Poetry Competition: Writecorner Press Annual Poetry Award

Writecorner Press Annual Poetry Award

First Place Award: $500
Editors' Choices: $100 each

Annual Awards for Unpublished Poetry in Any Style, Any Theme

Guidelines:
Any number of unpublished poems may be entered by any writer.
Poems may be in any style, any subject.
Maximum length - 40 lines per poem.
Entry fee: $5 for first poem, $3 each additional poem.
No e-mail entries accepted.
Annual Submission Period: Oct. 1 - March 31
Postmark Deadline: March 31
Judge: Award winning poet.
Winners will be announced in late spring.

The winning poem and editors' choices are eligible to be published on www.writecorner.com and for inclusion in the permanent website writecorner.com anthology. Authors retain all rights to their works. Winners are usually announced by early summer.

How to Submit:
1. Send two typed copies of each unpublished poem. Place no author identification on one copy of each poem so the judging can be anonymous. On the second copy of each poem, on the top right, include
the author's name, address, phone number, and e-mail address if available. Keep a copy because manuscripts will be recycled, not returned. Include a SASE for list of winners.
2. Send a short bio - about 4 lines
3. Mail submission with check to Writecorner Press (no cash), or if sent from outside the USA, a money order in US funds (no cash or foreign funds) to:

Writecorner Press
Koeppel Contest - Poetry
PO Box 140310
Gainesville, FL 32614

Fees received from contests go to payment of awards and upkeep of this site.

About this contest: Mary Sue Koeppel, Writecorner Press Co-editor, created and conducted the national Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Contest sponsored by Kalliope until 2005 when she retired from the position of
Kalliope editor. She and fellow editor, Robert B. Gentry, developed this contest in order to continue to reward the writers of fine poetry.

The Writecorner Press Poetry Contest follows the ethics guidelines recommended by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Judges review submissions with no author identification. (See contest
guidelines.) The following are ineligible to receive monetary awards: poems already published elsewhere, poems by Writecorner editors or judges, relatives of judges or editors. A grand-prize winner is not
eligible to win the grand prize again until the sixth year after winning the prize.