Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest
2010 Deadline April 12th
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2007-2008 Winners List -Here /|\ 2009 Winners List -Here
1. Residency: All entrants must be Canadian residents or landed immigrants.
2. Poems: Poems must be titled, previously unpublished, and typed in black ink one per page on 8.5 x 11 inch white bond paper. Photocopies and letter quality computer printouts are acceptable. Poems are not to exceed 50 lines in length, including the title. Line length exceeding 44 characters including punctuation and spaces may be broken at the discretion of the anthology committee. Once a line has to be broken because of its length, it will count as two lines. Poems that are too long are not even seen by the judge, so please count these lines carefully. Do Not put your name or other identification on the pages your poems are typed on.
3. Entry identification: Your name, address, telephone number and the titles of your poems must appear on a cover page enclosed with your poems. (If you include an email address we will try to let you know that your entry has safely arrived. If you still want to know, enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard we can mail back.) On the pages on which the poems appear, only the title and the poem itself are acceptable -these pages will be numbered on arrival and coded to coincide with your cover page. The judge will not know who wrote the poem, but our registrar will.
4. Contest Entry: Your envelope with your entry (entries) to the contest should include:
Your poem(s),
The cover page containing your name, address, telephone number, email address and Poem Title(s),
A cheque or money order for $5.00 per poem submitted. Make cheques out to "Spring Pulse Poetry Festival" (Please do not send cash by mail). There is no official entry form. If you're entering more than one poem, one cheque for the whole total is fine; individual cheques for each entry are not necessary.
A self-addressed, stamped envelope (#9 or #10 business size envelope please). This S.A.S.E. will be used to invite you to the awards announcement and launching of the Anthology during the Spring Pulse Poetry Festival in Cobalt, ON.
When your envelope has all these items, address it to:
Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest
Spring Pulse Poetry Festival
Box 247,
Cobalt,ON
P0J 1C0
5. Deadline: April 12, 2010.
6. Rights: By entering the contest you are giving Spring Pulse Poetry Festival first Canadian rights for publication, AND the option to collect all the years' poems into a multi-year compilation at some point. You are free to market your poem(s) in other places, but you should inform them if it has appeared in this anthology.
7. Prizes: Cash prizes totalling $1,000 will be given: First $300, Second $200, and Third $100 place winners. Eight prizes of $50 each will be awarded for the honourable mention category. Decision of the judge(s) is (are) final. All those chosen by the judge(s) to be included in the anthology will receive a certificate and a complimentary copy of the anthology.
send contest email queries to : mybrydges@yahoo.ca