Poetry Contests

Sow’s Ear Poetry Chapbook Contest

sows-ear.kitenet.net/competition.html March-April: CHAPBOOK COMPETITION Award – Publication, $1000, 25 copies, and distribution to subscribers Chapbook Competition Guidelines: Open to adults. Send 22-26 pages of poetry plus a title page and a table of contents, all without your name. On a separate sheet list chapbook title, your name, address, phone number, e-mail address if available, and publication credits for submitted poems, if any....

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FINISHING LINE PRESS PRIZE IN POETRY OPEN CHAPBOOK COMPETITION

http://finishinglinepress.com/submissionguidelines.htm A prize of $1,000 and publication will be awarded by Finishing Line Press for a chapbook-length poetry collection. Open to all. All entries will be considered for publication. The top-ten finalists will be offered publication. Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter with a $15 entry fee by Deadline: June 30, 2007 (POSTMARK). Leah Maines will final...

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Best of Ohio Writer 2007 Contest Guidelines

Download Entry Forms Best of Ohio Writer 2007 Contest Guidelines Deadline: July 31, 2007 Sponsored by Ohio Writer Magazine and Poets’ & Writers’ League of Greater Cleveland $150 First Prize and $50 Second Prize Prizes awarded in each category. First-place winners published in a special edition of Ohio Writer. Announcement of winners and honorable mentions in the November/December issue of Ohio Writer. Categories: Fiction,...

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Caketrain Chapbook Competition

www.caketrain.org/competition07.html Each year, we bring a special guest into the selection process, a writer whose work we hold in very high regard, and this year is no exception: for 2007, we are honored and humbled to announce that Claudia Rankine will serve as our final judge. Claudia is the author of four collections of poetry: Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf Press, 2004), Plot (Grove Press, 2001), The End of the Alphabet (Grove...

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Don Russ Poetry Prize 2007

Kennesaw Review proudly announces its 2007 Don Russ Poetry Prize of $500 for the single best poem submitted to the competition. www.kennesawreview.org/artman2/publish/contests/Don_Russ_Poetry_Prize_2007.php $500 prize for one winning poem, to be published in KR April 23, 2007 deadline for receipt (hard copies only) Initial round of judging by KR editorial staff; final round by distinguished outside judges $15 entry fee for 3-5 previously...

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RUNES REVIEW 2007

Each issue of RUNES has a different theme. The theme for 2007 is CONNECTION, which may be loosely interpreted. Guidelines: We are seeking poems that have passion, originality and conviction. We are looking for narrative and lyric poetry that is well-crafted and has something surprising to say. We prefer poems under 100 lines. To Submit: Send up to five poems with an SASE to RUNES, A Review of Poetry c/o Arctos Press PO Box 401 Sausalito, CA...

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