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Contests : Wergle Flomp Free Poetry Contest : Guidelines
Now in its eighth year. We seek the best humor poem that has been sent to a "vanity poetry contest" as a joke. Cash prizes totaling $3,336.40 will be awarded. This contest is free to enter. Click here to read winning entries from the past.
Submission Period
Entries accepted August 15-April 1
This contest is not yet open, and the rules below may change. Please wait until August 15 or later to submit.
How to Submit Your Entry
- Find a vanity poetry contest, a contest with low standards whose main purpose is to entice poets to buy expensive products like anthologies, chapbooks, CDs, plaques and silver bowls. Vanity contests will often praise remarkably bad poems in their effort to sell as much stuff to as many people as possible. Click here for an example of a vanity contest that accepts nearly everything.
- Make up a deliberately absurd, strange, laugh-out-loud humor poem. Click
here for examples.
- Submit your parody poem to a vanity contest as a joke.
- After you've done steps 1-3, click here to submit your entry to the Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest.
- There is no fee to submit to the Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest. Poets of all nations are welcome. Your poem must be in English (inspired gibberish also accepted). Please submit only one poem during the submission period. Your poem may be of any length.
Prizes
First Prize of $1,359 and publication on WinningWriters.com
Second Prize of $764 and publication on WinningWriters.com
Third Prize of $338 and publication on WinningWriters.com
Twelve honorable mentions will receive $72.95 each and publication on WinningWriters.com
The winners and honorable mentions will also all receive official Winning Writers polo shirts.
Announcement of Results
The winner and honorable mentions of the seventh contest will be announced in our free email newsletter and on WinningWriters.com on August 15, 2008. The results of our eighth contest will be announced on August 15, 2009.
Judge of the Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest - Jendi Reiter
Ms. Reiter is the editor of Poetry
Contest Insider, an online database of poetry contests published by Winning Writers. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The New Criterion, First Things, Hanging Loose, Cider Press Review, Southern Poetry Review, Grasslands Review, Best American Poetry, and many other publications. She has won two awards from the Poetry Society of America, Lyric Magazine's College Poet of the Year Prize, the Mildred Werba Poetry Prize, the Olay
Fine Lines Poetry Contest, and a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for poetry criticism. Turning Point Books published her first book of poetry, A
Talent for Sadness, in 2003. See Ms. Reiter's work at JendiReiter.com.
About Winning Writers
Winning Writers finds and creates quality resources for poets and writers. Our expert online poetry contest guide, Poetry Contest Insider, profiles over 750 poetry contests. We directly sponsor the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest and the War Poetry Contest. We also assist the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest, the Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse and the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest. Winning Writers is proud to be one of "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2005-2008) and a recipient of the Truly Useful Site Award (Preditors & Editors, March 2006).
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