Deadline: 15 October 2010
Geographical Restrictions: no mention
Reading Fee: $25
Accepts (genre): collection of poems
Prize/Payment: $1,000, chapbook publication by Hill-Stead Museum, 15 free copies
First Prize: $1,000. Chapbook publication by Hill-Stead Museum, 15 free copies and a feature reading in the Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival, summer 2011.
Second Prize: $350. Introductory reading in the Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival, summer 2011.
Competition Judge: Clare Rossini, poet and Assistant Professor of English, Trinity College, Hartford.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked between August 15 and October 15, 2010. Winners to be announced January 1, 2011.
Reading fee: $25 payable by check to Hill-Stead Museum, to benefit the 2011 Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival.
Eligibility
• Previous winners of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize are ineligible
• Poets featured in the Festival 1999–2010 are ineligible
• Translations and previously 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 $25 reading fee
• Manuscripts should be paginated consecutively, with a table of contents and acknowledgments 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 06032
Hill-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.
More information here.
Geographical Restrictions: no mention
Reading Fee: $25
Accepts (genre): collection of poems
Prize/Payment: $1,000, chapbook publication by Hill-Stead Museum, 15 free copies
First Prize: $1,000. Chapbook publication by Hill-Stead Museum, 15 free copies and a feature reading in the Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival, summer 2011.
Second Prize: $350. Introductory reading in the Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival, summer 2011.
Competition Judge: Clare Rossini, poet and Assistant Professor of English, Trinity College, Hartford.
Deadline: Entries must be postmarked between August 15 and October 15, 2010. Winners to be announced January 1, 2011.
Reading fee: $25 payable by check to Hill-Stead Museum, to benefit the 2011 Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival.
Eligibility
• Previous winners of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize are ineligible
• Poets featured in the Festival 1999–2010 are ineligible
• Translations and previously 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 $25 reading fee
• Manuscripts should be paginated consecutively, with a table of contents and acknowledgments 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 06032
Hill-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.
More information here.
