Sounds/Words

For your listening pleasure...

The Florentine newspaper also publishes books!

Has Florence awakened your literary ambitions? Join TF Press on its next literary adventure! We are currently accepting submissions (of short fiction or creative non-fiction) for inclusion in an upcoming book showcasing talented English-speaking writers who draw inspiration from being in, near, and Around Florence.

Here's a link to the submission guidelines.

A place to submit poetry

Black Spring online journal.

Call for creative work

CALL FOR PAPERS - LA FUSTA 2011

English: The Rutgers Italian Graduate Society invites submissions from Graduate Students for the next edition of La Fusta, which will be published this coming Spring 2011. The edition will examine the interconnectivity between literature and/or art and media in the way that literature and art represent diverse media and at the same time can be represented in:

Photography

Radio

Cinema

Television

Internet

La Fusta will accept creative works which apply to our theme in the form of poetry, photography, and short stories. Contributions should be sent anonymously with a cover letter to:

Rutgers Italian Graduate Society

84 College Avenue

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Deadline for submissions: January 31^st 2011.

He, Saltfingers

He ran his oily fingers along the street window, leaving four parallel streaks framing the suit-adorned passersby in geometric patterns. Moving to the lobby furniture, he felt his thumb squeak rubbery as he dragged it along a black leather chair, his splintered fingernail leaving fibrous, permanent scratch marks in its wake. Bare feet trod on polished slate; as wingtips and pumps went click-clack, his steps sounded in wet and intermittent clops, leaving a red and slimy trail wherever He went. What was yet another day of “work” for him was a disgusting imposition upon office employees everywhere. Walking in dirty circles around marble lobbies was to him a sort of stroll in paradise, and as he studied the words of the dapper bourgeois as they complained to someone on their cell phones about his unseemly presence, he could only imagine himself in their polished shoes.

Speculative Fiction Contest

Speculative fiction/fantasy Lit. Award due Jan. 15.

Academy of American Poets

From the Academy of American Poets.

Translation Prize: modern Italian Poetry

Established in 1995, this award recognizes outstanding translations into English of modern Italian poetry through a $5,000 book prize and a $25,000 fellowship, given in alternating years. The fellowship is given to enable an American translator to travel, study, or otherwise advance a significant work-in-progress. The winner of the fellowship also receives a residency at the American Academy in Rome.

Submissions for the fellowship are accepted in even-numbered years from September 1 to January 31, and an entry form is required. To obtain the guidelines and entry form for the fellowship, please follow the links below or send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the Academy. In odd-numbered years, submissions for the book prize are accepted from September 1 to December 31

Arts Writers Grant Program

http://artswriters.org/index.php?action=home

One thousand leaves tumble

One thousand leaves tumble
bracing tangled
winds & bounding hums
one thousand leaves
all blooming
together collide & by
the breadth of a
moth's wing
one chimes
above the rest.

An interesting aesthetic

http://www.dieselpunks.org/