Drop 15 and make 200!
You need not risk dumb luck in Vegas to try to win a cool $100 for your best sports poem or double down on that for your best essay. Sport Literate is offering two top prizes for the poetry and creative nonfiction prose that will fill our next issue near the end of 2011.
Try your hand with your finest essay or poem: $200 for the best essay, $100 for the winning poem. All entries will be considered for publication, and all entrants will be mailed a copy of the issue. No fiction, please.
2011 Contest Details
Submissions
It’s easy to enter. Simply email your essay or poem as an attachment to bill@sportliterate.org. Poets can send up to three poems for their $15 entry fee.If you have a PayPal account, you can send the $15 reading fee to bill@sportliterate.org. If you must, snail mail may be sent to our post office box with a check for $15 (Sport Literate 2248 W. Belmont #20 Chicago, IL 60618).
Selections
Editors will read all entries and select up to five finalists to be sent anonymously to our two judges: Mark Wukas will choose the best essay and Frank Van Zant will judge the poetry. Winners will be announced in September 2011.
Your deadline
Postmark deadline is June 30, 2011!Our judges
Mark Wukas is a longtime mentor and friend of Sport Literate. His essay “Running with Ghosts,” which appeared within in our pages in 1997, was noted in The Best American Sports Writing 1998. The essay recently was reprinted in Runners on Running, edited by Rich Elliott. He teaches English and coaches track at New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Illinois.Frank Van Zant is the longtime poetry editor of Sport Literate. He has published more than 400 poems in numerous literary journals. He is the author of two books of poetry: Climbing Daddy Mountain and The Lives of the Two Headed Baseball Siren. He is director of one of the oldest alternative schools in the country, The Greenhouse, in Rockville Centre, New York.
