Contest Announcement!

The Broad Set's May Day Contest!

The Broad Set Writing Collective is reading at The Wooden Shoe in Philadelphia on May Day. To acknowledge revolutions, past & present, we would like to announce our first contest. The theme is (of course) revolution. Be creative. Talk about labor relations or a personal triumph. It can be punk rock or folky and fun.

Guidelines:
- Submissions will be judged by The Broad Set team.
- Prose or poetry is fine
- No more than 300 words
- You CAN submit multiple times
- No previously published work
- Email your submissions to BroadSetContest@gmail.com
- Attach submission as .DOC file. Include your biography, website and home address. (Please no .docx files.)

Biography:
- A short paragraph about yourself
- Your website & home address

Rights:

- Winner is subject to minor editing and copyrighted upon publication.

- We ask for First Serial Rights
- If the winning piece is reprinted we humbly ask that you indicate it was published with Broadset first.

Prize:

2nd Place

- Publication on The Broad Set website
- Two copies of The Broad Set zine
- Two 2NDHAND broadsheets

1st Place

- Publication in the next edition of the May 1st Broad Set zine
- A copy of Jonathan Baumbach's You or The Invention of Memory
- & 2Nd place prizes

Deadline:
- March 20th
- Each submission will have a response by April 2nd

Support the arts. Come out May 1st to see The Broad Set Writing Collective Ft. Eric Nelson @ The Wooden Shoe
(704 South Street Philadelphia PA 19147)

"Please join us for a night of Fiction and Poetry reading! The Broad Set Writing Collective features members whose fiction and poetry have been published in McSweeney's, Opium Magazine and Monkey Bicycle. They have created both Lo-Fidelity and 50-1 magazines. Come out for poetry and prose by Peter Richter, Glen Binger and Sam Cicero as well as free copies of The Broad Set Magazine. Special guest reading by Eric Nelson, author of the short story collection, "The Silk City Series."

& tomorrow...

Friday, February 19th @ 7PM

The Broad Set at Symposia Community Books

(510 Washington Street, Hoboken, NJ)

Magazines, stickers & our world famous grab bag.