Diana Brebner Prize

Diana Brebner Prize Celebrates Emerging Poets

The Diana Brebner Prize is awarded yearly for the best poem written by a National Capital Region poet, who has not yet been published in book form. The $500 prize honours the late Diana Brebner, an award-winning Ottawa-based poet who was devoted to fostering literary talent among new, local writers.

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2014 Diana Brebner Prize

Guidelines:

• Entry fee is $23.00 for up to two poems, and includes a one-year subscription to Arc, beginning with the Summer issue;
• Payments can be made through PayPal, or by cheque or money order made out to the Arc Poetry Society;
• Length of each poem must not exceed 30 lines (including spaces);
• Entrant’s name, address, e-mail, and phone number must not appear on the poem, but on a separate sheet of paper which also lists the titles of the poems entered;
• Entrants must be residents of the National Capital Region and have not yet published their poetry in book form;
• No simultaneous submissions or previously published poems will be accepted;
• Judging is blind;
• The winner will be published in Arc‘s Summer issue;
• No email submissions will be accepted;
• Entries will not be returned.

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Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by March 15, 2014

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Send entries to:

Diana Brebner Prize

Arc Poetry Magazine

PO Box 81060

Ottawa, Ontario

Canada, K1P 1B1

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Read Past Winners:

2013: “This is a Silent” by Marilyn Irwin

2012: “Enga­ging the core” by Lauren Turner

2011: “Minnowing” by Jenny Haysom

2010: “Lee Krasner’s Grey Period” by Robyn Jeffrey

2009: “Crow, of the Family Corvidae” by Gillian Wallace

2008: “Momentum” by Frances Boyle

2007: “Withdrawal” by Guy Simser

2006: “Hecuba” by Rhonda Douglas

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