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Arc’s International Poem of
the Year Contest
I am writing on behalf of Arc Poetry Magazine.
Arc’s International Poem of the Year Contest is in its
fourteenth year, and is one of the longest running poetry competitions in Canada. For
thirty years Arc has published some of the finest poets from across the
country and abroad.
Everyone at the Arc Poetry Society wishes to thank you for your continued
support.
Sandra Ridley, Contests
Arc: Canada's
National Poetry Magazine
www.arcpoetry.ca
Contest Guidelines
Arc: Canada's National Poetry Magazine invites entries to its International Poem of the Year Contest.
1st Prize: $1500
2nd Prize: $1000
3rd Prize: $750
Contest Entry: Entry fee is $23, in Canadian funds, which
entitles you to a one-year subscription of Arc
mailed to a Canadian address, beginning with the Winter 2010 issue. (If you
already have a subscription, you can give your new one-year subscription to a
friend. Please include their mailing address.) Alternately, you can choose to
have one issue sent to a U.S.
or overseas address.
You can pay your contest entry fee through
the online poetry stand where we
accept Visa, Mastercard, paypal, and e-cheques. Alternately, you can send a
cheque or money order with your mailed contest submission.
Contest Rules:
- All contest
submissions must be submitted by post mail.
- All cheques or money
orders should be in Canadian funds and made out to the Arc Poetry
Society.
- Arc welcomes
Poem of the Year entries from Canada,
the United States,
and around the world, but if you live outside Canada we still need to
receive your entry fee in Canadian funds. It is easiest if you use the Poetry Stand to
submit your contest entry payment. Otherwise, you should be able to
obtain a money order in Canadian funds from your post office, if you are
not able to write a cheque in Canadian funds.
- Entrants may submit up
to two
unpublished poems with your $23 fee. To include extra poems, add $5 per
poem.
- No e-mail submissions
accepted.
- Length of each poem
must not exceed 100 lines.
- Entrant's name,
address, e-mail and phone number must not appear on the poems, but
instead on a separate sheet that also lists the titles of the poems
entered. Judging is blind.
- No entrants (including
winners, honourable mentions, or authors of Editor's Choice poems) may
substitute, before, during, or after judging, a revision of any poem
already submitted to the contest.
- No poems will be
returned.
Judging: Arc editorial consortium
Next Deadline: Entries must be postmarked
no later than June 30, 2009. Only
winners will be notified by October 15, 2009.
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