2016 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize
Prize: $300 cash prize. Winner and all finalists will receive a one-volume subscription to CALYX Journal and publication on CALYX’s website. All entrants will receive contest results and U.S. entrants will receive a complimentary issue of CALYX Journal.
Dates: March 1 - June 30, 2016, postmarked
Judge: Paulann Petersen
Please submit up to three unpublished poems (six pages maximum). Simultaneous submissions are discouraged. The CALYX editorial collective reads all manuscripts first, then selects 10-20 finalists to send to the final judge.
For postal submissions:
Please send up to three unpublished poems (six pages maximum), cover letter with name and contact information, and $15 reading fee (checks payable to CALYX, Inc.).
Send materials to:
CALYX, Inc.
Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize
PO Box B
Corvallis, OR 97339
For online submissions:
Please upload three unpublished poems (six pages maximum) in a single .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdx file to our online submission manager. Reading fee ($15 + $1 paypal processing fee) is payable with Visa or Mastercard through our secure online payment portal. Do not include name on poems—submissions will be read blind.
To submit online, please visit: www.calyxpress.org/submissions