21 February 2011

Tenth Annual 2011 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize (CALYX Journal of Literature by Women)

Post date: 21 February 2011
Deadline: 31 May 2011

CALYX Journal’s Tenth Annual 2011 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize


Prize: Winner will receive $300 cash award and publication in CALYX Journal. All finalists will receive a one-volume subscription, and their poems will be published on CALYX’s website. All U.S. entrants will receive an issue of CALYX Journal.

Each entry can include up to three (3) unpublished poems, no more than six (6) manuscript pages total. Do not put your name on the same page as a poem; all entries are read blind. Include a separate cover letter with name, address, phone, email, and titles of poem/s. Please do not
send simultaneous submissions or previously published work.

Reading fee: $15 per entry, all checks in U.S. currency on a U.S. bank, checks payable to CALYX.

Send submission to:

CALYX Journal
Lois Cranston Poetry Prize
PO Box B
Corvallis, OR 97339

Final Judge: Sidney Wade is the author of five collections of poetry including Stroke, Celestial Bodies, Empty Sleeves, Green, and Istanbul’dan/From Istanbul (published in Turkish and English by Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, Istanbul). Wade received a Fulbright Fellowship and
was a senior lecturer at Istanbul University. She served as President of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) from 2006–2007 and is currently the poetry editor of Subtropics.

More information here.
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