PUB: Crab Creek Fiction Contest Guidelines

Summer 2009 Issue Now Available

Guidelines for Crab Creek Review's 2010 Poetry Contest
Entry Dates: Feb. 1, 2010 - May 31, 2010

  • Submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems
  • Entry fee: $10, check payable to Crab Creek Review
  • Please include name, address, phone number, email, and a short bio in your cover letter
  • Simultaneous submissions acceptable when noted in cover letter, as long as we are notified immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere
  • Include a SASE for notification of results
  • Name and contact info should not appear on poems
  • No electronic submissions
  • Deadline for all submissions: May 31, 2010
  • The winning poet will receive $200 and publication in CCR 2010 Vol. II
  • All entries will be considered for publication
  • Please mail all submissions to: Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest, c/o 7315 34th Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117
  • The winner will be determined by our guest judge, Nancy Pagh
    (we ask that friends, associates, and students of the judge not submit to this contest)

Nancy Pagh is the author of No Sweeter Fat (Autumn House Press, 2007) and After (Floating Bridge Press, 2008), and her poems appear in many publications, including Crab Creek Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Fourth River, The Bellingham Review, O magazine, and When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems by American Women.  She received an Artist Trust fellowship in 2007 and was the 2008 D. H. Lawrence Fellow at the Taos Summer Writers Conference.  An enthusiastic performer, she was a featured poet at the Skagit River Poetry Festival and a headliner in the Gist Street Masters Series in Pittsburgh.  She has taught workshops at the Whidbey Island Writers Association conference and with the Field’s End program on Bainbridge Island.  She currently teaches at Western Washington University. http://www.autumnhouse.org/catalog/no-sweeter-fat-by-nancy-pagh/

Please send submissions to:
Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest
c/o 7315 34th Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98117