The Annual Provincetown

OuterMost Poetry Contest

is now The Joe Gouveia OuterMost Poetry Contest

In honor of former Cape Cod Poet Laureate, Joe Gouveia, who created the contest but slipped away from our community radio family all too young, WOMR/WFMR continues this annual tradition to honor Joe’s commitment to the poetry community while supporting a great community asset.  Once again this year, Guest Judge MARGE PIERCY will select the finalists for the National and Regional categories.  We are awarding $1,200 in prizes; $1,000 to the National winner and $200 to a Regional, Cape Cod-based poet. No poet may win both categories in the same year.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

DEADLINE: Monday, Dec. 15, 2014 postmark. Send 5 of your best unpublished poems, any style or subject matter, no more than 7 pages in total, and $15 submission fee w/ check made payable to: “OuterMost Community Radio” w/ “Poetry Contest” written in the memo line of the check.

•    You must include a $15 submissions check per 5 poems submitted.
•    All poems MUST be single spaced; 12 point font or larger. Handwritten poems will not be considered.
•    Only one poem per page. If the poem is continued on a second page, please include title of the poem on the second page, and staple both pages together.  (No poem should exceed two pages.)
•    Only unpublished work will be considered.  If your poem has been published in any book, print or online journal, magazine or chapbook, whether self-published or not, please select something else.  If you have submitted your poem to another journal – and it is published prior to December 30, 2014 – it is not eligible for the contest.
•    Your name or any other identifying information must not appear anywhere on or in the poems. Instead, be sure to include a cover letter w/ name, address, phone number & email address & the titles of your poems along with the first five words of each poem.
•    MAIL ALL ENTRIES TO: Joe Gouveia OuterMost Poetry Contest, c/o WOMR, PO Box 975, Provincetown, MA 02657.

Winners and those who place in the Top 10 poems will be announced on The Joe Gouveia OuterMost Poetry Contest Facebook page, at WOMR.org, and via email.

Finalists will be selected on January 7, 2015 and will receive a guaranteed spot on WOMR/WFMR’s Poets Corner Radio Show. Winners of cash prizes for Best National poem & Best Regional poem will be announced on March 4, 2015. You can contact us at info@womr.org if you have further questions.

>via: http://womr.org/annual-outermost-poetry-contest/