Deadline for submissions: May 3, 2009 1st Place winner will receive $200 cash prize. For submission and guidelines visit www.poetscontestcorner.blogspot.com.

www.roommagazine.com/news.html#contest2009 It’s that time of year again—sharpen your pencils or fire up your laptop and send us your fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction contest entries. Deadline: Entries must be postmarked no later than June 15, 2009. Entry Fee: $27 per entry (includes a complimentary one-year subscription to Room). Payment by cheque or money order made out to Room. Non-Canadian entries: $39 Canadian dollars Prizes:...

www.marickpress.com/index.php?/marick-press-poetry-prize The First Annual Marick Press Poetry Prize competition will open for submissions on March 1, 2009. The award consists of a $1,000 cash award and publication by Marick Press. Manuscripts must be between 48 and 80 pages in length. Poems must be original, but may have appeared in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks. Translations are not eligible for this competition. The competition is open...

Contest entries accepted October 1—March 31 of each year (postmark dates). www.csuohio.edu/class/english/whiskeyisland/consub.html $1000 in annual prizes $500 and publication for both first place prose and poetry winners $10 Reading Fee per entry Unpublished work only. One entry = Maximum 5,000 word prose piece or up to three poems. Judged blindly. Place contact information on cover sheet only. Current students, faculty and staff of CSU or...

www.greymaredit.com/2715/2736.html 1. Send your chapbook manuscript of 20-30 pages of poetry. 2. Paginate ms. and include table of contents. 3. Individual pieces may have been published in literary journals, but the ms.has not been previously published before as a book. Include acknowledgment page for previously published pieces. 4. Send two cover pages, one with your name and contact information, one with the name of manuscript only. 5. Attach...

$1000 Prize and 50 copies Arthur Dawson and Rebecca Lawton will serve as judges for this competition. www.kulupi.com/events GUIDELINES: Submit a manuscript of 16-24 pages of poetry with a strong sense of place, focusing on the natural world, culture, history, or personal experiences of a region. The theme will be broadly interpreted. This will be a blind judging: Do not include your name on the poems. Submission window: postmarks from January...