Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest
Please note: neither e-mailed submissions nor submissions processed via the online submission system will be accepted for any of the contests. Entries must be sent by mail.
Deadline: June 1, 2009
Judge: Rae Armantrout
First Prize: $1,500
Complete guidelines:
Submit Entries with this cover note (PDF)
listing the author's name, address, and phone number and / or email; names
should not appear on the stories themselves. Note that simultaneous
submissions are not eligible.
The winning
poet will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in
the November/December 2009 issue of Boston Review. Submit
up to five unpublished poems, no more than 10 pages total. Any
poet writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current
student, former student, or close personal friend of the judge.
Manuscripts must be submitted in duplicate, with a cover note
listing the author's name, address, and phone number; names should
not be on the poems themselves. Submissions will not
be returned. A $20 entry fee ($30 for international submissions),
payable to Boston Review, must accompany all submissions.
Submissions must be postmarked no later than June 1, 2009.
All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to Boston
Review, beginning with the November/December 2009 issue. The
winner will be announced no later than November 1, 2009, on the
Boston Review Web site. All poems submitted to the contest
will be considered for publication in the Boston Review. Send entries to:
Poetry Contest, Boston Review,
35 Medford St., Suite 302,
Somerville, MA 02143
Read winning poems from past years:
Sarah Arvio (2008)
Elizabeth Willis (2007)
Marc Gaba (2006)
Mike Perrow (2005)
Michael
Tod Edgerton [PDF]
(2004)
Susan Wheeler
(2003)
Max Winter
(2002)
D.A. Powell
(2001)
Christopher Edgar (2000)
Stephanie
Strickland (1999)
Daniel Bosch
(1998)
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