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Contest closed October 15th, 2009

The 136 page anthology will be available by the end of February 2010. Orders are being taken now. Email

Shipping within Canada $19.95

Shipping to USA $22.95

International shipping other than USA $24.95

Orders can also be placed via email and cheques sent by snail mail to Ascent Aspirations Publishing, 1560 Arbutus Drive, Nanoose Bay, BC, V9P 9C8

The publication will be a perfect-bound 136-page book with a glossy art designed cover. At the same time Ascent will continue to publish the electronic editions each month separate from any print editions. This issue is a themed issue. "Issues For a New World Century": Consider the following issues for this title: addictions, longing, violence, scarcity, racism, intolerance, poverty, love, hate, prejudice, secrets.

Ascent Aspirations Magazine Winter 2010 Print Anthology
Prize Winners

Flash Fiction First Prize – Joan Donaldson-Yarmey for “A Capital Offence”
Flash Fiction Second Prize – John Barta for “The Eco-terrorist”
Flash Fiction Third Prize – Jan Wood for “Love is a Form of Madness"
Honourable Mention – Judith Neale for “Off to the Ball"
Poetry First Prize – Jenny Fjellgaard for “Three More Payments And It’s All Ours”
Poetry Second Prize – Spiel the Poet for “Nudging man”
Poetry Third Prize – DB Cox for “heshu”
Honourable Mention – John B. Lee for “Bigger Love”
Honourable Mention – Lois Nantais for “Brethren of Sorrow”
Honourable Mention – Spiel the Poet for “cutout”
Honourable Mention – Jenny Fjellgaard for “Jonesing”
Honourable Mention – Patricia Smekal for “Undusted Corner”

Ascent Aspirations Magazine Fall2009/Winter 2010 Print Anthology
Contributors and Their Work
From these pieces our final judging for prizes will be made in early January.

Peter Austin – “Little Red-Skinned Girl”
Helen Bar-Lev – “In-Out”
John Barta – “The Eco-terrorist”, “Road Redemption”, “Millenial Review (2000 AD”, “Eulogy, 2037ad”
Susan Braley – “Walls”
April Bulmer – “Angel Tea”
Jay Chollick – “I Cannot”, “In and Out of It”
Laura Cleary – “Childsplay”
Cynthia Colby – “The Best Laid Plans”
DB Cox – “heshu”, “the moon cries”
Joan Donaldson-Yarmey – “A Capital Offence”
Telka Duxbury – “Brave”
Alvin Ens – “Space Race Pace”
Jann Everard – “Repaired”
Jenny Fjellgaard – “Jonesing”, “Three More Payments And It’s All Ours!”
Lorraine Gane - “Teenage Girl on the Street”
Jane Garrett-Peat – “Eglinton Station”
Greg Gregory – “Ibis”
Andreas Gripp – “On the bliss of our collective ignorance”
Ann Howells – “The madwoman receives”
I.B. Iskov – “Be On Guard”
Yala Korvin – “These Two…”, “A Wishing Well”
John B. Lee – “Bigger Love”, “Tainted Music”
Barbara Lefcourt – “Present Tense”
Robert Mertens – “kfc”, “malalai joya on campus, november/07”
SheLa E. Nefertiti Morrison – “Marathon In A Bubble”
Judith Neale – “We Sing Ourselves Back”, “Off to the Ball”
Mark Nixon – “Sweat”
Diane Attwell Palfrey – “Kwìkwèxwelhp Healing Village”, “Mauritania”
Carl Palmer – “66489”
Nora Ryan – “Flight AC 865”
Patricia Smekal – “Undusted Corner”, “Dan”
Spiel, The Poet – “cutout”, “Nudging man”
Luminita Suse – “elegy”
Anna Sykora – “Shopping Spree”
Lynn Tait – “Collage”
Adele Kearns Thomas – “battles, wars and aftermath”
Rosalee van Stelten – “Aftermath September 11, 200”
W. Eric Vandever – “Cold Comfort”
Wendy Visser – “For Love of Honour”
Danielle Walker – “Back from Kandahar”
Cristy Watson – “shanty under burrard street bridge”
Y. L. Wu – “Chinese Roots”
Jan Wood - Love is a Form of Madness, Hunted, Elegy for Sawar

First Prize for Poetry - $100 (CND) & 1 copy of the anthology

First Prize for Flash Fiction - $100 (CND) & 1 copy of the anthology

Second Prize for Poetry - $50 (CND) & 1 copy of the anthology

Second Prize for Flash Fiction - $50 (CND) & 1 copy of the anthology

Third Prize for Poetry - $25 (CND) & 1 copy of the anthology

Third Prize for Flash Fiction - $25 (CND) & 1 copy of the anthology

Plus 6 - $10 (CND) honourable mention awards with 1 copy of the anthology

Plus all additional contributors in the collection will receive one copy of the anthology.

The goal is for the contest to generate the costs for publishing the anthology. If the entry fees and sales of the anthology exceed the costs, then the additional money will be used to fund future print editions of Ascent with prize money being more widely distributed among all the authors who appear in the anthology.

Rules & Guidelines:

The eighth print edition will contain poetry and flash fiction.  

Poems and flash fiction can be published elsewhere as long as the author holds the copyright or unpublished and not sent elsewhere. Submit your poem(s)/flash fiction with a brief bio by e-mail to ascentaspirations@shaw.ca.

In the subject heading say Fall 2009/Winter 2010 Edition.

By mail with your contest fee include a cover page with the poem(s)/flash fiction title(s) and the first line beside each title, your name, address, phone number and e-mail. IN ADDITION ALSO INCLUDE EACH POEM/FLASH FICTION ON A SEPARATE PAGE WITHOUT YOUR NAME. We will be using the printed copies of your poems for judging and the electronic copies sent by email for the designing of the book pages should you be included in the anthology.

Contest fee: $5 for one poem or 3 poems for $10. $10 for each piece of flash fiction. You can send as many poems/flash fiction pieces as you wish.

Send your entry information, and POEMS/FLASH FICTION with payment to:

either David Fraser, or Ascent Aspirations Publishing

1560 Arbutus Drive

Nanoose Bay, BC

V9P 9C8

Enclose a #10 s.a.s.e. (Self-addressed stamped envelope) if you are interested in receiving an official printed winners' list. (If you are outside Canada please use Canadian stamps or an international coupons.) Regardless the winners and contributors list will automatically be sent to you via e-mail and it will be posted on the web site.

All submissions will remain the copyright of the author.

*Additional copies of the perfect-bound anthology will be available at time of publication.

Retail Prices without shipping costs $16.95 CND/16.95 US

 The prices of additional copies including shipping and handling are as follows:

In Canada and USA ($19.95 CND or 20.95 US)

To Other International Destinations ($21.95 US)

Advanced Ordering of the Fall 2009 Issue can be done by email.

Pricing at this point is an estimate based on current postal rates and may be subject to slight changes without notice when advanced ordering is announced.

Help make the Fall 2009/Winter 2010, Ascent Aspirations Magazine eighth print edition a successful not-for–profit venture.

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