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Watch for frequent updates on this website as a new webmaster (Robert Olmsted) is in training. Look for a rebuilt and updated website before March 1.

In other news... The Conservatory is especially pleased to announce low cost color printing. Full color covers from $1.00. Full color internal pages from about a quarter.
All published books will feature full color covers.
Put some pazazz into your chapbooks, even our C-BOD program.

Jan 29, midnight And now that I've started, I don't know what'll happen. I must re-learn Microsoft front page and will probably mess up a lot, but stay tuned (offer any advice or comment you can (cal@americanletters.org) and be patient. Above I promised by March 1, and I expect to make it by then.

Soon you can expect to see photographs of book covers, and other things as I learn to use my digital camera and its software.

Our new color printer technology should be here by this time next week.  We will be able to deliver photo quality color printing very economically.  (As little as some [alleged] economy short run printers offer for black ink only.)

 

May 5, 2001
CAL Member Remy C. Orffeo of Orchard Park New York has just made a donation of $25 to be awarded to the best poem published in the Northwoods Journal in 2001. The December issue will feature a ballot listing title and author of all poems published in the Journal this year. Buyers of the December issue will each have one official ballot and will be asked to vote for the three best. First place votes will be awarded 5 points, second place 4 and third place 3. The poem receiving the most points wins the prize.

This donation and award came unsolicited. Your comments and participation are appreciated.

April 17, 2001
We are pleased to announce a new poetry contest. It is open to all. Book-length work, no more than 10% may have been previously published.

THREE WINNERS! We offer three prizes of $100 each PLUS PUBLICATION by royalty contract (10% first $2,500, 15% thereafter) of the winning books. Publication date is June 2002. Prizes will be mailed by January 15, 2002.

Deadline: January 1, 2002 postmark

Submit with SASE and extra SASEs for any correspondence wanted, or clear and simple instructions to discard manuscript if not accepted.

Your manuscript will not be tied up until January unless it's a winner. All manuscripts will be read and judged within 72 hours of receipt. If your manuscript is one of three best we have, it will be retained unitl it is beaten. If it does not beat one of the three best we have on hand it will be returned at once. Identity of the judges will not be revealed unitl after the contest, then only on request with SASE.

Rejected (non-winning) manuscripts will not receive comments.

Membership in the Conservatory of American Letters is not required for submission (the judges will not even know if you are/are not a member), but winners will be required to maintain membership in the Conservatory for as long as their book remains in print.

Entry fee is $10 for non-members of CAL, $8 for members. Make checks payable to "CAL."

Leaders for the prize and publication will be posted on our Web site on this page.

We invite you to join the conservatory for only $25 per year. (Includes free subscription to Northwoods Journal, a magazine for writers.) See home page for information.

You may submit as often as you wish. There are no subject or length restrictions.

If you want to see the production and/or the literary quality of previous winners, order Knotted Stems or Hog Killers and Other Poems from our Web site catalogue.
PO Box 298 Thomaston, ME 04861

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