We are still re-structuring our website before opening submissions for the next issue of Trellis Magazine.
While everyone is waiting for submissions to re-open, I thought it would be fun for our readers and writers to enter poetry contests currently available from other publishers. Get out your pens, put on your thinking caps, and compose a poem to win one of the following contests! All of these contests are free to enter, are open to the public, and the winning poems will be published in some fashion. Many of the contests also award cash or other prizes.
Don’t forget to explore the poetry contests run by the magazines on our two lists of poetry publishers, Publishers of Poetry in Poetic Form and Publishers of Student Poetry, available on the Resources page of our website.
If you know of another poetry contest that you think our Trellis Magazine readers and writers would enjoy, send me a comment with the information and I’ll post it on my blog.
Good luck!
Poetry Contests:
Lulu Poetry has a daily, monthly, and yearly poetry contest awarding cash prizes for poetry by anyone over 18. For details go to http://www.poetry.com/poetry-contests/.
The Academy of American Poets sponsors the University and College Poetry Prizes available for students at many state and private colleges. For details go to http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/113. Students should also explore the website of their own college to find out about other creative writing awards.
Anderbo has a poetry contest with a cash prize, but hurry because the deadline is December 15. Details at http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/anderprize2010.html.
Write a poem about peace for the Peace Poetry Awards contest from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. No reading fee for youth 12 and under. Divisions for all ages of writers, with cash awards. Details at http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/awards-&-contests/bmk-contest/index.htm.
The Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest gives cash awards. But you can only enter one poem, so make it a good one! Details at http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/wergle/we_guidelines.php.
Want to write some poems about war and win cash? Enter the War Poetry Contest from the Winning Writers website. For details go to http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/war/wa_guidelines.php.
The Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for traditional verse, sponsored by Tom Howard Books, has cash prizes and a very inclusive definition of traditional verse, including free verse. Details at http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/margaret/ma_guidelines.php.
This is information from Kyle Potvin about a new metrical poetry prize, sponsored by the Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm and The Hyla Brook Poets. The contest requires an entry fee, so it is not free, but we thought it worth posting here as an additional contest opportunity.
$1,000 Prize for a single metrical poem. Includes an invitation (with honorarium) to read for The Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire in the summer of 2011.
Judge: William Baer
Deadline: Postmarked by April 1, 2011
Entry Fee: $5 per poem
Complete Guidelines: Poems must be original, unpublished and metrical (any metrical form). No translations. There is no limit to the number of poems entered by an individual, but an entry fee of $5 US per poem must accompany the submission (entry fees from outside the United States must be paid in cash or by check drawn on a U.S. bank). Make checks payable to the Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm. Please type the author’s name, address, phone number and e-mail address on the back of each entry. Entries will be submitted to the judge anonymously.
Send entries to:
The Frost Farm Prize
26 Pond Rd
Derry, NH 03038
Enclose a SASE for notification of the contest results.
For more info, email bobik@aol.com or see the website http://robertfrostfarm.org/poetry-contest.html
We wanted to share the news! Thanks for helping spread the word.
Inaugural Frost Farm Prize Winner Announced
May 5, 2011, DERRY, NH — The Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, NH, and the Hyla Brook Poets are pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural Frost Farm Prize is Sharon Fish Mooney of Coshocton Ohio for her blank verse poem, “Dimly Burning Wicks.”
The new metrical poetry prize was judged by award-winning writer and editor William Baer. Mooney receives $1,000 and will appear as a featured reader at The Hyla Brook Reading Series at the Robert Frost Farm in June. Her winning poem will be published in The Evansvillle Review. The judge said of her work: “Dimly Burning Wicks” is a lovely blank verse poem about loss and gratitude. Carefully crafted, this sadly atmospheric poem is especially evocative given its meditative tone and its telling details.”
Mooney is the author of Alzheimer’s, Caring for Your Loved One, Caring for Yourself and other books and articles on health and aging issues. An ekphrastic sonnet after van Gogh’s The Harvest, won the Y-City Writers Conference award for poetry (2009). She has lectured on poetry and dementia and was a semi-finalist for the Richard Wilbur Award (2011). Mooney teaches nursing research and gerontology on-line for Regis University, Denver, CO and Indiana Wesleyan University. She has an undergraduate degree in nursing from Alfred University and an MS and PhD from the University of Rochester in New York State.
“We were extremely pleased with the quality and quantity of the entries — especially since this was our first year,” said Robert W. Crawford, co-founder of the Hyla Brook Poets and a Frost Farm Trustee. “We received 352 entries from around the USA and Canada (and one from Ireland—can’t forget Ireland!). Metrical poetry is alive and well.”
Baer read all the entries and, in addition to selecting the winner, chose four other poems for special recognition as finalists:
· “Walking in August with my Grandniece,” by Carol Firth of Sacramento, CA.
· “Never Mind,” by Michael Cantor of Newbury, MA.
· “The Need for Clouds,” by Jean L. Kreiling of Bridgewater, MA.
· “Woolgathering” by Sharon Fish Mooney of Coshocton, OH.
About the Frost Farm’s Hyla Brook Poets
The Frost Farm was home to the poet and his family from 1900-1911. Crawford and co-founder Bill Gleed started The Hyla Brook Poets group in 2008 as a monthly poetry workshop. In March 2009, the monthly Hyla Brook Reading Series launched with readings by emerging poets as well as luminaries such as Maxine Kumin, Wesley McNair, and Rhina Espaillat.
For more information and to hear about next year’s contest, please contact Robert Crawford at bobik9@aol.com or join the Hyla Brook Poets Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HylaBrookPoets
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