Texas Poetry Chapbook Prize
From Panhandler Publishing:
Texas poet –
This year, Panhandler Publishing will be holding a poetry chapbook contest for Texas residents. All Texas poets are eligible. The reading fee is fifteen dollars. The winner will receive $150 and publication. Each of the contestants will receive a copy of the winning chapbook as well.
Send 20-24 pages of poetry with a check payable to Panhandler Publishing, for the reading fee, and a self-addressed stamped envelope for notification of results to:
Panhandler Publishing, Attn: Chapbook Prize. P.O. Box 30407, Houston, TX 77249, by the deadline of August 31, 2007. The winning chapbook goes to press at the end of the year.
The final judge of the contest submissions will be Naomi Shihab Nye, author of numerous books of poems, including You and Yours (BOA Editions, 2005), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, as well as 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (2002), a collection of new and selected poems about the Middle East, Fuel (1998), Red Suitcase (1994), and Hugging the Jukebox (1982).
Nye has received awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Carity Randall Prize, the International Poetry Forum, as well as four Pushcart Prizes. She has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Wittner Bynner Fellow. In 1988 she received The Academy of American Poets' Lavan Award, selected by W. S. Merwin. She currently lives in San Antonio.
Panhandler Publishing's mission is to bring attention to unknown or emerging poets, through public events, promotion and publication. For the past two years, Panhandler has produced a free poetry quarterly in Houston, Texas. Contributors have come from around the United States and the United Kingdom. Further information will be available at the website: http://www.thepanhandler.org/.
Please spread the word about our contest to anyone who might be interested. The attached pdf file may be downloaded for distribution.
Thank you, and keep writing.
Board of Directors
thepanhandler.org
Texas poet –
This year, Panhandler Publishing will be holding a poetry chapbook contest for Texas residents. All Texas poets are eligible. The reading fee is fifteen dollars. The winner will receive $150 and publication. Each of the contestants will receive a copy of the winning chapbook as well.
Send 20-24 pages of poetry with a check payable to Panhandler Publishing, for the reading fee, and a self-addressed stamped envelope for notification of results to:
Panhandler Publishing, Attn: Chapbook Prize. P.O. Box 30407, Houston, TX 77249, by the deadline of August 31, 2007. The winning chapbook goes to press at the end of the year.
The final judge of the contest submissions will be Naomi Shihab Nye, author of numerous books of poems, including You and Yours (BOA Editions, 2005), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, as well as 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (2002), a collection of new and selected poems about the Middle East, Fuel (1998), Red Suitcase (1994), and Hugging the Jukebox (1982).
Nye has received awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Carity Randall Prize, the International Poetry Forum, as well as four Pushcart Prizes. She has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Wittner Bynner Fellow. In 1988 she received The Academy of American Poets' Lavan Award, selected by W. S. Merwin. She currently lives in San Antonio.
Panhandler Publishing's mission is to bring attention to unknown or emerging poets, through public events, promotion and publication. For the past two years, Panhandler has produced a free poetry quarterly in Houston, Texas. Contributors have come from around the United States and the United Kingdom. Further information will be available at the website: http://www.thepanhandler.org/.
Please spread the word about our contest to anyone who might be interested. The attached pdf file may be downloaded for distribution.
Thank you, and keep writing.
Board of Directors
thepanhandler.org
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