$5,250 Tom Howard Poetry
Contest
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1. Here is the fourth and latest Anthology of Prize-winning Poems from both the Tom Howard Poetry Contest and the Margaret Reid Prize for Traditional Verse. Over 100 fascinating, award-winning poems (showcasing over 50 major prize-winners, including 19 of the 21 major winners from the 2007 Margaret Reid Prize and 29 of the 30 major winners from the 2006 Tom Howard Poetry Contest). 60 superb photographs. 194 large-format pages. Only 16.50 for a beautiful print edition. Currently, however, this book is "on special" at Amazon and other bookstores for only $9.95. This promotion may end very soon, so order now from the link below before the price reverts to $16.50 (and that itself is a bargain price for a book of this superlative quality).
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The 6th annual Tom Howard Poetry Contest is now open. A total of $5,250 will be awarded in prize-money for all styles and genres of poetry and verse as follows:
First Prize: $2,000. Second: $1,000. Third: $500. Fourth: $250. Plus five High Distinction Awards of $200 each. Plus five Highly Commended Awards of $100 each. Fourteen cash awards in all, including a First Prize of $2,000.
Grand total: $5,250.
In short, this Contest is a Premier Literary Competition for Original Creative Writing in Poetry or Verse in any Style and on any Theme.
US$5,250 in Cash Prizes, plus online publication for the top fourteen winners. Poets will also be offered the opportunity to have their winning entries published in traditional print form, at no cost to them whatever, in an anthology similar to SAILING IN THE MIST OF TIME, as featured above. Poets will all be completely free to either accept or decline this offer of traditional print publication.
Closing date: September 30, 2008
Entries may be submitted online at http://winningwriters.com/contests/tompoetry/tp_guidelines.php
Visit the above site for email, PayPal and snail mail options.
Entry forms are not required for this Contest, however, by entering you agree to abide by the judge's decisions, and that those decisions are final. If you win a cash prize you agree to allow John H. Reid and Winning Writers to publish your poem online.
Entry fees are US$6 for every 25 lines (or part thereof).
There is no maximum limit on the number of lines (or number of entries) you may submit.
ALL TYPES AND GENRES OF POETRY ARE ACCEPTED
NO RESTRICTIONS ON PREVIOUS PUBLICATION
PRIZE-WINNERS FROM OTHER CONTESTS WELCOME
(SO LONG AS YOU HAVE RETAINED ONLINE PUBLISHING RIGHTS)
Please note that the entry fee of US$6 per 25 lines is calculated on the total number of lines. (Headings and spaces are not counted). If you submit two short poems, one of ten lines and one of 14 lines, the total fee is US$6. If, however, you submit two sonnets (14 lines each), the fee is US$12. If you submit one long poem of 180 lines, the fee is US$48.
If you have any questions, please email johnreid at mail.qango.com
The prizes are pegged in U.S. dollars. Prizes will be paid in other currencies (if required) at equivalent rates of exchange.
The chief judge of all entries in the Contest is John H. Reid. Associate judge is Professor D.C. Konrad.
Free publication in a traditional print format in a paperback book anthology similar to SAILING IN THE MIST OF TIME, will be offered to prizewinning entries. Authors are completely free to accept or decline this offer.
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Tom Howard Poetry 2007 Winners' List
FIRST: Zoe Krasney: Another Country
SECOND: Paul Hamill: A Midcentury Advent
THIRD: Johnmichael Simon: To Sing the World
SEVEN HIGH
DISTINCTION AWARDS (random order):
Helen Bar-Lev:
Patterns of Breath
Noble Collins:
Doug
Debbie Camelin:
Mavillette
Mike Burch:
Leaf Fall
Rollin A.
Lasseter: The Great Secret
Frances
Truscott: Mist Wraiths
Mollybee
Welkin: In the Whit'ning of Day
ELEVEN
HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARDS (random order):
Rollin A.
Lasseter: The Bushel
Noble Collins:
Second Oldest of Seven
Frances
Truscott: Sunshine on a Wooden Floor
Jennifer
Perry: Here
Helen Bar-Lev:
From This Desk
Graham
Lancaster: Freedom Song
Meryl Raw:
Somebody Else
Jerry Betts:
Ballad of Christmas Present
Elizabeth
Melville: Gentile (2002)
Jackie
Richmond: Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
Alicia Patti:
Vino Rosso
TWELVE
COMMENDED AWARDS (random order):
Heather
Nicaise: Crimson Lady
Norma Roth: My
Mother Spoke Volumes
Glory Odemene:
Dance With Me
Meryl Raw:
Signature
Joseph A
Soldati: Remembering Miss Baker
Peter
Endersbee: Grape Vine Dream
Lance Mason:
My Sweater
Mimi Moriarty:
In the Dark
Max West:
Another Street, Filled with Too Much Rain
Aline Taylor:
For Landon
M.E.
Silverman: Explaining the D to You
Elizabeth
Pessl-Rossi: Suspended, February 8, 2007
SHORT-LISTED
(random order):
Paul Gorski:
Becoming Joey
Timothy
Russell: O
Lois Baker:
Desert
Harrison Solow:
Weights and Measures
Frank Salvidio:
To My Niece
Richard W.
Halperin: Lake Garth, Wisconsin: Summer of 1950
Richard W.
Halperin: Letter to my father
Richard W.
Halperin: Portrait of a Portrait of My Wife
Joyce Meyers:
Ancient Wisdom
Joyce Meyers:
Escape
Joyce Meyers:
Edges and signs
Joyce Meyers:
Returning to Honeymoon Beach
Veronica
Yates: Empty Desks
Jennifer M.
Phinney: Afternoon Epiphany
KC Wilder:
butterfly
Fred Kruger:
Watching War Veterans in the March of Time
Douglas
Campbell: A Riff For The Old Guitarist
Kathe L.
Palker: The Electric Fan
Kathe L.
Palker: The Day my Father Ran
Donna Arlynn
Frisinger: Gavin's Rubber-Raft-Ride
Donna Arlynn
Frisinger: Alarm Clock Negotiations
Donna Arlynn
Frisinger: Ode to the Red Bud
Mara Lee Gerke:
Catching Shiners
E.M. Baxter:
Landfill
Vernon Waring:
the thin poem
Vernon Waring:
"password"
Ann Day: Knock
on the Door
Ann Day:
Stumbling On
Emily Brendler
Shoff: Temperature Gradient
Emily Brendler
Shoff: Arrivals, Departures
Elizabeth
Kuzara: Meniscus
Jaime
Courtney: Mama's Other Life
Frances
Truscott: Sunshine on a Wooden Floor
Stella
Shakerchi: Where I Lived
Bert Shaw:
Fish Hawk
Terrence O'Keeffe:
Two Paths to the Temple
Terrence O'Keeffe:
Like a Golden Goblet
Jocelyn
Ortt-Saeed: As the Abyss Nears
Jocelyn
Ortt-Saeed: Language
Dan J.
McDonald: White Widow Woman
David Dennis:
Wren
David Dennis:
So kiss and leave my dying heart
David Dennis:
Nightstalker
Grainne Tobin:
At Eighty
Aline Taylor:
When I Have Time
Noble Collins:
The Bird Girl of Savannah
Noble Collins:
Shadows of a Prism
Noble Collins:
Atlanta Burning
Noble Collins:
August Moons
Bev Siegel:
Recipe for an Autumn Day
George Lotter:
Ico Pete
Lois Baker:
Waiting for Tea in the Hard Seat Coach
Lois Baker:
Wallet
Art Schwartz:
Oregon Morning
Harriet M.
Guthrie: Nostalgia
Mary E.
Donnelly: six haiku
Sylvia
Montgomery Shaw: When the Words Blur
Joseph L.
Troice: Getting Lost
Art Schwartz:
Hawk
Ruth Duke:
Wandering Through the Mountains and Valleys of the Mind
Robert M.
Mariani: Blind Writing
Ruth Sabath
Rosenthal: My Life: The Reel Story
Randall
Rudolph: Book of Souls
Brunetta Two
Lenz: The Conqueror
Jane Ward:
Shades of Blue
Hans J.
Stahlschmidt: Inverness
Hans J.
Stahlschmidt: Beginning
Max West: An
Imagining of Birds
Meryl Raw:
Freedom Dance
Norma Roth:
Going Home
John Arnold:
Tales Revisited
John Arnold:
Stutter
Marie Delgado
Travis: Stars
Kerry Bell:
Spring
Kerry Bell:
Tradition and Change
Jesse Nathan:
Pirouette of the One Overrun
Jesse Nathan:
Elegy Eyes
Elizabeth
Davies: African Child Gone
Elizabeth
Davies: The Flower Exile
Elizabeth
Davies: The Lotus Pond, Bali
Joanna
Catherine Scott: Metamorphosis
Kim Kane:
Words
Terence R.
Seward: Trespassers
Terence R.
Seward: Derelicts
Kelly Malone:
A Tidy Mind
Kelly Malone:
Taken Away
Kelly Malone:
Moishe
Edilson
Alfonso Ferreira: Sudden Love
Cindy Eric:
Full of Promise
Lorraine Mace:
Monopausal Musings
Kimmy Van
Kooten: The Word Pecker and the Witworms
Erna Bennett:
Sadness is private
Erna Bennett:
The last desert
Janet Nevins:
His Touch
Penelope
Cottier: Pages like football fields
Bernard Mann:
A River, A Woman
Mary C.
Antenen: Winger Visitors
Norbert
Hirschhorn: Burma, 1973
Norbert
Hirschhorn: Mnemosyne
Jenny Duncan:
I watch
Kenn Allan:
Land of Broken Dreams
Jennifer
Meyer: Winter Opera
Marina Pilar
Gipps: Death Like a Finger
Jo Carolyn
Beebe: Hopewell Cemetery
Angela Gunn: I
used to have an African brother
Daniel Kirk:
Winged Race
Beebe
Barksdale-Bruner: fibonacci
Rachael
Rhianna: Sensuality
Sharon R.
Haynes: Imagine -- Glory!
Cecil Krieger:
Kneading You at Midnight
Holly Bilski:
Title Holder
Linda Dousay:
Papa's New Baby
Sachin Patel:
Forget
Morney Wilson:
From an Alley, a Flame
Morney Wilson:
I Leave You with a Breath of Ivy
Muriel Harris
Weinstein: On My Eightieth Birthday
Christopher
Blair: After the initial seven
Rollin A.
Lasseter: Farewell