News for writers
2012 Short Fiction Award
Karen Brennan judge
Submission deadline extended through
AWP Chicago, March 4, 2012
Click here for full contest details
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2012 Open Submissions Period
accepting mss through AWP Chicago, March 4, 2012
And the hits keep coming for Kore. We love our editorial team... good to know the feeling's mutual . Thanks, Anna Clark
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Double Agent due out winter 2012
2011 First Book winner
Michelle Chan Brown's poetry collection Double Agent was selected out of over 300 as the winner of the Kore Press 2011 First Book Award.
Questions?
Email editorial@korepress.org .
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July 21, 2011: Kore Press receives an NEA to host The Big Read in Tucson
The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
Kore Press is one of 76 non-profit organizations receiving a grant to host The Big Read project this fall. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and in cooperation with Arts Midwest , The Big Read is an initiative to restore reading to the center of American culture. Tucson's Big Read will involve creative and educational community programming and events taking place between Sept. 22 and Nov. 13, 2011. Kore has chosen to celebrate the poetry of Emily Dickinson , and bring her prolific work to our community in active and meaningful ways.
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Kore Press wins a 2011 Innovations in Reading Prize
Kore is one of four organizations in the country (selected out of 120) to be honored by the National Book Foundation with a 2011 Innovations in Reading Prize ! The National Book Foundation awards prizes to individuals and institutions that have developed innovative means of creating and sustaining a lifelong love of reading.
For eighteen years, Kore Press has been defined by innovation. Whether it's publishing the highest quality women's literature, educating youth, or doing creative community programming, they have been on the edge of using literature to advance progressive social change. As a community of literary activists, Kore is dedicated to engaging the public through several visionary, creative writing projects.
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Four ways to support Kore:
(1.)
Join
the Annual Tumamoc Hill-a-thon
March 15-April 15
walker, sponsor, cheerleader
we need you
Support Kore with your feet: walk the historic hills west of downtown Tucson with a great community of hillers. Form a team, climb solo or sponsor a walker!
Visit the 2010 blog for Tumamoc
photos & to get an idea of the terrain.
info: kore@korepress.org
Give
a tax deductible donation to Kore's ongoing support of women & grrls in literary activism.
(3.)
Designate
your AZ tax credit to the Grrls program through our partnership with City High School.
(4.)
Collect
Kore publications by becoming a standing order patron . Receive shipments twice a year of all new titles, with a friends discount of 10%.
contact: kore@korepress.org
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June 9, 2011: Kore Press wins the 2011 LUMIE Award for an Established Arts Organization
Kore received the award for an Established Arts Organization at this year's Tucson Pima Arts Council LUMIES Awards . This prize is awarded to an organization functioning for over ten years, in recognition of their innovation, creativity and sustained excellence in their field.
"Championing women writers and those underrepresented in the cultural mainstream, Kore Press has thrived as an independent press against difficult economic environments that easily favor corporations. Kore Press remains as one of only six feminist literary publishers in the country and is a leading voice for advancing progressive social change in Southern Arizona. As a platform for emerging writers, Kore renders personal attention to each writer’s work and always gives detailed feedback to enhance the writings of local writers. This organization has furthered the discussion of Tucson’s cultural and artistic future through activism projects and presentations in schools. Engaging local citizens, Kore Press will continue to make literary activism and social justice
a priority in the years to come."
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And the hits keep coming for Kore. We love our editorial readers... good to know the feeling's mutual . Thanks, Anna Clark !
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Grrls Literary Activism Workshops
Empowering the next generation of leaders
Workshop participant Zamzam Hirsi talks with Dr Cornel West
at a special reception, Spring '11, UA Centennial Hall
Visit the Grrls website , blog , and Facebook .
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Shirts to benefit Grrls Literary Activists
now for sale, designed and printed by Grrls themselves! $14.50
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Coming in Hot opens dialogue across cultures with the voices of female veterans.
Up Next:
female veteran & activist
The Oral History Project
Adapted for the stage from the groundbreaking 2008 title Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq , Coming in Hot ignites theater with civic action and truthfully contributes to the discussion on women in the military.
Want to produce this play? contact lisa@korepress.org for details.
Coming in Hot garners a glowing review on the Huffington Post ! See more reviews here .
Visit the Coming in Hot: Civil Discourse website , blog , and Facebook .
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THANK YOU
2011 Big Read business partners:
Feast
Gallery of Food
UA College of Humanities
Poetry Center
The B-Line
Janos
Rocco's
Hotel Congress & Maynard's
The Shanty
AZ Party Rental
kore program partners:
and funding partners: