Send your short poems to help promote poetry in Utah!
DEADLINE: July 15, 2021
ENTRY FEE: Free to enter.
JUDGE: Katie Manning
Katie is the author of Tasty Other, winner of the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, and five chapbook collections: 28,065 Nights (River Glass Books), A Door with a Voice (Agape Editions), The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman (Point Loma Press), I Awake in My Womb (Yellow Flag Press), and Tea with Ezra(Boneset Books). Her poems have been published in many anthologies and literary journals, including American Journal of Nursing, december, Fairy Tale Review, Kahini Quarterly, New Letters, Poet Lore, So to Speak, Stirring, THRUSH, and Verse Daily. She has received The Nassau ReviewAuthor Award for Poetry, The Thimble Prize, and several nominations for The Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review and has a Ph.D. in English (creative writing; women’s literature & feminist theory) from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and an M.A. in English (creative writing) from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She is a professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University.
- 1st PLACE – $100 cash and an optional feature reading at Speak for Yourself Open Mic at Enliten Bakey and Café in historic downtown Provo
- 2nd PLACE – $50
- HONORABLE MENTION: $25
- MICROPOEM 1st PLACE: $50
- POEMBALLS: All poems entered into the contest will be considered for inclusion in POEMBALL machines
CONTEST GUIDELINES:
- Poets must have lived or spent significant time in Utah at some point in their lives.
- Poems must be appropriate for a general audience (rated PG).
- Provo Poetry is an all-inclusive community. Do not send poems with topics/speech related to hate, shaming, or cultural appropriation.
POEM LENGTH: For the general contest, submit short poems of about 20 lines or less. For the micro poem contest, submit poems of no more than 4 lines.
NUMBER OF POEMS: Send up to ten poems as individual attachments in a single email.
EMAIL POEMS: Send a single email with a separate attachment for each poem (up to 10 poems attached separately) to provopoetry@gmail.com.
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED: Previously published poems are permitted.
WINNERS/FINALISTS: You will be notified via email by September 1, 2021 if one of your poems is a winner or a top-ten finalist.
ACCEPTED POEMS: You will be notified via email if your poems are accepted for inclusion in the POEMBALL machines. POEMBALL machines are located at Pioneer Book and Enliten Bakery and Café in downtown Provo, as well as at KRCL 90.9 FM in Salt Lake City. Poets names will be mentioned on the poems.
Distribution methods may vary. No monetary payment will be provided to poets other than the winners as noted, but please know your contribution is important and appreciated! The key objective of Provo Poetry is to instill the love of poetry within the general community, bring poems to a wider audience, and to support local poets.
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Congratulations to all our winners in the third annual Provo Poetry contest! We received over 200 poems! It was difficult whittling them down to the top ten finalists, but we did it! Then we sent those finalists off to our judge Star Coulbrooke and she selected the winners. We’re still selecting poems to be included in our POEMBALL machines and will send those acceptances out sometime in the next month or so. See the list of winners and finalists below.
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