Warriors’ Arts Anthology: The Missouri Humanities Council and the Warriors Arts Alliance have partnered in the Warrior Writers Project to produce an anthology of creative writing and photography by veterans of all conflicts and their families. Photographs selected will be published in black and white. Please include a brief (75 words or less) bio with all submissions.

Theme: This anthology is intended to preserve and share the viewpoints and perspectives, as well as stories, of our military veterans. It will serve not just as an outlet for artistic self-expression but also as documentation of the unique aspects of the time of the conflict in our nation’s history.

Warriors’ Arts Anthology, Southeast Missouri State University Press
One University Plaza—MS 2650, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701

Genres: Poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction (personal essay): one entry per person per genre

Prizes: $250 awarded as top prize in each genre

Word Limits: 5,000 words for prose (fiction and creative nonfiction); up to 3 poems (5 pages) for poetry. Submissions exceeding these limits will be automatically disqualified. Limit one submission per person per genre.

Entry Fee: None

Deadline: postmarked by midnight 1 August 2012 (Winners announced by 1 November 2012)

• The contest entry must be previously unpublished work.
• Manuscripts must be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document. (Save with a .doc extension.) Please combine all poems into one document and use the first poem’s title as title of document.

• Put your name and contact information on the first page of your submission document and nowhere else within the manuscript.
• Please include a brief (75 words or less) bio with your submission.
• Send to: upress@semo.edu

All contest entries will also be considered for publication in the anthology.

Fiction:   William Trent Pancoast    WILDCAT