Queer Voltage: the group that produced the award-winning Queer Anarchy, is pleased to announce their First Annual Queer Voltage Queer Poets Competition, a fundraiser for Queer Voltage Theatre. Any poet who self-identifies as GLBT may enter. Subsequently 10-15 poets will be invited to a Finalist’s Reading, Saturday, May 16th, at 7PM, at The ArtCentre Theatre of Plano, 1028 15th Place. Plano, TX 75074, corner of 15th and Avenue K. Three top...
Poetry Contests
Entries are now being received in the 2009 Senior Poets Laureate Poetry Competition for American poets age 50 and older. Deadline is 6/30/09. One National Senior Poet Laureate will be selected from poems that win the 2009 Senior Poet Laureate awards for state and territories represented by entrants. Poets must hold U.S. Citizenship regardless of where they live, or are visiting, in the world. The National Senior Poet Laureate will win a...
www.tupelopress.org/snow.shtml $1,000 cash prize and 50 copies This year’s judge is Aimee Nezhukumatathil Manuscripts are judged anonymously Tupelo Press will consider all finalists for publication GUIDELINES: This competition is open to any poet writing in English. Previously published poems with proper acknowledgment are acceptable. Translations and previously self-published books are not eligible. Employees of, and authors previously...
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 acknowledgement 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....
www.planbpress.com/contestnew.html Winnings: 50 Copies of your book PLUS $225! Deadline : March 1, 2009. Enter now! Judge: Deborah Ager, Publisher & Poet Contest Rules 1) Send in Manuscript, $15 Reading Fee, Table of Contents, a list of previously published work, if any, and a SASE (if you want a written response, otherwise we will e-mail) to P O Box 3242 Fairfax, VA 22038. 2) Manuscripts will NOT be returned. 3) Our judge does not read all...
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...
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