2009 FALL CONFERENCE SOMETHING'S FISHY POETRY CONTEST
If you are planning to attend the 2009 OSPA fall conference in Newport,
you are invited to enter the "Something's Fishy" Conference Poetry
Contest. All attendees, with the exception of the SF (Something's
Fishy) contest coordinator, are invited to submit!
Fall Conference Dates: October 16-17, with optional activities planned for the 18th as well!
First Prize: Your conference hotel stay (Friday and Saturday night, La Quinta, South Beach, Newport) free!
Second Prize: One night of your conference stay (Holiday Inn Express, South Beach, Newport) free!
Third Prize: Your 2009 fall conference registration fee free!
The deadline is approaching!
Postmark Deadline: July 3, 2009
Cost: 1 poem: $5
2-3 poems: $10
Limit 3 poems per person.
Make your check out to Oregon State Poetry Association
Theme: "Something's Fishy": please interpret however you like; feel
free to be literal, metaphoric, metaphysical, mystical, blatant, etc.
Poems: 39 line limit, not counting white space (Why not 40? Because something's fishy!)
Winners will read their poems at the Friday night reception on October
16 in Newport. Three Honorable Mentions will also be chosen for
recognition.
Judge: TBA; a non-OSPA, non-Oregon resident poet (Nothing fishy here).
Send: 2 copies of 1-3 poems; one copy should have contact information
(name, address, phone number, email) with the poem, and one copy should
have only the poem. One poem per page. Regular, 12 point font on white
paper, please.
Mail to: Christine Delea, SF Contest Coordinator
106 Randall Court
Oregon City, OR 97045
Winners will be notified in August!
Questions? Please contact the SF Contest Coordinator at
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2009 Fall Contest Rules/Info |
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Portland Pen Poetry Contest |
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TWENTY-THIRD
ANNUAL
PORTLAND PEN POETRY
CONTEST
By
The Portland Branch of NLAPW
DEADLINE: November
7, 2009 (postmarked)
ENTRY FEE: $5
per poem (check or money order—no cash)
$4 per poem
if entries received by August 31st
AWARDS: First
Place $150; Second Place $50; Third Place $25
CONTEST RULES:
Any form; any
style; 40 line limit strictly
enforced. No e-mail or fax entries. One poem per page; two-page poems must be
stapled together.
Two copies of each typed or computer-printed poem should be single-spaced
with no photos or decorations. Copy
one must have your name, complete
address, telephone number and/or e-mail
address in the upper right-hand
corner. Copy two – no identification.
Poems must be in
English, the original work of the author, unpublished
in any form, and not a winner beyond
Finalist or Honorable Mention in any other contest.
The Contest is
open to adult men and women, except members of the Portland Branch, National League of American
Pen Women.
No poems will be
returned. All rights revert to the
author.
First, Second, and Third Place
Winning Poems will be published in ThePortland
Pen, the newsletter of the NLAPW, Portland Branch.
Honorable
Mentions will be awarded by certificate as merited.
Please tell us
where you discovered our contest.
Send a SASE for
the Winner’s List.
Send TO: Portland Branch, NLAPW
Joan A. McLaren
Henson
12356 SW King George Drive
King City, OR 97224
Questions? E-mail
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Spring 2009 Contest Winners |
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2009 Student Contest Winners |
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Volunteer Needed
OSPA Student Contest Chair:
The Student Contest Chair/Committee is responsible for creating a
contest brochure, publicizing the student poetry contest, receiving and
distributing the entries to the judges, collecting the judges' results,
creating and distributing the winners' list, organizing and running the
awards ceremony, contacting winners, publicizing the winners, getting
copies of the winning poems to the NFSPS Manningham Awards competition
(2 of the 4 divisions only) and to the CASCADIA editor, sending one
winning poem into the NFSPS Student contest category, and communicating
in a variety of ways with teachers and parents. The Chair/Committee may
also look for sources of funding, such as grants, private donations,
and sponsors.
Send inquiries to
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Fall 2008 Conference Photos |
OSPA's Fall Conference was held in Winston and Roseburg, Oregon, on October 17 and 18. NFSPS manuscript winner Daniel Nathan Terry treated us to a moving reading and led workshops on "Turning History into Poetry." Our very own members led a panel on how to succeed at contests.
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Penelope Scambly Schott, winner of the 2008 Oregon Book Award for Poetry |
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Congratulations to OSPA member Penelope Scambly Schott, winner of the 2008 Oregon Book Award Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry for her book, A Is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth.
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Ongoing Call for Book Donations to Oregon Poetry Collection |
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Oregon State Poetry Association and the Oregon State Library are still seeking donations of books for the Oregon Poetry Collection, an inclusive collection of books by Oregon poets, housed at the State Library and open to the public. Part of the collection will circulate, and part--including signed first editions, rare books, and second copies of circulating books--will be non-circulating for the purpose of long-term preservation.
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