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Paul Gruchow Essay Contest 2008 Paul Gruchow Essay Contest Paul's Biography- Click Here Paul Gruchow is the author of seven volumes of essays, including the Necessity of Empty Places; Grass Roots: The Universe of Home; and Boundary Waters: Grace of the Wild all published by Milkweed Editions. Paul's work has appeared in many anthologies including: The Best American Essays. Paul has won numerous awards, including two Minnesota Book Awards, the Flannagan Prize and the Critics Choice Award of the San Francisco Review of Books. He has taught at St Olaf College and Concordia College and has occupied the Gamaliel Chair of Peace and Justice at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He was the Keller-Edlestein Minnesota Writer of Distinction at the University of Minnesota.
2008 Submission Information:
Paul Gruchow Essay Contest Reception and Reading
Schedule-Reception
Nancy Paddock
Joe Paddock
Paul Gruchow 2008 Essay Guidelines-
Writers Rising Up retains the right to split the prize between deserving submissions. *The contest is in English only and is open to all who live on our shared planet
Send to: Writers Rising Up Sue Leaf of Center City, Minnesota won the 2007 Paul Gruchow Essay Contest with her essay To Love the World. Honorable Mention went to Coleen L. Johnston of Mazeppa, MN for her essay Foreigner. Digging to the Roots: Poetic Form and the Natural World- Cosponsored by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Writers Rising Up- Follow the wheel of the year with us in this four-workshop series May, Aug, Oct -2008 February- 2009. Each season, writers will meet to read classic and contemporary poems and do creative exercises, focusing on a different poetic form each time--odes and elegies; villanelles and sestinas; dramatic monologues; and sonnet—and exploring that form’s metaphoric equivalent in the arboretum: ephemerals, perennials, invasive species, and seeds. After having come full circle, poems grown over the year together will be chosen for a Chapbook published by Red Dragonfly Press. Part of each workshop will be spent journaling outdoors; please wear weather appropriate clothing and bring a journal and favorite pen. Chapbook submission and workshop information at www.writersrisingup.org With Scott King, editor of Red Dragonfly Press, and Larry Gavin, Red Dragonfly Press poet
Workshop Dates
Saturday- May 31, 2008- 9:30AM-12:30PM Reading Chapbook Celebration scheduled for 2009-
Classes Minnesota Landscape Arboretum 3675 Arboretum Drive Chaska, MN 55318 Chapbook Submission Process- For consideration in a Chapbook published by Red Dragonfly Press you may submit poems on typed, white paper, contact information and writer's name on separate piece of paper. This is the submission process for those not attending the workshops. Please send $5.00 per poem reading fee. (workshop attendees are not required to pay to submit work, which they can submit any time before the deadline. However, they must identify the workshop(s) they attended.) The best poems will be selected for publication in a Chapbook published by Red Dragonfly Press. Please send only original unpublished work; author retains all rights but waives recompense. Poems will be selected by the publisher. Proceeds from the Chapbook will go to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Writers Rising Up. Writers Rising Up All submissions will be considered. Poems that are not accepted will be shredded. 2008 Essay Contest Winners The $400 prize money will be split among the five winners. This year we had 100 entries and for the first time many came from outside of MN including OH, WI, Ill, WA, OR, AZ, PA, CA, NE. The five winners and one Honorable Mention were from : Five winners from Stillwater, MN,-- Chicago, Ill,--- Rochester, MN, ---Mazeppa, MN and Rochester, MN.--- and one Honorable Mention from Pepin, WI. "To love the world: Leonardo's Green Dream" by Donald Heffernan of Stillwater; Milissa Link of Minneapolis, "Gone Wild;" Patricia Monaghan of Chicago, "The Memory of Glaciers;" Coleen Johnston of Mazeppa, MN, "By the Notebook;" Virgina Wright Peterson's "The Natural and Unnatural History of Marion Township;" and Dana Hoeschen of Pepin, WI wins Honorable Mention for her essay entitled "Liminal: situated at a sensory threshold, barely perceptible." Essays, bios and photos to be posted soon. Thanks to all for submitting. |
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Sue Leaf of Center City, MN won the 2007 contest with her essay entitled, “To Love The World.”, and co-won the 2006 contest with her essay: “Everlasting Fire.”
Sue Leaf has a PH.D in zoology and has taught biology and environmental science at Cambridge Community College in Minnesota. She was awarded a McKnight Individual Artist Grant in 1998. Her writing has been published in Minnesota Monthly, Utne Reader, Architecture Minnesota and Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. She is the author of Potato City (Borealis Books, 2004). She lives in Center City, Minnesota on the shores of Pioneer Lake.
Mark Herwig of White Bear Lake, MN won with his essay entitled: “Observations of White Bear Lake: “The Veil, “Lights Out,” “Emulsified,” Moonrise over Manitou.”
Scott King grew up just east of the North Dakota / Minnesota border in Pelican Rapids. He is founder and editor of Red Dragonfly Press. He is author of one book of poems, Leftover Ordinary (Thistlewords Press,2006) and a number of letterpress printed editions. He has translated books by the Persian poet Fereydoun Faryad and the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos. He lives in Northfield, Minnesota.
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