-Jennifer Militello, "A Dictionary at the Turn of the Millennium" in Number 77
Your memory of the dead man is a child's balloon, and where is that off to?
-Marvin Bell, "The Book of the Dead Man (Decomposition)" in Number 77
I considered myself lucky to notice /
on my walk a mouse ducking like a culprit . . .
-Billy Collins, "Thieves" in Number 77
Little evening, I walk across the stone bridge, helloing the river, without thinking
-Melissa Kwasny, "Clairvoyance (Little Evening)" in Number 77
Look inward, already the curved / keepsake is growing.
-Ray Amorosi, "About Angels" in Number 77
For a map, we say we used to run fast, /
so fast we had to leave it there.
-John Gallaher, "Everything You Know That Isn't True" in Number 77
Greta called acting normal
glossing over the truth. She called it forgetting. I
called it facing reality or moving forward, Greta
said I was living a lie, and so on . . .
-K. F. Enggass, "I Hope To God You Smoke" in Number 77
Myra bent down to look into a shell. The
ants each had bits of meat on their backs. They
dropped off the side of the porch into the grass.
-Jane Delury, "Ants" in Number 77
Finishing all of your sentences /
as if they were questions, he accuses you /
of changing the subject.
-Patrick Moran, "Dopplegangster" in Number 77
So much is happening in secret, but right before our eyes.
-David Keplinger, "Near the Amphitheater in Gubbio" in Number 77
for some time now it's been / just you / and these goddamn birds.
-Charlie Smith, "Just Now" in Number 77
Between radius and tumored ulna, /
crepidis softening bone to sponge . . .
-Laurie Clements Lambeth, "Not to Praise" in Number 77
Now you hunger / no longer, for the green is all fingers, and the fence / of the body sleeps
-Mark Irwin, "About" in Number 77
He was also the one who dispensed sugar cubes / of Salk vaccine when the whole world / lined up single-file up and down the block
-Leonard Kress, "Law of Resemblances" in Number 77
The dead man is of the future, but he will not breathe a word of it.
-Marvin Bell, "The Book of the Dead Man (Kiss Kiss)" in Number 77
The robberies started during the hottest time of the year ... The first victims were an Indian family, and all around the wealthier suburbs, other Indians looked up at their houses and wondered ...
-Akshay Ahuja, "The Gates" in Number 77
We grew from large children into adults. Now halfway back to / children again. Boxes full of the litter of our lives are scattered about. Like / on that day we first opened the door.
-David Shumate, "Moving Away from Home" in Number 77
No one needs to answer to eternity
-Emmanuel Moses, translated by Marilyn Hacker, "from Preludes and Fugues ..."
There are worse things / than music, you tell me, / reaching for the knife / I find I'm holding in my hand.
-G. C. Waldrep, "The Dream of Egypt" in Number 77
the HMOs even now closing in, /
the border ever receding.
-Kevin Ducey, "W. Benjamin opens for the Plasmatics" in Number 77
One dawn /
when I jogged along the towpath by her boat, /
a nightgown waved from splintered ice.
-Henry Hart, "Winter of Discontent, England 1978-79" in Number 77
This is the woman who listened to your report
of every clue Nancy Drew encountered, every
turn in the path of detection. You approached
each retelling as a test. Why?
-Claire Guyton, "The 7 Stages of a Parental Visit" in Number 77
Nights on the farm /
eggplants unbutton and sing
-Molly Bashaw, "Every Time I Have Never Been Here Before" in Number 77
"Thanks for calling, sweetie," says Russell. "Is
it very hot there?" he begins to ask, but she has
already hung up the phone.
-Christine Byl, "Tell Me Something about Arizona" in Number 77
I live in the laundry room, this half of it. Scott, Paul's dad, he rigged up a wall, a pre-fab from Home Depot, and Paul and I leaned it in place while he tightened the screws. I like to be helpful.
-Chris Gavaler, "The Hole It Would Leave" in Number 77
I know an echo that wants to change its mind.
-Dara Wier, "Are You Happy?" in Number 77
Max Donaldson was a waxy, whiskey-logged financier who knew his son not to be stupid, and knew himself to be less stupid than his son. He blamed the mother.
-Tess Wheelwright, " Max Donaldson and His Son" in Number 77
If there were not a nest of pillows then the / Persian flaw would be a sweeter scald.
-Theodore Worozbyt, "Cavalcade of Stars" in Number 77
Singular we are / stunning. In horde / we are dense differing / dream.
-Emily Rosko, "Timbered" in Number 77
As if I know what /
I'm doing, he marries /
me.
-Lucy Anderton, "Not Something To Be Captured . . ." in Number 77
Johnny flashes diamonds and gold / Frankie knows only what her mother said
-Robert Bense, "River Town Longueurs" in Number 77
The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Winners receive $2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse.
The deadline for this year's prizes has been extended from December 15, 2009 to January 15, 2010.
Enter by uploading a file of your manuscript online or by mailing in a paper manuscript. Each manuscript entered should consist of up to twenty-five pages of fiction or up to three poems (up to 10 pages total of poetry). For each manuscript entered, include a reading fee of $16 per manuscript, which includes a one-year/two-issue subscription to Crazyhorse. More than one manuscript may be entered. For each additional fiction or poetry manuscript entered and entry fee paid, your subscription to Crazyhorse will extend by one year/two issues. Subscriptions will begin with Crazyhorse Number 77, Spring 2010; the winning manuscripts will be published in Crazyhorse Number 78, Fall 2010.
How to enter a manuscript file online
Click below to upload a .pdf or .rtf file of your manuscript. Pay each uploaded manuscript's $16 entry fee by secure online credit-card payment via Authorize.net, or by check or money order.
If paying by check or money order, write it to “Crazyhorse”. Check must draw from a US bank. With check or money order payment, include a printout of the e-mail you will receive after you upload your prize manuscript. Or, include the first name, last name, and manuscript number associated with your entry so that your payment can be matched with your manuscript. Mail entry fee payment checks to Entry fee payment, Crazyhorse, Department of English, College of Charleston, 66 George Street, Charleston SC 29424, USA
Each manuscript entered should consist of up to twenty-five pages of fiction or up to three poems (up to 10 pages total of poetry). Like mailed manuscripts, uploaded manuscript files will be read blindly, unassociated with your contact information. Do not include identifying information on the manuscript itself; all manuscript entries are made anonymous for review.
Clickhere to upload a .pdf or .rtf file of your manuscript. Upload a .pdf or .rtf file only. If .rtf, use a common font (such as Times or Arial) and check your file to see that your formatting (italics, tabs, columns, etc.) displays as you wish.
Entrants must upload manuscript files and pay entry fees by end of day, Jan. 15, 2010.
How to enter a paper manuscript
Mail in each paper manuscript along with a $16 entry fee for each manuscript entered. Write check or money order to “Crazyhorse”. Check must draw from a US bank.
Each manuscript entered should consist of up to twenty-five pages of fiction or up to three poems (up to 10 pages total of poetry). Each entry should have a cover page placed on the top of the manuscript with the entrant’s name, address, e-mail, and telephone number. Do not include identifying information on the manuscript itself; all manuscript entries are made anonymous for review.
Mail manuscript and entry fee payment together to
Fiction Prize / Poetry Prize Crazyhorse Department of English College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston SC 29424 USA
Entrants must mail paper manuscripts and mail check entry fees by postmark deadline of Jan. 15, 2010. Include an e-mail address or a self-addressed stamped envelope for notification of winners. Paper entry manuscripts can not be returned by SASE.
General entry information
All manuscripts entered must be original and previously unpublished. All entries are considered for publication in Crazyhorse. New prize-entry subscriptions will begin with Crazyhorse Number 77, Spring 2010. Renewal prize entries will extend the entrant's subscription. The winning manuscripts will be published in Crazyhorse Number 78, Fall 2010. Entries are accepted from Sept. 1 to Jan. 15, 2010. Winners will be announced in spring, 2010.
Prize process and timeline
All manuscripts entered are made anonymous before they are reviewed: the identity of each entrant is separated or removed from each entrant’s manuscript and each manuscript is only identified by number when it is read by reviewers.
Fiction editor Anthony Varallo reviews each fiction prize manuscript entered and selects up to 30 finalists for review by the fiction prize judge; editors Carol Ann Davis and Garrett Doherty review each poetry prize manuscript entered and select up to 30 finalists for review by the poetry prize judge.
Each finalist's manuscript is reviewed by a judge in the respective genre. The fiction judge selects one story from the fiction prize finalists as the winner; the poetry judge selects one poem from the poetry prize finalists as the winner. Only after the deadline to enter manuscripts has passed is a judge for each genre selected. Past judges have included Ann Patchett, Ha Jin, Antonya Nelson, Dan Chaon, T. M. McNally, Diana Abu-Jaber, Michael Martone, and Charles Baxter for fiction; for poetry, past judges have included James Tate, Billy Collins, Marvin Bell, Dean Young, Albert Goldbarth, Nance Van Winckel, Dara Wier, and Mary Ruefle. The identity of each genre’s judge will be disclosed with the announcement of each genre’s winner and finalists at the end of the judging.
After the two winners are announced, the editors consider manuscripts entered in the prizes for publication in Crazyhorse.
