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Burning The Midnight Oil Poetry Contest
Burning the Midnight Oil Poetry Contest
Submission Guidelines:
For a free critique, simply write “free critique” on your entry.
1) Any style, any subject, any form allowed. Poem should fit on one page.
2) No identification should appear on the entry. Attach a separate coversheet with title, name, address, e-mail, and phone number.
3) Entry fee: $5 per poem, maximum of three entries.
4) Poems must be unpublished at time of submission, original work of contestant.
5) Deadline: October 31, 2009, postmarked.
6) Prizes: 1st place – $100, 2nd place – $50, 3rd place – $25.
7) For free critique, write “free critique” on entry and include a business size, self-addressed envelope or provide email address. Optional: For a thorough line edit, include $3 per poem.
8)Winners will be posted on the website by the first week of December. Cash prizes and critiques will be mailed or emailed in the month of December.
9) Mail entries flat, not folded, to:
Burning the Midnight Oil Poetry Contest
c/o Amy Harke-Moore
104 Harke Lane
Old Monroe, MO 63369.
Do NOT send by certified mail!
10) Checks payable to: The Write Helper
11) Now accepting online entries on our website: www.thewritehelper.com.
Open to all poets and writers. Winning entry published, winner profiled on The Write Helper. For a list of winners, include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Or check out our website. Decision of judges is final. Not responsible for lost or misdirected entries. Poems will not be returned.
