Modern Love contest--New York Times

Modern Love Essay Contest
http://nytimes.com/ads/marketing/modernlove/

From the hippie culture to the AIDS epidemic to the Internet
revolution, love has gone from "free" to fraught to Facebook. What is
love now, in this age of 24/7 communication, blurred gender roles and
new attitudes about sex and dating?

We invite college students nationwide to submit a personal essay of
between 1,500 and 2,000 words that illustrates the current state of
love and relationships. The winning author will receive $1,000 and
his or her essay will be published in a special "Modern Love" column
on May 4, 2008 and on nytimes.com.

The online archive of Modern Love columns can be found on:
topics.nytimes.com/top/features/style/fashionandstyle/columns/modernlove/index.html
A book of collected columns"Modern Love: 50 True and Extraaordinary
Tales of Desire, Deceit and Devotion"is available at bookstores andd
at the nytstore.com.

HOW TO ENTER

E-mail your essay (attached as a Word document AND pasted within the body of
the e-mail), name, e-mail address, phone number, college and year of
graduation to: essaycontest@nytimes.com
Submission Deadline:
March 31, 2008

The Modern Love College Essay Contest

Official Rules
No Purchase Necessary

1. Contest is open to current undergraduate students at least 18
years of age, residing in the United States and enrolled in an
American college or university. Employees and agents of The New York
Times ("Sponsors"), its respective affiliates and subsidiaries and
members of their immediate families and households are not eligible.
See below for additional eligibility requirements.

2. To enter, please send your essay of no more than 2000 words
illustrating the current state of love and relationships, with your
name, college or university name, address, city, state, zip code,
phone number and e-mail address, to essaycontest@nytimes.com. Limit
of one entry per person. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY 11: 59 p.m.
on March 31, 2008. No correspondence can be answered.

3. Sponsors will not be responsible for lost, late, forged,
mass-reproduced or mass-transmitted, misdirected, mutilated,
incomplete or illegible mail or entries and such entries are void;
telephone, electronic, hardware or software program, network,
Internet or computer malfunctions, failures or difficulties, errors
or failures in transmission or reception and/or any condition caused
by events beyond the reasonable control of Sponsors which may cause
the contest to be disrupted or corrupted. By entering, you warrant
that your submission is original and does not infringe the rights of
any third party and you agree that submissions will become property
of the New York Times Company and will not be returned.

4. One grand prize winner and four semifinalists will be selected.
The grand prize winner will receive $1,000 and have their essay
published in The New York Times Sunday Styles section and online on
nytimes.com. Select semifinalists may also have their essays
published on nytimes.com. No substitution of prizes, except at the
discretion of The New York Times.

5. Winner will be selected in mid-April by members of The New York
Times Editorial department in their sole discretion on the basis of
talent, originality, writing ability, style and creativity. The
decision of The New York Times judges is final. Winners may be
notified by phone or e-mail and will be required to satisfactorily
complete an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability and Publicity
Release, and a freelance writer's agreement, all of which must be
returned within [10] days of receipt or an alternate winner may be
selected. Taxes are the winner's responsibility. Prize winner(s) must
agree in writing that The New York Times Company and anyone they may
authorize, may without compensation publish, display and otherwise
use winner's name, photograph or other likeness, biographical
information and statements concerning the Contest or The Times for
purposes of advertising and promotion without additional
compensation. The prize winners will be announced on May 4 in The New
York Times Style section and online on nytimes.com. For a list of the
winner and semi-finalists, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to
The New York Times Modern Love College Essay Contest, 21st Floor, 620
Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018-1405.

6. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Void
where prohibited by law. No Purchase Required.

Penguin Group Internships

Penguin Group (USA) offers paid internship opportunities in various business areas such as contracts, editorial, graphic design, managing editorial, marketing, production, publicity, sales, subsidiary rights, and operations. In its January 2006 issue, Seventeen Magazine recognized Penguin as one of the 17 best internships in the country!

The internship program consists of three 10-week long sessions. During the spring and fall, interns work 14 hours per week. During the summer, interns work 28 hours per week.

A series of lunch events are planned for summer interns. Brown Bag lunches give interns the opportunity to learn about different departments, and group lunches are designed to allow interns to network with each other as well as employees across the company.

Semester Application Deadline
Spring 1/15
Summer 2/28
Fall 8/15

If you would like to apply for an internship, click here or mail your resume and cover letter to:

Penguin Group (USA)
Human Resources Department
Attn: Internship Coordinator
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014

Please indicate the semester and business area(s) you are applying for in your cover letter.

Albion Review

The Albion Review accepts quality undergraduate submissions from around the country. Deadline is October 20, 2007, so submit quickly!
www.albion.edu/review

North Central Review call for submissions

Guidelines for Submission, Updated 7.30.07
http://blogs.noctrl.edu/review/submission/>http://blogs.noctrl.edu/review/submission/

The staff of the North Central Review invites you to submit to the
national, undergraduate literary journal published by North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. The North Central Review considers all literary genres, including short fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction, and mixed-genre pieces, for two issues annually.

Submissions can be made by email or by postal mail. To submit, please
send your submission(s) as a Word attachment to nccreview@noctrl.edu. Complete contact information should be included in the body of the email and in the
Word document.

Or, you can send a typed copy of your submission(s), along with complete contact
information and a SASE, to us at:

North Central Review, CM #235
North Central College
30 N. Brainard Street
Naperville, IL 60540

Each student MUST include proof of undergraduate status (.edu email address or
photocopied student ID without number) and ALL contact information
(name, postal and email addresses, and phone number) on any submission. Please submit
no more than 5 poems and 2 pieces of prose per issue. Prose should not exceed 5,000
words in length; please indicate word length on any prose submission. Submissions sent through postal mail will be recycled unless specified otherwise by the author.

The submission deadlines for the Fall and Spring issues are October
15 and February 15, respectively.

Other comments regarding submissions to the NC Review:
- Please be sure to include adequate postage on your return
envelopes; postage rates have changed recently, and your old stamps may not be enough to cover costs.
- Again, remember to include ALL contact information, particularly
email address. Due to production restraints, submissions that do not include all of these requirements will be returned to sender and will not be reviewed by the NC Review staff until such information has been received.
- The staff reads submissions from September to May. You may send
submissions at any time throughout the year, but your queries and comments may not be addressed immediately due to the schedule of the publication.

If you have any more questions, please contact us at nccreview(at)noctrl.edu
(replace (at) with @).

Porter Fleming Contest for GA writers

Porter Fleming Contest for writers in GA and surrounding states, sponsored by the Greater Augusta Arts Council as part of its 2007 "Arts in the Heart" festival. Deadline for literary submissions is June 15, 2007. See website for details: http://www.artsintheheart.com/index_flash.htm.

Our Time Is Now

Literary magazine for writers age 23 and younger is accepting submissions for its sixth issue. Send original, unpublished poems, essays and short fiction and nonfiction stories with bio and SASE to Kristen Wicker, Stivers School for the Arts, 325 Homewood Ave., Dayton, OH 45405 or www.ourtimeisnow.net

Oklahoma Review

Call for Submissions
The Oklahoma Review is an electronic literary magazine published through the Department of English at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. The editorial board consists of English and Professional Writing undergraduates, as well as faculty advisors from the Department of English and Foreign Languages. The goal of our publication is to provide a forum for exceptional fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction in a dynamic, appealing, and accessible environment. The magazine's only agenda is to promote the pleasures and edification derived from high-quality literature. The Oklahoma Review is a continuous publication, now in its eighth year. We publish two issues online each year, Spring and Fall. Although we accept submissions at any time, our general deadlines are as follows:
* To have your work considered for the Fall issue: October 15;
* to have your work considered for the Spring issue: March 30.
Submissions are welcome from any serious writer working in English.
Writers may submit the following:
* As many as three (3) prose fiction pieces of 30 pages or less.
* As many as five (5) poems of any length.
* As many as three (3) nonfiction prose pieces of 30 pages or
less.
All works must be submitted electronically to The Oklahoma Review. Therefore, files should be sent as e-mail attachments in either .doc or .rtf format. We will neither consider nor return submissions sent in hard copy, even if return postage is included. When sending multiple submissions (e.g. five poems), please include all the work in a single file rather than five separate files. Authors should also provide a
cover paragraph with a short biography in the body of their e-mail.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please indicate in your cover letter if your work is under consideration elsewhere.
Questions or comments? Please e-mail okreview@cameron.edu