport Review
Honorable Mention (Stories and Poems): Bananagrams® and publication in Newport Review
Open to all writers, age 13 and up. Prize-winning poems and stories will be published in Newport Review. Other poems and stories may also be considered for publication. All entries may be used by Bananagrams® for promotional purposes.
More details about this contest will be added soon; check the Newport Review contest page for complete guidelines and updates.
You’ve Been So Kind and Generous …
Posted by Kate on February 18th, 2010 filed in Support, Updates… we want to thank you, thank you!
Newport Review Donors, January - February 2010
Mollie Bergeron
Jennifer Bergmark
Lisa Borders
Frank DiSirio
William Glenn
Susan Grant
Natalie Gruppuso
Kirsten Hammerstrom
Charron Holtzman
Susan and George Hradil
Hester Kaplan
Jan English Leary
Little Pear Press
John McDaid
Kiersten Marek
Eugenia Petty
Geoffrey Schoos
Ellen Taylor
These patrons of the arts (most of them artists in their own right) are making it possible for Newport Review to keep publishing quality fiction, poetry, memoir and visual art.
We are looking forward to our spring/summer 2010 issue, planned for release in June 2010, and a new series of readings and writing workshops. We also hope to host another writing contest this summer.
As always, we welcome contributions of any amount, submissions of new writing and art, and your feedback and suggestions. Thanks again to our amazing readers, supporters, editors, interns, volunteers, writers and artists. You really are the reason Newport Review is out there!
Issue No. 4 Premieres on Winter Solstice!
Posted by Kate on December 17th, 2009 filed in Support, Updates, Contests
The fourth online issue of Newport Review will be released on the Winter Solstice: December 21, 2009. We are happy to present artwork by Brian Martin, a RISD graduate, along with our flash fiction contest winners and more new poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.
While the solstice is the shortest day of the year, it is also a time when many cultures celebrate the season of rebirth and renewal and the coming return of the light. We at Newport Review, like many other people and organizations in Rhode Island and elsewhere, have been hard hit by the economic recession. We hope for a brighter year ahead, and, as always, are grateful for your support.
2009 Flash Fiction Contest Winners
Posted by Kate on November 11th, 2009 filed in Updates, ContestsNewport Review magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Newport Review Flash Fiction Contest. Our guest judge this year was Providence fiction writer Hester Kaplan, author of The Edge of Marriage and Kinship Theory. Three authors will receive cash prizes and publication, and two additional authors will receive honorable mention and publication.
Now in its fifth year, the Newport Review Flash Fiction Contest honors writers working in the brief but demanding form of flash fiction, short stories no longer than 1,000 words.
This year’s winning stories are:
First prize, $150: “On the El,” Kirsten Hammerstrom, Providence, RI
Second Prize, $100: “Routine,” Wendy Marcus, Seattle, WA
Third Prize, $50: “How My Parents Fell in Love,” Dallas Woodburn, Ventura, CA
Honorable Mention: “Jumper,” Gabrielle Hovendon, Watertown, NY
All stories will be published in the Fall 2009/Winter 2010 online issue of Newport Review.
Autumn Evening Reading
Posted by Kate on September 11th, 2009 filed in Rhode Island Events, ReadingsPlease join authors and editors from Newport Review for an Autumn Evening Reading on Tuesday, September 29 at 7 PM at Barrington Public Library.
Poets and prose writers featured in Newport Review will share their work, and Newport Review editors will be on hand to talk to local writers, artists and other members of the arts community about how they can get involved with this locally published, internationally-read online zine.
Amanda Surkont, author of Pondicherry Square (Little Pear Press, 2009), will be the featured reader, and copies of her new book will be available for purchase and signing.
This program is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served.
Call to Writers: Open for Submissions
Posted by Kate on September 11th, 2009 filed in Submissions, UncategorizedNewport Review is now seeking submissions of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction for our Fall 2009 issue. Please see our guidelines at http://newportreview.org/?submission-guidelines.html and send your best work!