First Place Award: $500 Editors' Choices: $100 each
Annual Awards for Unpublished Poetry in Any Style, Any Theme
Guidelines:
Any number of unpublished poems may be entered by any writer.
Poems may be in any style, any subject.
Maximum length - 40 lines per poem.
Entry fee: $5 for first poem, $3 each additional poem.
No e-mail entries accepted.
Annual Submission Period: Oct. 1 - March 31
Postmark Deadline: March 31 Judge: Award winning poet.
Winners will be announced in late spring.
The winning poem and editors' choices are eligible to be published on www.writecorner.com and for inclusion in the permanent website writecorner.com anthology. Authors retain all rights to their works. Winners are usually announced by early summer.
Previous Winners
2011 First Place $500 Writecorner Press Poetry Prize Winner: "The last punctuation mark" by Catherine Moran
After teaching high school English for many years, Catherine Moran now works in an office in Little Rock, AR, which gives her more time to write and appreciate poetry. The Bitter Oleander, Byline, Kansas City Voices, and Atlanta Review have published some of her work. Her first book of poetry, Discovering Pigs, was published a few years ago.
