Deadline: 1 September 2010
Geographical Restrictions: no mention
Reading Fee: $20
Accepts (genre): narrative poetry
Prize/Payment: $1000, etc.
Announcing: Naugatuck River Review’s second Annual NARRATIVE POETRY CONTEST judged by National Book Award finalist, poet Patrica Smith!
Contest Submission Period: July 1st through September 1st
First prize is $1000 and publication in NRR
Second prize $250 and publication in NRR
Third prize of $100 and publication in NRR
All entrants will receive one issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All poems will be considered for publication. Contest deadline is September 1st, 2010.
Three poems per submission.
Limited to 50 lines per poem.
Do not put your name anywhere on the file submitted. There is a place for all your information when you register with Submission Manager.
Please pay the contest fee of $20 first through PAYPAL or credit card, then go back to the submission manager.
Submission fee includes a copy of the journal.
Electronic submissions ONLY will be accepted through our Submission Manager.
Close friends and students (current or past) of Patricia Smith are ineligible.
Judge for 2010 Contest: Patricia Smith
A National Book Award Finalist, Patricia Smith’s fifth book of poetry, Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press) chronicles the human, physical and emotional toll exacted by Hurricane Katrina, a catastrophic natural event with lasting spiritual and political impact. This much-anticipated volume is also the focal point of a new dance/theater collaboration between Patricia and Urban Bush Women dancer Paloma McGregor.
Patricia is also the author of Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffee House Press), a National Poetry Series winner, the Best Poetry Book of 2006 on About.com, and a 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Paterson Poetry Prize winner; Close to Death (Zoland Books), Big Towns, Big Talk (Zoland) and Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, poemmemoirstory, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, the Chautauqua Literary Journal, TriQuarterly, and other journals, and in many groundbreaking anthologies. Her poem “The Way Pilots Walk” received a Pushcart Prize, and is featured in Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses. Recognized as one of the world’s most formidable performers, Patricia has read her work at venues round the world.
Love to read great narrative poetry?
Please consider a SUBSCRIPTION to Naugatuck River Review. Only $20 brings you two beautiful and delightful issues of the journal, filled with great narrative poetry. Go to SUBSCRIBE on the button above and order through Paypal or send a check to our P.O. Box. We will also accept donations. Thanks so much to all our poets and readers!
This is a literary journal founded in order to publish and in doing so to honor good narrative poetry. Naugatuck River Review is dedicated to publishing narrative poetry in the tradition of great narrative poets such as Gerald Stern, Philip Levine or James Wright. We are open to many styles of poetry, looking for narrative that sings, which means the poem has a strong emotional core and the narrative is compressed. We publish twice a year, Winter and Summer.
Winners will be published in the Winter 2011 Issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All entrants will receive one issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All poems will be considered for publication in the Winter 2011 Contest issue (Issue 5).
Naugatuck River Review subscribes to the principles laid out in the Contest Code of Ethics adopted by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP):
CLMP’s community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to:
1. conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors;
2. to provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and
3. to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public.
This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.
More information here.
Geographical Restrictions: no mention
Reading Fee: $20
Accepts (genre): narrative poetry
Prize/Payment: $1000, etc.
Announcing: Naugatuck River Review’s second Annual NARRATIVE POETRY CONTEST judged by National Book Award finalist, poet Patrica Smith!
Contest Submission Period: July 1st through September 1st
First prize is $1000 and publication in NRR
Second prize $250 and publication in NRR
Third prize of $100 and publication in NRR
All entrants will receive one issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All poems will be considered for publication. Contest deadline is September 1st, 2010.
Three poems per submission.
Limited to 50 lines per poem.
Do not put your name anywhere on the file submitted. There is a place for all your information when you register with Submission Manager.
Please pay the contest fee of $20 first through PAYPAL or credit card, then go back to the submission manager.
Submission fee includes a copy of the journal.
Electronic submissions ONLY will be accepted through our Submission Manager.
Close friends and students (current or past) of Patricia Smith are ineligible.
Judge for 2010 Contest: Patricia Smith
A National Book Award Finalist, Patricia Smith’s fifth book of poetry, Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press) chronicles the human, physical and emotional toll exacted by Hurricane Katrina, a catastrophic natural event with lasting spiritual and political impact. This much-anticipated volume is also the focal point of a new dance/theater collaboration between Patricia and Urban Bush Women dancer Paloma McGregor.
Patricia is also the author of Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffee House Press), a National Poetry Series winner, the Best Poetry Book of 2006 on About.com, and a 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Paterson Poetry Prize winner; Close to Death (Zoland Books), Big Towns, Big Talk (Zoland) and Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, poemmemoirstory, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, the Chautauqua Literary Journal, TriQuarterly, and other journals, and in many groundbreaking anthologies. Her poem “The Way Pilots Walk” received a Pushcart Prize, and is featured in Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses. Recognized as one of the world’s most formidable performers, Patricia has read her work at venues round the world.
Love to read great narrative poetry?
Please consider a SUBSCRIPTION to Naugatuck River Review. Only $20 brings you two beautiful and delightful issues of the journal, filled with great narrative poetry. Go to SUBSCRIBE on the button above and order through Paypal or send a check to our P.O. Box. We will also accept donations. Thanks so much to all our poets and readers!
This is a literary journal founded in order to publish and in doing so to honor good narrative poetry. Naugatuck River Review is dedicated to publishing narrative poetry in the tradition of great narrative poets such as Gerald Stern, Philip Levine or James Wright. We are open to many styles of poetry, looking for narrative that sings, which means the poem has a strong emotional core and the narrative is compressed. We publish twice a year, Winter and Summer.
Winners will be published in the Winter 2011 Issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All entrants will receive one issue of Naugatuck River Review.
All poems will be considered for publication in the Winter 2011 Contest issue (Issue 5).
Naugatuck River Review subscribes to the principles laid out in the Contest Code of Ethics adopted by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP):
CLMP’s community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to:
1. conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors;
2. to provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and
3. to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public.
This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.
More information here.
