cloudbankbooks.com/Contest.html

Address for submissions:
Cloudbank
PO Box 610
Corvallis, Oregon 97339-0610

The deadline for contest submissions is February 28, 2009.
The scheduled date to announce the winner is April 30, 2009.

Guidelines:

1. The contest fee is $15.00 The check can be made out to Cloudbank. All poets who enter the contest will receive a one-year (two-issue) subscription to Cloudbank magazine.
2. Submissions without payment will also be considered for publication, but will not be eligible for the prize. We read submissions year-round.
3. Please do not send more than five poems.
4. For contest submissions, the poet’s name, address, and e-mail address should be typed on a cover sheet only, not on the pages of poems. For non-contest submissions, the poet’s name and address should appear on each page.
5. We do not accept electronic submissions.
6. The poems may not have been published elsewhere.
7. We discourage simultaneous submissions. We reply within eight weeks.
8. Your poems will not be returned. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) so that we can notify you of acceptance.
9. The poems are to be typed on one side of each page.
10. Feel free to send us prose poems, reviews, essays on poetry, short fiction (500 words max.). We are open to all types of quality writing.
11. For those who do not enter the contest, one-year (two-issue) subscriptions to Cloudbank magazine are $15.00. Individual copies are $8.
12. Two contributors’ copies will be sent to writers whose work appears in the magazine.

Address any questions to:
Michael Malan
Cloudbank, PO Box 610,
Corvallis, Oregon 97339-0610

E-mail: michael@rsmadness.com