Founders' Prize--RHINO Poetry

FOUNDERS’ PRIZE

RHINO Poetry is an award-winning annual journal of 37 years standing which invites traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality, artistic conviction, and a love affair with language. We publish poetry, flash fiction, and translations.

Submissions must be postmarked or submitted online between September 1 – October 31

All contest submissions will also be considered for regular publication in the 2014 edition of RHINO Poetry.

◦     The winner will receive $300.00, publication in the next issue, and will be featured on our website, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

◦     Two runners up will receive $50.00, publication in the next issue, and will be featured on our website. We occasionally nominate a runner-up for a Pushcart Prize.

Guidelines:

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS (preferred)

1.  Group up to 5 previously unpublished poems into one document – no identifying information should be on this document; Upload a single file in Word .doc or .docx format

2.  Cover letter in the “Comments” field – to “Founders’ Prize Contest” listing your name, address, email address and/or telephone number and titles of your poems, and how you learned of the contest.

3.  Pay your $10 entry fee through the online submission page.

4.  For Founders Prize 2014 online submissions and to check the status of your submission, go to rhinopoety.org.

 

SUBMISSIONS BY MAIL

◦     Send up to 5 unpublished poems (no more than 5 pages total) between September 1 and October 31. No identifying information should appear on the poems.

◦     Submissions must include a cover letter to “Founders’ Prize Contest” listing your name, address, email address and/or telephone number and titles of your poems, and how you learned of the contest.

◦     Enclose a $10 entry fee (check or money order payable to RHINO or Rhino Poetry – no cash)

◦     Manuscripts will not be returned. Include a SASE for notification of results.

Mail your submission and entry fee to:

Founders’ Contest

RHINO Poetry
P.O. Box 591
Evanston, IL 60204

Seven Corners: Call for Digital Poetry

Seven Corners is seeking previously unpublished digital or new media poetry by Chicago or Midwestern poets that can be published in or linked from a blog venue. We are also seeking visual poetry that is digitally mediated.

Please send work or an abstract/description of your project to stevehalle77 at gmail dot com. Please put "Seven Corners Digital Submission" in the subject line.

Feel free to forward this call for poetry to others.

Call for Poems: The Spoon River Poetry Review

Dear Poets,

I'd like to introduce myself as the new editor of The Spoon River Poetry Review and invite you to submit your poetry to the magazine, whether you are an old fan or completely new to us, as I'm excited to diversify both content and readership. As editor, my aim is to build upon the magazine's long-standing dedication to cross-pollination by publishing excellent poems, including translations in English, from all styles and perspectives, even (especially) those that seem, or have been situated critically, as at odds.

While SRPR already receives thousands of submissions a month, many of which are very strong, I'd like to see more diversity -- more poems by women, more poems by younger poets, more poems that explore embodiment from non-white, non-heteronormative perspectives, edgier & riskier poetics -- as well as excellent poetry that might be identified as more "mainstream." I enjoy reading poems from a wide variety of sensibilities and aesthetics, and am dedicated, as editor, to attracting and cultivating a readership that doesn't feel the need to choose from among various styles and schools, even as the politics of creation and production are brought into relief. I don't, however, want to confuse breadth with anything-goes; as I put it in the forthcoming Poet's Market, "Spoon River is looking for poems that are as intellectually and emotionally ambitious as they are attentive to technique."

Please send your poems, postmarked no later than April 15th, to:
The Spoon River Poetry Review
4241/Publications Unit
Illinois State University
Normal IL 61790-4241.

We are also accepting submissions now for our annual Editors' Prize Contest (up to three poems; single long poems welcome; 10 pages max). Winner receives $1000 & publication; two runners-up receive $100 each and publication; 3-5 honorable mentions receive publication. Postmark deadline is extended this year, to accommodate the transition of editorship, until May 1, 2010. The $16.00 reading fee includes a one-year subscription.

Please see our website for complete submission and contest details (we're in the process of updating the website, too!): www.litline.org/Spoon.

And finally, if you'd like to subscribe to the magazine, the cost is $15.00 for individuals, $18.00 for institutions. Our state funding was cut by over 70% percent this year, so we are in serious need of grass-roots support. To subscribe, send a check or money order (made out to The Spoon River Poetry Review), to The Spoon River Poetry Review, 4241 Department of English, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4241.

Thank you, and I look forward to reading your work and to hearing your feedback!

All best,

Kirstin Hotelling Zona
Editor, The Spoon River Poetry Review