Do you have a poem about the Moon? Moonlight? Phases or effects of the moon? What waxes or wanes? Clever personifications? Something new under the moon? Twin Cranes Press is sponsoring a free Moon poem broadside contest. The winning entry will be produced in a limited, numbered edition of 100 copies, of which 25 go to the author and 75 will be sold to raise funds to support Moonlit, a Chicago-based literary journal edited by Lisa Janssen and...
Poetry Contests
www.schoolcraft.edu/pdfs/macguffin/Poet_Hunt_Contest.pdf Judged by Thomas Lynch First Place Prize $500 *Two Honorable Mentions* Contest Rules 1. Each entrant will receive one FREE issue of The MacGuffin that includes the 14th National Poet Hunt winners. 2. Staff members and their families are not eligible to participate. 3. An entry consists of five poems. 4. Poems must be typed on sheets of 8½ x 11” paper. Clean photocopies are acceptable. DO...
The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction & The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry Founded by Ruth G. Hardman First Place: $2,000, publication, and a trip to Tulsa for the Awards Celebration www.utulsa.edu/nimrod/awards.html FIRST PLACE: $2,000 and PUBLICATION SECOND PLACE: $1,000 and PUBLICATION Contest Rules Contest Begins: JANUARY 1, 2009 Postmark Deadline: APRIL 30, 2009 Poetry: 3-10 pages of poetry (one long poem or several short poems)....
www.cavecanempoets.org/pages/pdfs/Competition_Guidelines.pdf Guidelines Award: Winner receives $1,000, publication by Graywolf Press, 15 copies of the book and a feature reading. Two finalists receive introductory readings. Final Judge: Yusef Komunyakaa. Judge reserves the right not to select a winner. Eligibility: African American writers who have not had a full‐length book of poetry published by a professional press. Authors of chapbooks and...
www.alabamawritersconclave.org/contests.html Deadline: April 30, 2009 (postmark). Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75; 3rd: $50; 4th: $25 and up to 4 Honorable Mentions. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED on the last day of the AWC Conference at the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama on JULY 19, 2009. Contest Rules: Entries must be original, unpublished, and may not have won a money prize in any contest. (Sitting AWC voting Board...
www.hotmetalpress.net/PoetryPrize.html Our prize is $350 and 20 free copies. We also want to send every entrant a copy of the winning collection. Page Limit: 32 pages Fee: $20.00 Deadline: end of May 2009 If you are looking for clues as to what we look for a winner, we wish you luck because our selections are unpredictable and eclectic. We like to take risks if the poems interest us. We do not know what poems will interest us either until we...
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