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The Black Pear
Awards
Pear Noir! is
pleased to announce the Black Pear Awards. The first
place winner in each of the following categories
will receive $100, publication in our next issue,
and a lifetime subscription to Pear Noir!:
Burlesque Comedy
Creative Nonfiction
Magical Realism
Speculative Fiction
To enter, paste
your submission, along with your address and a short
biography, in the body of an email and send it to
pearnoir [at] gmail [dot] com. We do not open
attachments. Be sure to format the subject line as
follows: "Black Pear Awards / (category - e.g.,
Magical Realism)." Unfortunately, we cannot accept
simultaneous submissions or reprints for this competition.
Honorable mentions may be offered publication in our
next issue. Note: If a work of exceptional literary
merit cannot be found for one of the aforementioned
categories, an award will not be presented in that
category.
Length: up to
3000 words
Deadline: April 30, 2010
The Black Pear
Awards are open to previous contributors.
Things We
(Usually) Like
Alcohol, algorithms, anatomy,
Balding Men With Beards (forthcoming), blueprints,
butterflies, chutes too narrow, clocks, clouds,
daguerreotypes, decomP, Drunk and Lonely Men (on
hiatus), Elliott Smith, flash fiction, foreign
currency, grass skirts, hobbits, hot air balloons,
Ian Curtis, karaoke, McSweeney's, minimalism, Mud
Luscious, Neutral Milk Hotel, origami, parachutes,
postage stamps, prose poems, puppets, recipes, Rube
Goldberg machines, Ryan Manning, sad songs (and
waltzes), Sunnyoutside, surrealism, tattoos,
topographical maps, turtles, unhappy endings, vinyl,
water lilies, and woodcuts.
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