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Announcing Terrain.org Issue No. 26

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By , October 14, 2010 12:53 am

Earth from spaceThe editors of Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments are pleased to announce the launch of our 26th issue, “The Signal in the Noise,” at http://www.terrain.org.

Issue No. 26 features a rich mix of literary and technical contributions, including the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction winners of our inaugural contest, the new “To Know a Place” feature, and more:

Editorials

  • Guest Editorial: “To Re-imagine the Place of Humans in the Natural World” by Kathleen Dean Moore, Founding Director, The Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word
  • The Literal Landscape: “Dirty Words on Mount St. Helens” with Photo Gallery by Simmons B. Buntin
  • Plein Air: “Open Book, Field, Mind: Life Lessons Learned in Minneapollis” by Deborah Fries
  • Bull Hill: “The WhaleKit Machine: On Tour with the Karelian Magicians of Glitch” by David Rothenberg
  • A Stone’s Throw: “Bedrock: Coming to a Language of Earth” by Lauret Savoy

Interview

To Know a Place

UnSprawl Case Study

Essays

Articles

ARTerrain Gallery

Poetry

Fiction

Reviews

  • “The Hard and the Sweet”: Wendy Burk Reviews Girl on a Bridge, Poems by Suzanne Frischkorn
  • “Close to Home”: Julie Wnuk Reviews The Circumference of Home: One Man’s Quest for a Radically Local Life, by Kurt Hoelting
  • “A Desert Urchin”: Andrew C. Gottlieb Reviews Urchin to Follow, Poems by Dorine Jennette
  • “A Girl and Her Dog Consider the Storm”: Jennifer McStotts Reviews The Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate Change: A Complete Visual Guide, by Juliane L. Fry, Hans-F Graf, Richard Grotjahn, Marilyn Raphael, Clive Saunders, and Richard Whitaker

View our dynamic new issue at http://www.terrain.org.

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Issue No. 26 Preview

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By , September 2, 2010 12:21 am

The editors of Terrain.org are pleased to preview the upcoming issue, our 26th, with the theme of “The Signal in the Noise.” We also want you to know that the issue launch date has moved back three weeks — to October 11th — to allow for systems upgrades (i.e., the editor-in-chief’s computer died and a new one is on the way; since he’s also the web guy, there is some downtime).

So what’s in the upcoming issue?

  • Guest editorial by Kathleen Dean Moore, Spring Creek Project
  • Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming
  • Visual and acoustic art by Andrea Polli
  • Poetry contest winner Laura-Gray Street and finalists Reeves Keyworth, Sara Talpos, Julie Hanson, Tom Daley, and Davi Walders
  • Poetry also by Eric Paul Shaffer, Laurie Klein, Ben Howard, Sherry O’Keefe, Mary Cisper, Derek Sheffield, Cynthia Huntington, Jason Myers, Jeffrey Thomson, Emily Wall, E. Louise Beach, Jeff Newberry, Nick Ripatrazone, Paula Sergi, Nickolas Butler, and Janine DeBaise
  • Nonfiction contest winner Elizabeth Dodd and finalist Michael Palmer
  • Photo essays by John R. Campbell on the Andrews Forest Residency in the Oregon Cascades and Gregory McNamee and Stephen Strom on what makes a desert
  • Other essays by Russ J. Van Paepeghem, and Sara Loewen, who introduces our new feature  called “To Know a Place”
  • Fiction contest winner Andrew Wingfield and finalists Kevin Catalano and Jasmon Drain
  • Other fiction by Debbie Weingarten, Frances Kerridge, and Lucy Jane Bledsoe
  • Articles on bringing employment centers back to neighborhoods, the literary legacy of the European starling in North America, the policies of identity and suppression in the burning forests of the American West, and social justice from Hurricane Katrina
  • A photo article by Jolie Kaytes and Paul Charpentier on permaculture as the ecology of home
  • Plus reviews, regular editorials, and more!

Whew! We hope you’ll find — as we know we will — that Issue No. 26 is worth the wait.

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Inaugural Fiction Contest Finalists and Winner Announced

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By , August 26, 2010 12:12 am

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is pleased to announce the finalists and winner of our inaugural fiction contest, judged by acclaimed writer and teacher Aurelie Sheehan:

  • Winner: Andrew Wingfield for “Right of Way”
  • Finalist: Kevin Catalano for “Into the Lake”
  • Finalist: Jasmon Drain for “Wet Paper Grass”
Andrew Wingfield

Andrew Wingfield is the winner of the Terrain.org inaugural fiction contest.

Here’s what Sheehan had to say of the winner:

“Right of Way” is filled with microbursts of surprise, the fine prose unfurling a nuanced, but powerfully directed story with tension and drama. I appreciated the underlying wit in the narrative, which leavens the increasing snarl of moral compromise.  A story dwelling in the complexities of motherhood and compassion, “Right of Way” also explores the tension between the wild of the right of way and its occupants, and the tamer, tortured civilizers.

Andrew Wingfield will receive the cash prize of $250 and publication in our forthcoming issue, No. 26, with the theme of “The Signal in the Noise.” The issue launches at www.terrain.org on September 20, 2010. The issue will also include the finalist stories by Kevin Catalano and Jasmon Drain.

Congratulations to Andrew, Kevin, and Jasmon, and many thanks to those who submitted to our first contest. We had a wonderful array of stories from which to choose.

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The finalists and winner of the Terrain.org inaugural contest in poetry (judged by Jessie Lendennie) will be announced on the evening of August 26th.

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Inaugural Nonfiction Contest Finalists and Winner Announced

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By , August 24, 2010 1:56 pm

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is pleased to announce the finalists and winner of our inaugural nonfiction contest, judged by acclaimed writer, musician, composer, and philosopher-naturalist David Rothenberg:

  • Winner: Elizabeth Dodd for “Sinuous”
  • Finalist: Kelly Hayes-Raitt for “Still Alive”
  • Finalist: Michael Palmer for “Kinds of Quiet”
Elizabeth Dodd beside a petroglyph in Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Photo by David Rintoul.

Elizabeth Dodd beside a petroglyph in Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Photo by David Rintoul.

Here’s what Rothenberg had to say of the finalists and winner:

It has been a pleasure to read the three top entries of the nonfiction category of Terrain.org’s annual writing contest. “Still Alive” presents a haunting, gritty, honest picture of the kind of troubles and confusion the Iraq War has brought to people in the midst of it, a straight story of the kind we rarely get to hear in media-saturated America. The life of an over-caffeinated Brigham Young student in “Kinds of Quiet” who becomes a vacuum specialist is funny, dark, and painfully real in a wandering, wonderful way. But it is “Sinuous” that impresses me the most, with its movement from the direct experience of a snake-shaped petroglyph to a whole history of engagement from archeology, legend, tradition, and literature right into the moment of our attempt to look straight at an ancient image and try to make contemporary sense of it, finding the signal in the noise of history, record, and information.  It is always hard to combine writing based on raw personal experience of something mysterious and magical with all the reading we can do to offer experts’ visions of what our own encounter might actually mean. This author has combined these two elements seamlessly, so it is to this piece that I award this year’s first prize, and congratulations as well to the two fine runners-up.

Elizabeth Dodd will receive the cash prize of $250 and publication in our forthcoming issue, No. 26, with the theme of “The Signal in the Noise.” The issue launches at www.terrain.org on September 20, 2010. The issue will also include Michael Palmer’s essay.

Congratulations to Elizabeth, Michael, and Kelly Hayes-Raitt, and many thanks to those who submitted to our first contest. We had a wonderful array of essays from which to choose.

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The finalists and winner of the Terrain.org inaugural contest in fiction (judged by Aurelie Sheehan) will be announced on this blog on Wednesday, and the finalists and winner of the inaugural contest in poetry (judged by Jessie Lendennie) will be announced within the next week.

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Terrain.org Submission Period Closed

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By , August 2, 2010 9:46 am

Terrain.org’s submission period — for Issue No. 26, “The Signal in the Noise” and other issues — is now closed. Look for the new issue in mid-September, including the winners and select finalists of our inaugural contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, plus another diverse and exciting collection of literature and technical contributions, including an in-depth interview with poet, essayist, and teacher Alison Hawthorne Deming.

All contestants as well as regular submitters can expect to be notified on or before September 1, and our reading period will open again on October 1, 2010.

Thank you.

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Terrain.org Submission Period Now Open

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By , April 4, 2010 1:28 pm

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments is now accepting submissions for the following upcoming issues:

  • No. 26: The Signal in the Noise, publishing mid-September 2010 and including the winners of our inaugural contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
  • No. 27: Entropy, publishing mid-March 2011
  • No. 28: Image, publishing mid-September 2011 and including the winners of our 2nd annual contests

We are seeking submissions of poetry, essays, fiction, articles, and reviews (query first for the latter). We are also seeking the UnSprawl case study (query for that one, too). Our reading period closes on August 1.

Visit www.terrain.org/submit for submission guidelines, and visit http://sub.terrain.org when you’re ready to submit. Information about upcoming themes is available at www.terrain.org/submit/themes.htm.

And don’t forget about our inaugural contests in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry! They share the same submission deadline (August 1) and theme (The Signal in the Noise). Learn more.

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Terrain.org Inaugural Contests in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry

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By , March 31, 2010 11:19 pm

Terrain.org is pleased to announce our inaugural contests in:

  • Poetry, judged by Jessie Lendennie, poet and Salmon Poetry managing director
  • Fiction, judged by Aurelie Sheehan, award-winning author of History Lesson for Girls and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects
  • Nonfiction, judged by David Rothenberg, award-winning author of Thousand Mile Song and Why Birds Sing

Contest Details

Theme and Submission Period

The contest theme is “The Signal in the Noise,” to match our 26th issue, which launches in mid-September 2010. Though the contest and issue have a theme, we have a very liberal perspective on the theme and encourage you first and foremost to submit your best work.

The contest submission period is April 1 to August 1, 2010. Winners will be announced on or before September 1, 2010.

Prizes

A prize of $250 plus publication for the first-place winner will be awarded in each genre. Runners up in each genre will also receive publication.

Additionally, each first-place winner will receive special, dynamic publication treatment in Issue No. 26. The editors will work with the contest winners to determine the best layout treatment, which is likely to include additional graphics, audio, and enhanced HTML treatment.

Note that we reserve the right to reduce or cancel the contest if we do not receive enough submissions.

Selection Process

All submissions are considered for publication. Terrain.org’s editors will read all entries, passing the top entries in each genre to the judges, who will choose the first-, second-, and third-place winners. Decisions of the judges are final. Judges will not know the identity of the contestants.

All contestants will be notified of the judges’ decisions on or before September 1, 2010.

How to Submit

You are not eligible to enter this contest if you are family or close friends of, or have studied with or under any of Terrain.org’s primary editors — Stephanie Eve Boone, Simmons Buntin, Patrick Burns, Catherine Cunningham, and Joshua Foster — or the contest judges: Jessie Lendennie, Aurelie Sheehan, and David Rothenberg.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but previously published material in any format, including blogs, will not be considered. Submissions can be withdrawn through the submission system, though in that case contest entry fees will not be refunded.

Cost

The cost to submit is $10 per story, essay, or set of 3-6 poems.

What to Submit

You may submit up to three entries in any or all genres:

Poetry
Submit 3-6 poems per entry. For poetry, we are seeking not just the best poem, but the best set of 3-6 poems or long poem, with the hopes of awarding our prizes to poetry sets rather than individual, shorter poems, if possible. No maximum lines per poem. Poems must contain only the poem title and poem itself without the author name or contact information.

Fiction
Submit one story or set of three flash fiction pieces, up to 7,000 words total, per entry. Stories must contain only the story title and story itself without the author name or contact information.

Nonfiction
Submit one essay or set of three micro essays, up to 7,000 words total, per entry. Essays must contain only the essay title and essay itself without the author name or contact information. We will consider all nonfiction, but are most interested in creative nonfiction, including personal essays, lyric essays, memoir, and other literary forms.

Cover Letter Required

Each submission must include a cover letter with the author’s name and contact information — including email, telephone, and mailing address — and the name(s) of the poems, story, and/or essay.

The Submission Process

  1. Please save your cover letter and submission for each entry as a single document — .doc, .docx, .rtf, .wpd, .txt, or .pdf only.
  2. Submit online at http://sub.terrain.org. If you have submitted to Terrain.org before, log in to submit. If you have not submitted before, you must register.
  3. Choose the “Contest” genre category and in the Comments area, type the genre of your submission: Poetry, Fiction, or Nonfiction
  4. Once you confirm your submission, you will be directed to a page with payment instructions (via Paypal). Instructions for mailing a check in lieu of paying online are also provided.
  5. No submission will be considered until payment has been received.
  6. You will receive submission and payment confirmation via email.

Learn more at, and submit online from, www.terrain.org/contest.

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