Poetry Competitions
This page was last updated
18 August 2002
This list is for information only. Sol Publications cannot be held responsible for the way any of these competitions are run. Any complaints should be addressed to the organisers.
2002 Heaven Bone Press International
Chapbook Competition
Cash Prize: $500.00, including publication of the
winning poetry manuscript. Entry Fee: $10. Guidelines: Submit a
single original, unpublished poetry manuscript with a title,
comprised of no more than twenty-eight (28) pages including
graphics as well as front and back matter along with your check
or money order made out to the Heaven Bone Press in the amount of
$10.00 as a reading fee. Include a cover letter indicating
previous publication credits for any published poems and be sure
your submission is postmarked on or before the deadline of July
31, 2002. Manuscripts will be returned only if a large SASE with
sufficient postage is enclosed with your submission. All entrants
will receive a copy of the winning chapbook with their returned
materials. The winning chapbook will be advertised and promoted
nationally and the poet will get at least one NY area reading
engagement. The winner will also receive 20 copies of their
chapbook as part of their prize. It is suggested that those
entering the competition be familiar with the editorial
preferences of the editors of Heaven Bone Magazine (please see a
sample issue) and have at least some experience reading the work
of (authors including but not limited to) Walt Whitman, Gertrude
Stein, T.S. Eliot, Robert Bly, W.B. Yeats, Andre Breton, Rene
Daumal, Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, Emily
Dickinson and especially Rainer Maria Rilke. These writers and
their close contemporaries each broke through in their own way
and each have their own unique and extraordinary way of grasping
vast, universal emotions, experiences and ideas in very
disciplined language. We like expansive, experimental and surreal
work and appreciate conscious writing which finds inspiration in
nature and aspires to uplift the intellectual, perceptual and
spiritual state of being of its readers. This does not mean over-generalized,
visually flat, unreachable philosophical self-reflection but
something far more real and emotionally/visually activating;
transcending restrictive boundaries both in content and style.
Our bottom line is inspired writing; bringing something of the
gods down into the flesh and bone of our normal, spectacularly
ordinary experiences. To bridge with the mind toward a realm of
muse and music. Previous winners include North and West
by Michael Burwell, Walking The Dead by Lori Anderson, Red
Bracelets by Janine Pommy Vega, Down With The Move by
Kirpal Gordon, Bright Garden At World's End by David
Dahl and Terra Lucida by Joseph Donahue. A sample of the
current issue (Millennium Double Issue) of Heaven Bone magazine
is available for $10.00 ppd. Send all manuscripts to: Heaven Bone
Press, 2002 International Chapbook Contest, P.O. Box 486,
Chester, NY 10918, USA. Email: Heavenbone@aol.com
Closing date: 31st July 2002
Hole Books Poetry Competition 2002
Is your talent too deep for the shallow mainstream? Would you
like to see your collection of writings published? Hole Books is
looking for the underground poet of 2002. First prize: £50, plus
print and web publication. Second prize: £25, plus print and web
publication. Judge: Dolly Sen, small press publisher and author.
Competition rules: Open to anyone aged 16 or over. Entries should
be in English, unpublished, and your original work. Poems must
not be longer than 40 lines, and must be typed. Copyright will
remain with the author who will grant Hole Books the right to
publish the poem/s. All entries must be judged anonymously, so no
names or identifying marks must appear on any entry. Entries must
be accompanied by a separate sheet of A4 paper with your name,
address, title/s of poems and a fee of £3 per entry, made
payable to Dolly Sen. Send entries to: Hole Books Competition, 2
Hailsham Avenue, London, SW2 3AH. If you want your entries to be
returned, enclose a SAE. The judge's decision is final and no
correspondence will be entered into. Send SAE marked 'Winners'
for prizelist. Website: www.holebooks.co.uk
Closing date: 1st September 2002
Haiku Presence Award 2002
1st prize: £100. £25 each for up to 4 runners-up. Publication
of winning and commended poems in Presence #19. Entries
should be a response to a genuine moment from everyday life,
expression through the senses & the heart rather than the
intellect. Principal Judge: Annie Bachini. Entry fee: £3 (or
$5) for up to 3 haiku. Additional entries at £1 per haiku or $5
per set of three. (Cheques to “Haiku Presence”.
$US in cash only.) Entry format: Two copies of each haiku
with name and address of entrant on one copy only. Entries must
be original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
Send entries to: Haiku Presence, 12 Grovehall Avenue, Leeds LS11
7EX, England, UK. Non-subscribers may order a copy of the results
issue of Presence for £3.50 (cheques to “Haiku
Presence”) or $7 in cash. Alternatively, for results,
enclose an s.a.e. (+IRC from outside the UK) with your contest
entry.
Closing date: 31st October 2002
Academi Cardiff International Poetry
Competition 2003
First prize: £5,000. Further details and application forms
available from www.academi.org,
or by sending an SAE to Academi Cardiff International Poetry
Competition 2003, PO Box 438, Cardiff, CF10 5YA, Wales, UK.
Closing date: 6th January 2003