CONTEST

Canadian Poetry Association: annual poetry competition Deadline: Extended to January 30th 2008

How to enter:

The Canadian Poetry Association: annual poetry competition is open to CPA members only. If you wish to submit to this contest please join the Canadian Poetry Association online at www.canadianpoetryassoc.com/pg15.html. Canadians who live abroad and who write in English qualify as well if they are CPA members. We offer 3 cash prizes or equivalent, 1st 2nd & 3rd (amount dependent upon quantity of submissions) with up to 10 honourable mentions. Winning poets will have their work published on the Internet and, depending on the number of entries, maybe in a paperback anthology in 2008. Entries will be blind-judged by two people: a poetry publisher, and a poetry editor or published poetry author. All judges are CPA members in good standing. Judges are to be determined.

Entry fee: 

$25 for one to five poems;

please pay in Canadian dollars. U.S. and International poets, please pay in U.S. funds.

Deadline: 

Submissions must be postmarked by December 31, 2007 NOTE: extended to January 30th 2008

Competition rules:

a. Please submit your best poem or your five best poems (depending on the registration fee you choose.)

b. Poems must be in English; original and unpublished; typed, single space, on 8-1/2 x 11 white paper; no more than 48 lines in length.

c. Your name must not appear on your entry. Please include a separate page that contains your name, address, e-mail, titles of entries, line length of entries, and a brief two-sentence biography.

d. Poetry submitted by CPA: annual poetry competition judge(s) is not eligible.

e. All entries are to be mailed in. No electronic submissions will be accepted. Entries will not be returned.

f. The CPA along with River Bones Press requests first electronic and print rights to publish winning poets' works on the Internet and in an anthology. Copyright will revert back to the poets after publication.

g. A list of winners will be posted on the CPA Blog http://cpatalkpoetry.wordpress.com and on the CPA Official Website www.canadianpoetryassoc.com . If you'd like to receive a copy by mail, please submit a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your submission.

h. Winners will be notified by February 15, 2008. The top three winners agree to submit a two- or three-line biography and a picture of themselves (optional) for publication on the web. All winners agree to have their poems published in a possible anthology and on-line at www.canadianpoetryassoc.com.

i. Winners will be notified of payment by February 15, 2008.

Please send your poem(s), cover letter, and a cheque or money order,

payable in Canadian or U.S. funds and made out to "Canadian Poetry Association," to

Canadian Poetry Association

Annual Poetry Competition

311 Elmwood Dr. Suite 4-212

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

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(C) 2006 CPA. Authors retain copyright.

Please note, however, that we do not advertise competitions that charge entry fees unless the ratio of fee to prize-money fulfils one of the following conditions:

the fee for the first poem should be not more than 1% of the 1st prize OR 0.5% of the total prize money.

The only exception we make is for competitions that are specifically fund-raisers for some well-recognized charity - e.g. cancer research, relief fund for some natural disaster

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