Fly Rod & Reel magazine once again fires up its Robert Traver fly fishing award – a contest now open to fiction writing and essays relating to fly fishing.
From the Fly Rod & Reel Web site:
The Robert Traver Fly-Fsihing Writing Award is your chance to get your original work read by fly-fishing-writing professionals and possibly published in FR&R. The Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing award carries a $2,000 First Prize, from the John D. Voelker Foundation, sponsor of the award; a Second Place award of $750 will be included this year; Third Place is $250.The details—the winning 2010 Traver Award essay or story must be:
“A distinguished original essay or work of short fiction that embodies an implicit love of fly-fishing, respect for the sport and the natural world in which it takes place, and high literary values.”
Send in a typed, double-space manuscript of no more than 3,500 words to Fly Rod&Reel, Robert Traver Award, PO Box 370, Camden, ME 04843. The winning stories or essays will be published in the Autumn 2010 issue of FR&R and on this Web site.
You may submit your manuscript on a CD or DVD along with a hard copy, and please include an oversize self-addressed stamped envelope if you’d like your materials returned—materials without an SASE will not be returned. No e-mail submissions will be accepted. Please, no phone calls. Enter only once. The deadline is May 15, 2010. Good luck!
Far be it from the Underground to question a writing contest where the announcement features both a typo and more than one incorrect use of a hyphen, but fortunately, the contest has produced some excellent writing in the past.
You’ve got until May to fire up the word processor and let the words leap from your fingertips as if they were tiny thunderbolts. (See what I did there? Am I good or what?)
See you typing, Tom Chandler
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I notice how you slid smoothly past the misuse of semicolons there. Maybe you just couldn’t bring yourself to comment, what with your impending tête-à-tête with the gastroenterologist’s little magic snake? (Actually, I bet it’s not head-to-head, is it.) I’m guessing, but you know I’m right.
I’m off to get angry with some fast-drying finger paints; that’s right, I’m about to have a [wait for it...]
Tempera tantrum. (What, no rim shot?)
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Overall, you gotta ask – why did they let the intern write the announcement? Still, I cut them slack because it’s still my favorite mainstream fly rag, and the contest actually has produced some good stuff.
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