Announcing the 7th Annual
Split This Rock
Poetry Contest
Judged by: Tim Seibles
Benefits Split This Rock Poetry Festival
March 27-30, 2014
$1,000 Awarded for poems of provocation and witness
Prizes: First place $500; 2nd and 3rd place, $250 each.
Winning poems will be published on www.SplitThisRock.org,
winners will receive free festival registration, and the 1st-place
winner will be invited to read winning poem at Split This Rock Poetry
Festival, 2014.
Deadline: November 1, 2013
Reading Fee: $20, which supports Split This Rock Poetry Festival, 2014.
Details:
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.
Split This Rock subscribes to the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Contest Code of Ethics. Read it online here.
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Submit up to 3 unpublished poems, no more than 6 pages total, in any style, in the spirit of Split This Rock (see above). Please do not put your name or contact information on the poems themselves, only your cover page.
Simultaneous submissions OK, but please notify us immediately if the poem is accepted elsewhere.
Please contact us directly if you are unable to access Submittable at info@splitthisrock.org.
For more information:
http://splitthisrock.submittable.com/submit
About the Judge
Born in Philadelphia in 1955, Tim Seibles
currently lives in Norfolk, Virginia. He is a member of the English
Department and MFA in Writing faculty of Old Dominion University, and
is a teaching board member of the Muse Writers Workshop. He teaches
part time for the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA in
Writing Program, and is a teacher at Cave Canem. A highly active
ambassador for poetry, Seibles presents his work nationally and
internationally at universities, high schools, cultural centers, and
literary festivals.
His honors include an Open Voice Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, Electronic Poetry Review, and Rattle, among others.
Seibles is the author of five books of poetry, including Fast Animal
(Etruscan Press 2012), 2012 National Book Award Finalist. He will be a
featured poet at Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation
& Witness 2014.
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