Split This Rock Sixth Annual Poetry Contest
Posted on 17. Oct, 2012 by Edit Team in Calls for Submissions
$1,000 Awarded for Poems of Provocation & Witness
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012
Benefits Split This Rock Poetry Festival
CONTEST DETAILS
Deadline: November 1, 2012
Reading Fee: $20—reduced recession rate!
Submissions should be in the spirit of Split This Rock: socially engaged poems, poems that reach beyond the self to connect with the larger community or world; poems of provocation and witness. This theme can be interpreted broadly and may include but is not limited to work addressing politics, economics, government, war, leadership; issues of identity (gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, body image, immigration, heritage, etc.); community, civic engagement, education, activism; and poems about history, Americana, cultural icons.
Mark Doty, Judge
Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award in 2008. He is the author of 8 books of poems and 4 volumes of nonfiction prose including Dog Years, a 2007 New York Times bestseller. Doty’s work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and the Witter Bynner Prize. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/ Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2011 Doty was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
PRIZES
-First place receives $500; second and third place receive $250 each.
-Winners receive free 2014 festival registration & 1st-place winner reads winning poem at the festival.
- Winning poems will be published at www.SplitThisRock.org
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
-Submit up to 3 unpublished poems, no more than 6 pages total, in any style, in the spirit of Split This Rock (see above).
-Submit Online! http://splitthisrock.
-Simultaneous submissions OK, but please notify us immediately if the poem is accepted elsewhere.
FOR MORE INFO: info@splitthisrock.org, www.splitthisrock.org
Photo: Mark Doty
