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Janet McNally JBLC Members Contest

Just Buffalo’s 9th Annual Members’ Writing Contest & Reading Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive)

Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington St, 2nd floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Date: February 21, 2017
Time: 7:30 p.m.

Winners will be announced at a special Members’ Reading at the Just Buffalo Writing Center.

Two awards will be presented: a Judge’s Award, selected by Janet McNally, & an Audience Award. Come to the reading to cast your vote!

Both winners will receive a $50 cash prize, a gift certificate from Talking Leaves Books, publication in The Public, and a certificate of recognition from Just Buffalo Literary Center.

Deadline for submissions is February 1, 2017.

Janet McNally ias author of the Young Adult novel Girls in the Moon (HarperCollins/HarperTeen) and a collection of poems, SOME GIRLS, winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. She has an MFA from the University of Notre Dame, and has twice been a fiction fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at Canisius College.