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August 20, 2008
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Poetry Awards
 We're pleased to announce the only Writer's Digest competition exclusively for poets! Regardless of style—rhyming, free verse, haiku and more—if your poems are 32 lines or fewer, we want them all.
Entry Deadline: Friday, December 19, 2008 For entrants paying with a credit card, we will accept entries submitted online. First Place: $500 Second Place: $250 Third Place: $100 Fourth Through Tenth Place: $25 Eleventh Through Twenty-Fifth Place: $50 gift certificate for Writer's Digest Books. * The First-Place winner has the option of a FREE package from Lulu.com * The names and poem titles of the First through Tenth-Place winners will be printed in the August 2009 Writer's Digest, and winners will receive the 2009 Poet's Market. The 4th Annual Writer's Digest Poetry Awards Collection The 1st- through 50th-place poems will be printed in a special competition collection, published by Lulu.com. Use the entry form to order your copy or purchase a copy online using a credit card. (Publication date: May, 2009. You are not required to purchase the collection to enter the competition.) For entrants paying with a credit card, we will accept entries submitted online. Entry Deadline: Friday, December 19, 2008
1. The competition is open to poems 32 lines or fewer. Entries longer than 32 lines will be automatically disqualified. Long poems may not be broken into segments and entered as separate entries. Each poem must be self-contained and must be titled. Style and subject matter are open. Judging is blind. Type the line count on a separate cover sheet along with your name, address, phone number and email address. For entrants submitting online, the entry form you fill out replaces the cover sheet. You must not include your contact information when you place your poem in the box reserved for your poem. Entries received with names and other identifying information on the poems will be disqualified. 2. Entry fee: $10 for first poem, $5 for each additional poem. You may enter as many poems as you wish, but all poems must be entered at the same time. If you enter one poem or batch of poems and then submit another entry later, you must again pay the full entry fee of $10 for the first poem, $5 for each additional poem. You may send one check (in U.S. funds) and one entry form for a single entry or batch of entries. Entries received without an entry fee will be disqualified. Entry fees may not be sent after poems have been received. There will be a $10 fee for declined credit cards or returned checks. 3. All entries must be in English, original, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere at the time of submission. "Unpublished" means poems may not have appeared in print or on the Internet for public consumption (i.e., poems posted on a public forum or on your Web site may not be entered). Writer's Digest reserves the one-time publication rights to the 1st through 50th-place winning entries to be published in a Writer's Digest publication, on Writer's Digest's Web site or in other digital materials. 4. If you are submitting your entry via regular mail, all entries must be on one side of 8-1/2 x 11 or A4 white paper. Unusual typefaces, colors, and graphics should not be used. Poems will not be returned so keep a copy for your records. 5. Entries must be postmarked by December 19, 2008. Online entries will close after midnight EST on December 19. 6. Winners will be notified by March 6, 2009. If you have not been contacted by this date, you may assume that your entry is not a finalist and may be marketed elsewhere. 7. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard with your entry if you want to be notified of its receipt. We cannot notify you personally of your poem's status before the winners are announced. This includes phone and email status inquiries. If entering online, you will receive a confirmation email for each entry you submit. Please note, the emailed confirmation will come from writingcompetition@fwpubs.com. 8. Winners' names will appear in the August 2009 issue of Writer's Digest magazine. Their names and poem titles will be posted at www.writersdigest.com after that time. 9. The following are not permitted to enter the competition: employees of F+W Media, Inc., and their immediate families and Writer's Digest contributing editors and correspondents as listed on the masthead. Privacy Promise To submit your entry online, visit our secure online entry form. To enter via regular mail, use the printable form, and send it with your entries and entry fee to: WD Poetry Awards
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