Sunken Garden Poetry Prize
First Prize: $1,000. Chapbook publication by Hill-Stead Museum, 15 free copies and a 20-minute introductory reading preceding the evening's featured poet in the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, summer 2012.
Second Prize: $350. Brief introductory reading in the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, summer 2012.
Competition Judge: Tony Hoagland, poet, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, and professor at the University of Houston.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked between July 15 and October 15, 2011. Winners to be announced January 1, 2012.
Reading fee: $30 payable by check to Hill-Stead Museum, to benefit the 2012 Sunken Garden Poetry Festival.
Eligibility
• Previous winners of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize are ineligible
• Poets featured in the Festival 1999–2011 are ineligible
• Translations and previously published or self-published books are ineligible
• Previously published poems with proper acknowledgment are acceptable.Guidelines:
• Submit 20–32 pages (no more than one poem per page) and $30 reading fee• Manuscripts should be paginated consecutively, with a table of contents and acknowledgements page, and bound with a clip.
• Include two cover pages, one with title only, and a second with your name, address, telephone number(s), email address, and title of the manuscript. Your name must not appear elsewhere on the manuscript.
• Manuscripts are judged anonymously.
• No manuscripts will be returned.
• Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are permitted. Notify Hill-Stead by email at poetry@hillstead.org if manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Mail manuscript and entry fee to:
Artistic Director, Sunken Garden Poetry Festival
Hill-Stead Museum
35 Mountain Road
Farmington, CT 06032Hill-Stead Museum, a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, adheres to the Contest Code of Ethics adopted by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.