Contest Guidelines

Contest Entry:
Entry fee is $32 (Cdn), which includes a one-year Canadian subscription of Arc*

Contest entry fees may be paid online (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, and e-cheques) or by cheque or money order mailed with contest submissions.

Rules:

• All contest submissions must be submitted by post mail.
• All cheques or money orders (Canadian funds) and made out to the Arc Poetry Society.
• Arc welcomes Poem of the Year entries from Canada, the United States, and around the world. Entrants outside Canada must submit entry fees in Canadian funds. Please include a cheque in Canadian funds, use the online payment option or mail a money order in Canadian funds.
• Entrants may submit up to two unpublished poems with each $32 fee (extra poems: $5 per poem).
• No email submissions accepted.
• Length of each poem must not exceed 100 lines.
• Entrant’s name, address, e-mail and phone number must not appear on the poems, but instead on a separate sheet that also lists the titles of the poems entered.
• Judging is blind.
• No entrants (including winners, honourable mentions, or authors of Editor’s Choice poems) may substitute, before, during, or after judging, a revision of any poem already submitted to the contest.
• No poems will be returned.

Deadline: Entries must be postmarked no later than February 1, 2012.

Shortlist: 50 shortlisted poems, pending permission of their authors, will be eligible for the Readers’ Choice Award. Visit this site between March 15 and April 15, 2011 to read poems our Readers’ Choice selection cast your vote!

Publication: Winning poems will be published in Arc‘s Summer 2012 issue

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