access+ENGAGE


A bi-weekly online arts magazine published by mnartists.org (a joint project of the Walker Art Center and the McKnight Foundation). This free e-mag is devoted to writing and art in all disciplines by Minnesota's emerging artists and established luminaries alike. In access+ENGAGE and its sister e-publication by mnartists.org, MnArts magazine, you'll find reviews, interviews, poetry, short fiction, and essays, and profiles offering a sampling of the rich diversity in the arts with origins in the Upper Midwest.

miniStories

mnartists.org is launching a new flash fiction competition and publication series for Minnesota writers. Submission deadline is March 28, 2008. CALL FOR MINNESOTA WRITERS The deadline for submissions for the first round in this short fiction contest is MARCH 28, 2008. mnartists.org is launching miniStories, a quarterly short-short fiction competition coordinated by Electric Arc Radio's Geoff Herbach (author of The Miracle Letters of T. Rimburg, forthcoming from Three Rivers Press). This new literary series will showcase previously unpublished short stories by Minnesota writers which will be selected by authors, editors, and publishing industry veterans from across the country. Winning stories will be published on mnartists.org and in the e-magazine access+ENGAGE. One grand-prize winning author will be selected from each quarter's miniStories winners by series coordinator Geoff Herbach to receive a paid commission for a longer-form short story which will be published on mnartists.org. There will be readings at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis at the end of each quarter's contest cycle, at which miniStories winners and judges will read their fiction. An anthology collecting the inaugural year's miniStories winning fiction will be published in April 2009 and available for sale at area bookstores. The judges for the first round of miniStories: Lindsey Moore, Associate Editor at Crown/Three Rivers Press, NY, NY Stephanie Wilbur Ash, Books and Literature Editor, Metro Magazine, Twin Cities David Oppegaard, author of The Suicide Collectors, forthcoming from St. Martin's Press SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS AND ENTRY PROCESS: Any and all genres of fiction submissions are welcome, but writers must be Minnesota residents and be (or become) member artists of mnartists.org to enter the contest. Registration on mnartists.org is FREE. If you need any assistance with creating an mnartists.org page or uploading images we will work with you! Please email us at info@mnartists.org. Any previously unpublished short fiction, from 5-500 words in length, may be submitted for consideration (submissions longer than 500 words will not be considered). Entrants may submit up to, but no more than, three pieces per competition cycle. Story submissions should be emailed as attachments (preferably as Word documents--.doc) to stories@mnartists.org. miniStories is a publication and reading series presented by mnartists.org, a project of the McKnight Foundation and the Walker Art Center

Deadline:3/28/2008