Daniel Scott Tysdal (Poetry)
Alex Leslie (Fiction)

The winners will be honoured in October at the Pop Montreal Music Festival and published in the winter issue of Matrix magazine.

Special thanks to the judges, Roland Pemberton aka Cadence Weapon and David McGimpsey.

And congratulations again to the winners, and to all the finalists.

Poetry Finalists

Eric Silvera of New York City, NY
Kristian Enright of Winnipeg, MB
Moriah Erickson of Duluth, MN
Liz Worth of Toronto, ON
Sandra Ridley of Ottawa, ON
Andrea Bennett of Vancouver, BC
James Phelan of Montreal, QC
Marianne Perron of Montreal, QC
Daniel Scott Tysdal of Toronto, ON

Fiction Finalists

Julie Gedeon of Hudson Heights, QC
Theodore Wheeler of Omaha, NE
Melanie McDonald of Falls Church, VA
Joshua Criss of Slave Lake, AB
Barbara Hunt of Port Perry, ON
Yakos Spiliotopolous of Toronto, ON
Leese Dean of Montreal, QC
Nicole Salter of Toronto, ON
Christopher Cannif of Burlington, ON
Emily Mathis of North Wilkesboro, NC
Alex Leslie of Vancouver, BC

The poetry finalists are:

Eric Silvera of New York City, NY
Kristian Enright of Winnipeg, MB
Moriah Erickson of Duluth, MN
Liz Worth of Toronto, ON
Sandra Ridley of Ottawa, ON
Andrea Bennett of Vancouver, BC
James Phelan of Montreal, QC
Marianne Perron of Montreal, QC
Daniel Scott Tysdal of Toronto, ON

The fiction finalists are:

Julie Gedeon of Hudson Heights, QC
Theodore Wheeler of Omaha, NE
Melanie McDonald of Falls Church, VA
Joshua Criss of Slave Lake, AB
Barbara Hunt of Port Parry, ON
Yakos Spiliotopolous of Toronto, ON
Leese Dean of Montreal, QC
Nicole Salter of Toronto, ON
Christopher Cannif of Burlington, ON
Emily Mathis of North Wilkesboro, NC
Alex Leslie of Richmond, BC

The winners will be honoured at the Pop Montreal Festival at a special Lit Pop ceremony, More details to come!

Can’t decide whether to be a pop star or a famous writer? Be both! Enter the 2010 Matrix/Pop Montreal Litpop Awards!

The Pop Montreal International Music Festival and Matrix Magazine have once again teamed up to bring you Canada’s most innovative and exciting literary competition. We are looking for the most unique and original voices in literary voices in North America. So if you’re an emerging poet or short story writer, it’s time to prove it! If you have what it takes, you will get your work published in Matrix, and get free travel to Pop 2010 for a night in your honour.

Just send your work in for consideration by July 1. Both poetry and prose winners will receive a round-trip ticket to Pop Montreal from Sept.29th through October 3rd, 2010, a VIP pass to the Pop Montreal Festival, free accommodation at a bed and breakfast, fall publication in Matrix Magazine with full honorarium, and presentation at a special Matrix Litpop event during the festival.

The deadline for all submissions has been extended to July 1. Winners will be notified in August. Poets are asked to send no more than 5 poems; fiction writers should send stories of no more than 5000 words. Each entry is 25$ and entries and entry fees should be mailed to Matrix Publications, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd W., LB 658, Montreal QC, H3G 1M8. Cheques or money orders should be made out to “Matrix Publications.” Multiple entries are welcome. Entries can also be emailed to litpop2010@gmail.com. Full contest rules and regulations can be found here.

The FICTION judge is Roland Pemberton aka Cadence Weapon.

Roland Pemberton aka Cadence Weapon is internationally recognized as an innovative and accomplished writer, producer, rapper, touring artist … and Edmonton’s Poet Laureate. Mr Weapon is set to unveil his 3rd studio album and most accomplished work yet – Roquentin – this fall (Upper Class Recordings).

The POETRY judge is David McGimpsey.

David McGimpsey was born and raised in Montreal. He has a PhD in English Literature and is the author of the award-winning study Imagining Baseball: America’s Pastime and Popular Culture. His travel writings frequently appear in the Globe and Mail and he writes the ‘Sandwich of the Month’ column for EnRoute magazine. He teaches at Concordia University.

Original, unpublished poems (no more than 5) and short stories of up to 5,000 words by citizens or residents of Canada and the United States (excluding Hawaii and Alaska) are eligible.

There will be two prizes awarded, one for each category, poetry and fiction. Each individual prize is non-transferable and non-deferable and consists of roundtrip airfare to Montreal (as close to 29 September – 3 October, 2010 as airline schedules permit), a VIP pass to the Pop Montreal festival, accommodation, and publication in the fall issue of Matrix with a 100$ honorarium (to be paid by October 31st, 2010) and presentation of the award at a special Matrix Litpop event during the Pop Montreal festival.

Entry fees: $25 for one short story or up to five poems and must be paid by personal cheque or money order payable to Matrix Publications. Entries and Entry fees must be sent to the Matrix address below. Multiple entries are welcome. All entries will be judged by a group of selected Matrix editors and Pop Montreal staff, who will create shortlists which will be given to the judge of the respective genre. The judges will then determine one winner and one runner-up in each category. This year’s judges are David McGimpsey for poetry and Roland Pemberton (Cadence Weapon) for fiction.

Entrant’s name MUST NOT appear on the manuscript itself. All entries must be sent to the address below or sent in electronic form to litpop2010@gmail.com (.doc, .rtf, or pdf) and must be accompanied with entrant’s full name, address, postal code, telephone number, email address submission title(s) and category. Electronic submissions will be processed only after payment has been verified.

Entrants agree to be bound by the contest rules. Judges’ decisions are final.

Entries and entry fees must be postmarked no later than 1 July 2010 and the winners will be notified by 11:59pm on August 1st, 2010, through an announcement on both the Pop Montreal and Matrix Magazine websites, and via telephone and email. Prizes must be claimed by 11:59 pm August 15th, 2008 by email or telephone. Any employee of Pop Montreal and/or Matrix Publications, spouse, family member, cohabitant, agent, representative of the aforementioned, or of a contest judge, cannot participate in this contest.

A disagreement/challenge to the methods and procedures of the contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses, et des jeux du Québec, in order for it to be resolved. A disagreement regarding the attribution of a prize may only be submitted to the Régie to request an intervention in order to solve the disagreement.

Send entries and entry fees to:
Matrix Magazine
LitPop Awards
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West LB 658
Montreal, QC
H3G 1M8

Matrix Publications (514) 848-2424 extension 2357 info@matrixmagazine.org
Pop Montreal International Music Festival (514) 842-1919 patricia@popmontreal.com

KATE HUTCHINSON:
Images: Nylons & Swimsuits.

D. COLE OSSANDON:
Poems: Feminism Dot Com & Third Wave Feminism

HELEN HAJNOCZKY:
Visual poems: One & Two.

ZOË PAGE:
Radical Vulvas Montreal: Thoughts on Feminist Performance Space.

SANDRA ALLAND / Y. JOSEPHINE:
Video: Slippery
Audio: After the phonecall & After going out

LIZ HOWARD:
Essay on her men a re c o m b i n a u t e u r a t i o n

KARLENE HARVEY:
Image: Foxhead,
Poems: Here with you & Starving Rabbits,
Image: Oceans and Oceans.

CHRISTINE SY:
Two poems: wonderbread whiteboy & You bring the Fur, I’ll bring the sugar

PENN KEMP / ANNE ANGLIN:
Flux, Flash, Flood
(text by Kemp, performance by Kemp & Anglin).

KIM GOLDBERG:
a poem

Contributor Bios (for online & print New Feminisms dossier).

“Serenity” is part of The Twisted She Project, an intermedia collaborative performance cycle that plays with themes of perversion, popularity, and pathology all funneled through conventional and unconventional performances of femininity. Although the written components of The Twisted She Project are predominantly based on autobiographical material, the aim in presenting this material is not a form of self-therapy. Rather, by integrating elements of many forms into this text-based performance, by inviting collaborators to produce sound and visual interpretations of the writing and performance, and by working with the themes and tropes embedded in the history of feminist and queer poetry and performance art, the autobiographical nature of this work is itself twisted in order to interrupt the notion of autoBiography as a form of unified truth.

“Red” is part of The Twisted She Project, an intermedia collaborative performance cycle that plays with themes of perversion, popularity, and pathology all funneled through conventional and unconventional performances of femininity. Although the written components of The Twisted She Project are predominantly based on autobiographical material, the aim in presenting this material is not a form of self-therapy. Rather, by integrating elements of many forms into this text-based performance, by inviting collaborators to produce sound and visual interpretations of the writing and performance, and by working with the themes and tropes embedded in the history of feminist and queer poetry and performance art, the autobiographical nature of this work is itself twisted in order to interrupt the notion of autoBiography as a form of unified truth.

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