New Submission Information for 2012
Winners: 2009 2008 2007 2006
2012 Programs
Writers Rising Up 2012
Paul Gruchow Essay Contest, Earth Walk and Readings – April 2012 $200.00 Prize
Prairie Poetry Prize: Prairie Sampler –YouTube Presentation – June 2012
Digging to the Roots Poetry Anthology Calendar 2013 – August 2012
Elizabeth Fries Ellet Trailing Excursion – September 2012
Carol Bly Short Story Contest – October 2012 $200 Prize
Winter in Variations: Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest – December 2012 $200.00 Prize
Paul Gruchow Essay Contest and Earth Walk –April $200.00 Prize
Earth Walk and Reading at Staring Lake Park Outdoor Center in Eden Prairie
Saturday April 21, 2012 – Time: 10AM to 12PM
- 3,000 words or less
- One essay only per person
- 8 x 11 white paper, typed, paginated
- Include name, address, phone, email on separate piece of paper only
- Previous Winners Not Eligible
- $200 Cash Prize, first publication on web site, author owns all rights.
- No essays will be returned; they will be shredded
- Only original work to be submitted
- Submission $5.00 USA currency only
- Submission deadline April 1, 2012
Send to:
Writers Rising Up
16526 W. 78th St #163, Eden Prairie, MN 55346
Prairie Poetry Prize: Prairie Sampler – YouTube Presentation
- Submission Deadline June 1, 2012
- Subject Matter – Prairie Grasses
- Submit only in the body of email to writersrisingup@yahoo.com
- No attachments will be read
- Quantity-eight poems no longer than a page each
- Winning poet(s) to receive Prairie Poetry Prize 2012. Poems selected
- will be published in an online presentation
- YouTube reading by winning poet(s)
- Include-name, city and state
- Poems must not be previously published
- Writer owns all rights
- Choose poetic forms from list at http://wrupblog.blogspot.com
Digging to the Roots Poetry Anthology Calendar 2013 – August
- Submission Deadline August 2012 Calendar available November 2012
- Seasonal poems no more than twenty lines
- Submit only in the body of email one each: fall, winter, spring, summer
- Best poems will be chosen for the Calendar which will be available for purchase in Nov 2012
- Email poems to writersrisingup@yahoo.com
- Must be original unpublished work
- Include, name, city, state
- Writers own all rights
Elizabeth Fries Ellet Trailing Excursion Richard T. Anderson Conservation Area, Eden Prairie – September 2012
Day and Time to be Announced
Carol Bly Short Story Contest – October $200 Prize
- Submissions accepted up to October 1st 2012
- Entry Fee: $5.00 (only one entry per writer)
- Theme related to place, inner struggles and relationships
- Must be original unpublished work of 2500 words
- Typed and paginated white standard computer paper, double spaced
- Include name, address, phone, email on separate piece of paper only
- Mail to: 16526 West 78th St #163, Eden Prairie, MN 55346
- No Short Stories will be returned. Do not include self-addressed stamped envelope
- Winner or winners to be published online at www.writersrisingup.org
- Prize- $200.00 (May be split if more than one winner.)Previous Winners Not Eligible
- Writer owns all rights
Winter in Variations: Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest – December $200.00 Prize
- Submission of six poems accepted up to November 1st 2012
- Entry Fee: $5.00 (entry fee per writer)
- Write poems about witnessing some every-day occurrence in winter
- Must be original unpublished work
- Typed white standard computer paper, double spaced, no more than one page a poem
- Include name, address, phone, email on separate piece of paper only
- Mail to: 16526 West 78th St #163, Eden Prairie, MN 55346
- No poems will be returned. Do not include self-addressed stamped envelope
- Winner or winners to be published online at www.writersrisingup.org
- Prize- $200.00 (May be split if more than one winner.)
- Writer owns all rights
Writers Rising Up retains the right to split the prize between deserving submissions.
*All submission opportunities must be in English and are open to all who live on our shared planet
www.writersrisingup.org
writersrisingup@yahoo.com
Watch for contest and event information in:
UTNE – Sept/October magazine and online
A View From the Loft July/Aug/Sept Online
Winners: 2009 2008 2007 2006
Submissions 2009
A time and place for solitude: writing below the surface.
Spend the day in Red Wing with us...
Saturday October 17, 2009
10:30 AM to 4:30PM - Free Event
Holy Cow! Press Book Fair All Day
Milkweed Editions Donates Carol's books for a Raffle
10:30AM to 11:30PM-- 'Writing Below the Surface' seminar with Cynthia Loveland
11:30AM to 1:00 PM-- Lunch- Free Time to Sight See--Write
1:00 to 2:00PM- Patricia Kirkpatrick workshop THE MOST VITALLY TOUCHING THINGS IN LIFE: WRITING NON-FICTION
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Carol Bly Short Story Contest
Selected Short Story Readings
3:00PM to 4:00 PM Book Raffle and Announcement of Winner(s)
Reception- Crackers/Cheese and Sparkling Drinks
Anderson Center, Red Wing Minnesota
Sponsored by Writers Rising Up
writersrisingup@yahoo.com
Short Story Submission Rules
- Submissions accepted April 2009 to October 1st 2009
- Entry Fee: $5.00 (only one entry per writer)
- Theme related to place, inner struggles and relationships
- Must be original unpublished work of 2500 words
- Typed and paginated white standard computer paper, double spaced
- Include name, address, phone, email on separate piece of paper only
- Mail to: 16526 West 78th St #163, Eden Prairie, MN 55346
- No Short Stories will be returned. Do not include self addressed stamped envelope
- No Short Stories will be returned. Do not include self addressed stamped envelope
- Winner or winners to be published online at www.writersrisingup.org (Writer owns all rights to work)
- Short Story Prize- $200.00 (May be split if more than one winner.)
Digging to the Roots: Poetic Form and the Natural World-
Anthology Submissions- New Coming Soon
Paul Gruchow Essay Contest
Paul's Biography- Click Here
Paul Gruchow is the author of seven volumes of essays, including the Necessity of Empty Places; Grass Roots: The Universe of Home; and Boundary Waters: Grace of the Wild all published by Milkweed Editions. Paul's work has appeared in many anthologies including: The Best American Essays. Paul has won numerous awards, including two Minnesota Book Awards, the Flannagan Prize and the Critics Choice Award of the San Francisco Review of Books. He has taught at St Olaf College and Concordia College and has occupied the Gamaliel Chair of Peace and Justice at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He was the Keller-Edlestein Minnesota Writer of Distinction at the University of Minnesota.
2008 Submission Information:
4th Annual Paul Gruchow Essay Contest -To Love the World: Writing about World, Community & Environment
Submission Fee $5.00 Submission Deadline- April 8, 2008
Paul Gruchow Essay Contest Reception and Reading
With Joe and Nancy Paddock
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Fireplace Room or old Tea Room (both rooms booked)
2 to 5pm
Cosponsored by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Writers Rising Up
Admission- $5.00 plus $7.00 gate fee for non-Arboretum members
Deadline April 8, 2008
Schedule-Reception
Paul Gruchow Essay Contest Award Announcement
Readings by Winners
Readings by Joe and Nancy; Stories about Paul
Nancy Paddock
TRUST THE WILD HEART -Red Dragonfly Press
Joe Paddock
A SORT OF HONEY - Red Dragonfly Press
BOARS' DANCE - Holy Cow!
HANDFUL OF THUNDER - Anvil Press
Paul Gruchow
Grass Roots: The Universe of Home- Milkweed Editions
The Necessity of Empty Places- Milkweed Editions
2008 Essay Guidelines-
- 3,000 words or less
- One essay only per person
- 8 x 11 white paper, typed, paginated
- Name and contact information on separate piece of paper
- Previous Winners Not Eligible
- $400 Cash Prize, first publication on web site, author owns all rights.
- No essays will be returned; they will be shredded.
- Only original work to be submitted
- Must fill out right to publish authorization form below and send in
- Submission $5.00 USA currency only
Writers Rising Up retains the right to split the prize between deserving submissions.
*The contest is in English only and is open to all who live on our shared planet
Send to: Writers Rising Up
16526 W. 78th St #163, Eden Prairie, MN 55346
Submissions must be accompanied by right to publish authorization form:
http://writersrisingup.org/Permission to Publish.pdf
Send in signed form along with essay submission.
For more information contact: writersrisingupblog@yahoo.com
2008 Essay Contest Winners
The $400 prize money will be split among the five winners.
This year we had 100 entries and for the first time many came from outside of MN including OH, WI, Ill, WA, OR, AZ, PA, CA, NE.
The five winners and one Honorable Mention were from :
Five winners from Stillwater, MN,-- Chicago, Ill,--- Rochester, MN, ---Mazeppa, MN and Rochester, MN.--- and one Honorable Mention from Pepin, WI.
"To love the world: Leonardo's Green Dream" by Donal Heffernan of Stillwater; Milissa Link of Minneapolis, "Gone Wild;" Patricia Monaghan of Chicago, "The Memory of Glaciers;" Coleen Johnston of Mazeppa, MN, "By the Notebook;" Virgina Wright Peterson's "The Natural and Unnatural History of Marion Township;" and Dana Hoeschen of Pepin, WI wins Honorable Mention for her essay entitled "Liminal: situated at a sensory threshold, barely perceptible."
Essays, bios and photos to be posted soon.
Thanks to all for submitting.
2009 Winners Carol Bly Short Story Contest
Miriam Karmel of Minneapolis won the first Writers Rising Up Carol Bly short story contest with her story, "Happy Chicken." Miriam will read her story on October 17th at the Anderson Center in Red Wing at an all day event remembering Carol Bly, A time and place for solitude: writing below the surface. The event features Carol's writing partner Cynthia Loveland leading a seminar and friend and fellow writer Hamline Professor Patricia Kirkpatrick, who will conduct a workshop. Event details can be found at www.eventful.com and at www.writersrisingup.com.
Miriam Karmel's fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications including Bellevue Literary Review, Dust & Fire, Sidewalks, Passage, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual and Water~Stone Review. She is the recipient of Minnesota Monthly’s Tamarack Award for her short story, The Queen of Love. In 2007, she received the Kate Braverman Short Story Prize and the Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction. Her story, The King of Marvin Gardens appears in Milkweed Edition’s Fiction on a Stick (2008). Nora’s Story, a collection of short stories which she worked on at Ragdale, was the May 2007 selection at www.bookwise.com. She recently completed a second book of linked stories, Being Esther.
2009 Winning Short Story, Click Here
2008 Winners Paul Gruchow Essay Contest
Patricia Monaghan is the author of four books of poetry, most recently "Homefront," on the effect of war on families; and of several books of nonfiction including "The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog," an ecospiritual journey around Ireland. She is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at DePaul University in Chicago and Senior Fellow of the Black Earth Institute, a progressive think-tank dedicated to reconnecting arts, spirituality, and the environment. She was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2004 and the Phoenix Award for environmental poetry in 2003.
2008 Winning Essay, Click Here
Donal Heffernan is a writer and poet, international lawyer, and university professor. His work has been published in books, literary journals, and magazines. . His novel Lakota Windows about the new tribal Americas is expected to be published next year. He lives in rural Stillwater.
2008 Winning Essay, Click Here
Coleen Johnston's poem "In Spring" appeared in Speakeasy (Summer 2005), and her poetry has been featured in the Art and Poetry Collaboration of Crossings at Carnegie since 2002. Her essay "Walking Brule" won honorable mention in the 2005 Minnesota Literature Essay Contest. She is the author of four books, Garage Sale Decorator: A Pennypincher's Shopping and Decorating Guide (Betterway Publications, 1989) and The Founders, The Guardians and The Inheritors, a historical fiction trilogy (St. Martin's Press 1993-94).
Johnston holds a B.S. in English from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. She lives near Mazeppa, Minnesota, with husband Bruce, and is currently editing the memoir of two years in her woodland garden.
2008 Winning Essay, Click Here
Milissa Link is a writer and yoga teacher who explores the nature of consciousness through personal narrative. Milissa is the author of a memoir, Dog Ma. Her creative nonfiction has received accolades from literary organizations including Norcroft, The Loft and Minnesota Literature. Milissa is the director of Tree of Life Yoga in Minneapolis. She lives near the Mississippi River with her husband Brien and their terrier Dewey.
2008 Winning Essay, Click Here
Virginia M. Wright-Peterson has written extensively about her native Minnesota homeland and places abroad. Her co-winning essay, "The Natural and Unnatural History of Marion Township, is part of "Finding Ourselves in Empty Places," a collection of essays that trace her journey through the Midwest with her young daughter in the wake of her husband's death from leukemia.
When she isn't writing, she is teaching English and Humanities at Rochester Community and Technical College, growing native plants in her small greenhouse, walking with her three canine companions, and biking and reading with her daughter, or traveling. Recent adventures have taken her to Iraq with the Red Cross, to the Peruvian Amazon, and to Algiers as a Fulbright Scholar.
2008 Winning Essay, Click Here
Honorable Mention Winner: Dana Hoeschen - Pepin, Wisconsin
2008 Honorable Mention Essay, Click Here
2007 Winners Paul Gruchow Essay Contest
Sue Leaf of Center City, Minnesota won the 2007 Paul Gruchow Essay Contest with her essay To Love the World. Honorable Mention went to Coleen L. Johnston of Mazeppa, MN for her essay Foreigner.
Sue Leaf of Center City, MN won the 2007 contest with her essay entitled, “To Love The World.”, and co-won the 2006 contest with her essay: “Everlasting Fire.”
Sue Leaf has a PH.D in zoology and has taught biology and environmental science at Cambridge Community College in Minnesota. She was awarded a McKnight Individual Artist Grant in 1998. Her writing has been published in Minnesota Monthly, Utne Reader, Architecture Minnesota and Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. She is the author of Potato City (Borealis Books, 2004). She lives in Center City, Minnesota on the shores of Pioneer Lake.
2007 Winning Essay, Click Here
2006 Co-Winning Essay, Click Here
Mark Herwig of White Bear Lake, MN won with his essay entitled: “Observations of White Bear Lake: “The Veil, “Lights Out,” “Emulsified,” Moonrise over Manitou.”
Herwig has been an avid volunteer, professional conservationists and writer most of his life. His other life-long pursuits include bird watching, canoeing, gardening, and relief woodcarving wildlife scenes. He is the father of a grown son and daughter. Herwig is editor of Pheasants Forever Journal for Pheasants Forever, The Habitat Organization.
2006 Co- Winning Essay, Click Here
