Poetica Magazine

Submission is now closed!

 First Annual Chapbook Contest

Deadline: March 15
1st Place: $50.00 and 25 copies
Judge: Joan Gelfand

 Official Rules:

1.   Submit 16-24 pages of poetry/prose.
2.   Submit manuscripts between January 1st and March 15, 2009.
3.   No name should appear on poems.
4.   Send two cover pages.
5.   One cover page clipped to poems, with title only, no identifying information.
6.   One separate cover page to contain title, name, address, phone and e-mail.
7.   Include contents page and acknowledgments of previously published poems.
8.   Please do not submit a manuscript that has been previously published.
9.   Include $20.00 reading fee, check/money order only.
10. Include SASE for results.
11. Authors retain all rights to their work.
12. Authors must own all rights to their work.
13. No manuscripts will be returned. We shred and recycle all unused work. 
14. Notification by August 2009.

We prefer chapbooks that have a theme, either obvious or understated. 
We like a collection that feels more like a whole than a sampling of work.
We have no preference as to formal or free verse.

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