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Burning the Midnight Oil Poetry Contest

Strange name for a poetry contest, right? Maybe, but you know what we mean. You stay up late at night, writing, writing, writing because the words won't leave you alone. Great poems are born at such times. One part angst, another part inspiration. Words that burn right through the paper and into your soul. Words that touch a nerve, twist your emotions. That's what we're looking for. 

Submission Guidelines:

For a free critique, simply write "free critique" on your entry.

  • Any style or form allowed. Any subject (no porn or gore). One poem per single-spaced page.
  • Include name, address, e-mail, and title of poem at the top of the submission.

  • Entry fee: $7 per poem, or 3 for $20 Limit three entries (1 poem = 1 entry). Checks payable to: The Write Helper.
     
  • Unpublished at the time of submission, original work of the contestant.
  • Deadline: October 31, 2011.
  • Prizes: 1st place - $100, 2nd place - $50, 3rd place - $25.
  • For free critique,  write "free critique" on entry and include an e-mail address (or business sized, self-addressed envelope).
     
  • Mail entries in 9 x 12 envelope to: 


Burning the Midnight Oil Poetry Contest

c/o Amy Harke-Moore

104 Harke Lane

Old Monroe, MO 63369.


Do NOT send by certified mail.

  • For electronic submission, paste poem into the body of an email along with the title, your name and address, and send to: amy@thewritehelper.com. Select an option below and click on the PAY NOW button at the bottom of this page to send payment. (For processing electronic submissions, each entry is an additional $1.) After we receive your payment, you will be notified that we received your entry. 

Contest is open to all poets. Winning poem posted, winner profiled. Winners' list posted the first week of December. Cash prizes and critiques mailed in the month of January. For a list of winners, include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Decision of judges is final. Not responsible for lost or misdirected entries. Poems will not be returned.

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