Clemson Literary Festival

The Smoking Poet’s First Annual Poetry Contest is open to all poets everywhere, new, experienced, or smoky.


An entry fee of $5 per submission of 3 poems is required, payment to be made through PayPal. We will send you an invoice upon receipt of your entry.


Entries must be submitted as a Word doc file in Times New Roman, 12-point font, and each poem must appear on a separate page. The author’s name, address, and telephone number must appear in the upper right hand corner. Line count must not exceed 30. You may send as many entries as you like, but a $5 entry fee will be invoiced for each set of 3 or less poems. Please include a short bio in the body of your e-mail.


Prizes will be awarded to the top three poems: first prize, $100; second prize, $50; third prize, $25, and one honorable mention will receive a copy of SMOKE by Dorianne Laux.
The contest winners will be published in the winter issue of The Smoking Poet, online in mid December 2008.


Submission deadline for the contest is November 30, 2008. Please send your submission with the subject line stating CONTEST/Last Name to thesmokingpoet@gmail.com

Panel of judges includes Zinta Aistars, managing editor of The Smoking Poet; Dorianne Laux, poet extraordinaire; J. Conrad Guest, co-founder of The Smoking Poet; Russell Rowland, editor at The Smoking Poet.

Thanks for the digital invitation.


If you happen to know any writers, I am still seeking submissions for my anthology. Full details are at my regular site, www. secretpressusa. org.


Sincerely,
Jason