2011 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize
CALYX Journal Announces the 10th Annual
Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize
Final Judge: Sidney Wade
Submission dates: March 1, 2011, through May 31, 2011 (Postmarked)
Prize: Winner will receive $300 cash award and publication in CALYX Journal (Vol. 27:1, Winter 2012). The winner and all finalists will receive a one-volume subscription, and all their poems will be published on CALYX’s website (www.calyxpress.org).
Details: Each entry can include up to three (3) unpublished poems, no more than six (6) manuscript pages total. Do not put your name on the same page as a poem; all entries are read blind. Include a separate cover letter with name, address, phone, email, and titles of poem/s. No manuscripts will be returned. Please send unpublished work and please do not send simultaneous submissions. The Journal Editorial C ollective reads manuscripts first, then selects 15-20 to send to the final judge. Judge’s decisions are final.
Reading fee: $15 per entry, all checks in U.S. currency on a U.S. bank, checks payable to CALYX.
Notification: Contest winner and finalists will be notified by October 30, 2011, and announced on CALYX’s website, www.calyxpress.org. All entrants will receive prize results, and U.S. entrants will receive an issue of CALYX Journal in October 2011.
Send submission to:
CALYX, Inc.
Lois Cranston Poetry Prize
PO Box B
Corvallis OR 97339
Final Judge: Sidney Wade is the author of five collections of poetry including Stroke, Celestial Bodies, Empty Sleeves, Green, and Istanbul’dan/From Istanbul (published in Turkish and English by Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, Istanbul). Wade received a Fulbright Fellowship and was a senior lecturer at Istanbul University. She served as President of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) from 2006 to 2007 and is currently the poetry editor of Subtropics.
♦Lois Cranston was an editor for C ALYX Journal f or more than ten years. Her remarkable life experiences and knowledge of literature enriched the editorial collective and the journal issues she helped edit. This poetry prize in her name honors the memory of her commitment to the creative work of women from all walks of life.
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