Our annual Notes from the Field contest is now open for submissions!  We’re looking for prose focusing on place and the environmental imagination.

Word Limit: 3,500 words

Prize: The winner will receive $200 and publication in Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment.
The first runner-up will receive $50 and publication consideration.

Reading Fee: $19 (includes a one-year subscription to Flyway)

Submissions should be submitted online by midnight on November 4th.

For details, see our contest page.

Still have questions?  Comment here and we’ll be sure to answer!

The new issue of Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment (12.3) arrived yesterday afternoon. Contributors, you will receive your copies in the next few weeks. If you want to order additional copies (or you want to order a copy in general), please visit our main website: www.flyway.org

We will have our new issues at AWP as well and we look forward to meeting you! So, please stop by our table, see sample issues, and enter the chance to win a poster signed by Terry Tempest Williams, Rick Bass, and Patricia Smith!

Hi everyone,

I know many of you are eagerly awaiting the latest issue of Flyway. As you know, we got it to the printer a bit later than we might have liked–but it’s there now and we hope to have it back in time for AWP (meaning, we hope to have it back in early April). The printer says there will be about a 3-week turn around–but I know from experience that this is the average. This issue contains winners from two contests: Notes from the Field (creative prose about the environment) and Home Voices (open only to members of the Iowa State creative writing graduate program). We also feature two artists (artists’ work is solicited; we do not accept unsolicited artwork).

On another note, we need more of you to inkle! That’s what we call it (thanks to the suggestion of a long-time contributor) when you respond to one of our Monthly Inklings. The month is already (almost) halfway over! Remember, the winning Inklings will be feature here!

How It Works: Each month we’ll post a topic. A short phrase, a line, a picture.  Write something based on that topic. Take the topic literally or figuratively.  Take the topic to a nice lunch.   Just remember to bring it back. We want to read your work.

Short topics call for short writing.  Keep to drabble  (fiction or nonfiction, 100-word maximum), or send us a poem.  Please send one submission once a month to flywayjournal@gmail.com

The Perks: Think of Monthly Inklings as an excuse to write, a chance to experiment with style and have fun. At the end of each month we, the editors, will choose three winners, all of whom will have their pieces featured on the Flyway website (flyway.org) for the following month when new winners are chosen.  Winners will also be posted on the blog.  We reserve First American print and electronic rights to the winning pieces for six month.

Check back on March 1st for our first topic!

[Seeking] Poetry manuscripts of 20 to 30 pages with particular investment in human/place relationships.

[Prize]

Winner: Publication of chapbook in separate section of an upcoming issue of Flyway, plus a $250 cash prize.
Runner-up: General publication of selected poems from chapbook, subscription for self or friend or renewal, Flyway T-shirt, plus a $50 cash prize

[Entry Fee] $10 (or $24 for entry fee and one-year subscription)

[Deadline] March 10, 2010

[Submit]

Hazel Lipa “Environmental” Poetry Chapbook Contest

Flyway

206 Ross Hall

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011-1201