Folk Festival applications must be received by Feb. 27
Performance applications for the 34th Annual Willamette Valley Folk Festival are now available at the UO Cultural Forum, located on the ground floor of the EMU.
Applications for the spring festival must include a musical sample or appropriate promotional materials for other performers. All applications must be received by Feb. 27.
Further questions can be directed to Folk Festival Co-Coordinators William Reischman and Ariel Zimmer via e-mail at [email protected] and [email protected], or by phone at 346-0635.
Applications will also be available online at http://culturalforum.uoregon.edu.
— Aaron Shakra
Oregon Quarterly features new contest for students
The University magazine Oregon Quarterly is offering an essay contest for college students. The fifth “Northwest Perspectives” essay contest now features a category exclusively for students.
Oregon Quarterly editor Guy Maynard encourages student writers to take advantage of the opportunity.
“The contest functions as a forum, an outlet for writers and a way to find people who might write for the magazine in the future,” he said. “It also promotes the fact that the magazine addresses issues in the Northwest.”
Student submissions must be nonfiction and include ideas that affect the Northwest. Topics of past winners in the general contest include a father/daughter relationship in Northwest culture, the relationship of firefighters to fire and how forest fires affect the region, and climbing a glacier as a metaphor for life changes.
The winner will receive $250 and publication in the magazine, and the second-place winner will receive a $75 gift certificate to the University Bookstore. Winners of the general and student contests will be featured at a public reading in May. Portland-based editor and essayist Brian Doyle will judge the entries and teach a writing workshop to the top five student finalists and top ten general finalists following the reading.
“The reading is a chance to celebrate people who work at writing without any near prospects of fame or fortune,” Maynard said.
The deadline for entries is Jan. 31. For more detailed information about submissions, visit Oregon Quarterly’s Web site at http://www.uoregon.edu/~oq/index.htm.
— Natasha Chilingerian
Monthly contest
offers prizes to amateur
photographers, poets
Nonprofessional photographers and poets have the opportunity to enter monthly contests for a shot at publication and cash prizes of up to $10,000. The International Open Amateur Photography and International Open Poetry Contests are open to all recreational photographers and poets in the United States.
Each month, a grand prize winner is selected in both photography and poetry categories for an award of $1,000, and one photographer and one poet are selected for $10,000 each year. Forty first-place winners are awarded $35 for the photography contest, and 73 second-place winners are awarded a gift package with a value of $25.
Twenty-four first place poets are also selected each month for a silver medal worth $50, and 79 second place winners get a bronze medal worth $25.
Photographers can choose to enter their pictures among the following categories: people, travel, pets, children, sports, nature, action, humor, portraiture or other.
The International Library of Photography and The International Library of Poetry, two organizations that publish photography and poetry books, sponsor the contest. All photography entries are considered for publication by The International Library of Photography.
For more information, visit http://www.picture.com for the photography contest and http://www.poetry.com for the poetry contest.
— Natasha Chilingerian
