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Sponsored by Winning Writers
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| Judged by S. Mei Sheng Frazier, assisted by Michal 'MJ' Jones |
| Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest |
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Sponsored by Winning Writers, our 20th annual contest will award $3,000 for the best poem in any style or genre, and $3,000 for the best poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. The top two winners will also receive two-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor, Duotrope (a $100 value). 10 Honorable Mentions will receive $200 each (any style). All top 12 entries will be published online.
Submit published or unpublished work. Length limit: 250 lines per poem. Most countries are eligible, and there is no restriction on the age of the author. Entry fee: $20 for each submission of 1-3 poems. Submit as many entries as you like. Deadline: September 30.
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| Our Judges |
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S. Mei Sheng Frazier, Final Judge
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Ms. Frazier's third prose chapbook, Don't Give Up on Alan Greenspan, was selected as the winner of CutBank's 2018 contest and released in 2019. Her previous fiction chapbooks—Salve (Nomadic Press) and Collateral Damage: A Triptych (RopeWalk Press)—earned praise from Nikki Giovanni, Antonya Nelson, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Molly Giles, Michelle Tea, and others. In 2015 she founded COG, a multimedia literary publication that she ran with her undergraduate students at Cogswell, which has featured Dave Eggers, Opal Palmer Adisa, Gish Jen, Denise Duhamel, and many more. Read this selection of poems and listen to her read with other Nomadic Press authors on KPFA 94.1 FM. Read her brief Glimmer Train essay on literary craft.
Ms. Frazier recently relocated from California to New York for a professorship at SUNY Oswego. Her sweet tooth demands sugar in everything but literature. She is now busy revising a novel.
Read Ms. Frazier's advice to contestants and learn more on her website.
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Michal 'MJ' Jones, Assistant Judge
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MJ is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and parent in Oakland, California. Their poems have appeared in Anomaly, Kissing Dynamite, TriQuarterly Review, and wildness. Often addressing the troubling and haunting aspects of life, violence, and identity, MJ's work blends the lyrical, documentary, and confessional modes.
MJ is the Editor-In-Chief of Foglifter Press, a premier journal for queer and trans writers. They have received fellowships from Hurston/Wright Foundation, VONA/Voices, and Kearny Street Workshop. They received their MFA in Creative Writing–Poetry from Mills College, where they received the distinguished Community Engagement Fellowship. Their debut poetry collection Hood Vacations is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2023, and they are hard at work on their second collection! Learn more at MJ's website.
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