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Margaret Reid Poetry Contest for Traditional Verse

Welcome to the third annual Margaret Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Tom Howard Books. First prize is $1,000. A total of $3,500 in prizes will be awarded (up from $2,000 in 2005). Winning entries will be published. Click here to read about the past winners.

Submission Period
Entries accepted November 15-June 30

What to Submit
Poetry in traditional verse forms. Your entry should be your own original work. You may submit the same poem simultaneously to this contest and to others, and you may submit poems that have been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the anthology and online publication rights.

What are traditional verse forms? By traditional verse, we mean any form of poetry that has been in circulation for 50 years or more. The poems you submit should follow some kind of formal or informal pattern. This pattern might involve rhyme, meter, length of line, repetition, or some other pattern, strict or loose. Forms that qualify include free verse (as exemplified by such poets as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman, Stephen Spender), "sprung" verse (Gerard Manley Hopkins), narrative verse (Alfred Noyes), satirical verse (e.e. cummings: "my sweet old etcetera"; Dorothy Parker), nonsense verse (Edward Lear), lyric verse (Tennyson), romantic verse (Wordsworth), religious verse (James Russell Lowell), children's verse (A.A. Milne), comic verse and parodies (W.S. Gilbert, A.P. Herbert), sonnets, haiku, ghazals, ballads, odes, villanelles, sestinas, songs, hymns, etc. For your reference, this Glossary of Poetic Terms describes many forms. You may also enjoy sites for traditional and exotic forms of poetry found on our resource pages.

Prizes and Publication
30 cash prizes totaling $3,500 will be awarded. First prize: $1,000. Second prize: $400. Third prize: $200. There will be seven High Distinction Awards of $100 each, ten Highly Commended Awards of $70 each, and ten Commended Awards of $50 each. All winners of cash prizes will be published in an anthology, and all contestants will have the opportunity to download a free electronic copy of this book. The top three winners will also receive a free copy of the anthology in print.

Entry Fee
The reading fee is $6 for every 25 lines you submit. If you submit a sonnet of 14 lines and a haiku of 3 lines, totaling 17 lines, the fee would be $6. If you submit two villanelles of 19 lines each, totaling 38 lines, the fee would be $12. Exclude your poem titles and any blank lines from your line count. There is no limit on the number of lines or number of poems you may submit.

Deadline
June 30, 2006. Your entry must be postmarked or submitted online by this date.

Announcement of Winners
The winners will be announced on WinningWriters.com on August 15, 2006. Entrants with valid email addresses will receive an email notification.

English Language
Poets of all nations may enter. However, the poems you submit should be in English. If you have written a poem in another language, you may translate your poem into English and submit the translation.

Privacy
Your privacy is assured. Neither Winning Writers nor Tom Howard Books will rent your information to third parties. Winning Writers processes entries and fees for this contest as a service to Tom Howard Books. Winning Writers is not a sponsor and does not judge the entries.

Copyright
You retain the copyright to your submission. If you win a cash prize, you give John H. Reid the nonexclusive right to publish your work in print and online. Online publication may include publication on WinningWriters.com.

Judges
A former journalist and magazine editor, John H. Reid has judged literary contests for over 15 years. He has published several novels, a collection of poetry, a guide to winning literary contests and fifteen books of film criticism and movie history. See his work at Lulu. Mr. Reid is assisted by Dee C. Konrad. A leading educator and published author, Ms. Konrad was Associate Professor in the English faculty of Barat College of DePaul University, and served as Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences for the year 2000-2001.

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