It's that season again, ALR readers: the ALR Literary Awards are open
for submissions and we are reading away!
We are proud to announce that the following writers will be working with
American Literary Review:
Poetry: Alan Michael Parker
Fiction: Matt Bell
CNF: Poe Ballantine
Alan Michael Parker has written three
novels, Cry Uncle, Whale Man, and The Committee on
Town Happiness.He is also the author of seven collections of
poems: Days Like Prose, The Vandals, Love Song with Motor
Vehicles, A Peal of Sonnets, Elephants & Butterflies, Ten Days, and Long
Division. His poetry has appeared in magazines such as The American
Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New
Yorker, Paris Review, Pleiades,and The Yale Review. In 2011,
his poems were anthologized in The Best American Poetry as
well as The Pushcart Prize. Among other numerous awards and
fellowships, he has received three Pushcart Prizes, the Fineline Prize from
the Mid-American Review, the 2013 Randall Jarrell Award, the
Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the 2012
North Carolina Book Award for Long Division. He teaches at
Davidson College, where he is the Douglas C. Houchens Professor in
English.
Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found (2010), a short
story collection; Cataclysm Baby (2012), a novella; and In
the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods (2013), his
debut novel. He studied at Bowling Green State University and is an assistant
professor at Northern Michigan University. Bell is the senior editor at Dzanc
Books and founding editor of the literary magazine, The Collagist. His stories
have been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories, Best American Fantasy,
and 30 Under 30: an Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers.
Poe Ballantine is an American writer of both non-fiction and fiction. His work has
appeared in The Sun,The Atlantic Monthly, and Kenyon
Review, among others. He is the author of two essay collections,Things
I Like about America and 501 Minutes to Christ, and his
memoir, Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, has
been noted by The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus,
and Cheryl Strayed. His essay, 501 Minutes to
Christ, was reprinted for Best American Essays. His
novels include God Clobbers Us All and Decline of the
Lawrence Welk Empire, and his short story The Blue Devils of Blue
River Avenue was reprinted for Best American Short Stories.
Remember that our contest deadline is October
1st. Happy submitting!
