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Submissions are now being
accepted for the
40th Annual Mississippi
Valley Poetry Contest
Our submission period is now January
15-May 15, 2013
Click
here for the 40th Annual Mississippi Valley
Poetry Contest brochure with complete
submission guidelines
Submit payment for the MVPC Contest below.
Please be careful in making
your payment selection as there are many
options available.
Please include your unique
PayPal transaction ID# in your email when
submitting your poems to
contest@midwestwritingcenter.org & be
sure submissions are included in a single
.doc or .rtf. file.
Please contact the MWC if you
have any questions about submissions and/or
payments. Thanks!
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ANNOUNCING
THE WINNERS
of the 39th ANNUAL
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY POETRY CONTEST
The MWC
would like to congratulate all of the
winners, honorable mentions and finalist of
both our Regional and National contests
NATIONAL CONTEST
(selected by Nate Pritts)
1st
Place: Carrie Nassif, “In
the beginning I had breathed other air”
2nd
Place: Stephen Danos,
“On Abandoning Grandeur”
3rd
Place: Steve Biehler, “Midwest Vision in February”
Honorable
Mention: Nicole Borg,
“Balboa Park, 1999”
Stan Zubiel, “Isaac Hill
Cemetery”
REGIONAL CONTEST
(selected by Chad Parmenter)
1st
Place: Salita Bryant,
“Persephone in Love”
2nd
Place: Kat Stromquist, “Known Knowns and Known Unknowns”
3rd
Place: Kate Hutchinson, “The Park District Honors Gloria Groves
for Twenty
Years of
Service”
Honorable
Mention: Salita Bryant, “Near the River
Where Water is Born”
Joan Wiese Johannes,
“On Learning That the Earth the Earth
Has Shifted
on its Axis”
Mary Louise Holten,
“Darfur”
All of these poems,
along with the other 50-plus regional and
national finalists will be published in the
annual anthology Off Channel (Midwest
Writing Center Press).
Thanks
very much to all of our generous MVPC
sponsors:
Anthology
Fidlar Doubleday, Inc.
Shea Doyle & Hannah Morrell
Dr. Nancy Schaefer
Poets
Dale G. Haake & Maria C. Lucas-Murillo
Hedy Hustedde
Joe Chambers
Stanza
Ryan Collins
Helen & Richard Stahl
Line
918studio
Duffy DeFrance
Check back
soon for more information about the 40th
MVPC! Thanks!
About The
Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest
The Mississippi Valley
Poetry Contest began in 1972 and has become
a premier contest in the U.S. Funded by
donations, grants, and entry fees, the
contest operates through the Midwest Writing
Center, a non-profit parent organization,
and volunteer poets, writers, and artists.
2012
Judges:
Regional Judge:
Chad Parmenter
received his Ph.D. in English and Creative
Writing from the University of Missouri. His
poems appear in numerous venues including
Best American Poetry, Harvard Review
and Black Warrior Review. His
chapbook, Bat & Man: A Sonnet Comic Book,
is available from Finishing Line Press.
Parmenter is currently Visiting Assistant
Professor at Luther College in Iowa.
National Jude:
Nate Pritts
is the author of five books of poetry. His
latest book, Sweet Nothing, is
described by Publishers Weekly as
"baroque and irreverent, banal and
romantic." POETRY Magazine called his
third book, The Wonderfull Yeare,
"rich, vivid, intimate, and somewhat
troubled." Pritts' work has appeared in many
journals, including Gulf Coast,
Boston Review and Rain Taxi. He
is the founding and principal editor of
H_NGM_N, on online journal and small
press.
Submission Guidelines for the 2013 40th
Annual Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest
Coming Soon!
Get your copy of Off Channel 2012 here!
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