3rd Annual Lucille Clifton

Poetry PRIZE, 2015 

Now Accepting Submissions…
Deadline: June 1st

The Lucille Clifton Annual Poetry Contest, held each spring, honors the prolific work of poet great Lucille Clifton. Widely celebrated for her unpretentious and unapologetic poems, Clifton’s unique FREE verse was free of punctuation, taut, and always recognizably her. When submitting think: humanness, struggle, adversity, resilience.

“Her life, her way of seeing and walking in the world were the backbone of her work. I am her daughter. Her backbone is mine. AndYOURS.” -Sidney Clifton

All entries must be SUBMITTED or postmarked April 1st- June 1st 2015. 

Guidelines:

Please submit up to three unpublished poems. This year’s final judge will be Sharan Strange. Please send no more than three unpublished poems to: backbonepoetry@gmail.com with Lucille Clifton Prize as the subject line. Entries must include a $10.00 reading fee payable via our Paypal DONATION page. Please send postal entries with check or money order to: Backbone Press, Inc. PO Box 51483, Durham, NC 27717-1483. A SINGLE poem will be chosen and awarded $250 along with publication via our website.

>via: http://backbonepress.org/contests/