www.boaeditions.org/submissions/A_Poulin_Prize.html (go to site for entry form) The A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize is awarded to honor a poet’s first book, while also honoring the late founder of BOA Editions, Ltd., a not-for-profit publishing house of poetry and poetry in translation. FINAL JUDGE: JEAN VALENTINE (winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry and author of eight other distinguished poetry collections) WINNER RECEIVES: A...

www.poetrycenter.org/reading/index.html E. Ethelbert Miller , Final Judge Postmark deadline: Friday, January 25, 2008 First prize: $1,500; Second prize: $500; third prize, $250; five finalists receive $50 The Poetry Center invites regional poets to submit their unpublished work for consideration in the 14th Annual Juried Reading. Eight finalists will have their poetry published in a chapbook by Dancing Girl Press as well as on the Poetry Center...

Open Competition Awards $3500 and publication – first prize $2000 and publication – second prize Crab Orchard Review and Southern Illinois University Press are pleased to announce the selections for the 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards. Our final judge, Cathy Song, selected Ciaran Berry’s THE SPHERE OF BIRDS as the first-prize winner and Jake Adam York’s A MURMURATION OF STARLINGS as the...

Seeking poetry manuscripts of 20 to 30 pages with particular investment in human/place relationships Prize: Publication of chapbook in a separate section of an upcoming issue of Flyway, plus a $500 cash prize Judge: Debra Marquart, author of From Sweetness, Everything’s a Verb, and The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere. Entry Fee: $10 or $24 for entry and one-year subscription Deadline: January 31, 2008 Submit:...

A prize of $1,000 and publication will be awarded by Finishing Line Press for a chapbook-length poetry collection. Open to women who have never before published a full-length poetry collection. Previous chapbook publication does not disqualify. All entries will be considered for publication. The top-ten finalists will be offered publication and will be included in the New Women’s Voices Series. Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, PLUS bio,...

georgetownreview.georgetowncollege.edu/grcontest.htm $1,000 and publication to the winning short story, poem, or essay on the subject of redemption. We’re very flexible about what satisfies our theme requirement. We’d be equally interested in stories, poems, and essays about folks who find redemption and those who don’t. If the situation where redemption is pursued is obviously spiritual in nature, that’s fine, but if it’s secular or legal or...