Rush Hour, Photograph, Jason Avia

Rush Hour, Jason Avia

Biographies

Art & Writing Judges:

Timothy Blunk is the Director of Gallery Bergen and has curated over 60 exhibitions and performance series in the US and internationally. He is also an Assistant Professor of Visual Art. his artistic work to acting, set design, screenwriting, installation art, and performance art.. He is the editor and author of several books including Fire a Poem/Fire 1000 Poems (Grossmanns Büro, München, 2021) and Given to Fly, a forthcoming book of essays and short stories to be published by Terra Nova Books (MIT).

John Findura is the Writing Center Supervisor at the two-time national award-winning Cerullo Learning Assistance Center at Bergen Community College. He also teaches writing at Bergen. He is a poet and has published in many literary journals such as Verse; Fourteen Hills; Copper Nickel; Pleiades; Forklift, Ohio; Sixth Finch; Prelude; and Rain Taxi. His first poetry collection, Submerged, was published in 2017 by Five Oaks Press.

Interested in submitting to next year’s LABYRINTH?

The Labyrinth is published each year in the spring semester and seeks poetry, short fiction, oneact plays, creative essays and artwork. In addition to publication, accepted works will be

automatically considered for the Annual Creative Writing and Visual Arts Contest, sponsored by

The Labyrinth in association with Bergen’s Creative Writing Program, Bergenstages, and the

College’s Art Department.

The deadline for submission is usually March 1st. Submit work electronically to thelabyrinth@bergen.edu

Guidelines:

Contest and publication in The Labyrinth are open to full- or part-time Bergen students

enrolled in the 2022 or 2023 academic year.

All work submitted must be original and previously unpublished in any form. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Word length: fiction and essay, 5,000 words

maximum; poetry, 25 lines maximum; play, 10 minutes performance time. Artwork in any two-dimensional medium will be considered.

Maximum number of submissions per student: three in each prose category, five poems. Multiple submissions in fiction, poetry and essay are permitted. Artwork submissions,

maximum three in each category.

All text submissions must be typed. Prose must be double-spaced.

For further information contact Professor Mary Crosby (at mcrosby@bergen.edu) or BCC’s

English Department.

The Labyrinth is waiting for you!