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2014 Far Horizons Award for Poetry

The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites emerging poets from Canada, the United States, and elsewhere to enter the Far Horizons Award for Poetry. Eligible poets have yet to publish their poetry in book form (a book of poetry is defined to have a length of 48 pages or more). One prize of $1000 (CAD) is awarded. Poets contributing to The Malahat Review have won or been nominated for National Magazine Awards for Poetry and the Pushcart Prize.

Entries may be sent by regular mail or email. When submitting by email, please ensure you include a cover letter with relevant contact details (more below under Enter by Email); do not simply put this information in the body of the email. We also ask that no personal or contact information is written anywhere on the poems themselves!

New this year: Pay only $15 for each additional entry after the first.

2014 Deadline

This year’s judge will be Julie Bruck. Read a biography of Bruck here.

Want inspiration? Check out a recent interview with Bruck on the poetic process and what she’s looking for in the winning poem.

The deadline for the 2014 Far Horizons Award for Poetry is May 1, 2014.

Read about Kayla Czaga, winner of the Far Horizons contest in 2012.

Read a catch-up interview with Czaga two years post-win.

Guidelines

  • Emerging poets may enter up to three poems per entry.
  • Writers who have self-published a book of poetry are considered to have published their poetry in book form and are therefore ineligible to enter the Far Horizons Awards. You are, however, welcome to enter your work in ourOpen Season Awards.
  • Each poem may not exceed 60 lines, excluding spaces between stanzas.
  • No restrictions as to subject matter or aesthetic approach apply.
  • Entry fee required:Entrants receive a one-year subscription to The Malahat Review for themselves or a friend.
    • $25 CAD for Canadian entries;
    • $30 US for American entries;
    • $35 US for entries from Mexico and outside North America.
    • $15 CAD for each additional entry (from anywhere)
    • See How to Pay below
  • Entrants submitting more than one entry receive a one-year subscription for the first entry only.
  • One entry consists of 1-3 poems. A second entry will be 3-6 poems, a third entry 7-9 poems, etc. Each entry after the first is $15 CAD.
  • Entries already published, accepted, or submitted elsewhere are ineligible.
  • Previous publication is considered to be any appearance in print or online, including on or in a newspaper, newsletter, magazine, anthology, chapbook, book, website, electronic magazine, personal blog, Twitter, or Facebook. Please note that even if the print run or circulation of the print publication where the work has previously appeared is small, this is still considered previous publication. No work that has been excerpted elsewhere is eligible for submission; nor is a work that has been revised since its original publication.
  • Entrants’ anonymity is preserved throughout the judging. Contact information (including an email address) should not appear on the submission, but on a separate page that also lists the title of each enclosed poem.
  • No entries will be returned.
  • The winner and finalists will be notified via email.
  • Entrants will not be notified separately by letter about the judges’ decisions even if a SASE is included for this purpose.
  • Only the winning entry will be published in The Malahat Review’s Winter 2014 issue.
  • The winner will be announced on The Malahat’s website, Facebook page, and Twitter account in July, 2014.
  • The winner will be interviewed by a Malahat volunteer. The interview will appear on our website and in Malahat lite, the magazine’s monthly e-newsletter, in September 2014.

Enter by Email

  • Send entries as an attachment to horizons@uvic.ca
  • The subject line must contain the entrant’s full name and method of payment. e.g., “John Smith cheque” or “Jane Tucker credit online” or “Jane Doe credit mail-in”
  • Entrants must also submit an information sheet as a separate attached file:Acceptable file formats: Word (.doc and .docx) or PDF
    • Entrant’s full name
    • Titles of each individual poems (please do not title entire submission)
    • Line count for each poem, excluding stanza breaks
    • Entrant’s mailing address
    • Entrant’s email address
    • Method of payment (see How to Pay below)
    • A single cover sheet is best, even if additional entries are submitted (please list all poems on the same cover sheet).
  • When submitting via PDF, please do not submit all poems in a single PDF document, as it is not possible for our office to separate out each individual poem. Instead, please send each poem as a separate document.

Enter by Regular Mail

  • Provide the following information on a separate sheet:
    • Entrant’s full name
    • Titles of each individual poems (please do not title entire submission)
    • Line count for each poem, excluding stanza breaks
    • Entrant’s mailing address
    • Entrant’s email address
    • Method of payment (see How to Pay below)
  • Send entries to:
    The Malahat Review
    Far Horizons Award for Poetry
    University of Victoria
    P.O. Box 1700
    Stn CSC
    Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
    Canada

    Email: horizons@uvic.ca
    Telephone: 250-721-8524
    Fax: 250-472-5051

How To Pay

  • You can pay online, or mail your payment with your entry. Please try and submit payment the same day as you send in your online entries.

Pay Online

  • Please enclose your receipt with your contest entry so we can identify your online payment.
Pay Online

Pay by Mail

  • By Cheque or Money Order: Enclose a cheque or money order, made out to The Malahat Review, in Canadian or US funds with your entry.
  • By Credit Card: Complete our Credit Card Payment Form and enclose it with your entry.

 

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