$1,000 PRIZE
measure.evansville.edu/SonnetContest.htm

Final Judge: Timothy Steele

Deadline: November 15, 2008

Sponsored by The Formalist

Competition Rules for the 15th annual Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award:

Sonnets must be original and unpublished. No translations. Writers may enter as many sonnets as they wish. Sonnet sequences are acceptable, but each sonnet will be considered individually. Entry fee: $3 per sonnet made payable to The Formalist. Author’s name, address, phone number, and e-mail address (if available) should be typed on the back of each entry.

Final Judge for the 2008 competition will be Timothy Steele. The winning poem and the poems of eleven finalists will be published in the 2009 issue of Measure.

Entries must be sent to the address below and postmarked no later than November 15, 2008. Enclose an SASE if you would like to be notified of the contest results. Entries cannot be returned. For another copy of these rules, send an SASE to:

Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award
The Formalist
320 Hunter Drive
Evansville, IN 47711

Make all checks payable to The Formalist. Entry fees from outside the U.S. must be paid in cash (U.S. dollars) or by a check drawn on a U.S. bank.