Beware of racially obnoxious whites in north america who cannot bear truths and especially from nonwhites as the whites are small stone cowards full of narrow-minded jealousy, hatred, and unwarranted obstacle and disturbance creation in the name of competitiveness; incapability in the name of innocence,ignorance, and arrogance; immaturity in the name of white christianity; bias in the name of privilege; trespassing, infiltration, colonialism,
and wars, in the name of business, technology, education, and job creation; weaklingness in the name of networking; financial freedom in the name of loan-dependence; in between the lines talks, embedded nonsense, and mind games, in the name of politeness, decency, and smartness; neighborhood harassment in the name of neighborhood watch; human rights and
privacy violations in the name of unpermitted selfish impositions of security and protection; a culture full of provocation, infiltration, and mean-spiritedness, increasing their karmas in the name of if you ain't white you ain't right; Bravo the immature
predatory white war oriented competitive rat race!

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Edited by author 09-16-2005 11:59 AM
More glut

Mobile phone novels are the new karaoke in China.

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Star poetry contest won by grade 7 teacher

There's a particularly egregious dearth of capital letters here. but congratulations anyway, michael.


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Guess the baldspot

Can you match these writerly crops with their writerly props? If you do, you could win the Booker longlist. God, Rushdie's head is hot. I mean, in a all-the-hair-has-been-burnt-away kind of way.


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The Big Gay Read
Sometimes I love the British. And sometimes I don't.

The Big Gay Read, a follow-up to the BBC's Big Read, is intended to cross the sexuality divide and prompt a debate in reading groups, in internet chatrooms, in bars and over dinner tables, anywhere where people like talking about books.

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Edited by author 07-12-2005 10:05 AM
Sounds like a good idea, but I wonder if it will quell much doubt. After all, the whole point of Foetry was that contests and judges were violating ethical standards that most considered self-evident. Are they more evident or binding if they're published on the CLMP or CMPA website? Could you enforce a code like this (a la the old Comics Code Authority) by suspending a magazine's distribution for violations? Would that give it any teeth considering that newsstand sales are much less important that subscriptions?

Foetry prompts code of ethics for literary contests
Established writers everywhere shudder.

Like it or not, Foetry got people talking about some important issues. In response to the increasingly common discussions among the more than four hundred-fifty members of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), executive director Jeffrey Lependorf decided to schedule a series of formal symposia with writers, editors, and publishers in order to establish a set of guidelines for contests, including a code of ethics, which he hopes to publish on the CLMP Web site this fall.

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Edited by author 06-17-2005 10:17 AM
Contest of Fools

Guardian Unlimited has teemed up with HarperCollins with a new contest. It works like this. You answer a bunch of questions about your personal finances, contact information, and maybe one or two about literature, they give you a book, which you review for free. So, what do we win, though? Not even a pint?

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Edited by author 05-06-2005 10:42 AM
This is regarding the recent ad that is currently and prominently displayed on your main page: "A Boy and his Nipples" by ECW Press. How's that for a caption? I would like to see the comic that goes with that caption! (Well, not really.)

A note regarding the New Yorker caption contest: "Any U.S. resident age eighteen or over can enter...".

WTF?

Bill

New Yorker caption contest goes weekly
The New Yorker has blatantly ripped off Bookninja's Litterati caption contest with its cartoon caption contest. We are scowling beneath our smiles. Oh yes, and submitting suing.

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Fack! I know contests blow, but...

You know, my whole next book is about this. How come I hear about these contests after they're over? I could really use a new telescope. My old one's alternator is shot (actually Baby Ninja put honey in the focuser tube).


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Finally, a poetry contest for everyone!

Just watch Foetry doesn't get all riled up about a judge and a contestant both liking muenster. (From Bookslut)



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Lit Idol has coolest name for George Carlin look-alike ever

Otis Twelve. That's so street, yo. Lit Idol finally gets some cred.



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Speaking of pure-as-the-driven-snow contests

Oil of Olay had a poetry contest. It was won by a series of surprisingly normal-looking women. Wait a minute! These are all women! Foul, criest I! Discrimination! What about my piece, entitled, "The Spackling of Francis McGuillicutty: an Haiku Sequence in Earth-Tones"? Is there no justice? (From Old Hag)



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