Long Poem Contest

The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites entries from Canadian, American, and overseas authors for the 2007 Long Poem Prize. Two awards of $500 each are given, plus payment at the rate of $30 per printed page upon publication. Poets contributing to The Malahat Review have also won or been nominated for National Magazine Awards for Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. The Long Poem Prize is offered every second year, alternating with the Novella Prize.

Guidelines
* A single poem or cycle of poems with a minimum of 10 published pages to a maximum of 20 published pages. A published page is up to 32 lines (or less), including breaks between stanzas.

* No restrictions as to subject matter or aesthetic approach apply.

* Entry fee required:

$35 CAD for Canadian entries;
$35 US for American entries;
$40 US for entries from Mexico and outside North America.

* Entrants receive a one-year subscription to The Malahat Review for themselves or a friend.

* Entries previously published, accepted or submitted for publication are not eligible.

* Entrants’ anonymity is preserved throughout the judging. Contact information (including an email address) should not appear on the submission, but along with the title on an enclosed separate page.

* No submissions will be accepted by email.

* No entries will be returned.

* Entrants will not be notified by separately by letter or separate letter about the judges’ decisions even if a SASE is included for this purpose.

* Winners and finalists will be notified via email.

* Winners will be announced with the publication of their entries in The Malahat Review’s Summer 2007 issue, on the Malahat web site, and in Malahat lite, the magazine’s quarterly e-newsletter, in July 2007.

* Send entries to:

The Malahat Review
Long Poem Prize
University of Victoria
Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria B.C., Canada, V8W 2Y2

* Inquiries: malahat@uvic.ca or www.malahatreview.ca

Deadline: February 1, 2007 (postmark date).