The Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund offers a poetry contest to award prizes to young poets with unusual promise. The first year of this writing contest was 2004. The Fund plans to disburse between $125,000 and $200,000 in "Dorothy Prizes" each year, reserving the right to adjust the size and number of awards to suit the quality and quantity of the submissions in any given year. Entries in the poetry competition must be postmarked by October 17, the third Saturday in October
The competition is open to any writer under the age of 40 on November 6, 2009. All poets, published or unpublished, are welcome to enter, but only previously unpublished poems are eligible for the competition.
Each entrant may submit one to three separate poems. Submissions must be in English, the original work of the entrant, and previously unpublished. Poems should express the personal experience of the entrant, so please no translations! Brevity will be appreciated: if more than one poem is submitted, only one of the submitted poems may be more than thirty lines in length.
Entries must be received no later than October 17, the third Saturday in October, 2009. Entries should be submitted by mail to:
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry PrizesPO Box 2306Orinda, California 94563
Each poem must be printed on a separate sheet. Please submit two copies of each poem, with your name and address clearly marked on each page of one copy only. Please include an index card with your name and address, phone number, e-mail address and the title(s) of your poem(s). Poems submitted will not be returned. Foreign entries are exempted from the entry fee because of the hassles of international payments.
follow this link for more information http://www.dorothyprizes.org/
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Ahha! This is the competition I mentioned during the last meeting of MWC-when I said that it had an age restriction-real unfair 'cos otherwise I could have sent any one of my already published poems! Sad!
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