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[Shannon Caldwell]

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Any poets in Kentucky?

Subject: poetry contest: KY State Poetry Society


Kentucky State Poetry Society Contest
www.kystatepoetrysociety.org

Note: There is no category 13 or 17.

Category One: Grand Prix $5 per poem-4 poem limit
1) Grand Prix
$200, $100, $50 Any subject, any form.
Sponsor: KSPS Contest Fund

Category Two: KSPS Members Only
2) Chaffin/Kash Award Honoring Lillie D. Chaffin and
Dr. Vernon O. Kash. $100, $50, $25
Any subject, contemporary form. Sponsor: KSPS Endowment Fund

Categories 3-24: $2 entry fee per poem.
KSPS members only: $12 entry fee for ten or more poems

3) President's Prize
$100, $50, $25 Any topic, 32 lines max
Sponsor: Sally Adkins
KSPS President

4) I Really Shouldn't Tell You This
$75, $50, $25 Any style, serious or humorous.
Sponsor: Green River Writers

5) Lost Things $20, $15, $10
Any style or form that conforms to Pegasus' length and line limit.

6) The Heartland Review Prize $30, $20, $10
20 lines max

7) Appalachia: Past and Present $25, $15, $10
Any style, form Sponsor: Pulaski Writers' Critique Group

8) What If? $25, $15, $10; 1 st, 2nd, 3rd HMs 24 lines max, rhymed
Sponsor: Angela Barker Thomas

9) Bill Riley Memorial $25, $15, $10
"A Big Move"; e.g. moving family overseas
Sponsor: Helen Morris

10) Mountain Ballad $30, $20, $10
Rhymed ballad form. Sponsor: Flatwoods Poetry
Society

11) Furrbawl Prize $30/$20/$10, plus a signed
clothbound Furrbawl Poems for first place, and signed paperbacks
for second, third and honorable mention. Any style, any length, on
the theme of (non-gender-specific) man's relationship to nature
Sponsor: Broadstone Books Judge: Stephen Cope

12) In Memory of Louis Bermudez $25, $15, $10
A romantic poem in Sonnet form Sponsor: Don Bramkamp

14) Treasurer's Prize
$25, $15, $10 No rhyme; palpable aspect of
money or treasure in your life. Sponsor: Terri Alekzander

15) The Bible
$25, $15, $10, $5, $5, $5 Religious poem based on a Bible
passage. Book, chapter, and verse # must be under the poem's
title. Sponsor: R. Meir Morton

16) A Good Life
$25, $15, $10; 3 HMs Any style, form: 32 lines max
Sponsor: Glenna Glee

18) Hespeler Memorial $25, $10, $5
Any style, form with a nature theme.
Sponsor: Becky Alexander

19) Faces of Freedom $25, $15, $10
32 lines max, rhymed or free verse The responsibility of freedom;
freedom as opposed to bondage, as a human or as a nation.
Sponsor: Miriam L. Woolfolk

20) Speculative Poem $20, $10, $5
Science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror. No erotica or
splatterpunk. Sponsor: Karen L. Newman

21) The Gift
$20, $10, $5 Tangible gift, special, odd, or
ordinary. Any form, line limit: 20 Sponsor: Carol Ogdon Floyd

22) Ben Ray Memorial
$20, $10, $10 Ode to the Golden Girls
16 lines max Sponsor: Hazel T. Ray

23) Strings From the Heart
$15, $10, $5; 3 HMs Ballad of 4-line stanzas with an
ABCB rhyme scheme. Sponsor: D. M. Renshaw

24) Contest Chair Prize
$30, $20, $10 Villanelle

25) Jim Proctor Memorial
$25, $15, $5 Poet's Choice, 18 Line Limit
Sponsor: Vada Scott Johnson


All poems must:
be the original work of the entrant,
cannot be published elsewhere, and cannot have won a cash prize.
be titled with something other than the contest category title.
be typed, photocopied, or computer-generated, single-spaced, on one side
of 8 1/2 X 11 plain white paper.
use a 32 or less line limit (when not otherwise stated)-ballads may be
longer.
use a 56 character (including punctuation and spaces) line width.
adhere to the style, form, or subject stated in the category description. If
there is no statement regarding these, any style, subject, and/or form is
fine.
Failure to follow these rules may result in your poems being disqualified.

To Submit Poems:
Send 2 clean copies of each poem.
On both copies, place category number and name of category in the
upper left corner.
On one copy, place your name, address, phone number, and email in the upper
right corner.
Separate copies from the originals and organize each group in numerical
order.
Include a cover sheet, listing your
name, address, phone number, email address, category number and name,
and titles of poems entered for each category.
Submit only one poem per category, except for Grand Prix.
No poem may be entered in more than one category.
Do not send your only copy(ies), as poems will not be returned.
Enclose a #10 size SASE (self-addressed, stamped envelope).
Contest Fees:
Category 1, Grand Prix: $5 per poem
(members and non-members), 4 poem limit.

All other categories: $2 each for non-
members, 1 poem limit per category
KSPS members may enter poems for
$1 per poem (except for Grand Prix) OR submit poetry in any number of
categories (except Grand Prix) for a $12 flat fee
(flat fee rate for members only). .
Make checks and money orders
payable to KSPS Contest Fund; please do not send cash.
Overpayments will not be returned.
Underpayments may result in disqualification.
Awards and Winning Poems:
Awards for winning poems will be presented at the Annual Awards Banquet.
The 2007 Awards Banquet
will be held October 12-14 at Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park.
Please see the KSPS web site (www.kystatepoetrysociety.org) for
details. Winning poets unable to attend will receive their awards in the
mail.
First place poems will be published in Pegasus, the KSPS journal.
You may purchase copies by sending $3.50 for each copy to:
Miriam Woolfolk
101 S. Hanover Avenue, #5C
Lexington, KY 40515-138

2007 KSPS Poetry Contest
Deadline: June 30, 2007

Mail poems and fees to:
Mick Kennedy
KSPS Contest Chair
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
Email submissions not accepted.

To join KSPS: Please visit our web site:
www.kystatepoetrysociety.org or write to Angela Barker Thomas
for information at: 509 Singleton Branch Road
Wellington, KY 40387



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