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Defenestration.net Lengthy Poem Contest 2023/ How To Apply (Prize: $300)

Defenestration.net Lengthy Poem Contest 2023

Defenestration.net is currently reading entries for a lengthy poem contest in 2023. The poem must be of at least three 120 lines, or roughly chapbook-length. Poem cycles are accepted. They do not want prose poems. It is best to divide it into parts or sections, though this is not a strict requirement.

Submission Guidelines

Defenestration.net Lengthy Poem Contest 2023

  • Your work must include line breaks, no prose poems.
  • Must be at least 120 lines, not counting the title, partitions between stanzas, or paratextual elements– such as epigraphs or dedications– while no longer than, roughly, chapbook length.
  • Due to their internet publication and its daily posts, it is best to divide the work into parts or sections of some sort, though this is certainly not a strict requirement. Parts should be separately titled, numbered or otherwise differentiated from one another. Uninterrupted works will still be considered.
  • Poem cycles will be considered.
  • They require clear writing. This means your poem should have a stance, an argument, or defense. This may be published, at your prerogative, alongside the rest of the work.
  • Send your best work. You will write better, soon.
  • Edit till there is no editing left to be done. View Editing Tips.
  • As describing taste for poems is unavoidably a futile endeavor, they recommend poems of the current contest judge Paul-Newell Reaves’ favorite poets, along with two poets that he does not appreciate.
  • Favorites: W.B. Yeats for his epiphanies; Elizabeth Bishop for her softness; Kahlil Gibran for his philosophizing; Jane Shore for her characters; T.S. Eliot for his grandiosity ; Lauryn Hill for her meta-narratives.
  • Does not appreciate:Wallace Stevens; W.S. Merwin; Edmund Spenser (author of the Faerie Queene)
  • Please include a cover letter.
  • Add a line count.
  • Please include a phone number, should the replies be lost. In no way will it be distributed or published.
  • You may choose to include a brief bio in the third person. The proudest moments are the opportunities to present under-published authors. If you have none or few prior publications, be sure to tell them.
  • Email all you wish the contest organizers to consider in a single downloadable document– PDFs not preferred, as they are difficult to transcribe to our site–
  • MUST include the subject line “Lengthy Poem Contest”— to pnrenterprizes@gmail.com 
  • Deadline January 3rd, 2023.

 

Prize

The prize money is 300 U.S. dollars to a single winner of a
Lengthy Poem Contest.

Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam

Chioma Iwunze-Ibiam writes prose fiction and creative non-fiction. She is the founder of creativewritingnews.com. Her first novella, Finding Love Again was published by Ankara Press. Her second novella, The Heiress' Bodyguard was shortlisted for the Saraba Manuscript Awards. She currently works as content marketer for various online businesses. You can follow her at @cwritingnws.

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