The 7th Annual Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards Collection is here! The deadline is December 1, 2011. Here are the details:
1. The competition is open to poems 32 lines or less. Entries outside the line limitation will be disqualified. Type the line count along with your name, address, phone number and email address at the top left-hand corner of the page. No refunds will be given for disqualified entries.
2. The entry fee is $15.00 for the first poem submitted and $10.00 for each additional poem. You may enter as many poems as you wish. If you are submitting your entry via regular mail, you may send one check (in U.S. funds) and one entry form for a single entry or batch of entries.
3. Entries may be submitted online at www.writersdigest.com or submitted via regular mail. All entries must be in English, original, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere at the time of submission. Writer’s Digest retains one time publication rights to the 1st through 50th-place winning entries to be published in Writer’s Digest publication. No refunds will be issued for disqualified entries.
4. Mailed in entries must be typewritten and double-spaced on one side of 8.5 x 11 or A4 white paper. Poems will not be returned.
5. Entries must be postmarked by Dec. 1. 2011.
6. Winners will be notified by March 16, 2012. If you have not been contacted by this date, you may assume that your entry is not a finalist and may be marketed elsewhere.
7. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard with your entry if you want to be notified of its receipt. We cannot notify you personally of your story’s status before the winners are announced.
8. Winners’ names will appear in the July/August 2012 issue of Writer’s Digest magazine. Their names and poem titles will be posted at writersdigest.com after that time.
9. The following are not permitted to enter the competition: employees of F+W Media Inc. and their immediate families, and Writer’s Digest contributing editors and correspondents as listed on the masthead.
More information available at:
http://www.writersdigest.com/competitions/poetry
I would like to submit a poem.
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ReplyDeleteLoathsome Bard { Poetry lovers Poem }
He stands before us to deliver a poem,a prose ,a verse ,a rhyme or message. His manner quite manifesting, and his confidence puts the crowd at ease. Soon and so soon , to soon- we loath him. There is to much cluster on his grandiloquent vine, of strung together words without substance.Tho the use of an,apophasis gives poetic license to insult, we loathe him instantly.The silver-tongued orator's brilliance , soon becomes wearisome ,while the mute articulate points of his eccentric ramblings leads us to dead ends ;Unfulfilled and burdened. we now loath him.The loathsome Bard goes on to rant about,degrading and dissolute issues of life which we know the Bard has not concern. His bombast deliver to some, appears eloquent. grand-stand language quite grand-eloquent.vagaries. leading us nowhere. As we listen to the FANFARONADE of his charades,and we loathe him. Tho quite colorful and pompous,he leave us in shambles, brains all scrambled ...and we loathe him. The once brilliant verse tho well rehearsed. is wearisome. The Bard went not in hard we think "next poet please" we all were re leaved as he finally did leave , because he looked better going than coming ; With our intellect he was toying 'tho the Bard was not hard !..most certainly ...he was annoying.
LOVELY, WISDOMHEART! YOU SHOULD INDEED ENTER, AND SPREAD OUT THE WORD! POETRY IS INDEED WORTH THE RISK!
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