- First Place : $500
- Second Place : $250
- Third Place : $150
Guidelines
Poems cannot be more than 21 lines of text. Do not double space your entry. Only one entry per person. Poems must be original work. Poems containing material that is obscene or objectionable will be disqualified.
Eligibility
Contest open to residents of Washington, D.C., Maryland or Virginia and are 18 or older at the time of entry. Current and former employees, contractors, and officers of Bethesda Urban Partnership, their immediate family members, and those living in the same domicile therewith are ineligible. Current students, relatives, or close friends of the judge are also ineligible.
Requirements
Submissions must be sent by email as Microsoft Word documents to poetry@bethesda.org. All entries must include a cover page with the author's full name, mailing address, phone number and email address. Submissions without this info will be disqualified.
Copyright
All entrants retain the copyrights that they have in the poems they submit, but by participating in this contest, all entrants grant Bethesda Urban Partnership (BUP) the rights, license, and ability to use and publish all submitted poems (in complete or excerpted form) on the BUP web site, on other Web sites and in other media.
Judging
The poetry contest will be juried by Michele Wolf.
Michele Wolf is the author of Immersion, selected by Denise Duhamel for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection, published by The Word Works. Her previous books are Conversations During Sleep, winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and The Keeper of Light, winner of the Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Series award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Hudson Review, Boulevard, North American Review, among many other journals and anthologies. A contributing editor for Poet Lore, Wolf received an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award and fellowships from Yaddo, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. Additionally, she has taught at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD since 2002. Her website is http://michelewolf.com.
Notifications
Winners will be contact by April 1, 2011.
SOURCE
Deadline : March 11, 2011.
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