THE2NDHAND: BIRMINGHAM ART WALK

BIRMINGHAM ART WALK 2008 "mixtape" story contest
On the occasion of the 2008 Birmingham Art Walk Festival, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 5 and 6, downtown, THE2NDHAND brings the "mixtape" reading south. We invite Birmingham- and/or area-based writers to send prose contest entries that are based on a song. Be sure to specify the song, and keep the story under three double-spaced pages (about the length of a song, read aloud). All contest entrants will be considered for participation in our Friday, Sept. 5, reading attendendant to Art Walk, and the ultimate winner will get a cash prize of $100 and publication in the Art Walk edition of THE2NDHAND. Deadline: June 30, 2008.

***Send entries in a word document or rtf file to: todd@the2ndhand.com. For "mixtape" story examples check out our archive of stories from prior events at the2ndhand.com/mixtape/mixtape.html.

The following call for entries was posted in April of 2007. We now have decided on a winner of the contest and will be announcing said winner shortly. Stay tuned for more on the festivities.

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CALL FOR CONTEST ENTRIES

The evening of Friday, September 7, THE2NDHAND, Birmingham and Chicago’s print and online literary magazine, will host a reading in downtown Birmingham featuring four showcased authors in conjunction with Birmingham’s Art Walk festival and juried show -- at least one of those authors will be chosen by competition, taking entries through June 30. Birmingham- or area-based authors send work that

1) amounts to 2,500 words or less in length and
2) you will be comfortable performing for an audience.

Winners will receive a $100 cash award, be published in a special Art Walk edition of THE2NDHAND, and participate in the September 7 reading, with published authors from around the country. Please limit submissions to one or two stories per author. Join us.

Stories can be sent via e-mail to todd@the2ndhand.com in a double-spaced Word document or comparable file. Alternately, post to

Todd Dills, Editor & Publisher
THE2NDHAND
1827 1st Avenue N #301
Birmingham, AL 35203

For more info call 205-323-8037.

Be sure to include all pertinent contact information with each story -- both in the document and in the body of your e-mail. Submissions will be accepted through June 30.