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Coming April 4, 2007
SHALLA CHATS with Alice Andrews
“Biofiction Introduced”
by
Shalla DeGuzman
First of all, who’s Alice?
Alice teaches psychology with an evolutionary lens at the
State University of New York at New Paltz, and is the editor/publisher of Entelechy: Mind & Culture, an evolutionarily-informed interdisciplinary online journal. She is also the author of Trine Erotic, a novel that explores evolutionary psychology and other behavioral science themes.
Alice is currently working on a book (based on her essay with the same title, published at
Metanexus) called An Evolutionary Mind
What does Entelechy publish?
Heard of BIOFICTION?
Biofiction is not a neologism. (See below for its other uses and meanings.)
In the sense that I am using it, however, it is new; it refers to fiction or creative nonfiction that uses biological, neurological, psychological and/or evolutionary language and/or lenses. That is, a work of biofiction might explicitly deal with biological and /or evolutionary ideas, or it might incorporate biolanguage (see below). It may also do both, as my writing often, but not always, does.
For a while I used the term evolutionary fiction when writing about my own fiction and that of some others; but I soon realized that that term was too limiting (though I still use it in specific instances). At the same time that I felt evolutionary fiction was too restrictive, I was engaged in thinking about literature from a Darwinian and cognitive perspective and doing so primarily through a list called biopoets.
-Alice Andrews, editor, Entelechy: Mind & Culture
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WRITING COMPETITIONS
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Dark Tales Short Story Competition
As well as accepting open submissions throughout the year we also hold a regular competition for short stories of up to 3000 words. Top prize is £100 sterling, second £30 and third £10, and all of these stories - plus the best shortlisted ones, which earn their authors £5 - are published in the magazine. Entries, as with general submissions, are invited from anywhere in the universe..
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CNW/FFWA Annual Florida State Writing Competition. Nonfiction (Previously Published and Unpublished); Fiction (Short Story and Novel Chapter); Children's Literature; Poetry. Awards: $100, $75, $50. Entry fee: $3–$20. Deadline: March 15, 2007.
Info: Click for Guidelines and Entry form or send SASE to CNW/FFWA Contest, PO Box A, Nort Stratford NH 03590.
12th Annual Jane Cunningham Croly/GFWC Print Journalism Contest for Excellence in Covering Issues of Concern to Women. Award: $1000. Entry fee: $50. Must enter three articles published during calendar year 2006 that meet contest criteria. Deadline: March 15, 2007.
Info: www.gfwc.org/contests.jsp?pageId=gfwc_org_57; mkriem@gfwc.org; (202) 347-3168; General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1734 N Street NW, Washington DC 20036.
Robert Frost Poetry Festival (RFPF) Poetry Competition, unpublished only, 30 lines maximum. Awards: $150, $75, $50. Entry fee: $10. Postmark deadline: March 20, 2007.
Info: Robert Frost Poetry & Haiku Contests, Heritage House Museum, 410 Caroline Street, Key West FL 33040; http://www.heritagehousemuseum.org/ or www.robertfrostpoetryfestival.org.
RFPF Haiku Contest, must contain a sasonal or nature image. Awards: $75, $50, $25. Entry fee: $10. Postmark deadline: March 20, 2007. Info: Robert Frost Poetry & Haiku Contests, Heritage House Museum, 410 Caroline Street, Key West FL 33040; http://www.heritagehousemuseum.org/ or http://www.robertfrostpoetryfestival.org/.
Check out the Short Fiction Prize by Ontario Review
Here are Guidelines for the 2007 Cooper Prize: $1,000 plus publication
Submissions accepted from May 1 to September 1, 2007.
Submissions limited to one story of not more than twenty-five double-spaced typewritten pages.
Mail submissions to: The Cooper Fiction PrizeOntario Review9 Honey Brook DrivePrinceton, NJ 08540.
Include self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of manuscript or notification.
An entry fee of $15, which includes a 1-year subscription to Ontario Review, is also required.
Please make out a check or money order (U.S. funds only) to Ontario Review.
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