Written by Brenda Nicholas

Ahoy ye writers, it’s time to thrust wind under your sails and cast off the safe mainland onto the rambunctious sea of disappointment and rejection. Or maybe not! Maybe you are the kind of pirate or sailor that literary journal has been searching for through their sea-faring multi-element eyepiece, onboard a pristine deck of future Nobel prize winners.

Okay, enough of the pirate talk. In honor of the 2008 AWP conference that ended this past weekend, I thought I’d pass along some contest info for all of our fine DJR writers. It’s inspiration time, folks. Start click, click, clicking away at those keys and buy some stock in SASE envelopes so you can send your work out. Don’t look at me that way; get your special pen ready for those future autographs!

Send work here. And when you win, tell us all about it, so we can write up a nifty story about you.