Cherry Bleeds Literary Grand Prize award to one work of poetry and one short story.
Prizes

Short Story Winner receives $100 and publication in the Cherry Bleeds Anthology.

Poetry Winner receives $100 and publication in the Cherry Bleeds Anthology.

Short Story and Poetry honorary mentions will be published in the Cherry Bleeds Anthology.

Winners will be chosen from finalists blind judged by Chief Editor M. K. Chavez.

Winners will have the option, if they choose, to read their works on the Drinks with Tony radio show.

How To Enter:

For poetry, entry fee is $5 per poem or $10 for 3 poems. Poems longer than six pages not accepted.

For short stories, entry fee is $10 per manuscript up to 7,500 words. Manuscripts over 7,500 are not accepted.

Enter as often as you like. Clearly mark your submission either poetry or short story. Simultaneous submissions A-OK.

Deadline: May 31, 2008

Enter electronically or via snail mail.

Internet entries:

Pay the corresponding entry fee at: www.cherrybleeds.com/contest.html then email your submission as either an MS Word attachment with the file extension .doc or .rtf to cherrybleedscontest@gmail.com.

The attachment should include a cover letter with your name, contact info and title(s) and the manuscript in which the author’s name does not appear.

We will send you an email that your submission was received.

A fifty cent processing fee is added to partially cover PayPal fees.

Short Story Submission Fee - $10 per story

Poetry Submission Fee - $5 per poem

Poetry Submission Fee - $10 for 3 poems

Snail Mail Entries

Send cover letter with your name, contact info and title(s) along with your manuscript that only includes the title of your piece and not your name to:

Cherry Bleeds Contest
c/o Tony DuShane
PO Box 720028
San Francisco, CA 94172-0028

Include your entry fee(s) with your submission. Checks should be made out to: Cherry Bleeds.

If you would like notification of acceptance or non-acceptance via mail, include a SASE.

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Winners announced on June 20th.

Cherry Bleeds and The Creamery presents:

(KATHY) ACKER’S DANGEROUS DAUGHTERS (A.D.D.)
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Melissa Hansen
Hansen writes and edits poetry for The Guild of Outsider Writers. She works at the San Francisco Public Library and recently finished “the wild god” a collection of poetry.

Cassandra Dallet
Dallett’s body of work tells her story growing up punk rock to hip-hop.

Kathleen Wood
Wood is the author of “The Wino, the Junkie, and the Lord” and “Tenderloin Rose” published my Zeitgeist Press. She writes about the grittier aspects of urban life.

Julia Vinograd
Vinograd has published 36 books of poetry and is an editor for Zeitgeist Press. She’s Berkeley’s poetic living legend.

Saturday, February 9th

The Creamery
780 Valencia Street
San Francisco

7:00 PM - $5 Sliding Scale

Booze? - check
Bad Ass Bitches? - check
Writing w/attitude - check
Schedule Ones? - check

Celebrate the literary legacy of Kathy Acker through San Francisco’s transgressive women writers.

Bruce Issacson and MK Chavez could teach slam poets a thing or two about content.

Issacson is the main man at Zeitgeist Press, the legendary indie that has published Julia Vinograd, David Lerner, MK Chavez and a host of other legends (Danielle Willis, Joie Cook.)

Last night at the Poetry and Pizza series at Escape From New York (in San Francisco of course.) Chavez (nee: Maria Kaylib)read from her new book “Virgin Eyes” along with a host of newly written poems, and the good Mr. Isaacson read from his new tome, “Dumbstruck At The Lights,” perhaps indicative of his residence in the forever neon oasis/hell known as Las Vegas.

Issacson has a way of making poems about his father and his son sound edgy, while a passion about Rimbaud gives the old commune peripheral scalawag a “holy” sort of feel. Like a slam poet, he keeps his notes firmly in hand without ever really looking at them, subtly displaying his comfort and familiarity with his own material, but unlike a slam poet, not spending a lot of his alloted performance time trying to prove his cred or his mad skills or his alienated uniqueness…truth is, he’s just too grown up for all that. And it’s entertaining as hell to hear in poesy.

Chavez is too grown up for the young slammers too, not in terms of content but in terms of emotional maturity:

I’m in bed with the wrong man.

but it’s so human.

The poetry & pizza series at Escape from New York is a seriously hot SF reading, and always packs a full house which is an impressive accomplishment on a Friday Night in the Financial District for an establishment that is not a bar. Good on them for featuring two heavy hitting Zeitgeist poets last night.

Links:

http://littlebrownsparrow.com/

http://www.zeitgeist-press.com/