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An interview with Ellis Avery

February 6, 2012

The super-talented Ellis Avery is the author of The Teahouse Fire, (Riverhead 2006), which won three awards and was translated into five languages, and The Smoke Week (Gival Press 2003) an award-winning personal account of life in lower Manhattan after 9/11. Her critically acclaimed new novel The Last Nude, centering on the relationship between Art [...]

New show of drawings by Hilary Berseth at Eleven Rivington Gallery in New York City

January 20, 2012

All images courtesy of Eleven Rivington Gallery Hilary Berseth (SOA’ 2001) impressed with his first show at Eleven Rivington Gallery in 2008. He seamlessly blended nature with human agency; his honeycomb sculptures combined his own wood and wire armatures with wax and honey structures built by bee colonies. His manipulation of natural processes resulted in [...]

Photohysteria in Paris

January 3, 2012

Every year, photohysteria descends on Paris in the form of the world’s leading photography fair, Paris Photo. This November, the Grand Palais off the Champs Elysees played host. I wandered in to take on the works of 117 international galleries, and to find out what the buzz was about. My starting point was Magnum, the [...]

Contests

2012 COLUMBIA: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND ART

WRITING CONTEST NOW OPEN

$500 prizes in each genre: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Plus publication in our landmark 50th issue.

[JUDGES]
Fiction:
Dinaw Mengestu
How to Read the Air
The New Yorker “20 Under 40” 2010

Nonfiction:
Anne Fadiman
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
National Book Critics Circle Award 1997

Poetry:
Eileen Myles
Inferno: a poet’s novel
Lambda Literary Award 2010

Runners-up will be considered for publication on our website.

Guidelines:
Poetry: up to five poems
Fiction and Nonfiction: up to 15 double-spaced pages
Simultaneous submissions are fine; please write us if your piece is accepted elsewhere.

Deadline: February 1, 2012.
Entry fee is $14 and includes a copy of Journal 50.
Submit your work via our submission manager.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT PAYMENT:
After your file is uploaded, you will be automatically directed to our payment portal, which will allow you to buy a virtual “ticket” to the contest ($13 plus 75¢ processing fee). This will look like a ticket to a literary event, but never fear, it is merely our way of processing contest fees.

Your submission will not be read by our judges if you do not pay the contest fee, so if you have any trouble, please contact us right away at Publisher.Columbia@gmail.com.