Ruminate is pleased to announce the 2014 Ruminate Poetry Prize with Jeanne Murray Walker as our finalist judge! The winner of the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize will receive $1500 and publication in the Summer 2014 issue. The runner up will receive $200 and publication. We invite you to enter.
Guidelines
- The submission deadline for the prize is May 15th.
- The entry fee is $20 (includes a copy of the Winter 2014 Issue).
- All submissions must be previously unpublished work.
- You may submit up to two poems per entry, no longer than 40 lines each.
- $1500 and publication in the Winter 2014 Issue will be awarded to the winner. $200 and publication in the Winter 2014 Issue will be awarded to the second place winner.
- All entries will be read by a blind panel of readers who will select fifteen poems as finalists.
- The final judge will review the 15 finalist poems and select the first place and second place poems. Close friends and students (current & former) of this year’s judge, Jeanne Murray Walker, are not eligible to compete, nor are friends or family of the Ruminate staff. Past first place winners of the prize and past judges of the prize are also not eligible to compete.
- All submissions must be submitted via our online submission form below. We will not accept mail or email submissions.
- Winner will be announced in the Winter Issue, December 2014, and we will notify everyone of their submission status by mid-July.
- We do accept simultaneous submissions.
- Please remove your name, bio, and any contact info from the file that you submit.
- We highly recommend reading a copy of the magazine to better understand the type of poetry we are looking for. You can buy a PDF of Issue 29 ($5), which features the winning poems from the 2013 Poetry Prize judged by Maurice Manning. We also have a PDF of Issue 25 ($5), which features the finalists and winning poems from the 2012 Poetry Prize judged by Li-Young Lee, and a PDF of Issue 21 ($5), which features the finalists and winning poems from the 2011 Poetry Prize judged by Naomi Shihab Nye.
>via: http://www.ruminatemagazine.com/submit/contests/poetry-prize/