The Carolina Quarterly

Bards on the Bus Contest

By mhotham, on March 12th, 2012

Announcing the Bards on the Bus Contest!

In honor of National Poetry Month, The Carolina Quarterly is launching a campaign to recognize the poetic talents in Orange County, North Carolina, during the month of April.

Send us your most creative ballads, haikus, sestinas, sonnets, villanelles, ghazals, prose poems, or free verse compositions by March 26th for consideration. Poems must be no longer than 30 lines. We will accept up to 4 poems per person.

Up to ten of the best pieces will be featured on Chapel Hill Transit buses throughout the month of April. One grand prize winner will receive $50. The winner and all honorable mentions will get a one-year subscription to The Carolina Quarterly.

To submit, please email your poems in a single attachement to carolina.quarterly@gmail.com. Please write “Bards on the Bus” in the subject line.

The contest is free and open to all students at UNC-Chapel Hill and residents of Orange County, North Carolina.

Contest judge: Michael Chitwood

Michael Chitwood is a free-lance writer and a lecturer at the University of North Carolina. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Field, The Georgia Review and numerous other journals. Ohio Review Books has published two books of his poetry – Salt Works (1992) and Whet (1995). His third book, The Weave Room, was published by The University of Chicago Press in the Phoenix Poets series (1998). His collection of essays, Hitting Below the Bible Belt, was published by Down Home Press in 1998. Gospel Road Going, a collection of poems about his native Appalachia, was published in 2002 and was awarded the 2003 Roanoke-Chowan Prize for Poetry. In 2006, he published a collection of essays and short stories called Finishing Touches. His collection of poetry From Whence was released in March 2007 from Louisiana State University Press. Tupelo Press published his book Spill in October of 2007. Spill was named as a finalist for ForeWard magazine’s poetry book of the year.

February “Submit It Slant” Winner

By mhotham, on March 3rd, 2012

In 2012, to promote our second year utilizing the online submission manager Tell It Slant, The Carolina Quarterly has pledged to give away a free one-year subscription EVERY MONTH to one lucky online submitter.

February’s winner, selected at random by our intrepid interns, is Jim Tilley of Bedford Corners, New York. Jim’s subscription will begin with issue 62.1, due out in April of 2012.

Congratulations to Jim! And remember to submit using Tell It Slant for your chance to win!

Issue 62.1 Tag Line Contest

By mhotham, on March 1st, 2012

Help The Carolina Quarterly come up with a tag line for issue 62.1 and win a FREE 1-year subscription!

Since 2010, each issue of The Carolina Quarterly has contained a unique tag line, appearing on the title page at the front and subscription form at the back of the journal. Now we want your help to come up with the next one.

Recent tag lines include:
Punctilious Whimsy Since 1948
Obdurate Effervescence Since 1948
Habitually Nascent Since 1948
Prurient Scripturience Since 1948
Comfortably Eclectic Since 1948

And the winner of our last tag line contest:
Quizzical Syzygy Since 1948, provided by Dyson Shultz

Guidelines: Tag lines must be 22 characters or less, and ideally two words, in keeping with precedent. The tag line should make sense as a descriptor of The Carolina Quarterly and should indicate something we’ve been/been doing “Since 1948.” Submit an entry by posting it in the comments section below. Contest closes at 12:01am on March 20th, 2012. The winner will be selected by The Carolina Quarterly editorial staff and receive a one year subscription, beginning with issue 62.1. The winner will be contacted via e-mail, so please use a valid e-mail address when posting your submission.

CQ at AWP

By mhotham, on February 28th, 2012

The Carolina Quarterly is going to AWP! We’ll be sharing table S6 with Tell it Slant beginning this THURSDAY.

And this week the fine folks over at Tell it Slant will be unveiling a new endeavor: Journal of the Month. We’re very happy to be participating in this project. Stop by the table or check out their website for more information.

Also at AWP, NewPages will roll out their new webstore. This is a great way to buy single issues of a number of your favorite journals.

Hope to see you in Chicago!

January “Submit It Slant” Winner

By mhotham, on February 10th, 2012

January’s winner, selected at random by our intrepid interns, is the poetically named Pepper Trail of Ashland, Oregon. Pepper’s subscription will begin with issue 62.1, due out in April of 2012.

Congratulations to Pepper! And remember to submit using Tell It Slant for your chance to win!