Contests
All programs partially supported by a grant from
the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Upcoming
Contests
2010
Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest
2010 Great River Writer's Retreat
2010
Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest
2010 Collins Poetry Residency
The Midwest Writing Center Announces its 37th Annual
Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest
2010 National
Judge: Louise Mathias, author of Lark Apprentice
and Above All Else,
the Trembling Resembles
a Forest
2010 Regional
Judge: Stephen Frech, author of Toward Evening
and the Day Far Spent, If Not for These Wrinkles
of Darkness
and
The Dark Villages of Childhood.
Poems should be typed
with no identifying information on the page. Include a
separate cover sheet with author’s name, address,
email
address, and poem titles. Poems may be more than
one page, but only one poem per page. Include a SASE
for results
if you do not wish to receive notification
via email. No previously published
poems.
Friends, relatives and
former or current students of judges may not enter. Past
or current employees and board members
of Midwest Writing Center
are also ineligible.
Contact/Submission Information
Email
submissions are preferred and should be sent to:
contest@midwestwritingcenter.org
Submissions should
include all poems in one (.doc or .rtf) document and
one separate document for the cover page.
Submissions sent through
the USPS should be sent to the address in this email.
Deadline
Submissions
must be postmarked January 1, 2010 through April 9,
2010.
Prizes
Prizes
will be given in two categories:
National
and Regional (for poets residing in the Northern
Mississippi Valley Region states of Illinois, Iowa,
Minnesota,
Missouri, and Wisconsin).
Please note on your
cover letter the category for which you would like to be
considered.
First, second, and third
place prizes for each category are as follows: $250,
$175 and $100; the regional contest winner
will
also receive an award in honor of Max
J. Molleston, long-time Mississippi Valley Poetry
Contest coordinator. The top
25 finalists will each
receive a free copy of our annual anthology
Channel Cat, published by the Midwest Writing
Center Press.
Entry Fee Information
Entry fee is $9 for up
to three poems; $2 for each additional poem.
Send an extra $4.00 for
a copy of Channel Cat, which will include
poems from the winners and top 25 finalists .
Methods
of Payment
You may pay via PayPal OR
send a check to:
Midwest
Writing Center
Mississippi Valley Poetry
Contest
225 E. 2nd
St., Suite 303
Davenport, IA 52801
The
Midwest Writing Center
is a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and
Presses (CLMP) and follows its
contest ethics
guidelines.
This contest is sponsored in part by Ashford
University.
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