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    Date: 2/13/02
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   46

SLU'S "LOUISIANA LITERATURE" SPONSORS ANNUAL POETRY COMPETITION
     HAMMOND -- "Louisiana Literature," Southeastern Louisiana University's award-
wining literary magazine, is seeking entries for its annual poetry competition.
     Entries for the16th annual Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry, which includes a $400 
award, must be submitted by April 15, said editor Jack Bedell of Southeastern's English
Department faculty.
     Bedell said all entries -- either a poem or group of poems -- will be considered for
publication in "Louisiana Literature." 
     For a $12 handling fee, which also earns a one-year subscription to the journal, United
States residents may enter one to five poems, totaling 250 lines, Bedell said. "Poems may be on
any topic. All work must be previously unpublished, and a name and address must appear on
each poem," he said.
     Along with entries, participants should send check or money order payable to Louisiana
Literature and a self-addressed, stamped envelope for contest results. Manuscripts cannot be
returned, but entrants should send a second envelope if they want notification of receipt.
     Entries should be mailed to Louisiana Literature, Poetry Contest, SLU 792, Southeastern
Louisiana University, Hammond LA 70402. 
     Southeastern began publishing "Louisiana Literature" in 1984. The literary magazine has
been honored for its design by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, the nationwide
organization of scholarly and literary journals. "Louisiana Literature" Press was established in
1998 and has printed three poetry chapbooks and, most recently, a novel, "Pompeii Man," by
Paul Ruffin. 
     For additional information, contact Bedell at jbedell@selu.edu or 985-549-5756 or visit
www.selu.edu/lalit.
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