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March 2010
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Welcome to our March newsletter. This is the companion to our online database, The Best Free Poetry Contests. It alerts you to upcoming contests and important contest changes, highlights quality resources for writers, and announces achievements and great poems by our readers.
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14th Annual Robert Frost Foundation Annual Poetry Award
Postmark/Email Submission Deadline: September 15
The Robert Frost Foundation welcomes poems in the spirit of Robert Frost for its 14th Annual Award. The winner will receive $1,000 and an invitation to present the winning poem this fall at the Frost Festival located at the Lawrence Public Library in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the library in which Frost first explored the traditions of English and Irish poetry.
Please submit two copies of each poem, one copy with contact information (name, address, phone number, email address) and one copy free of all identifying information. Reading fees are $10 per poem (send fees via regular mail, please). Make your check payable to The Robert Frost Foundation. Mail your entry to: The Robert Frost Foundation, Attn: Poetry Award, Lawrence Public Library - 3rd Floor, 51 Lawrence Street, Lawrence, MA 01841. Include a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) or an email address if you'd like to receive the contest results. Email submissions are accepted at frostfoundation@comcast.net if you send your entry fee by regular mail.
You may submit up to three poems of no more than three pages each. Both published and unpublished works are accepted. See the complete contest guidelines at www.frostfoundation.org and more on last year's winners at frostawards.blogspot.com.
Poet Jarita Davis, last year's judge, chose "Carved in Stone" by Gayle Reed Carroll as a finalist in last year's contest. Please enjoy...
Carved in Stone
by Gayle Reed Carroll
Something about the coldness in the letters of a name
carved in granite: cold gray sheen
something in the way it weighs down soil
a few hours loosened, tamped back down
something in the letters of a name
cold, plain-spoken, straight, something
in the letters, his name her name
printed in stone, like a tablet / like a lid
holding down the loosened soil
the tamped-down soil
rained-on snowed-on blown-on soil
lidded down, back cover of a book you loved
finished now, returned to its place
beside the ones whose words whose claims
had stirred the blood awhile
their own covers sloughing away
decade by year by day by hour
How many names have you read like this
the spelled-out numbered names the frame of dates
something about this, the name you knew
name you know, carved in stone,
the way it weighs their days,
tamps their silence down. |
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CONTESTS HOSTED AT WINNING WRITERS & OPEN NOW
Last Call!
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest
Postmark Deadline: March 31
Now in its 18th year. Prizes of $3,000, $1,000, $400 and $250 will be awarded, plus six Most Highly Commended Awards of $150 each. Submit any type of short story, essay or other work of prose, up to 5,000 words. You may submit work that has been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the online publication rights. $15 entry fee. Submit online or by mail. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners.
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Last Call!
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest - No Fee
Online Submission Deadline: April 1
Winning Writers invites you to enter the ninth annual Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. We've simplified the entry process and increased the prize pool to $3,600, including a top prize of $1,500. There's still no fee to enter. Final judge: Jendi Reiter. See the complete guidelines and past winners.
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War Poetry Contest
Postmark Deadline: May 31
We seek 1-3 original, unpublished poems on the theme of war for our ninth annual contest, up to 500 lines in total. We will award $5,000, including a top prize of $2,000. Submit online or by mail. The entry fee is $15. Final judge: Jendi Reiter. See the complete guidelines and past winners.
Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse
Postmark Deadline: June 30
Now in its seventh year, this contest seeks poetry in traditional verse forms such as sonnets and free verse. Both published and unpublished poems are welcome. Prizes of $3,000, $1,000, $400 and $250 will be awarded, plus six Most Highly Commended Awards of $150 each. The entry fee is $7 for every 25 lines you submit. Submit online or by mail. Early submission encouraged. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners.
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest
Postmark Deadline: September 30
Now in its eighth year, this contest seeks poems in any style, theme or genre. Both published and unpublished poems are welcome. Prizes of $3,000, $1,000, $400 and $250 will be awarded, plus six Most Highly Commended Awards of $150 each. The entry fee is $7 for every 25 lines you submit. Submit online or by mail. Early submission encouraged. This contest is sponsored by Tom Howard Books and assisted by Winning Writers. Judges: John H. Reid and Dee C. Konrad. See the complete guidelines and past winners.
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RECENT HONORS FOR OUR NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBERS
Winning Writers Editor Jendi Reiter won first runner-up in the 2009 Greg Grummer Poetry Award, judged by Rae Armantrout, for her poem "Project Runway Divorce Challenge". This contest from Phoebe, the literary journal of George Mason University, offers $1,000 for unpublished poems. The most recent deadline was December 1.
Congratulations to J.P. Dancing Bear. His new poetry collection, Inner Cities of Gulls, is now available for pre-order from the Irish literary press Salmon Poetry. Award-winning poet Pascale Petit says, "J.P. Dancing Bear writes new myths for our times through a cornucopia of characters, from Prospero as a TV weatherman to Jesuses of the street." He kindly shares a sample poem below.
Congratulations to C.J. Sage. Her poetry book The San Simeon Zebras is now available for pre-order from Salmon Poetry. Acclaimed poet Molly Peacock says of this collection, "With virtuoso craft and a naturalist's accuracy, C.J. Sage reinvents the nature poem for the 21st century." She kindly shares a sample poem below.
Congratulations to Francine L. Trevens. This month, TnT Classic Books will release Short Plays to Long Remember, an anthology of 27 plays by 14 American authors, which she compiled and edited. Contributors include Trevens, Perry Brass, Doric Wilson (a recent winner of an Association for Theatre in Higher Education award), and Winning Writers subscriber and 2008 War Poetry Contest second prize winner David Brendan Hopes. The book can be pre-ordered now from Barnes & Noble, Samuel French, Inc., the Drama Book Shop, or directly from the publisher by emailing tntclassics@aol.com.
Congratulations to Thomas Sullivan. Uncial Press recently published his comic memoir Life in the Slow Lane: Surviving a Tour of Duty in Drivers Education, which recounts a hair-raising but rewarding summer the author spent teaching teenagers to drive. Uncial Press is a publisher of e-books in a variety of genres.
Congratulations to Marie Delgado Travis. She was honored as the local Author of the Year at the Houston Hispanic Book Festival. Her latest book, What If..., humorously illustrated by John Rivera, is based on a poem which won a Highly Commended award in the 2009 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest. Marie's poem "The Window" won second prize in the 2005 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest. What If... explores what would happen if all of the magicians in the world suddenly quit. Print and downloadable versions of the book are available at http://www.lulu.com/marilu. For more information about Marie's work, visit http://www.mariedelgadotravis.com.
RECENT HONORS FOR POETRY CONTEST INSIDER SUBSCRIBERS
Congratulations to Susan Lewis. Her chapbook Commodity Fetishism won the 2009 Cervena Barva Poetry Chapbook Prize and is now available for purchase. This contest from an attractive small press with connections to the Boston-Somerville poetry scene offers $100 and publication. The most recent submission period was November 1-January 31.
RECENT PUBLICATION CREDITS FOR OUR SUBSCRIBERS
Carolyn Howard-Johnson's poem "Sacred Lessons from the Sierra Madre" will be published this spring in the literary journal Manzanita: Poetry and Prose of the Mother Lode and Sierra. An affiliate of Calaveras Arts Council, Manzanita is a printed literary collection of poetry, prose, art and photography of the Mother Lode and Sierra regions of California and features work that appeals to the sensibilities of readers in that area from writers and artists across the US. Visit Howard-Johnson's website to learn more about her poetry and prose books.
Nicole Nicholson's poem "The Creek" was published in Issue #8 of MediaVirus Magazine. She kindly shares it with us below.
E.B. Dreier's poems "Produce" and "The Ocean" were published on JoyfulOnline, an inspirational website.
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Deadlines: March 16-April 30
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Winning Writers gathers contest information from a wide variety of sources including publishers' press releases, online link directories, Poets & Writers Magazine, and e-newsletters such as TOTAL FundsforWriters, The Practicing Writer, and CRWROPPS. We encourage readers to explore these useful resources, and let us know about worthwhile contests we may have missed.
3/19: Ray Bradbury Creative Writing Contest +
Formerly March 20
Neutral free contest for high school students and adults offers top prize of $200 for Waukegan, IL residents and $100 for non-residents. Submit text of no longer than two pages, visual arts, or multimedia.
3/20: New England Poetry Club Student Contests +
Neutral free contest offers prizes of $100 for unpublished poems by authors in three categories: New England college students and Massachusetts middle school and high school students.
3/25: Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition for High School Students +
Entries must be received by this date
Neutral free contest offers six prizes of $50 for the best haiku by students in grades 7-12 as of the previous September (no homeschooled students). Send 1-3 haiku, typed in triplicate on 3"x5" cards, with author's name and contact information on only one copy. No simultaneous submissions. Sponsored by the Haiku Society of America.
3/26: Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award ++
Formerly April 8
Recommended free contest offers prizes up to $10,000 for published authors of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction books, who were born in Indiana or have lived there for at least five years. Winners must attend award ceremony in October and work with their local library to promote related literary programs. Nomination forms may be submitted by mail or online. Finalists will be asked to send copies of their published books.
3/29: Leonard Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize ++
Formerly March 30
Recommended free contest sponsored by the Princeton University creative writing program offers prizes up to $500 for unpublished poems by 11th-graders (high school juniors). Submit 1-3 poems, any length. Contest is judged by the Princeton University creative writing faculty, which includes such acclaimed authors as Jeffrey Eugenides and Joyce Carol Oates.
3/30: bpNichol Chapbook Poetry Award ++
Recommended free contest offers C$2,000 for the best English-language poetry chapbook published in Canada in the preceding year. Author or publisher should submit 3 copies of book plus author's curriculum vitae.
3/31: Foley Poetry Contest ++
Recommended free contest from the Jesuit magazine 'America' offers $1,000 and publication for a poem of 30 lines or less. (Past winning poems have touched on morally significant issues, but have not been "religious" poetry in the conventional sense.) No simultaneous submissions.
3/31: Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition +++
Highly recommended free contest for high school students in the Washington, DC region offers two winners an honorarium plus reading at Rock Creek Park with an established poet. Send 5-6 poems, published or unpublished. Sponsored by The Word Works, which also runs a prestigious manuscript prize for adults.
3/31: Lampman-Scott Award ++
Recommended free contest for published poetry books by residents of Canada's National Capital region (Ottawa) offers C$1,500. Send 4 copies of a book published during the preceding calendar year by a recognized publisher.
3/31: Mildred Kanterman Memorial Merit Book Awards +
Entries must be received by this date
Neutral free contest from the Haiku Society of America offers $500 for the best book of haiku, or primarily haiku, published in the previous calendar year. Books should be at least 24 pages. Also see website for the Annual Merit Book Awards, open to poets of all experience levels. Both prize and fee for the latter contest were eliminated in 2005; winners now receive only publicity in Haiku Society materials. Early entries encouraged.
3/31: Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award +
Entries must be received by this date
Neutral free contest for African-American poets offers $500 and publication for a poetry manuscript, 60-90 pages. Authors who have already had books published by Lotus Press are not eligible.
3/31: Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships +++
Entries must be received by this date
Highly recommended free contest from prestigious Poetry magazine offers five fellowships of $15,000 for US authors aged 21-31 as of the deadline. Upload 10 pages of poetry (published work may be included), introductory page, and list of published poems (optional) using their online submission manager. As of 2010, only online entries accepted.
3/31: Sarah Mook Memorial Poetry Prize for Students +
Neutral contest offers prizes up to $100 in four age categories for unpublished poems by students in grades K-12. Submit 1-3 poems, any length. Optional $5 entry fee will be donated to St. Joseph's Indian School in Chamberlain, SD, which serves the Lakota (Sioux) population. This contest is sponsored by David Mook in memory of his daughter, a young writer who died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm when she was in third grade.
3/31: Sunken Garden Poetry Festival's Young Poets Competition ++
Formerly May 7
Recommended free poetry contest for Connecticut high school students. Four to six winners will be published in a special-edition chapbook and be invited to read their poems during the "Night of Fresh Voices" in August at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at the Hill-Stead Museum. Send 1-5 pages of unpublished poetry and completed entry form by mail or email.
3/31: Toronto Book Awards +
Entries must be received by this date
Neutral free contest for published books of literary or artistic merit that are evocative of Toronto. C$15,000 will be awarded in all. Each shortlisted author (usually 4-6) receives C$1,000 and the winning author is awarded the remainder. There are no separate categories: novels, short story collections, books of poetry, biographies, histories, social studies, books about sports, children's books, photographic collections, etc. are judged together.
3/31: Western Australian Premier's Book Awards +++
Entries must be received by this date; formerly January 4
Highly recommended free contest offers awards of A$15,000 each for published books of fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature, as well as awards of A$10,000 for poetry collections, scripts, and books for young adults. Books that make a contribution to the understanding of Western Australia's past will also be eligible for the A$10,000 West Australian History Award. Winners in all genres also considered for the A$25,000 Premier's Prize. Open to authors who either are citizens or permanent residents of Australia or whose work has Australia as its primary focus or both. See website for more details. Note that the 2010 contest is for books published in 2008 and 2009.
4/1: Balticon SF Poetry Contest +
Neutral free contest offers top prize of $100 for poems with science fiction, fantasy or horror themes. Send 1-3 poems, maximum 50 lines each. Sponsored by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Winners invited to read at Balticon, their annual convention, in May.
4/1: Betsy Colquitt Award for Poetry/Frank O'Connor Award for Fiction +
Neutral free contests offer $500 apiece for the best poetry and fiction published in Descant: Fort Worth's Journal of Poetry & Fiction. General submission guidelines apply. Editors prefer poems 60 lines or less, stories 5,000 words or less.
4/1: Washington State Book Awards +
Recommended free contest offers prizes of $1,000 each for published books of poetry, fiction, history/biography, general nonfiction for adults, picture books, and young adult books. Authors must have been born in Washington State or have lived in the state for at least three years. An author who lives in Washington part of the year and considers Washington to be her or his home is eligible. Publisher or author should submit 6 copies of book (4 copies for children's books) plus entry form from website.
4/15: S. Portia Steele Award for Excellence in Poetry and Prose +
Entries must be received by this date
Neutral free contest offers prizes of $100 each for unpublished poems and short prose pieces by women writers aged 50+. Poems should be 50 words maximum and stories or essays should be 200 words maximum. Enter online only.
4/30: Arabic Translation Award +++
Entries must be received by this date; formerly April 15
Highly recommended free contest for book-length translations of Arabic literature into English offers $5,000 each for translator and original author. (An author who translates his or her own work will only receive one $5,000 award.) Submit manuscript as hard copy and on CD. Winner published by Syracuse University Press.
4/30: Dylan Thomas Prize +++
Entries must be received by this date
Highly recommended free contest offers 30,000 pounds, plus 1,000 pounds for shortlisted authors, for published books of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction or drama by authors aged 18-29. For the 2010 award, eligible books must have been published in English for the first time in the United Kingdom between May 1, 2008 and April 30, 2010. For TV writing and theatrical films, the script or screenplay must have been commissioned between those dates.
4/30: Friends of Acadia Poetry Competition +
Extended from January 30
Neutral free contest offers top prize of $350 for 1-3 poems, maximum 30 lines each. Sponsored by the Friends of Acadia, a group founded to preserve Acadia National Park in Maine, this contest seeks to promote and recognize distinctive nature poetry. Biennial (even-numbered years only). No simultaneous submissions. Formerly the Nature Poetry Competition, changed name in 2010.
4/30: Lucidity Poetry Journal Clarity Awards +
Twice-yearly neutral free contest offers top prize of $100 for poems about the human experience. Authors must be 18+. Editor Ted Badger says: "Seeking poetry that deals with people, relationships, life issues and events, written in clear and concise English. Form of the poem is open but it must have something to say without resorting to vulgarity. Clarity is crucial. We publish poetry that everyday people can relate to, understand and enjoy." Submit 1-5 poems, maximum 36 lines each (including stanza breaks).
4/30: Odes to the Olympians Poetry Contest +
Entries must be received by this date
Neutral twice-yearly free contest offers $50 apiece in adult and youth categories for unpublished poems up to 30 lines about Greek and Roman mythology. Enter by email only. Themes change with each contest; the Spring 2010 contest is for poems about Hermes (Mercury). This contest is sponsored by Victoria Grossack and Alice Underwood, authors of The Tapestry of Bronze, a series of historical novels set in the ancient world.
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Last Call!
Two Competitions at Fish Publishing
Fish One-Page Prize
Entries must be received by March 20
Flash Fiction of up to 300 words. The ten best stories will be published in the 2010 Fish Anthology.
Contest is open to writers of any nationality writing in English.
Entries must not have been published before.
Judges: John Hegley and Simon Munnery.
Entry online or by post.
First Prize 1,000 Euro. Each of the ten successful authors will receive five copies of the Anthology.
Results announced on April 30.
Entry Fee 12 Euro.
Fish Poetry Prize
Entries must be received by March 30
For poems up to 200 words. The best ten will be published in the 2010 Fish Anthology in July.
Contest is open to poets of any nationality writing in English.
Entries must not have been published before.
Judge: Matthew Sweeney.
Entry online or by post.
First Prize 1,000 Euro. Each of the ten successful poets will receive five copies of the Anthology.
Results announced on April 30.
Entry Fee 12 Euro.
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Carpe Verbum Short Fiction Postmark Deadline: March 30—last call!
Carpe Verbum Poetry Postmark Deadline: March 30—last call!
Welcome to Carpe Articulum Literary Review! You can submit online! We look forward to reviewing your work and wish you luck in the contests. We are an international review with over 35,000 readers. We give away $10,000 every year to outstanding writers and artists and hope you will decide to become a member of our literary circle of friends. Enter our fiction, non-fiction, poetry, novella and photography contests at any time of year. Chitra Divakaruni (author of Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, Vine of Desire, etc.) will judge this quarter's Short Fiction Contest! This is your chance to be read by a New York Times bestselling author!
The magazine is 150-200 pages of full-colour delight, translated into five languages. We feature short fiction, poetry, informative articles, photography, non-fiction and incredible interviews with hot up-and-coming writers as well as iconic ones such as Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, George Lucas (Star Wars, Indiana Jones), Ray Harryhausen (father of motion picture special effects), Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451), Jodi Picoult (author of Change of Heart, Handle With Care, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister's Keeper which was made into a major motion picture with Cameron Diaz) and Nicholas Sparks (author of Message in a Bottle, also made into a motion picture with Kevin Costner & Robin Wright Penn, as well as The Notebook, The Last Song, etc.) And that is just this October issue!
Our writing staff includes two ex-New York Times writers (both of whom are draped in copious prestigious writing awards) as well as movie and television people for national networks. We are truly fortunate to have a full-time staff of such quality people. Our readers make up the rest of the content via their submissions. You do not have to enter a contest to be published with us. Moreover, we are the original cross-genre, international review in the world. Our readership list reads like a virtual Who's Who list and that is specifically cultivated to make certain that the winners of the award series get the maximum exposure to important agents and writers who have the power to influence writing careers.
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Last Call!
The Vernice Quebodeaux "Pathways" Poetry Prize
Postmark Deadline Extended to March 31
The Vernice Quebodeaux Prize, sponsored by Little Red Tree Publishing, includes a $1,000 cash award, publication of a full-length collection of poetry, and a generous royalty contract. All forms and styles are welcome.
The late Vernice Quebodeaux, born in Egan, LA (on the banks of the Bayou Plaquemine Brűlé), was a poet who spent a lifetime struggling with the demands of raising children, family feuds, bigotry, apathy, and indifference to her writing aspirations. On her death the beginnings of a book of poetry called Pathways was found by her daughter, Tamara Martin, and incorporated into a book, Sunday's in the South. We are honoring her life and cherished goals by creating this competition to recognize the specific unique voices of women poets.
All finalists will be considered for publication, with one selected as the prizewinner with a book published in 2010. Download our complete guidelines (PDF), then send your 60-100 page manuscript with a $20 reading fee to: Little Red Tree Publishing, LLC, Attn: The Vernice Quebodeaux Prize, 635 Ocean Avenue, New London, CT 06320.
Last Call!
The Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize
Postmark Deadline Extended to March 31
The International Poetry Prize, sponsored by Little Red Tree Publishing, includes a first prize of $1,000. The runner-up will receive $250 and five finalists will receive $50 each.
This prize is offered in response to demand for an opportunity to be associated with Little Red Tree by poets who have yet to develop a full collection. It is also an opportunity for Little Red Tree to extend its search and engage with quality poets from around the world who wish to be published.
The prizewinner, runner-up and other honorees will feature prominently, with full biographies, in a special collection called Little Red Tree International Poetry Book 2010. The book will also include a wide selection of poetry from those submitted that did not make the final selection but were considered worthy of publication. We anticipate the book will contain as many as 80 poems, with a free copy to each poet published, and be published in 2010 with a book launch in New London, CT.
All winners and published poets will be invited to read their poems. Download our complete guidelines (PDF), then send your poem(s) with a reading fee of $5 each to: Little Red Tree Publishing, LLC, Attn: The International Poetry Prize, 635 Ocean Avenue, New London, CT 06320.
Little Red Tree Publishing
Little Red Tree Publishing was established in 2006 and is based in New London, CT. Our mantra is simply to produce books that: Delight, entertain and educate.
We have doubled the number of books produced each year and plan to publish 12 full books of poetry in 2010. Part of that plan is the incorporation of a full book of poetry from the Vernice Quebodeaux "Pathways" Poetry Prize and an anthology from the Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize.
From humble beginnings, Little Red Tree has always seen its role, consistent with the finest traditions of small independent publishing, as preserving and expanding the dwindling opportunities for previously unpublished poets and established poets to publish a full collection of poetry. It is our aim that each book attains the highest standards both aesthetically and artistically. Our aesthetic stance is one of quality in all aspects of the content and the physical appearance of our books. We feel passionately that well-crafted and accessible poetry should be celebrated and presented as such with conviction and confidence. Therefore, all our books are coffee-table size, 7" by 10"—an emphatic statement of intent and a celebration of the poetry.
Our commitment to the individual poet and their work is undivided, and they are involved in every decision until their collection is complete, the book is finished and ready for printing.
We look forward to reading your wonderful poetry.
Writecorner Press Poetry Prize
Postmark Deadline: March 31
First Place $500; Editors' Choices, $100.
Seeks the best unpublished poems of 40 lines and under. Any style, any theme. Send 2 copies of each poem, with author's name, address, phone, short bio, and email address on only one copy. Make other copy anonymous. Fee: $5 first poem, $3 each additional poem, payable to Writecorner Press. Read the complete guidelines. Read past winners.
E.M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest
Postmark Deadline: April 30
First Place $1,100; Editors' Choices, $100. Seeks unpublished stories, 3,000 words maximum. Any style, any theme. $15 fee for one story, $10 each additional story, payable to Writecorner Press. Send one title page with author's name, address, phone, email address, and short bio. Send second title page with title only. Read the complete guidelines. Read past winners.
Writecorner Press judges all submissions anonymously. Winning poems and stories will be published on our literary site, www.writecorner.com. After publication, writers retain all rights. No email entries, please. Fees are used to pay awards and site expenses. Read the contest guidelines, then mail your submissions to Writecorner Press Contests, P.O. Box 140310, Gainesville, FL 32614.
Please enjoy "A Love Note to Teenagers", the Writecorner Press 2007 Poetry Prize First Place Winner:
A Love Note to Teenagers
by Allison Joseph
All the things your parents hate you for—
curt belligerent backtalk, rude grumbling
under your breath, clothes falling off you
or clinging to you as if wet, permanently—
that's what I love about you, what makes
me glad you exist, screeching and stumbling
through the mall, convulsed by laughter
so severe you can barely walk. Those sullen
stares, those moody silences—I think
they're art, and each of you's a master—
the prom kings and tech geeks, cutters
and starvers, the addicts of joystick
and screen, the scrawny and scarred,
the dyed, pierced, ripped and safety-pinned
together. Look at you—you are falling
apart and coming together all at once,
sprouting and sizzling and popping off
at the mouth, imperfections twitching up
overnight to grab you, trip you, make you
split-second vicious or so liquid-slow
that all you yearn to do is sleep
a sleep so voluptuous that you wake
in a different country, an oblivion so deep
it lets you become someone else.
And you are always becoming someone
else, reaching back to rip off the labels
slapped on your back by a succession
of guidance counselors and homeroom
teachers, witless adults like me, fools
too busy to see how you're flickering
and breaking, how fear, rage, and jealousy
have nothing and everything to do
with the next thing you buy, eat, say.
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Last Call!
Enter the 2010 TIFERET Poetry Contest! $500 First Prize!
Online Submission Deadline: April 1
TIFERET: A Journal of Spiritual Literature offers an award of $500 for a poem that invokes the sacred. We publish writing from a variety of spiritual and religious traditions.
- Contest Guidelines: Unpublished poems in English must be received through our online Submissions Manager by April 1.
- First prize: $500 and publication in TIFERET.
- Three Honorable Mention Prizes will receive publication on website.
- $5 fee for each poem entered. Limit 6.
- To enter, please go to www.tiferetsubmissions.com. Specify genre "Contest-Poetry" and pay your appropriate entry fee using PayPal. PayPal accepts all major credit cards even if you don't have a Paypal account.
Winners will be announced Summer 2010. Final Judge: Marie Howe.
You are also invited to subscribe to TIFERET: A Journal of Spiritual Literature for just $18 (saving you $11 off our regular price). A one-year subscription brings you two gorgeous print issues and four online issues. www.tiferetjournal.com
TIFERET's mission is to promote peace in you as an individual and in our world. Our poetry and prose are dedicated to bringing you closer to spirit and higher consciousness through the written word. Tiferet is a Hebrew word meaning reconciliation of opposites, the heart, compassion, truth. On the Tree of Life, it is where the material and spiritual worlds meet. TIFERET the magazine is a multi-faith publication, presenting a variety of religious traditions as different paths up the same mountain.
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Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse Award for a First or Second Book of Poetry
Postmark Deadline: April 15
The 11th Annual Tupelo Press Award for a First Book of Poetry—now open to those who have previously published one book—is an open competition with a $3,000 prize. Submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language (translations are not eligible for this prize). Final judges will be the editors of Tupelo Press and the journal Crazyhorse. Co-sponsored by the College of Charleston. Prior winners include Jennifer Michael Hecht, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Bill Van Every, Kristin Bock, and Jennifer Militello. Paper or electronic submissions accepted. Complete guidelines at http://www.tupelopress.org/first.php
Please enjoy this poem from Flinch of Song, a winner of the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Award:
Confusing Past with Passion
by Jennifer Militello
I swear it was summer: I was strung through
with light. Nothing offered shelter but the river
and a tremble of depth that kept us questioning.
And if our folds were full of wolves, you can imagine
the predators we feared. Sixteen swallows the same
as destination. An ordinary house on unordinary nights.
Now the river looks nothing like our skins. Its scales
mistaken for sunlight or blood, then becoming them.
Each gleams twice once left behind, its gold watch
hypnotic. New sadnesses ungather every time;
I've never known so many, such. Becoming boats
turned over, beached. Ribs bleached, blue once. |
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Alabama Writers' Conclave (AWC) Contest at www.alabamawritersconclave.com
Postmark Deadline: April 20
Prizes awarded in July: $100, $75, $50 and $25 plus online publication (optional) of first through
fourth place winners in the Alalitcom at www.Alalit.com. Categories and maximum word limit: Fiction (2,500), Short Fiction (1,000), Juvenile Fiction (2,500), Nonfiction (2,500), Traditional Poem (any form, maximum 40 lines), Free Verse Poem (60 lines), Humor (fiction, nonfiction, or poetry2,000 words or 50 lines for poem), First Chapter Novel (up to 10 double-spaced pages).
Entry fee for each submission in all categories (EXCEPT Poem and First Chapter Novel): $5.00 if AWC member, $8.00 non-member. For First Chapter Novel: $10.00 if member, $12.00 non-member. For all poems: $3.00 per poem if member, $5.00 non-member. Multiple entries accepted, but you may win only one prize per category. Entries must be original, unpublished, and may not have won a money prize in any contest.
Organized in 1923, the Conclave is the oldest continuing writers' organization in the United States. Members include writers, aspiring writers and supporters of the writing arts. Sharing information, developing ideas, honing skills, and receiving practical advice are hallmarks of the annual meeting (July 16-18, 2010 at the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park, Birmingham, AL).
The Conclave is responsible for nominating, for the governor's appointment, Alabama's Poet Laureate, a post currently filled by Sue Brannan Walker. Further information: www.alabamawritersconclave.com.
Please enjoy "Tongue" by Emma Bolden. This poem won first prize for a traditional poem in the Alabama Writers' Conclave 2009 Literary Competition, and was published in Crab Orchard Review 13.2.
Tongue
by Emma Bolden
In the front seat of his Impala with
a Recovering Catholic bumper
sticker, Timothy taught me how to kiss,
to tilt my chin, to tease the fat wet stump
of his tongue into action. Not the way
I'd seen it done on film—that jaw-drop lean,
mouths wide and working to the music's sway—
not what I wanted. I was there to learn
how to want for him. This is just charity,
he'd say—thick glasses, thick body, he thought
no other guy would want to teach me.
Once I slipped (poor sight, poor aim) and he laughed.
He thought I'd never get the hang of it.
How I wanted to bite, to feel his tongue split. |
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Friends of Acadia Nature Poetry Competition (no fee)
Postmark Deadline: April 30
Submissions are invited for the 2010 Friends of Acadia Poetry Competition. Established in 1998, this prize is presented biennially to promote and recognize distinctive nature poetry. The three top-ranked poems will be published in the Friends of Acadia Journal (print and online), and awarded cash prizes by category ($350, $250, $150).
Nature-based poems of 30 lines or fewer will be accepted. Include cover sheet stating author's name and address and poem title. Do not include author's name on manuscript(s). Please format your poems using 12-point Times New Roman (default font)—no "unique" fonts.
Authors may submit up to three poems for consideration. Entries must be original, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere. There is no fee to enter. Entries will not be returned. The competition results will be announced in the Summer 2010 issue of Friends of Acadia Journal, to be mailed and published online in early August.
Please submit your entries to: Editor, Friends of Acadia Journal, P.O. Box 45, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, editor@friendsofacadia.org. If sending via email, please include your submissions as attachments.
Please enjoy "Encounter" by Brooke Pacy. This poem won 3rd prize in the 2008 Friends of Acadia Poetry Competition:
Encounter
by Brooke Pacy
Looking straight past whiskers into eyes
round and dark as his, the baby
smiles, pats the grizzled jaw, utters
syllables that mean: new nameable delight...
But when
did this happen for the first time?
And where?
In what cave or on what plain
did wolf or coyote stretch, yawn, gaze
from shallow yellow slits into human
countenance and trust, patiently allow
a tiny hand to brush its muzzle?
Picture it now; stone age mother
lost in pleistocene imaginings while
the grey brute she would never
dream to touch stands rooted, routed
by an utter absence of plan
in a small strange face...
What
slow art widened the wild eyes, deepened
them into mirrors of the child's belief? |
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The Ledge Magazine Announces its 2010 Annual Poetry Awards Competition
Postmark Deadline: April 30
The Ledge Poetry & Fiction Magazine Proudly Announces its 2010 and Sixteenth Annual Poetry Awards Competition.
PRIZES: First prize: $1,000 and publication in The Ledge Magazine. Second prize: $250 and publication in The Ledge Magazine. Third prize: $100 and publication in The Ledge Magazine.
ENTRY FEE: $10 for the first three (3) poems; $3 for each additional poem. $20 subscription to The Ledge gains free entry for the first three (3) poems.
NO RESTRICTIONS on form or content. The Ledge is open to all styles and schools of poetry. Excellence is the only criterion.
ALL POEMS must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable but we must be notified should any poem(s) be accepted elsewhere for publication. All poems will be considered for publication in The Ledge Magazine.
PLEASE include your name, mailing address, email address (if applicable) and phone number (optional) on each entry. Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) for the competition results or manuscript return. Winners will be announced in September 2010.
SEND ENTRIES TO:
The Ledge 2010 Poetry Awards Competition
40 Maple Avenue
Bellport, NY 11713
Please visit us at www.theledgemagazine.com for additional information regarding our publication and press, as well as the complete guidelines for our annual fiction awards and poetry chapbook competitions.
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Nimrod International Journal's Literary Awards for Fiction and Poetry
Postmark Deadline: April 30
It's time to enter the 32nd annual Nimrod Literary Awards: The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. The Awards offer first prizes of $2,000 and publication, and second prizes of $1,000 and publication. The final judges will be poet Molly Peacock and novelist David Wroblewski.
One of the oldest "little magazines" in the country, Nimrod has continually published new and extraordinary writers since 1956. Nimrod is dedicated to the discovery of new voices in literature, and the Nimrod Literary Awards are a special way to reward talented new poets and fiction writers.
Poetry: 3-10 pages of poetry (one long poem or several short poems)
Fiction: 7,500 words maximum
Entry/Subscription Fee: $20, includes a one-year subscription (two issues)
No previously published works or works accepted for publication elsewhere. Author's name must not appear on the manuscript. Include a cover sheet containing major title and subtitles, author's name, full address, phone & email. "Contest Entry" should be clearly indicated on both the outer envelope and the cover sheet. Manuscripts should be stapled, if possible; if not, bind with a black clip. Manuscripts will not be returned. Include self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) for results only. Winners will also be brought to Tulsa for the Awards Ceremony in October. All finalists will be considered for publication.
For complete rules, visit Nimrod's website: www.utulsa.edu/nimrod
 18th Annual Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards
Co-sponsored by Book Marketing Works, LLC
Postmark Deadline: May 3
Writer's Digest is searching for the best self-published books of the past few years. Whether you're a professional writer, part-time freelancer, or a self-starting student, here's your chance to enter the only competition exclusively for self-published books! Click for the guidelines.
ONE GRAND PRIZE WINNER will be awarded $3,000 cash and promotion in Writer's Digest and Publishers Weekly. The editors of Writer's Digest will endorse and submit 10 copies of the Grand Prize-Winning book to major review houses such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. In addition, Book Marketing Works, LLC will provide a one-year membership in Publishers Marketing Association, guaranteed acceptance in a special-sales catalog providing national representation through 5,000 salespeople selling to non-bookstore markets, guaranteed acceptance by Atlas Books (a top distributor to wholesalers, chains, independents and online retailers) and six hours of book shepherding from Poynter Book Shepherd Ellen Reid.
10 FIRST-PLACE WINNERS will receive $1,000 cash and promotion in Writer's Digest. In addition, Book Marketing Works, LLC will provide a guaranteed review in Midwest Book Review, a one-year membership to Book Central Station, the eBook Beyond the Bookstore, a Publishers Weekly book by Brian Jud and a copy of Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers by Shel Horowitz.
Plus, all Grand Prize and First-Place winners will receive promotion on the Writer's Digest Web site at writersdigest.com, a copy of The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing, 4th Edition by Tom and Marilyn Ross, $100 worth of Writer's Digest Books and a Notable Award Certificate.
HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS will receive promotion at writersdigest.com, $50 worth of Writer's Digest Books and a Notable Award Certificate.
All other entrants will receive Certificates of Participation, a brief judge's commentary and a listing with a link on the Writer's Digest Web site, provided an accurate URL is provided.
THE CATEGORIES:
- Mainstream/Literary Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Inspirational (Spiritual, New Age)
- Life Stories (Biographies, Autobiographies, Family Histories, Memoirs)
- Children's Picture books
- Middle-Grade/Young Adult books
- Reference Books (Directories, Encyclopedias, Guide Books)
- Poetry
Artists Embassy International Poetry Contest - Three Grand Prize Winning Poems to be Danced and Filmed
Postmark Deadline: May 15
- 3 Grand Prizes will receive $100 each plus their poems will be danced and filmed. Each Grand Prize winner will be invited onstage for photo ops with the dancers and a bow in the limelight.
- 6 First Prizes will receive $50 each
- 12 Second Prizes will receive $25 each
- 30 Third Prizes will receive $10 each
All prize winners will receive a prize certificate suitable for framing and a ticket to the Dancing Poetry Festival 2010, and be invited to read their prizewinning poem at the Festival to be held on September 18 at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. The top three poems chosen as Grand Prizes will be choreographed, costumed and recorded live in an on-stage performance at the Festival. See pictures from our 2009 Festival.
Last year's Grand Prize winners included Gretchen R. Fletcher, Nancy Rakoczy and Jeanne Wagner. Recent topics of winning poems have touched on the travels of Matisse, a Picasso painting, falling leaves, love, Iraq, China, history, dance, current events, reverie, socially significant situations and even some humor sprinkled here and there. Please don't feel constrained to write a poem about dancing.
The entry fee is $5 per poem or $10 for 3 poems. Each poem may be up to 40 lines long. Send two copies of each poem. One copy should be anonymous (just title and poem), the other should have your name, address, phone, email address and where you heard about this contest (e.g. Winning Writers Newsletter). There is no limit on the number of entries.
When the judges evaluate entries, they look for innovative perspectives on ordinary or unusual subjects as well as excellence of craft. Your entry should be suitable for a general audience since our following is comprised of people of all ages and ethnicities. English translations must be included with non-English poems.
Our judges consist of poets, dancers, musicians and visual artists of various media, all members of Artists Embassy International. Judging is done with the anonymous copies of the poems. Artists Embassy International is a non-profit, volunteer, arts and education organization whose goal is to further intercultural understanding through the arts.
Three poets, the Grand Prize winners, will be rewarded with seeing their poems danced by Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company, a well-known dance troupe that has performed around the world and throughout America. This company is dedicated exclusively to creating new avenues by combining poetry, dance and music together for presentation and the expansion of poetry with dance in the life of our culture.
To enter the contest, please visit our website at www.dancingpoetry.com or submit to AEI Contest Chair W, Judy Cheung, 704 Brigham Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95404. Questions? Please email Ms. Cheung at jhcheung@comcast.net.
 The 15th Annual Blue Lynx Prize
Postmark Deadline: May 15
The Blue Lynx Prize is awarded for an unpublished, full-length volume of poems by a US author—which would include foreign nationals living
and writing in the US and US citizens living abroad. The prize includes a $2,000 cash award and publication. Please note: the prize is returning this year to Lynx House Press, publisher of fine poetry and fiction since 1975.
Entries must be at least 48 pages in length and must be accompanied by a $25 reading fee and a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE, for notification only); checks to be made payable to Lynx House Press. Poems included may not have appeared in full-length, single-author collections. Send to:
Lynx House Press
P.O. Box 940
Spokane, WA 99210
Lynx House is an independent non-profit publisher devoted to extending and enhancing the cultural conversation through the publication of fine poetry and fiction. If it has a bias, it is towards literary work that is highly resonant, work that, through the clarity of its vision and craft, results in a change in the emotional and intellectual temperature of whoever reads it.
Lynx House publications include books by Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Goedicke, Jim Daniels, Kathy Fagan, Bill Tremblay, Valerie Martin, Vern Rutsala, Gillian
Conoley, Carlos Reyes, Madeline DeFrees, Donald Junkins, Carole Oles, Robert Gregory, Carolyne Wright, Robert Abel, and many others. Final judges have included Yusef Komunyakaa, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Robert Wrigley, Dara Wier, Primus St. John, and David Wojahn.
Please enjoy "Margin of Error" by B.T. Shaw, winner of the 2007 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry. This poem is published as part of This Dirty Little Heart.
Margin of Error
by B.T. Shaw
For example, she says, take
the supercontinent Gondwana, pulled twice
out of Earth's mantle only to finally draw
and quarter itself after breeding an arkful
of hyperthyroidized lizards, flightless cranes,
and a species of fish with no jaw.
She keeps a list. Penicillin.
Ptolemy's failure to save appearances.
West Saharan fossils of footed cetaceans.
The late-night meteorologist's predictions.
And her heart. Though at times—
Meanwhile. Obviously. Night. |
 The Idaho Prize for Poetry 2010
Postmark Deadline: May 15
Lost Horse Press is now accepting submissions for The Idaho Prize for Poetry 2010, a national competition offering $1,000 plus publication by Lost Horse Press for a book-length poetry manuscript.
All US poets are eligible. The winner and finalists will be announced on August 15. The final judge for this seventh annual poetry book contest sponsored by Lost Horse Press is Thomas Lux. A reading fee of $25—check or money order only, please—and a SASE (for notification of winners only; manuscripts will be recycled) must be included with the manuscript.
For guidelines or additional information about the Idaho Prize for poetry, please contact Lost Horse Press at 208-255-4410, email losthorsepress@mindspring.com or view online at www.losthorsepress.org (click Submission Guidelines on the left).
Congratulations to our 2009 winner Stephen Gibson of Florida. His entry, Frescoes, was chosen by judge Carolyne Wright. Mr. Gibson will receive $1,000 plus publication by Lost Horse Press. Ms. Wright comments,
"In Frescoes, Stephen Gibson assumes the charge of the engaged tourist, paying his entry fee to the chapels and basilicas of Renaissance Florence and Padua and Rome in order to enter in to much more subversive premises: to see through the pigmented plaster and marble facades to the real-life consequences of original sin and human depravity depicted in these treasures of High Art. Gibson is a wised-up pilgrim in sanctuaries whose faith he cannot share.
"Harsh and highly accomplished, these poems redeem the people from the paint, plaster and piety. They pull victims and perpetrators alike out of the history and myth of the treasures of Great Arts into the arena of our ongoing moral dilemmas, our struggles for survival as well as for the preservation of compassion and decency in a perennially fallen human world." |
 subTerrain Magazine's Annual Lush Triumphant Literary Awards Competition
Postmark Deadline: May 15
The annual Lush Triumphant is here once again! Featuring 3 categories: Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry, $3,000 CAN in total cash prizes and 1 deadline: May 15, 2010.
The winning entry in each category will receive a $750 CAN cash prize (plus payment for publication) and will be published in subTerrain's Winter 2010 issue. First runner-up in each category will receive a $250 CAN cash prize and be published in our Spring 2011 issue. All entries MUST be previously unpublished material and not currently under consideration in any other contest or competition. Entries will not be returned (so keep a copy for yourself).
Maximum word counts are: 3,000 for fiction, 4,000 for creative non-fiction and 15 pages (a suite of 5 related poems) for poetry. The $25 entry fee (send Canadian or US funds) includes a complimentary one-year subscription to subTerrain Magazine.
Enter now, enter often!
Send entries to: Lush Triumphant c/o subTerrain Magazine, P.O. Box 3008, MPO, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 3X5. For complete contest details, please visit www.subterrain.ca or email us at subter@portal.ca.
Please enjoy "a very small fairy tale", published in subTerrain issue #51:
a very small fairy tale
by Annette Lapointe
There was a little girl with an axe. She walked through the woods and the
wolves avoided her, and when she got bored with walking, she built a fort out
of skinny aspen trees and lived in it. She decorated the walls with the
skeletons of animals and the skins of predators that got too close and the head
of the woodsman who wouldn't take no for an answer.
Later, she was joined by the girl with a saw and the girl with a whip. The
fort expanded a little and developed interesting corners. Small, sharp animals
came to live with them.
The boy who stripped naked crawled through the low fort door and stood
there, ignoring the smell and thinking vaguely about blood. When the girl with
the axe and the girl with the whip backed him up to the wall, he said, "Okay,"
and closed his eyes.
This wasn't that long ago, and it happened somewhere north of
Saskatoon.
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On The Premises Short Story Contest: "Misunderstanding" (no fee)
Email Submission Deadline: May 30
Since 2006, On The Premises magazine has aimed to promote newer and/or relatively unknown writers who can write creative, compelling stories told in effective, uncluttered, and evocative prose.
Every four months, On The Premises sponsors a short story contest. Entrants pay no fees, and winners receive cash prizes in addition to exposure through publication. Every contest challenges authors to write creative, compelling, and well-crafted stories based on a broad premise that the magazine's editors supply.
Prize money in 2010: $140 for 1st, $100 for 2nd, $70 for 3rd, and $25 for honorable mentions, all in US dollars. Usually, two or three honorable mentions are published.
The newest contest just launched on March 7. You can find details at http://www.onthepremises.com/current_contest.html. To be informed when new contests are launched, subscribe to our free, short, monthly newsletter.
"On The Premises" is recognized in Duotrope, Writer's Market, and Ralan.com, and was recently reviewed by New Pages magazine.
Hints for Winning Our Contests
- Your story should be CREATIVE. That doesn't mean it has to be speculative! Genre is not the issue. The issue is, how many times have we read (or seen) stories similar to yours, in any genre?
- Your story should be COMPELLING. Make us care about your story and the characters in it. Grab our attention at the beginning and make us want to keep reading.
- Your story should be WELL-CRAFTED. More than anything else, that means every word is chosen with great care. It also means there isn't one unnecessary word or idea in your story. The parts of your story form a perfect whole.
- Your story should CLEARLY use the contest premise. If our premise is that a story has to be about a dog, make the dog a major character. Don't have a dog appear in the first paragraph, then never be seen again. And don't make the story about a secret organization whose initials are D.O.G. The more obvious your use of our premise is, the better.
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Snake Nation Press: Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry
Postmark Deadline Extended to June 30
Now in its twentieth year, Snake Nation Press announces the 2010 Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry:
• $1,000 prize and publication
• $25 entry fee must accompany the manuscript
• 50-75 page manuscript; previously published poems eligible
New reduced fee for students and those aged 65 or older—just $15 per entry.
Please mail your entry and fee to:
Snake Nation Press
Attn: Poetry Contest
2920 North Oak Street
Valdosta, GA 31602
Snake Nation Press provides an informative, non-threatening venue for writers to submit their work in the midst of an often chaotically diverse publishing world. Over the twenty-year history of the Press, the staff and volunteers have found great satisfaction in forging personalized editorial relationships with both emerging and established writers. The Snake is committed to keeping an honest and open dialogue with authors and to furthering the literary arts on a local and global scale. Many hours of volunteer labor and the electronic resources of the Web have allowed a small press to help present many new literary voices to the world-wide community.
The editors of Snake Nation Press look for manuscripts that concretely render the writer's actual and imaginative experiences. We publish writing that both newly interprets life in its everyday reality and that opens the reader's eyes to internal landscapes that have not yet been envisioned. We believe that good writing fortifies a belief in the value of human life and effort, but above all the work must connect intuition and experience to cast a spell of surprised recognition that shocks the reader with what was thought to be familiar.
An excerpt from the History of Snake Nation Press by Roberta George, Founder:
I'd spent the previous year working with underprivileged children in South Georgia on a stretch of paved and unpaved highway called Snake Nation Road. I loved the name, the hissing sound, and had done a bit of research trying to find out its origins. Valdosta's local historian said the appellation had several sources. He said that the area had once been an Indian encampment. Since my son was always finding arrowheads near our home, and I'd heard of others being plowed up in fields, that seemed a good explanation. Another take on the name was that the area had, at one time, contained several snake-handling churches. Still another reason was the swampy ground, so full of snakes that escaped prisoners from Troupeville (later to become Valdosta) were not pursued. "The moccasins will take care of 'um," was the Warden's verdict. And one last interpretation—the one I loved best—was that a poor, rowdy section of Valdosta had once been called Snake Nation.
According to legend, after a particularly boisterous night, the sheriff raided a local club and took everyone back to the hoosegow. As with many buildings in those days, the jail was just a wooden frame set on top of a dirt floor. When the sheriff departed, the Snake Nation bunch lifted the entire structure off its foundations and walked away. "I'll call it Snake Nation Review," I said, explaining my reasons for wanting the name. "Aren't writers the lowest of all artists, especially unpublished writers, thousands of hours on work that no one ever sees, never gets paid for, the underbelly of the artistic world..."
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Click the contest names below to go straight to their profiles, or login to The Best Free Poetry Contests here. After you login, please click the Find Free Contests link, then search by Prose Contest Type to find prose contests.
3/19: It's All Write Short Story Writing Contest for Teens +
Entries must be received by this date; formerly January 20
Neutral free contest for short fiction by middle and high school students offers prizes up to $250 in each age category: grades 6-8, 9-10, and 11-12. Send one story, 4-10 double-spaced pages, by email or hand-delivered to your local Ann Arbor branch library.
3/20: Anthem Essay Contest for High School Students +++
Highly recommended free contest for 8th, 9th and 10th graders offers top prize of $2,000, other large prizes, for essays on Ayn Rand's novella Anthem. See website for essay topics and background on Rand's rationalist, libertarian worldview. Length limit is 600-1,200 words. Enter by mail or online.
3/20: Keep the Drive High School Journalism Awards ++
Entries must be received by this date
Recommended free contest for US high school students offers prizes up to $3,000 in two categories, print and broadcast journalism, for an article or video about promoting safe driving habits among teens. Entries must have been first published or broadcast in the entrant's high school. Enter by mail or online. Contest sponsor The Allstate Foundation is a charitable organization funded by contributions from the Allstate insurance company.
3/21: Glass Woman Prize ++
Entries must be received by this date; late submissions held for the next contest
Recommended twice-yearly free contest offers prizes up to $600 and online publication for the best short fiction or creative nonfiction by women. Both published and unpublished work welcome. Entries should be 50-5,000 words. Contest sponsor Beate Sigriddaughter says, "Subject is open, but must be of significance to women. My criterion is passion, excellence, and authenticity in the woman's writing voice." Enter by mail or email (no attachments).
3/22: Arts Club of Washington Scholarship Competition ++
Formerly March 16
Recommended free contest offers scholarships up to $1,000 for college students (including first two years of graduate school) aged 18-26 in Maryland, Virginia, or Washington, DC. 2010 theme is for paper artwork, including printmaking, drawings, watercolors, collage, calligraphy, papermaking and book arts. Submit CD with images and/or other relevant materials, along with entry form and recommendation letter from faculty member at applicant's school. (This competition has a different focus every year. The 2006 contest was for poetry, the 2007 one was for photography, the 2008 one was for sculpture and ceramics, and the 2009 one was for short fiction.)
3/31: Eric Hoffer Award for Short Prose +
Entries must be received by this date
Neutral free contest from Hopewell Publications offers $500 and anthology publication for unpublished short fiction or essays (both genres compete together) up to 10,000 words. Enter online only. No simultaneous submissions. Deadlines are quarterly (March 31, June 30, September 30, December 31), but there is only one annual prize. You can enter one story per quarter.
3/31: L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest +++
Highly recommended free contest for emerging writers of short science fiction, fantasy and horror offers quarterly prizes of $1,000 plus an annual $5,000 grand prize for one of the four winners. Send only one story per quarter, maximum 17,000 words. See website for eligibility rules. Entrants may not have professionally published a novel or short novel, or more than one novelette, or more than three short stories, in any medium.
4/1: Paterson Fiction Prize ++
Recommended free contest from the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College offers $1,000 for the best book of fiction published during the previous calendar year. Publisher should submit 3 copies plus entry form.
4/15: PARSEC Short Story Contest +
Neutral free contest offers top prize of $200 for unpublished short stories, 3,500 words maximum, in the science fiction, fantasy or horror genres. See website for annual theme. Entrants must be non-professional writers as defined on the contest rules page.
4/20: Cup of Comfort Online Story Contest ++
Entries must be received by this date; formerly May 15
Recommended free contest offers $1,000 and publication in the women's magazine Redbook for an inspirational personal essay, 1,000-2,000 words. 2010 theme is "Comfort for Couples: the experiences and emotions of being a part of a couple." Enter online only. Open to legal residents of the US and Canada (except Quebec) aged 18+.
4/23, 6/25, 8/6: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize ++
Entries must be received by these dates; former deadlines were April 24, June 26, and August 7
Recommended free contest offers C$25,000 for novels or short story collections published in Canada during the calendar year by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. Deadline varies depending on when your book was published: books published between January 1 and April 22 must be received by April 23; those published between April 23 and June 24 must be received by June 25; and those published between June 25 and September 30 must be received by August 6. Publishers should submit 5 copies of the book (or 3 bound galleys, to be followed by at least 2 copies of the book), press kit, entry form, and list of titles published by that publisher, to establish eligibility. See website for detailed requirements.
4/23, 6/25, 8/6: Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize ++
Entries must be received by these dates; former deadlines were April 24, June 26, and August 7
Recommended free contest offers C$25,000 for nonfiction books published in Canada during the calendar year by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. Deadline varies depending on when your book was published: Prize is awarded once a year, but there are three deadlines depending on when the book was published. Books published between January 1 and April 22 must be received by April 23; those published between April 23 and June 24 must be received by June 25; and those published between June 25 and September 30 must be received by August 6. Publishers should submit 5 copies of the book (or 3 bound galleys, to be followed by at least 2 copies of the book), press kit, entry form, and list of titles published by that publisher, to establish eligibility. See website for detailed requirements. Formerly known as the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, changed name in 2009.
4/26: Fountainhead Essay Contest for High School Students +++
Formerly April 25
Highly recommended free contest for high school students (11th and 12th grade) offers $10,000 top prize, other large prizes, for essays on Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead. Essays should be based on one of the three questions on the website, and be 800-1,600 words long. Online entries preferred. Contest is looking for entries that are sympathetic to Rand's rationalist, libertarian philosophy. See website for other student contests.
4/28: Norman Mailer College Writing Awards +++
Entries must be received by this date; don't enter before April 1; former submission period was March 23-May 15
Highly recommended free contest for creative writing by college students offers $10,000 and a summer residency at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, MA. Contest is open to current full-time college students. 2010 genre is creative nonfiction. Submit one or more essays, maximum 15 single-spaced pages total, through their online form.
4/28: Norman Mailer High School Writing Awards +++
Entries must be received by this date; don't enter before April 1; former submission period was March 23-May 10
Highly recommended free contest for creative writing by high school juniors offers $5,000 and a trip to NYC for the award ceremony. Contest is open to all currently enrolled high school students. 2010 genre is creative nonfiction. Submit one or more essays, maximum 10 single-spaced pages total, through their online form.
4/30: Ellen Levine Fund for Writers Award +++
Entries must be received by this date; formerly May 15
Highly recommended free contest from Teachers & Writers Collaborative offers a stipend of at least $7,500 to an author working on a second or third book of fiction who does not have a publishing contract for the work. Send a manuscript sample of 50-75 double-spaced pages, an outline of the work, and a brief bio. Entries must be received by 5 PM Eastern time on the deadline date.
4/30: Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence +++
Highly recommended free contest for published books of fiction by African-Americans offers $10,000 and all-expenses-paid trip to Baton Rouge, LA to read from winning book at ceremony in January. Send entry form and 10 copies of a book published in the previous calendar year. Certain self-published books may also be eligible. Contact sponsor for details.
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Tupelo Press Poetry Project "Fragments from Sappho"
Entries must be received by March 31
Tupelo Press, a prestigious independent poetry publisher, seeks submissions of poems based on a quotation from Sappho. All poems submitted are eligible for inclusion in the April/May issue of the Poetry Project, an online journal from Tupelo Press, and in an annual print anthology. The top three submissions will receive $500, $250, and $150. Fee is $12 for 1-5 poems. Enter and pay online. Each submitted poem must take as its title or first line one of the fragments from Sappho, translated by Anne Carson, which appear on the Tupelo website.
The Oleander Review
Entries must be received by April 15
The Oleander Review, the student-edited literary journal of the University of Michigan, seeks submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Send 1-5 poems, one story up to 20 double-spaced pages, or one essay up to 15 double-spaced pages. Email entries preferred. See website for details. (Note: This journal is not affiliated with The Bitter Oleander, sponsor of the Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Prize.)
Crab Orchard Review
Postmark Deadline: April 30
This prestigious journal from Southern Illinois University Carbondale is seeking submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for its next open-themed issue. Payment for accepted work is $20 per magazine page, with a minimum of $50 for poetry and $100 for prose. Send 1-6 poems or one prose piece, maximum 25 double-spaced pages.
Tin House "Class in America" Issue
Entries must be received by May 1
The well-regarded literary journal Tin House seeks submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for their Fall 2010 issue on "Class in America". Send one prose piece, maximum 10,000 words, or 1-5 poems. One entry per person. Enter by mail or online. Editors say, "We are looking for all perspectives: from or about the rich to the middle class to the poor and those who have moved up or down. We want to know more about those who identify with a non-traditional class, or consider themselves classless, along with those who have immigrated from class-bound or class-less countries or societies. What are the new class indicators in our increasingly digitized, global, and green world?"
Promise of Light
Entries must be received by September 1
Poet James Eric Watkins' website Promise of Light is seeking submissions of traditional or modern English haiku. Top three winners published on site and in Flowers & Vortexes magazine. Send three haiku to sir_james@netzero.net with "haiku submission" in the subject box.
Palehouse
Entries must be received by October 1
New literary journal with a contemporary aesthetic seeks submissions of poetry and prose, 1,000 words maximum, for their December 2010 print issue. Include your submission in the body of an email to Brent Pearson with a brief biography and return email address. You may include a photo or artwork (optional). All entries considered for online publication as well. Browse their archives before entering.
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Prospero, King of the City
by J.P. Dancing Bear
The city vibrates. The city purrs. Prospero has taken
to divining the future with Scrabble tiles.
He reclines on the bed in his penthouse; the afternoon
sun picking up speed before its inevitable crash.
The smell from the wharf wafts through the window.
On the street below, a drunk in a tailored suit argues
with a doorman about a dream of great ruined cities in the West.
People sound to Prospero like cartoon characters.
Someone honks a car horn, as if to signify the start
of a great migration north. There is a screech of brakes,
the pounding on the hood, yelling and more honking.
San Francisco is beginning to crumble into the sea.
It is because Prospero has messed the tiles up again.
At the curb comes a rumor about a rain of toads.
People on the street are strutting with a hip-hop gait
now—suggesting something great but final.
It's Christmas Eve; there's not another Scrabble set left
in the stores. The city's veins are trancing with traffic.
Lights smudge as fog creeps in through the Sunset district.
The cartoon men have everything Prospero ever wanted
or thought he deserved. They're laughing, belting out carols
as they huddle around a garbagecan fire, sharing a bottle.
A fat three-fingered hand throws in one wooden tile at a time—
someone calls out X and another ten points goes on the pyre.
Copyright 2010 by J.P. Dancing Bear
This poem is reprinted from his new poetry collection, Inner Cities of Gulls, now available for pre-order from the Irish literary press Salmon Poetry.
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Sea Canaries
by C.J. Sage
The small white whales in packs of pods
keep their pacts with us, the fated beasts.
They wail their songs and the water wavers,
and we who signed them waive our rights
to have them. Here is where they belong,
all right, and here is where I leave them:
their pale, bountiful bodies to the sea.
I see a pail of fish and I would rather
feed on palm wood than palm one up
to shed it to those seabirds. To bate the brink
of bygone beauty, I bring no bait. A thatch shed
on the shore would keep me closer. O idol
of the gulls and winge`d seagirls and idle guitar
players, paddle deep and far off from my kind
who peddle our wares like love-me-kindly petals.
Copyright 2010 by C.J. Sage
This poem is reprinted from her new poetry collection, The San Simeon Zebras, now available for pre-order from the Irish literary press Salmon Poetry.
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The Creek
by Nicole Nicholson
there are places where you are blood colored. there are
places where you are milk-colored. how you run, crooking creek spine,
up the back of the bank behind the school—
the old, dusty, brick-and-window thing
with dead cold steel and frozen rust inside. i wonder
if some mornings, you watch death and steam exit its ears as you
whiplash your sempiternal self, choked with filth,
on your perpetual journey through our town until you
careen headfirst into our great river nearby. but i worry
about the great river—
you've been raped by the steel mill,
hell and brimstone tumbled into you,
the lust of industry. you bear the fire of it
on your back and in your claws, digging them
into the sides of the land. i am
thirteen years old,
almost tatterdemalion,
with eyes encircled by black bold print as if to shout them. a girl,
helter-skelter,
with a drawl-scarred, marlboro stench, double-wide for shelter. i carry
matches near you and whisper
cuyahogan incantations near your breath to flirt with danger, to call it to me
like something greater than the comet sighting or
the pizza parlor eruption. so many nothings
make news in this fucking town.
so i watch you. underneath the shadow of dirt-cast houses
you pass, but you cannot wash away
the sins of the coke plant and blast furnace grime. you are no
jordan, you are no ganges. you shudder yourself, unholy,
with red and white sin, with the
funk of sick green chlorine fingers that choke
fish, birds, and young children who wander too close. i can do nothing
but pray for your absolution.
Copyright 2010 by Nicole Nicholson
This poem was published in Issue #8 of MediaVirus Magazine.
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This month, Critique Corner is pleased to present "Flaming Comforter" and "American Charybdis" by Airlie Sattler Rose. (Tracy Koretsky will return as the author of Critique Corner next month.)
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Flaming Comforter
by Airlie Sattler Rose
French whistles sing to the coal train moving mountains, the green motorcycle gleaming under stained glass cylinders, tumbling star-like crystals peacefully rolling, comfortably rolling around on the bed on top of the motion of waves, the bare feet of the catalog's down comforter singed with fire.
It's ok, really. Don't you think the swan song is beautiful and the Lorax might find his way home some day? I look at the concrete, the molasses geography and dream of Jesus bursting through radiant clouds skipping on giant sandal feet from building to building. David Byrne's "Nothing but flowers" mark his steps until everything is flattened into life.
There is no more room. It is either going out or going in, breathing, sustenance, fire. Fire is the root, the structure, the comfort. A burn is a sharp thing that cuts. I sing to my children 10,000 songs, but they always want to hear Happy Birthday. Synchronicity when they line up together and—darn—those bare feet sticking out from under the blanket again.
I keep going, but the horizon is grey with smogulous smog and fogulous fog and everyone is coughing. This nation is so small minded. We are such children—gathering our bugs in a jar. We don't know enough to touch the other. The other's touch inflames us. It is how we grow-up. Un believable the American children. Un believable their world of princess dolls and ballrooms. What do they make of the decaying corpse of nature that fills the air with the stench of poetry? Ugh. It is inescapable.
Fleas contaminate the bed. Plink, plink—they're hard to catch, but I don't mind. I like to squish fleas and lie down in flea free luxury. America doesn't have fleas. I live here. The island paradise awaits, and the sun is setting. What kind of boat is this? Why does green flash as the fireball submerges? and did my freckle move?
Copyright 2010 by Airlie Sattler Rose
American Charybdis
by Airlie Sattler Rose
I step into the lapping edge
of American culture.
My daughter looks adorable in her red ribbon pleated polyester
cheerleading costume
safely within the eyes
of the camera.
My son is safe.
He stands beyond the jetsam line
yelling "Mommy!"
afraid to come closer.
Good.
Cars snake along
ahead behind
I can't slow down
pull out of traffic.
The guy to my left
flips me off when
I swerve to get off of
here. This bridge isn't safe.
I've got kids on board.
It's rotting from the inside
out and
below the water
sucks around the piling
as it bounces and returns to
New couches smell of urethane.
If they catch fire,
they melt
into a scalding puddle
emitting cyanide.
So, I tell my kids not to play with matches.
It's the sucking sound
of the television
arguments over why we
don't buy from Wal-Mart.
The princess ball is surely happening in the heart of that castle and
the small plastic bucket
holds a blue bubble
that looks like plastic
except for muscle-less twitches
and the slow curl, uncurl
of tentacles.
The water was a draining ache when I got in,
but now it feels ok
warm even.
I pack my thrift store specials
into a charity bag
and take out my Chico's
passport card.
I ask the lady behind the counter
if any children wove until their hands bled
to make this garment, and
when she looks at me like I'm crazy
I feel I have done my duty to the children.
Because the only thing
that is real to me
is the slick
wrinkle-free fit of my pants
and the fact I feel professional
in-front of a class.
I like the way it feels
to spend money like smooth silk
spread over the rotting infrastructure.
The murdered land off-gases
beneath our feet.
It all feels normal.
Copyright 2010 by Airlie Sattler Rose
Critique by Jendi Reiter
Many authors have a set of core concerns to which they return, in one form or another, throughout their career. Mary Oliver's prolific volumes of nature poetry share a common message that life is precious and paying attention is a spiritual practice. At the other end of the mood spectrum, Stephen King is obsessed with the artist's evil double, the dark side of genius. With each variation on their theme, writers hope to come closer to finding the best form to express an idea that won't let them go.
For this month's critique, I chose Airlie Sattler Rose's poems "Flaming Comforter" and "American Charybdis" because they represent two such variations on a topic that attracts many contemporary poets: how to survive the unwholesome excesses of American commercial culture. Rose has tried out two poetic forms, the prose poem and the free-verse lyric, each of which is suited to explore different features of this dystopian landscape.
The prose poem is a hybrid form, rapidly evolving, elusive of definition. In this it resembles the mutating, confusing environment that the protagonist of "Flaming Comforter" inhabits. Surrealism is a natural tendency of the prose poem because it lacks the ruminative pauses of lineated verse, and also the logical progression of ideas we expect from prose. The quick succession of associative leaps can overwhelm the reader's analytical mind, just as this poem's narrator and her children are overwhelmed by the seductive pop-culture data stream.
One might say that the prose poem is the perfect form for our wired age. More than ever, it's up to us to connect and filter the random information that engulfs us. No one is going to shape it into a nice sonnet or an executive summary....
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