I don’t enter many contests. I generally consider them a waste of time and money. But I might consider entering Best New Poets 2009, for which there is now an open manuscript call.
Contest sponsors have been accepting nominations from writing progams and magazines until now. But I just recently received an announcement that open submissions [...]
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I rarely enter contests. I just think there is something degrading about bearing the soul to strangers for a fee. Because there is always a contest entrance fee.
But when I’d heard that Dorianne Laux was to judge The Smoking Poet contest – the first annual – and the entrance fee was only $5, I decided [...]
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