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Present:

Summer Music Moment
>>The Ultimate Music Photography Contests >>

We’re looking for YOUR Summer Music Moment! Show us the crowds! Show us the artists! We’re looking for the moments, the music, the scene through your eyes.

Billboard and PDN have joined forces to produce the first annual SUMMER MUSIC MOMENT photography contest, the ultimate music photography contest for professional photographers. The SUMMER MUSIC MOMENT photography contest is the premium source for music lovers and photographers alike.

Prizes will be awarded in the following categories: Performance, Crowd, Place and Spontaneous Moment with one grand prize winner amongst all.

Deadline: 8.29.08**
**Late? Pay $10 to extend your deadline to 9.10.08

Amateur and Pro Channels to enter online:

http://www.billboardphotocontest.com

Categories:

* PERFORMANCE: On stage, on the street, anywhere.
* PLACE: A club, cafe, or other hotspot.
* CROWD: Fans in any environment.
* SPONTANEOUS MOMENT: Your best quirky, off-the-cuff shot.

Pro Prizes:

Grand Prize:

A professional D-SLR Camera, PhotoServe Portfolio (Value $860), A Crumpler Photo bag, PhotoPlus Expo Gold Expo Pass, a one-year subscription to Billboard, image(s) published in a September 2008 issue of Billboard Magazine, in the December 2008 issue of Photo District News as well as online at www.pdnonline.com and www.billboard.com.

First Place in Each Category:

Samsung digital camera, PhotoServe Portfolio (value $860), Crumpler photo bag, PhotoPlus Expo Gold Expo Pass, one-year subscription to Billboard, image(s) published in a September 2008 issue of Billboard Magazine, image published in a September 2008 issue of Billboard Magazine, in the December 2008 issue of Photo District News as well as online at www.pdnonline.com and www.billboard.com.

Amateur Prizes:

Grand Prize:

$1,000 cash, an iMac 24 inch 3ghz with photoshop, a point and shoot camera, published on Billboard.com and in a September 2008 issue of Billboard Magazine.

First Place in Each Category:

A digital camera, published on Billboard.com and in a September 2008 issue of Billboard Magazine.

For more info and to enter online
http://www.worldinfocuscontest.com/

Fan’s Favorite:

(professional and amateur categories will be combined. There will be ONE winner)

We’re leaving the choice to you here. Pick the fan favorite award by browsing the shots and casting your votes. The fan favorite with the most votes wins a Samsung digital camera, Billboard-PDN Swag Bag and published on both www.pdnonline.com and www.billboard.com.

For more information and to enter online visit:
http://www.billboardphotocontest.com

American Photo’s Images of the Year Award - Ends September 12, 2008

Canon Photography in Parks Contest - Ends September 30th

This is a bit short notice: NEW WORKS #12 - Deadline - July 7 2008
En Foco’s New Works Photography Awards is an annual program selecting three or more U.S. based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American, or Pacific Islander heritage through a national call for entries.

It acts as a creative incubator, enabling artists to create or complete an in-depth, photographic series exploring themes of their choice, and providing the infrastructure for a professional exhibition of their new work in the New York area. A photographic artist’s work can be in any photo-based style or genre (documentary, autobiographical, landscape, abstract, digital, pinhole, alternative processes, etc).

New works by Beau Velasco, Daniel St. George, and Jeremiah Maddock
June 28 – July 21, 2008
Reception: Saturday, June 28th from 6-11pm

Un Named Rottens is a collaborative exhibition featuring new works from New York-based artists Beau Velasco, Daniel St. George 2nd, and Jeremiah Maddock. Un Named Rottens will showcase works that look at the primal side of the human psyche and its relation to us in the modern society. The three artists share similar views on how they view the world, as well as a dark, humorous, and, at times, cryptic visual narrative.

http://www.factoryfresh.net/factoryfreshshows.html

by C-Monster

by C-Monster

Gallery: Creative Slump No More - Emerging Opening | Richard Louissaint Photography: The Journal

Creative Slump Opening Reception June 14th, originally uploaded by richlouis.

Creative Slump No More

presents

EMERGING

an artist exhibition

Raquel Wilson
Joan Cuenco
Sean Louis McQueen
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Wesley Paisley
Zaire Sais
Richard Louissaint

June 14 - June 27, 2008

Call the number below before going

George Washington Carver Gallery

inside the Magnolia Tree Earth Center

677 Lafayette Avenue (btwn Tompkins and Marcy Avenues)

Brooklyn, NY 11216

(718) 387-2116

them@creativeslumpnomore.com

www.creativeslumpnomore.com

Creative Slump Opening Reception June 14th, originally uploaded by richlouis.

Creative Slump No More

presents

EMERGING

an artist exhibition

Malik Alexander
Raquel Wilson
Joan Cuenco
Sean Louis McQueen
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Wesley Paisley
Zaire Sais
Richard Louissaint

June 14 - June 27, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION

Saturday, June 14, 2008

6:30PM - 9:30PM

George Washington Carver Gallery

inside the Magnolia Tree Earth Center

678 Lafayette Avenue (btwn Tompkins and Marcy Avenues)

Brooklyn, NY 11216

(718) 387-2116

them@creativeslumpnomore.com

www.creativeslumpnomore.com

http://www.lakeforest.edu/admissions/news/news_story.asp?iNewsID=703&strBack=/Default

College to host emerging writers through new award

Lake Forest, Ill. – Starting spring 2009, Lake Forest College will host an emerging writer of national promise for a two-month residency thanks to funding from a local philanthropist, who was impressed by the College’s recently established publishing enterprise, Lake Forest College Press, and its
imprint & NOW books. Residency authors will have the opportunity to publish their first book with &NOW books, give lectures, and interact with the creative writing program while on campus.

The Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize, a $15,000 award given for the next three years, invites applications for an emerging writer, with no major book publication, to spend two months (February-March or March-April 2009) in residence at the College. The award comes from
the Plonsker Family Fund at The Chicago Community Trust. Each year, $10,000 will go to the writer and the remainder will cover other expenses associated with the residency, such as offsetting the publication costs of the writer’s book.

 ”Virginia Woolf famously wrote about how writers need a degree of financial security and need a room of their own to work,” says Associate Professor of English Robert Archambeau, “and this program seeks to provide those things to a writer in a crucial stage of completing a first book.”

 A major factor in the donor’s choice of Lake Forest College for the residency was the recently established press at the College, which will allow students to take courses in how to publish a manuscript, and will publish works of poetry and prose. The first publication will be THE &NOW AWARDS: For the best innovative writing, a biennial anthology of creative work.

 ”I’m particularly happy about how students will be able to take part in the
 process of editing,” adds Archambeau of the press, “through participation in
 courses that will combine academic study with editorial work on actual books.
 Some graduate schools allow student input at this level, but what
we’re able to
 offer is extremely rare, if not unique, as part of the undergraduate
 experience.”

 Archambeau worked with Associate Professor of English Davis Schneiderman to
 establish the press.

 ”This is the continuation of great things for Lake Forest’s creative writing
 program, and we are thrilled about the possibilities presented by the Plonsker
 Residency,” says Schneiderman.

 Those interested in applying for the residency should send curriculum vita,
 manuscript in progress, and a statement of plans for the completion of the
 manuscript to: Plonsker Residency, Department of English Lake Forest
College 555
 N. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045. Review of manuscripts by
judges Robert Archambeau, Davis Schneiderman, and Joshua Corey will begin May 15, 2008, and
continue until the position is filled. Those interested in having work published in the anthology should email andnow@lakeforest.edu with the subject line:  ”&NOW Nominations.” Works must have been published since 2004.

 Lake Forest College is a national liberal arts institution located 30 miles
 north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,400 students representing 45
 states and 65 countries.

I was surprised but not really when i realized that Jenny Baptiste had taken up photography. But then she is married to Marc Baptiste ( a man who still intimidates me to this day despite me learning under him). Well she is displaying some of her work as well as fellow Haitian Jean Marcelin.

The Secrets Behind Getting Published

A panel discussion with top editors from the New Yorker, The New York Times, and Random House

Did you know that August is the easiest month to break into the New York Times Op-Ed page? That learning one odd factoid about a local politician’s pet could get you into the New Yorker’s Talk of the Town? That publishing an essay in a certain New York Times column that has recently spawned 10 memoirs is the fastest way in town to land an agent? That certain mistakes in your cover letter are making an editor delete you in seconds without even reading your submission?

In this panel, an amazingly distinguished group of top agents and editors will share the idiosyncratic magic tricks that could get you in the door, into their pages, and signing on the dotted line of a big book deal. >> learn more

Speakers include: Susan Shapiro mediabistro instructor and author of 5 recent nonfiction books including Only As Good as Your Word Vanessa Bush former executive editor, Essence magazine Trip Gabriel The New York Times Style Section editor Dwight Garner The New York Times Book Review deputy editor and Paper Cuts blogger Betsy Lerner agent and author of The Forest For The Trees Cindy Spiegel Random House editor of the imprint Spiegel and Grau Daniel Zalewski editor, New Yorker, formerly of the New York Times Magazine

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