Elizabeth Bolton Poetry Contest

For the Short Story Contest, click here.

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For a printable flyer and entry form for both contests, click here.

Contest deadline: August 15, 2012

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Poetry awards

• First prize: $100
• Second prize: $50
• Third prize: $25
• First, Second and Third prize poems will be published in the Colonygram. All winners will be listed inside the Colonygram and on the OWC website.
• Winners are invited to read their winning entry at the awards ceremony.

Poetry contest rules

• Up to three poems per entry, any form or style, original and unpublished.
• Fee per entry: $10 (OWC members), $15 (non-members).
• No author name on poems. This is an anonymous contest.
• Multiple entries are permitted.
• One entry (up to three poems) per submission packet.

Include in Poetry submission packet:

• Two copies of each poem. (Please keep originals; entries will not be returned.)
• One business envelope with the following inside:
  • Check for entry fee
  • 3×5 card (no odd-sized cards, please) with:

1. Your name, address, phone, and email;
2. Poem titles;
3. How you heard about this contest (online, word-of-mouth, etc.);
4. OWC Member or non-member status;
5. SASP (self-addressed stamped postcard for notice of receipt and your peace of mind).

Mailing address for Elizabeth Bolton Poetry Contest:

OWC Contest
Judith Massee
3415 S.E. Steele Street
Portland, OR 97202-4161

You may also pay your entry fee in advance by PayPal:

Members: $10
 
Non-members: $15
 
Direct inquiries to Judith by email.

Contest judges:

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Elizabeth Bolton Poetry Contest Final Judge: Sue Parman Sue Parman is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and an award-winning poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer. Since moving to Oregon in 2009 she has received over ten writing awards, including four first-place awards from the Oregon State Poetry Association and Oregon Writers Colony and two Kay Snow Awards from Willamette Writers. Her play Queen Victoria’s Secret (published in Voice Catcher and nominated for the Pushcart Prize) was performed in Portland’s Fertile Ground New Play Festival in 2011 and at Powell’s Bookstore and the Portland Central Library in 2012. In 2012 her play The Gorilla in Beowulf was produced by Portland Theatre Works as part of their fund-raiser, For Better or for Verse. Her poems have appeared in Faultlines, Cloudbank, Verseweavers, Slant, The Hiram Poetry Review, The Elephant-Ear, The Blue Mouse, and the Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal. Her chapbook The Thin Monster House will be published by Finishing Line Press in June 2012.