Eisa Nefertari Ulen, author and journalist, teaches English at a college in New York City and runs a fascinating blog with some at-times heavy discussions about the state of black book publishing.

Ulen just announced a fiction writing competition for unpublished writers being sponsored by the Go On Girl! Book Club on her blog. The prize is a hefty $500 and the postmark deadline is March 15, 2008.

The Go On Girl! Book Club was founded in 1990 and now has several chapters around the country. The group awarded me with the New Author of the Year award for my first novel Sisters and Lovers.

For details and guidelines, check out Eisa Ulen’s blog.

And go here for more details about the award and the Go On Girl! Book Club.