Announcing the 2006 Contests in
Poetry, Fiction & Nonfiction

$500.00 will be awarded to the best entry in each category.

Judges:
Amy Hempel, fiction
Katha Pollitt, nonfiction
Karen Volkman, poetry

Winning entries will be published in Columbia;
runners-up will also be considered for publication.
All entrants will receive a copy of Columbia.

Deadline: December 31, 2005
Entry fee: $12.00

Fiction and nonfiction entrants may submit up to 20 double-spaced pages.
Poetry entrants may submit up to five poems.

Send submissions to:

[Category] Editor -- Contest
Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art
415 Dodge Hall
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Guidelines:

(1) Entries should be accompanied by a cover letter including your name, address, phone and submission title(s). No identifying names should appear on or in submission(s).

(2) Please enclose $12.00 entry fee payable to: Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art.

(3) All submissions will be considered for publication in Columbia. Multiple submissions are acceptable, although each entrant will only receive one copy of the journal.

(4) Include SASE for notification of contest results. Results also will be announced on the Columbia website.

(5) The Contest is not open to current Columbia University students, or to those who have graduated within the last five years.

(6) The Judges' decisions are final. The Judges reserve the right to commend runners-up and to decide to award no winner.