Deadline: 15 November 2010
Geographical Restrictions: no mention
Reading Fee: $6
Accepts (genre): poetry
Prize/Payment: $400
Parnell Poetry Prize
The Department of Writing and Literature at Chester College of New England is pleased to offer the Patricia Parnell Poetry Prize. Named after the founder of Compass Rose, Professor Patricia Parnell, the contest is designed to bring work of the finest quality to the pages of our magazine.
Each year, the winner of the contest receives $400 and publication in Compass Rose. All entries will be considered for publication. The contest fee is $6 per poem with a limit of 5 poems per entry. We can accept only U.S. currency.
Barbara Louise Ungar will serve as the final judge for this year’s contest. Her most recent poetry collection, The Origin of the Milky Way, won the 2006 Gival Press Poetry Award, a Silver IPPY (Independent Publishers’ Book Award), an Eric J. Hoffer award and was a co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing Award for Best Book of Poetry 2007. She is also the author of Thrift, Sequel, and Haiku In English. She is an English professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. A new collection, Charlotte Bronte, You Ruined My Life, is due out from The Word Works in January 2011.
The list of finalists for the 2009-2010 contest is available here.
Contest Guidelines
We prefer submissions via our new submission managaer.
Please submit no more than five (5) poems between August 1 and November 15, 2010. The contest fee is $6 for each poem ($12 for two poems, $18 for three poems and so on). Please do not put your name or your contact information on the poems themselves; instead enclose a cover letter with your name, titles of your work, and contact information. All entries are read blind. Poems that include your name and/or contact information will not be read and fees will not be refunded. No email submissions or previously published work will be accepted.
To submit via postal mail, please send your work and entry fee, payable to Compass Rose, to:
Patricia Parnell Poetry Prize
c/o Prof. Jenn Monroe
Chester College of New England
40 Chester Street
Chester, NH 03036
We will not accept email submissions, but are happy to answer questions that way. Contact us at compass.rose@chestercollege.edu.
Relatives, friends, students, and colleagues of the judge are not eligible.
More information here.
Geographical Restrictions: no mention
Reading Fee: $6
Accepts (genre): poetry
Prize/Payment: $400
Parnell Poetry Prize
The Department of Writing and Literature at Chester College of New England is pleased to offer the Patricia Parnell Poetry Prize. Named after the founder of Compass Rose, Professor Patricia Parnell, the contest is designed to bring work of the finest quality to the pages of our magazine.
Each year, the winner of the contest receives $400 and publication in Compass Rose. All entries will be considered for publication. The contest fee is $6 per poem with a limit of 5 poems per entry. We can accept only U.S. currency.
Barbara Louise Ungar will serve as the final judge for this year’s contest. Her most recent poetry collection, The Origin of the Milky Way, won the 2006 Gival Press Poetry Award, a Silver IPPY (Independent Publishers’ Book Award), an Eric J. Hoffer award and was a co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing Award for Best Book of Poetry 2007. She is also the author of Thrift, Sequel, and Haiku In English. She is an English professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY. A new collection, Charlotte Bronte, You Ruined My Life, is due out from The Word Works in January 2011.
The list of finalists for the 2009-2010 contest is available here.
Contest Guidelines
We prefer submissions via our new submission managaer.
Please submit no more than five (5) poems between August 1 and November 15, 2010. The contest fee is $6 for each poem ($12 for two poems, $18 for three poems and so on). Please do not put your name or your contact information on the poems themselves; instead enclose a cover letter with your name, titles of your work, and contact information. All entries are read blind. Poems that include your name and/or contact information will not be read and fees will not be refunded. No email submissions or previously published work will be accepted.
To submit via postal mail, please send your work and entry fee, payable to Compass Rose, to:
Patricia Parnell Poetry Prize
c/o Prof. Jenn Monroe
Chester College of New England
40 Chester Street
Chester, NH 03036
We will not accept email submissions, but are happy to answer questions that way. Contact us at compass.rose@chestercollege.edu.
Relatives, friends, students, and colleagues of the judge are not eligible.
More information here.
