The Iowa Review is calling on veterans and active duty members to submit stories that otherwise may go unshared.The inaugural Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans kicked off earlier this spring and is open through June 15 to U.S. military veterans and active duty personnel. Submitters are asked to send in their best fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry works for a chance to win $1,000 and publication in an upcoming issue of the literary magazine, editor Russell Valentino said. Author Robert Olen Butler will judge the submissions and choose the winning piece.The contest is named after Vietnam War veteran and anti-war writer and activist Jeff Sharlet, whose family proposed the contest idea to the Iowa Review.�The contest has no limitations on subject matter,� managing editor ... Continue reading →
The Spanish transition from dictatorship to democracy took place under the dominion of the conservative forces that controlled the apparatus of the fascist state from1939 – 1978. The leadership of the democratic forces had just come out of jail or returned to Spain from exile and could not match the enormous powers that the ultra-right had in the political institutions and in the media where their control was almost absolute. The workers’ mobilization against the dictatorship had been instrumental in ending that dictatorship. From 1974 to 1976, Spain saw the largest number of strikes that existed in Europe, strikes aimed at ending the dictatorship. Franco died in bed but the dictatorship ended in the streets, with workers’ mobilizations. That popular pressure was able to modify ... Continue reading →
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