Monday, April 13, 2009

"My Dinner with Lydia Davis" Contest Announcement

The votes are in, and the readers of this blog have selected short fiction innovator and Proustian translator Lydia Davis as the batty lady fiction writer with which you'd most like to sup. Lydia won with 33% of the vote, followed by Lorrie Moore (28%), Miranda July (21%), Amy Hempel (12%) and Diane Williams (7%).

...We would like to know more about your dinner date with Lydia Davis, so this blog is launching our first-ever contest - the "My Dinner with Lydia Davis" contest. Write a piece of prose <1,000 words about your dinner with Lydia Davis and send it to knockonformica@gmail.com by 9 PM ET on Friday April 17.

The winning entry will be posted on the blog, and the winner will receive a one-year subscription to the lit journal of their choice.

Please feel free to repost this announcement elsewhere, and email with any questions.

1 comment:

Cortney McLellan said...

Rockin contest, Tim.