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2017 Pangaea Prize Winner and Finalists

11 Friday Aug 2017

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image001We are proud to announce the winner of the 2017 Pangaea Prize is Marjorie Stelmach. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently, Falter  (Cascade Books, 2017). Previous books include  Without Angels  (Mayapple), A History of Disappearance  and Bent upon Light  (Tampa). Her recent work has appeared in Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Image, Iowa Review,  New Letters, and others. She is the 2016 recipient of the Chad Walsh Award from the Beloit Poetry Journal.

You can follow this link to read her work and that of a few selected finalists. You can view their names below. Currently, we are accepting submissions for the Atlantis Award and if you would like to stay updated on contests and publications in the future you can join us on Facebook and Twitter.

WINNER
Marjorie Stelmach

RUNNER-UP
Claire Scott

FINALISTS
Rob Carney
Karla Linn Merrifield
Mary K O’Melveny
Jeffrey Scott Hopkins II
Mike Frenkel

SEMI-FINALISTS
A. Panian
Hilde Weisert
Mike Walker
Nancy Lind
Jeanine Stevens

Poetry Contest Deadline

26 Friday May 2017

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The Poet’s Billow is accepting submissions for the Pangaea Prize – the deadline is June 1st.

The Pangaea Prize is awarded for the best series of poems ranging between two and up to seven poems in a group. Judging will be based on poems as individual entities as well as their cohesiveness – that can be in terms of common themes, images, narrative or however else you would like to group your poems. All poems must be previously unpublished. There are no restrictions to length or style. Click here to read last year’s winner, L.I. Henley who also won the 2017 Perugia Press Award and her second full-length collection, Starshine Road, which will be available in September.

In the past we have hosted readings at AWP to which we invite all our contributors. We also nominate for the Pushcart Prize, the Best New Poets anthology, and have had contributors as finalists for Best of the Net.

Find more at our contest page or our homepage Thepoetsbillow.org

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Poetry Contest Deadline: Revolution

28 Friday Apr 2017

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Only a few days left to submit to the Bermuda Triangle Prize. Send us your poems on the theme of Revolution. This year’s judge is Andrea England.

The Bermuda Triangle Prize is given to three poems on a theme from up to three different poets.

2017 Judge: Andrea England

Current Theme: Revolution (2017 Theme)

Revolution

  1. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
    1. a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people’s ideas about it.
  2. an instance of revolving.
    1. the movement of an object in a circular or elliptical course around another or about an axis or center.

Each winning poem will receive $50, for a total cash prize of $150. The poems will be published and displayed in the Poet’s Billow Literary Art Gallery. Up to five finalists will be considered for publication.

We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Anthology, and The Best New Poets Anthology.

Guidelines:

As entries will be read blindly, your name and contact information should not appear on the poems themselves.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as you send an email if a poem needs to be withdrawn. Multiple submissions are allowed with a paid submission fee for each set of three poems.

Each entry of three poems costs $10 and should be paid through paypal and the poems submitted by email to thepoetsbillow@gmail.com. Please format subject line (First, last name — Bermuda Triangle) (Follow this link and go to the bottom of the page for a paypal link)

Please submit all poems in one document and attach it to the email.

Submit Early – If you are worried about submitting earlier and paying for an entry you will have to withdraw, don’t worry! We will allow you to replace withdrawn poems until the end of the reading period.

If you need to withdraw a poem, please do so by replying to the confirmation email sent for your entry.

Submissions are open starting: November 15th, 2016

Submission deadline: April 30th, 2017 **Open**

Click here to go to contest page