Far Horizons Award for Poetry

The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites emerging poets from Canada, the United States, and elsewhere to enter the Far Horizons Award for Poetry. Eligible poets have yet to publish their poetry in book form (a book of poetry is defined to have a length of 48 pages or more). One prize of $500 (CAD) is awarded, plus payment at the rate of $40 (CAD) per printed page upon publication. Poets contributing to The Malahat Review have won or been nominated for National Magazine Awards for Poetry and the Pushcart Prize.

2010 Deadline

The next deadline for the Far Horizons Award for Poetry is May 1, 2010 (postmark date).

Guidelines

• Emerging poets may enter up to three poems per entry.
• Each poem may not exceed 60 lines.
• No restrictions as to subject matter or aesthetic approach apply.
• Entry fee required:
  • $25 CAD for Canadian entries;
  • $30 US for American entries;
  • $35 US for entries from Mexico and outside North America.
• Entrants receive a one-year subscription to The Malahat Review for themselves or a friend.
• Poems previously published, accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere are not eligible.
• Entrants’ anonymity is preserved throughout the judging. Contact information (including an email address) should not appear on the submission, but along with the title on an enclosed separate page.
• No submissions will be accepted by email.
• No entries will be returned.
• The winner and finalists will be notified via email.
• Entrants will not be notified by separately by letter about the judges’ decisions even if a SASE is included for this purpose.
• The winner will be announced with the publication of his or her entry in The Malahat Review’s Fall 2010 issue, on the Malahat web site, and in Malahat lite, the magazine’s quarterly e-newsletter in July 2010.
• Send entries and enquiries to:
  The Malahat Review
  Far Horizons Award for Poetry
  University of Victoria
  P.O. Box 1700
  Stn CSC
  Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
  Canada
  

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  Email: malahat@uvic.ca
  Telephone: 250-721-8524
  Fax: 250-472-5051

Entrants wishing to pay by credit card may download and complete our Credit Card Payment Form then enclose it with their entries.