dept.kent.edu/wick/Competitions/Chapbook.html POETS CURRENTLY RESIDING IN OHIO may enter the Open Competition. Poets currently enrolled in Ohio institutions of higher education may enter the Student Competition. In spring 2010, two to four manuscripts will be selected for publication in the Wick Chapbook Series, and the honor also includes a reading at Kent State University. Maggie Anderson is the general editor of the series. Entry...

The editors are pleased to announce a call for submissions for A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. We are seeking poems that work within the literary tradition of persona poetry: poems written as dramatic monologues, whose speakers employ masks, or whose character and voice are different from the poet’s own. Please submit up to 5 unpublished poems. We will also consider poems whose rights have reverted...

UPIu and uwemp.com are seeking submissions for articles from 400-800 words from Student Writers on a broad range of topics that effect them on campuses. The contest will run through 15-Nov, 2009, and there is no entrance fee. The winner will receive $500, a trip to Washington DC, and publication w/ byline on UPI.com. For more info and to submit, visit www.uwemp.com/contest