Contests and Apologies
09.06.07
We realize it has been quite a while since you last heard from us and we are sorry, but we have been very busy reading short story contest entries and thinking about the special Narrative and Science issue due out this fall/winter. Speaking of the short story contest, the finalists have been selected and are now in the capable hands of the venerable Lee K. Abbott. We hope to have his decision soon so that we may inform the world of the 2007 short story contest winner. We are very excited to find out which finalist he chooses. In other contest news, the deadline for The Journals Alumni Flash Prose Contest is fast approaching. If you’re an alum, and you have a short story or essay that clocks in at or under 500 wds. send it to us postmarked by September 30th. Check our homepage for more details: http://english.osu.edu/research/journals/thejournal We promise not to stay away so long next time. It’s nothing personal. In fact, we missed you. So, upcoming posts may not be pertinent, but they will be frequent, we promise.
The Journal Reads Aloud
05.16.07
OSU Libraries Readaloud invites you to join us from 3-4pm this Thursday at the Wexner Center as the Ohioana Library hosts this week’s program featuring The Journal editors and staff reading from their all-time favorite prose and poetry ever published in The Journal. The Journal, and its co-editors, Kathy Fagan and Michelle Herman, recieved the Ohioana Library’s Editorial Excellence Award in 2004.
Founded by Bill Allen and edited for many years by David Citino, The Journal is celebrating its 33rd year of publication. Please join us at the Wexner Cafe to hear editors Doug Watson, Pablo Tanguay, Jen Town, Brock Kingsley, Kathy Fagan, and former associate editor Jason Gray as they share a variety of wonderful readings from
The Journal.
Special guest star Don Pollock, whose first published story appeared in The Journal and whose collection, Knockemstiff, is being published by Doubleday next spring, will be on hand, as will several other surprise readers. Refreshments are provided for our audience and all are welcome to attend.
Come on out–this Thursday, May 10, that is–to Barley’s Brew Pub in the Short North to hear OSU MFA poets and prosers read from their work. It’s the last “Mother Tongue” reading of the schoolyear! The readers will include The Journal’s current and incoming associate fiction editors! There will be beer! The event starts at 8pm! I like exclamation marks!!!
