Our own Editor in Chief, Rae Bryant, will be guest judging the Bartleby Snopes‘ Dialogue Only Contest, along with Kevin Dickinson, Editor of Writer’s Bloc (Rutgers) . Submissions open, so send your best Dialogue Only stories.
Prizes: A minimum of $290 will be awarded, with $250 going to first place and $10 to our four honorable mentions. Five finalists will also appear in Issue 5 of the magazine due out in January 2011. Last year we awarded $450 in prize money.
Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.