Dear Readers, Announcing the latest issue of Crazyhorse -- Number 70! It is now available for your reading pleasure by subscription, in bookstores, and online at http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu. Enjoy! The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize $2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse $15 entry fee includes one-year subscription Postmark Deadline to Enter: December 16, 2006 See details below on how to enter or see http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu under "Fiction and Poetry Prize" for complete contest guidelines and process.

Crazyhorse Number 70
		Fiction Peter Short and “The Hawthorne Curve”: “Dad claimed no possessions. What he had in his life was nothing you could count. He said this to me after Mom’s funeral and I believed him.” Rob Phelps’ chronicles of “The Neighbor War”: “‘I’m not gay,’ Julian explained, ‘but my army is.’” Creative Nonfiction “Migration”—Mark Krewatch’s alter ego pitches everything he's got to the glossy L.A. monthlies. Poetry Dreams of trying to remember: Kerri Webster John Ashbery Billy Collins Aimee Nezhukumatathil Marvin Bell Tomas Tranströmer translated by Michael McGriff with Mikaela Grassl Sarah Vap David Wojahn Stacie Cassarino George Eklund: “Every breath is an apocalypse” And many more.
Cover art by Hiroe Saeki

The Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize: $2000 each and publication in Crazyhorse. Each year Crazyhorse offers the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize for a single short story and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize for a single poem. The prize awards are currently $2000 for each genre, and the winning poem and piece of prose are published in Crazyhorse. Recent fiction prize judges have included Dan Chaon, T. M. McNally, Diana Abu-Jaber, Michael Martone, and Charles Baxter. Recent poetry prize judges have included Dean Young, Albert Goldbarth, Nance Van Winckel, Dara Wier, and Mary Ruefle. To enter: To enter, please mail a manuscript of up to twenty-five pages of fiction or up to three poems (up to 10 pages poetry). More than one manuscript may be entered. For each fiction or poetry manuscript entered, please enclose a reading fee that includes a one-year/two-issue subscription to Crazyhorse: $15 per manuscript for new entrants, $12 per manuscript if you have entered the Crazyhorse prizes before (indicate you have entered before on your manuscript's cover page). For each additional fiction or poetry manuscript entered and entry fee paid, your subscription to Crazyhorse will extend by one year. All manuscripts entered must be original and previously unpublished. All entries are considered for publication. Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for notification of winners; entry manuscripts can not be returned; receipt of entry can only be confirmed by including a self-addressed stamped postcard with your entry or by USPS delivery confirmation. Each entry should have a cover page placed on the top of the manuscript with the entrant’s name, address, e-mail, and telephone number; please do not include identifying information on the manuscript itself, as all manuscript entries are made anonymous for review. Include reading fee payment with each entry: a check written out to “Crazyhorse” or the following Mastercard, Visa, or Amex information printed on your cover page: card type, name as it appears on card, card number, expiration date, signature, ZIP of card billing address, phone number of card billing address. The charge will appear on your card statement as “College of Charleston." Entries are accepted from Sept. 1 to Dec. 16, 2006. Winners will be announced by April 30, 2007. The postmark deadline for this year's prizes is December 16, 2006. Send your entry to: Crazyhorse Fiction Prize / The Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize Crazyhorse Department of English College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424
Carol Ann Davis, Editor Garrett Doherty, Editor Anthony Varallo, Fiction Editor Crazyhorse Department of English College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston SC 29424 Phone/Fax: 843-953-7740 E-mail: crazyhorse@cofc.edu Website: http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu