2020 Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Contest
Prizes: First place $500; 2nd and 3rd place, $250 each. Winning poems will be published on Split This Rock's website within The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database. All prize winners will receive free festival registration to Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2020 and be eligible to apply for need-based travel scholarships. The 1st place recipient will be invited to read the winning poem on the main stage at the festival. All submitted poems may also receive consideration for Split This Rock's Poem of the Week Series.
Reading Fee: $20, all proceeds support Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2020.
Themes: Submissions should be in the spirit of Split This Rock's work: socially engaged poems, poems that reach beyond the self to connect with the larger community or world; poems of provocation and witness. This theme can be interpreted broadly and may include but is not limited to work addressing politics, economics, government, war, leadership, issues of identity (gender, sexuality, race, indigeneity, ethnicity, disability, socioeconomic class, body image, immigration, heritage, etc.), community, civic engagement, education, activism, and poems about history or cultural icons. We welcome poetry on a wide range of social justice themes and in a wide range of poetic styles.
Visit our website to read past winning poems.
Read the guidelines here.
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2019
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