Brattleboro Literary Festival Flash Fiction Contest!

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GMR will sponsor and judge an exciting–and FREE!–summer flash fiction contest. Submit up to three original unpublished works of fiction of 1000 words or less. The winner will be published in GMR and be invited to read at the Brattleboro Literary Festival in October!

GMR Is a U.S. Poet Laureate Pick!

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We are thrilled to announce that U.S. Poet Laureate and GMR past contributor Natasha Trethewey has chosen Green Mountains Review as one of the seven small press publications that she will focus on and promote as she spreads the holy gospel of poetry across the country.

DEADLINE EXTENDED!: 2013 Neil Shepard Prizes in Poetry and Fiction

POETRY JUDGE: Mark Halliday

Submit now for Green Mountains Review‘s 2013 Neil Shepard Prizes in Poetry and Fiction. First Prize winners will receive $500 and publication.

The New Issue Is Here!

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The Winter 2012 issue is here, with a special feature on Eileen Myles, the Neil Shepard Prize winners, and a whole mess of new poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2012 Neil Shepard Prizes!

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We are very excited to congratulate the winners and finalists for our first ever Neil Shepard Prizes in Poetry and Fiction.

25th Anniversary Poetry Retrospective: Coming in June! . . .

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Sherman Alexie Selected for Best American Poetry 2012!

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Congratulations to Sherman Alexie, whose poem “Terminal Nostalgia” from the Spring 2011 issue was selected by guest editor Mark Doty for inclusion in the 2012 edition of Best American Poetry, edited by David Lehman.            

GMR Offers Prizes in Poetry and Fiction!

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We’re very excited to open the New Year by offering prizes in both poetry and fiction:   First Prize in Poetry:  $500 Final Judge:  Todd Boss    First Prize in Short Fiction:  $500 Final Judge:  Noy Holland   Deadline: April 15, 2012 Winners will be published in our Fall 2012 issue, and all contestants will [...]

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David Huddle on Becoming a Writer

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David Huddle, a frequent contributor to GMR, has a lovely essay up at 1rst Books:  Stories of How Writers Get Started in which he reflects on his beginnings as poet: Poetry is so intimidating that I spent years sidling up to it. . . .  Poetry was a big rich family at whose dinner table I’d sat down without [...]