SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

2009 ETHNOGRAPHIC POETRY & FICTION COMPETITIONS

THE 2009 ETHNOGRAPHIC POETRY COMPETITION*

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual poetry competition as a means to encourage scholars to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns. These concerns may be any of those associated with the fields of anthropology: Archaeological, Biological, Linguistic, Sociocultural and Applied.

Winning entries and honorable mentions will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Fall 2009, and will be published in the Society’s journal, Anthropology and Humanism. The winner(s) will receive an award of $100. All entries will be considered for publication in the journal.

There is no entry fee for members of the American Anthropological Association. If you are not a member, there is a $10 fee.

Judges will be:

Misha Cahnmann Taylor cahnmann@uga.edu, Department of Language and
Literacy Education, University of Georgia.
Kent Maynard maynard@denison.edu , Department of Anthropology, Denison
University
Dorine Jennette drjennette@gmail.com, Copyeditor and Developmental Editor www.dorinejennette.com
e-mail:aemt@mail.rochester.edu

Submissions must be unpublished and include:

*one copy of a cover letter *with home and institutional addresses & a short bio,
* three copies of no more than three poems* of any length totaling no more than
10 pages in all (please do not include your name/address on the poems,
a *self-addressed stamped envelope* for contest results, to be posted by Fall 2009, and
*proof of AAA membership or a $10 check *made to the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Send unpublished poems only.

Dr. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Department of Language and Literacy Education
125 Aderhold Hall
Athens, GA 30602
(off.) 583-8127
email: cahnmann@uga.edu

The deadline for RECEIPT of submissions is May 1, 2009

Electronic or faxed submissions will not be accepted except by request
from ethnographic poets working outside the U.S. and Canada.

THE 2009 ETHNOGRAPHIC FICTION COMPETITION

The Society for Humanistic Anthropology announces our annual fiction competition to encourage anthropologists to use alternative literary genres to explore anthropological concerns. These concerns may be any of those associated with the four fields of anthropology.

Stories should not exceed 20 pages typed double-spaced. There is a limit of one story for each submission. Three hard copies per entry should be submitted.

Winning entries and honorable mentions will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Fall 2009. The winning story will be published in the Society’s journal, Anthropology and Humanism. The winner(s) will receive a cash award of $100.
There is no entry fee to enter this competition.

Judges will be:

Ayala Emmett, Departement of Anthropology, University of Rochester
Ruth Behar, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Judy Labensohn, Bar Ilan Univeristy

Submissions and queries should be sent to:
Ayala Emmett (Chair)
Associate Professo
Department of Anthropology
University of Rochester
P.O. Box 270161
Rochester, NY 14627
Phone: (585) 275-8736
e-mail: aemt@mail.rochester.edu

The deadline for RECEIPT of submissions is May 1, 2009