Announcing the 8th Annual
Split This Rock
Poetry Contest
Judged by: Natalie Diaz
Benefits Split This Rock Poetry Festival
April 14-17, 2016
April 14-17, 2016
$1,000 Awarded for poems of provocation & 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, 2016.
Up to three honorable mentions will receive signed copies of Nude Descending an Empire, Sam Taylor’s newest book. Split This Rock Executive Director Sarah Browning has this to say of the book: "Sam Taylor’s poems make me shudder at the horror and pleasure of this world. In the face of the American imperial project, the poems sing every song imaginable – dirge, praise song, ecstatic chant. The antidote to despair, then, is more – more of the body, heart, more mystery, fear. 'Don’t say impossible,' says the poet, and these hurting, gorgeous poems never do."
Deadline: November 1, 2014
Reading Fee: $20, which supports Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2016.
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.
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Submit up to 3 unpublished poems, no more than 6 pages total, in any style, in the spirit of Split This Rock (see above).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.
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