Writing Competition: RT Smith Prize for Narrative Poetry

RT Smith Prize for Narrative Poetry

Deadline: February 15, 2018

Named for master storyteller and Cold Mountain Review founding editor RT Smith, this $500 prize honors a narrative poem on an ecological and/or eco-justice theme (broadly defined). We invite story-telling poems about the environment and our place in it. Poems may be long or short: they may be ballads, dramatic monologues, linear narratives, lyric narratives, and other hybrids.

Please submit up to three poems of no more than ten total pages. All submissions will be considered for publication in the spring issue of CMR.

Deadline: February 15, 2018.

$10 fee. 

Submit your work here.