2012 Wabash Prize for Poetry: Sycamore Review

Sycamore Review is now accepting entries for the 2012 Wabash Prize for Poetry, judged by Nikky Finney and open to previously unpublished works of poetry. Each entry may contain up to three poems (no more than six pages total).

The author of the winning piece will be awarded $1,000 and publication in a 2013 issue of Sycamore Review. All entrants receive a year's subscription to Sycamore Review. Entry fee is $15 and $5 for each additional poem. Submissions are accepted via the submission manager. All entries considered for publication. Deadline: November 1.

Visit http://www.sycamorereview.com/contest/ for more information.

Poetry contest: Folio

Folio announces its 2013 Poetry Contest, which will be judged by poet and translator Martha Collins. Martha Collins is the author of five collections of poems, the most recent of which is White Papers (Pitt Poetry Series, 2012).

Postmark deadline: February 15, 2013
Reading fee: $15 (includes a one-year subscription)

The winner will receive $500 and publication in the Spring 2013 issue of Folio. Martha Collins will also select a first runner-up and an honorable mention, who will each receive $150. All cover sheets must include name, address, phone number, email address, and titles of poems. Entrant's name should appear ONLY on the cover sheet. Submit up to four poems of any style or length. Multiple entries are acceptible, as long as a separate reading fee is included with each entry. Folio will not consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with American University.

Online submission manager: www.foliolitjournal.submittable.com

Poet's residency: The Frost Place

The Dartmouth 2013 Poet in Residence at The Frost Place

Applications are now being accepted for the 2013 Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH. This is a six to eight week residency in poet Robert Frost's former farmhouse, which sits on a quiet rural road with spectacular views of the White Mountains.

The residency begins July 1 and ends August 31, 2013, and includes a $1,000 award from The Frost Place and $1,000 from Dartmouth College. The poet will have several opportunities to give readings across the region, including at Dartmouth College, for which the poet will receive a $1,000 honorarium.

The house, built in 1859 and owned by the Frost family from 1915 to 1920, is spartan, but comfortable. The Frost Place Museum is open to the public during afternoon hours, and a portion of the house is closed off for the resident poet.

Previous recipients of this residency, which began in 1977, include Katha Pollitt, Robert Haas, William Matthews, Cleopatra Mathis, Mark Halliday, Mary Ruefle, Mark Cox, and Laura Kasischke. Many of these poets have returned to The Frost Place to participate in the conferences held each summer. The aim of the residency program has been to select a poet who is at an artistic and personal crossroads, as Frost was when he bought the place in 1915.

The primary criteria is that applicants must have published at least one book of poems. The complete guidelines and application form can be found on our website at www.frostplace.org. Poets may apply directly or be nominated by someone else. There is a $25 fee for applications. The deadline for submission is midnight, December 31, 2012.

American Literary Review Contests

Three prizes of $1,000 each and publication in the Spring 2013 issue of American Literary Review will be given for a poem, a short story, and an essay. Jim Harms will be judging poetry, Hannah Tinti will be judging fiction, and Abigail Thomas will be judging nonfiction.

You can enter online (http://americanliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit)
or by regular mail by sending your entry along with a check for $15 to:

American Literary Review <Genre> Contest
P.O. Box 311307
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-1307

For complete contest guidelines, visit http://english.unt.edu/alr/.

Expect the unexpected: Pocket Poetry Reading this Sunday

Former Seattle Poet Populist Cody Walker and Joannie Stangeland will be reading Sunday, August 26, at 4:00 as part of the Pocket Concert series from Unexpected Arts and JackStraw. It's part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations for both the Seattle Center and Jack Straw.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join us for a half hour at the Seattle Center's Poetry Garden (the fancy name for a pocket at the Northeast corner of the fountain). Look for the signs.

 

 

Black Buried: An Outdoor Reading in Fremont (Sunday at 6pm)

From Greg Bem:

I've been recruited and have agreed to host an outdoor poetry event that was organized in under 24 hours, and is NOT under the mysterious moniker of "ghost tokens" but is equally mysterious and equally instantaneous, though perhaps even more so and thus unequally, and equally in public and equally outdoors. It features visiting poets, local poets, and a band, and has not yet been condoned by the microcosm of Fremont, though we don't care about that, do we? It will take place on the water of our glorious unionized lake, though just how it morphs is dependent upon you and definitely not me. We will meet at the listed address (see below) and relocate to a relatively quiet aquatic overlook. Bring your flannel, or your hoodie, as it's already autumn in Seattle even though the berries are still ripe for the picking. There will almost certainly be literature available for purchase. Biotic resources such as solid and liquids must be brought on your own, and consumption of such things is condoned by me, your host. Inquire about the title of the event in person (digitally or otherwise). Please forward this to all potentially interested and definitely interested parties. Until Sunday!

1: Chelsea Tadeyeske

Chelsea Tadeyeske is a balloon that cannot be popped, an evening spooked with sunshine. Her first chapbook, heeldragger, was released in June 2012 through plumberries press. She would love it if she could become your penpal.
 

2: Cynthia Spencer

Cynthia Spencer is the author of the chapbook "in what sequence will my parts exit" (Plumberries Press 2010) and co-author of "THERE EXISTS..." with Chelsea Tadeyeske (Plumberries Press 2012).  She is also co-organizer of the Cloudburst Reading Series and the first annual Midwest Small Press Festival.  She lives in Milwaukee, WI.

 

3: Lobo Marino

Lobo Marino is an experimental indie-folk band from Richmond, VA.  Their music is inspired by meditation, chanting and the majestic sea lion.  Find them online at http://www.lobomarinomusic.com.

 

4: Amaranth Borsuk

Amaranth Borsuk has been a resident of Seattle for 3 weeks and will begin teaching at the University of Washington, Bothell this fall. She is the author of Handiwork, selected by Paul Hoover for the Slope Editions book prize, the chapbook Tonal Saw, and, with programmer Brad Bouse, of Between Page and Screen, a book of augmented-reality poetry. She collaborates widely, most recently with Gabriela Jauregui, Kate Durbin, and Andy Fitch.

 

5: Alex Bleecker

 

Alex Bleecker finds and faux finds himself again and again almost every day; leaves his keys upstairs, forgets his wallet in last night’s pants, drops his phone in the car – fools himself into thinking nouns are, then remembers to verb so he can sleep a few.  It’s a death thing.  He’s from New Jersey.  He asks a lot of questions that start with “Re – if…”  Like the rest of us, he’s a piece of meat stuck to a couple of sticks. 

Poetilla: Seattle Writers Floating Round Table (Tuesdays, Lake Union)

Seattle Poets Gathering regular Scot Brannon has launched Poetilla, a weekly water-bound critique group for Seattle writers, departing Tuesday evenings from the Electric Boat Company at 2046 Westlake Avenue North (#102).

Fantastic idea.

For more information, including when the next workshop shoves off, visit the Poetilla website.

Poetry and Short Fiction Reading with Beth Myhr and Thomas Hubbard

Where: Bookworm Exchange (Columbia City)
When: August 17, 2012, 7pm

Elizabeth Myhr is a poet, editor and publisher. She co-founded Calypso Editions, a virtual, cooperative press that specializes in bringing literature in translation from around the world, as well as the work of emerging writers, to as many people as possible. Myhr holds a BA from the Evergreen State College and an MFA from Seattle Pacific University, has served as artist-in-residence at Centrum, and is a Milotte Foundation scholar. Her debut book of poetry the vanishings & other poems, edited by Derick Burleson, was published by Calypso Editions in October of 2011. Christianity Today noted Myhr’s debut as one of its three notable poetry books of 2011. Myhr currently serves as a manuscript judge and managing editor for Marick Press. She  recently served as an editor at Web Del Sol Review of BooksRaven ChroniclesShining Horns. Her work has been published broadly in print and online journals. She lives and works in Seattle, Washington.

Thomas Hubbard, a retired writing instructor, won Seattle’s Grand Slam in 1995. He authored Nail and other hardworking poems, Year of the Dragon Press, 1994. He published Children Remember Their Fathers, an anthology of performance poets; Junkyard Dogz, a chapbook also available on audio CD; and Injunz, a chapbook. His book reviews have appeared in Square Lake and Raven Chronicles. Recent publication credits include poems in Arabesques Review: International Poetry and Literature Journal, and ToTopos Poetry International, Fall 2006, Albani: Indigenous Poetry and a short story in Red Ink. He presented instruction at Whidbey Island Writers Conference in March, 2007 and has featured for several Pacific Northwest venues, including Tacoma’s Distinguished Writers Series and Whatcom Poetry Series: The Poet as Art. Hubbard formerly served on the Washington Poets Association’s board of directors.

The Breadline #20: August 15 @ The Vermillion Gallery

August Breadline will be nothing less than you'd expect and nothing more than complete Atomic Apocalypse.

Featuring

Debrah Morkun
Nico Vassilakis
Will Owen
Holly Small 

Followed by open mic to close...

All ages
Always Free

3rd Annual Beyond Baroque Poetry Contest ($1,000)

Postmark deadline: September 1, 2012 

PRIZES
First Prize: $1,000
Second Prize: $500
Third Prize: $250
Five honorable mentions will also be given.

RULES

1. You may submit up to three unpublished poems, all themes  and styles welcome. 42 lines max. The entry fee for 1-3 poems is $15.
2. Poems should each be on their own sheet of paper. Multiple page poems should be numbered and have the title on each page. Poems should not have any identifying text on them except their title, but should be accompanied by a cover letter containing the author’s contact info and the title(s) of the poem(s) being submitted.
3. Send entries, including the entry fee, to Beyond Baroque Poetry Contest, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
4. If you would like confirmation that we received your entry, please include your email address. Receipt confirmation will only be sent via email.
5. Entries accepted from inside the U.S. only.

Entries will be judged by Suzanne Lummis, poet, teacher and director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. Winners will be featured at a poetry reading at Beyond Baroque Sunday, October 21, 2012, 2:00 - 4:00 PM.

All participants in the reading are responsible for their own travel and lodging.

Call for submissions: Aufgabe #12

Litmus Press is now accepting submissions to Aufgabe issue #12, scheduled for release in Spring 2013. 

Please submit up to 8 pages of poetry in English by September 15, 2012. View guidelines and submit work via Submittable. 

Release party - for Evan Peterson's Skin Job (September 7)

Mark your calendars for the launch party of Skin Job (Minor Arcana Press), a forthcoming chapbook from our very own Evan Peterson. Congrats, Evan!

Date: Friday, September 7 (doors: 7pm; reading: 8pm)
Place: Richard Hugo House

Dogwood: A Journal of Prose and Poetry - annual contest, $1,000 prize

Dogwood welcomes entries in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for its annual contest with a $1,000 grand prize for one winning entry. The grand prize winner will be chosen from winners in nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Winners in the other two genres will receive prizes of $250.

Deadline: October 15, 2012
Submit here.

Entry fee is $15. All submissions will be considered for publication in the 12th annual edition of this print and e-pub journal. Results of the contest will be announced in Spring 2013 and published in the 2013 issue of Dogwood.

Judges
FICTION: Roxane Gay's work has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012, NOON, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Oxford American, The Rumpus, and many others. She is a columnist for Salon, edits various publications, teaches, and lives in the Midwest.

POETRY: Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil's Garden (Alice James Books, 2003), Mixology (Penguin, 2009) which was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series, and The Big Smoke (Penguin, forthcoming in 2013). He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Lannan Foundation. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and Poetry among other journals and anthologies. He teaches creative writing at Indiana University.

NONFICTION: Adriana Páramo is a cultural anthropologist and author of My Mother's Funeral and Looking for Esperanza, winner of the 2011 Social Justice and Equality Award. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Consequence Magazine, So to Speak, Carolina Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Review, and others. She has worked for Voice of Witness, a book series focusing on contemporary social injustice.

Current and former employees and students of Fairfield University are ineligible for publication. All work is considered anonymously. Contest entries will be given priority for publication. For more information, please email <shuber(at)fairfield.edu>.

Book contest: Patricia Bibby First Book Award

Tebot Bach announces The Patricia Bibby First Book Award

Prize: $1,000 and Book Publication
Judge: Ralph Angel

The competition is open to all poets writing in English who have not committed to publishing collections of poetry of 36 poems or more in editions of over 400 copies.

Entries of 50–84 pages of original poetry in English must be postmarked by October 31, 2012. Entries postmarked after October 31, 2012 will not be read. Manuscripts will not be returned. Manuscripts must be bound with a binder clip. No staples, folders, or printer-bound copies. No photographs, images, or illustrations. Please do not include acknowledgments at this time. Do not include any identifying information anywhere in the manuscript. Submit two title pages. The first, not fastened with the manuscript, should include the title of the manuscript, author's name, address, telephone number, and email address in upper right corner. The second, fastened with the manuscript, should include only the title in upper right corner. Entries should be fastened in this order:

1. Title page
2. Table of contents
3. Collection of poems

Items 1 and 2 are not included in the 50–84 page count.

Manuscripts should be letter-quality, typewritten, and single-spaced. Photocopies are acceptable. Please do not submit your only copy, as manuscripts will not be returned.

Manuscripts must be previously unpublished. Translations and multi-authored collections are not eligible. Past and current volunteers and employees of Tebot Bach are not eligible. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but Tebot Bach must be notified immediately if a collection is accepted for publication via email: info@tebotbach.org

Please include a non-refundable reading fee of $25, check or money order, made out to Tebot Bach. Include a business-size SASE (self-addressed envelope) for notification. Include a SAPC (self-addressed postcard) for notification of receipt of manuscript. Postcard should include title of manuscript.

Mail manuscript, check or money order payable to Tebot Bach, SASE, SAPC in one envelope to:

Patricia Bibby Award
Tebot Bach
Post Office Box 7887
Huntington Beach CA 92615-7887

Call for submissions: Toad

Toad, a quarterly journal of exciting art, is currently reading submissions for Issue 2:3. We want your prose, your poetry, your visual art, your multimedia projects. We want them 365 days a year. You can check out Issue 2:2, featuring work by Joseph Salvatore, Wendy Rawlings, Andrea Cohen, Matt Mauch, Nathan McClain, John Popielaski and more at www.toadthejournal.com

Please send a PDF or Word document to <toadthejournal(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @ in sending email). If your work stretches the boundaries of those formats, send us a link, a bio, a sample--something that makes us excited to see more of your work.

Sundress Publications: Best of the Net Anthology

Submissions are open for the seventh volume of the Best of the Net Anthology from Sundress Publications.

Send nominations for the 2012 edition to <bestofthenet(at)sundresspublications.com> (replace (at) with @) between July 1 and September 30, 2012.

Further submission guidelines can be found at http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/.

Back To The Beat - reading opportunity at Wallingford Center

Got this message a while back. I've been meaning to post it on the blog:

Good morning Jeff: I thought you might be interested in learning about the Spoken Word forum at our art gallery. We had a very successful opening last night and would like to extend an invitation to your members to share their writings of poems in an intimate setting. We call this project Back To The Beat. We are located in the Wallingford Center in north Seattle, at 1818 N 45th St (45th and Wallingford Ave). Back to the Beat is held Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 pm. The building itself closes at 8 pm, so those wishing to participate need to be inside by that time. For more information see our blog: http://kerfinternationalexhibits.blogspot.com/ Best Regards, Tony Huss

Multi-genre contest: Alligator Juniper - $1,000

Alligator Juniper's annual contest awards $1,000 plus publication for the first place winners in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Finalists in each genre will be recognized as such, published, and paid in copies. Cost of entry: $15, checks or money orders payable to Alligator Juniper. Every entrant receives one copy of the 2013 issue, a $10 value. The issue will come out in late spring 2013. There is no theme for this issue; work is selected upon artistic merit. By entering our contest, you agree to allow us to select your work for publication, as a finalist. We encourage submissions from writers of all levels, including emerging or early-career writers. We accept simultaneous submissions; inform us in your cover letter and contact us immediately, should your work be selected elsewhere.


Postmark deadline: October 1, 2012
Entry fee: $15
Prize: $1,000


Submission guidelines

Gazing Grain Press: 2012 Fall for the Book Chapbook Contest

Gazing Grain Press is open to submissions for its inaugural Fall for the Book chapbook contest,which promotes socially-conscious poetry to and by writers of all genders and sexualities.

Award includes chapbook publication, contributor copies, and an invitation to read at a celebratory event at the Fall for the Book literary festival (including continental U.S. travel and accommodation).

Final Judge: Brian Teare

A former National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. He is the author of The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda-award winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses, forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2013.His chapbooks include Pilgrim, Transcendental Grammar Crown, and ]up arrow[ , as well as the forthcoming volumes Paradise Was Typeset, Helplessness and Black Sun Crown. An Assistant Professor at Temple University, he lives in Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Reading period: June 15th-August 1st

Manuscript should be original poetry, not previously published in chapbook or book form, 15-25 pages. Simultaneous submissions are welcome as long as the manuscript is withdrawn immediately upon its acceptance elsewhere. The entry fee is $20.

Submit online via Submittable.

Book contest: Pavement Saw Press 2012 Transcontinental Award

The Transcontinental Award is for first or second full length books of poetry. All contributors receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee.
Electronic and mailed entries must meet these requirements:

1. The manuscript should be at least 48 pages of poetry and no more than 70 pages of poetry in length. Separations between sections are NOT a part of the page count.
2. A one page cover letter. Include a brief biography, the book's title, your name, address, and telephone number, and, if you have e-mail, your e-mail address. This should be followed by a page which lists publication acknowledgments for the book. For each acknowledgement mention the publisher (journal, anthology, chapbook, etc.) and the poem published.
3. The manuscript should be bound with a single clip and begin with a title page, including the book's title, your name, address, and telephone number, and, if you have e-mail, your e-mail address.
4. The second page should have only the title of the manuscript. There are to be no acknowledgments or mention of the author's name from this page forward. Submissions to the contest are blind judged.
5. There should be no more than one poem on each page. The manuscript can contain pieces longer than one page.
6. Pages should be numbered, beginning with the first page of poetry.

Each year Pavement Saw Press publishes at least one book of poetry and/or prose poems from manuscripts received during this competition. Selections are chosen through a blind judging process. The competition is open to anyone who has not previously published one, or more than one, volume of poetry or prose poetry. The author receives $1,000 and five percent of the 1,000 copy press run.

Previous judges have included Judith Vollmer, David Bromige, Bin Ramke, and Howard McCord. This year David Baratier will be the judge; past students, Pavement Saw Press interns, and employees are not allowed to submit. All poems must be original, all prose must be original, fiction or translations are not acceptable. All writers without a full length book or those who have published only one full length book are eligible. Writers who have had a second volume of poetry and/or prose poetry under 40 pages printed or printed in limited editions of no more than 500 copies are also eligible. Submissions are accepted during the months of June, July, and until August 15th. All submissions must have a Monday, August 15th, 2012, or earlier, postmark. This is an award for first or second books only.

If you wish to send via regular mail your manuscript should be accompanied by a check in the amount of $20.00 made payable to Pavement Saw Press. All US contributors to the contest will receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee. Add $3 (US) for other countries to cover the extra postal charge. Do not include an SASE for notification of results, this information will be sent with the free book. Do not send the only copy of your work. All manuscripts are recycled and individual comments on the manuscripts cannot be made. Entry Fee: $20 for mailed US and Canadian entries, $23 for mailed overseas entries, $27 to submit electronically (all entries, world wide).

If you wish to submit electronically, you should send $27.00 via Paypal to<info(at)pavementsaw.org> (replace (at) with @). We will then send you an e-mail confirmation as well as instructions on where to e-mail the manuscript. Electronic submissions need to be sent as PDF files or as word (.doc) files. Other formats are not accepted. The extra cost is to cover the Paypal fees as well as the time, labor, ink, and so on, to print out your manuscript. In addition to the prize winner, sometimes another anonymous manuscript is chosen, if enough entries arrive. This "editors choice" manuscript will be published under a standard royalty contract. A decision will be reached in December or January.

Entries should be sent to:

Pavement Saw Press
Transcontinental Award Entry
321 Empire Street
Montpelier, OH 43543