2010 NEW WOMEN’S VOICES
CHAPBOOK COMPETITION
A prize of $1,000 and publication for a chapbook-length poetry collection.
Open to women who have never before published a full-length poetry collection.
Previous chapbook publication does not disqualify.International entries are welcome. Multiple submissions are accepted.
Leah Maines will final judge.
All entries will be considered for publication. The top-ten finalists will be offered publication.
Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, PLUS bio, acknowledgments, SASE and cover letter with a$15 entry fee (pay by check, money order or pay online to pay using your credit card)
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2010 (DEADLINE EXTENDED ) POSTMARK
NWV
Finishing Line Press
P O Box 1626
Georgetown, KY 40324To pay reading fee with this button (please print out confirmation and mail with submission):
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Leah Maines has served as the senior editor for Finishing Line Press since she took over the press in 2002. She has edited over 550 poetry collections, including several award-winning titles. She is former Poet-in-Residence of Northern Kentucky University (funded in part by the Kentucky Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities). Maines is the author of two poetry books. Her first book was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Williams Carlos Williams Book Award (Poetry Society of America). Looking to the East with Western Eyes, New Women's Voices Series, No. 1 (Finishing Line Press, 1998) reached #10 in the "Cincinnati/Tri-State Best Sellers List" (Cincinnati Enquirer), and is now in its fourth printing. Her most recent collection, Beyond the River, (KWC Press, 2002, 1st edition) won the Kentucky Writers' Coalition Poetry Chapbook Competition in 2002.