$2,000 PRIZE TO WINNING POET Submission Deadline: March 16, 2009 CONTEST FINAL JUDGE: Linda Gregerson Linda Gregerson is the author of four poetry collections: Magnetic North (2007), Waterborne (2002), The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996), and Fire in the Conservatory (1982). She teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature at the University of Michigan. Linda has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the...

www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/iowaaward.html Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction Li-Young Lee, Ann Patchett, and John D’Agata, judges $1000 to each winner $500 to runners-up plus publication in our December 2009 issue 1. Submit up to 20 pages of prose (double-spaced) or 10 pages of poetry (single or double; one poem or several). Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine assuming you inform us of acceptance...

The open submission period for the Summer 2009 issue is January 1st through March 1st. Submissions are currently open. This is a literary journal founded in order to publish and in doing so to honor good narrative poetry. Naugatuck River Review is dedicated to publishing narrative poetry in the tradition of great narrative poets such as Gerald Stern, Philip Levine or James Wright. We are open to many styles of poetry, looking for narrative that...

www.cgreview.org/PoetryContest%20Announcement.htm Common Ground Review announces a Poetry Contest $150 First $75 Second $50 Third Prizes and publication in the Common Ground Review Send 1-3 unpublished poems (61 lines or under), a brief biography, and a check for $10 made out to Common Ground Review Poetry Contest Mail to Larry O’Brien Common Ground Review 40 Prospect Street, Unit C1 Westfield, MA 01085 Enclose an SASE* for winners Deadline is...

High school students in grades 9 through 12 are invited to participate in the English Department’s 31st Annual High School Poetry Contest. www.gannon.edu/departmental/english/poetry.asp Needed: Your original poetry Deadline: February 1, 2009 Send Your Entries to: Berwyn Moore Poetry Contest Department of English Gannon University University Square Erie, PA 16541 Prizes Awarded: First Prize: $100 Second Prize: $75 Third Prize: $50...

Open to adult (over 18) poets residing in Ohio. Entries of up to three poems must be postmarked (no email) between Jan. 2 and Feb. 27, 2009. Competition winners receive cash prizes of $125, $100 and $75. The top eight finalists will have the opportunity to read their poems (or have them read) at an awards ceremony during the New Words 2009 Poetry Reading on Sunday, April 19. Northeast Ohio poet Lynn Powell, author of The Zones of Paradise and...