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DAYBREAK PRESS ANNOUNCES 3RD
ANNUAL SONNET CONTEST
Daybreak Press is proud to announce a call
for entries to the Third Annual Dancing Galliard Sonnet Contest. We seek
original sonnets from new as well as established authors. Sonnets should be
fourteen lines with symmetrical prosody (it should have form enough to create a
musical effect when read aloud). While the judges are somewhat partial to formal
styles, free sonnets such as the American or Innovative sonnet are encouraged as
well as Shakespearean, Petrarchan, and Spenserian sonnets; rhyme is only
recommended for those mature enough (in the craft of poetry) to handle it
professionally.
Contest Guidelines:
- $3 reading fee for first five sonnets, $1 each
thereafter
- Poems must consist of fourteen lines, each line having
no less than three beats and no more than seven, with metrical structure
that works for the particular sonnet (craft it to a plan, and violate that
plan only if it really adds to the poem).
- Prosody is very important in this contest. Sonnets
must have a rhythm that carries from the page to the reader/auditor.
- This year’s panel of judges: David M Pitchford,
Chair, 10-year editor and publisher of Prism
and president of the Poets &
Writers Literary Forum of Springfield, Illinois (PWLF); Siobhan,
author of Through the Longing Daze,
co-author Dialogues; Ethan Lewis, Ph.D., Professor of English
at the University of Illinois at Springfield, coauthor of Conundrums for
the Long Weekend and author of Sangamon Poets: A Critical Anthology:
(Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston, New York: 2007); and Corrine Frisch,
Treasurer for PWLF, President of the Vachel Lindsay Association, as well as
author of numerous chapbooks.
- Submit hard copy*: 3 copies of each sonnet, one sonnet
per page, typed or printed in type (please, no handwriting), with cover
letter; name and contact information should be printed/typed on one copy of
each poem as well as on the cover letter. Make check/money order out to
Pitch-Black LLC. Mail to:
Dancing Galliard Sonnet Contest
Pitch-Black LLC
3360 Carman Avenue
Springfield, IL
62703
Prizes:
- Grand Prize (awarded for the judges' choice of
a group of three or more sonnets): $100US plus publication in
Daybreak's Prism Quarterly.
- Galliard Sonneteer (blue ribbon): $50US,
publication in Prism Quarterly.
- Journeyman: 2 @ $25US and
publication in Prism Quarterly.
- All prize winners will receive award certificates as
well as one copy of the Prism Quarterly issue in which the winners
are announced and the sonnets showcased.
- Entries not chosen for prizes may be chosen for
publication—entrants will be notified and offered the option of publication.
(Pitch-Black LLC reserves the right to make no award(s) should no entry be
deemed suitable for publication. This has not previously occurred; in fact,
we gave away $100 more in 2007 than advertised. Contest Chair, David M
Pitchford, reserves the right to INCREASE prizes based on number and quality
of entries.)
Deadlines:
- All entries must be postmarked by 31 October 2007.
Winners will be notified on or before 31 December 2007. Winners will
be announced on the website, and winning sonnets showcased in the first
Prism Quarterly issue of 2008.
Submission:
- Snail Mail: submissions are accepted by postal
mail in standard manuscript format (i.e. one-inch margins, readable fonts,
double spaced pages, neatly typed or printed, etc.). Please include cover
letter of no more than one page; include email and contact information. SASE
for response; manuscripts will be shredded and recycled. Mail to:
Dancing Galliard Sonnet Contest c/o Pitch-Black LLC, 3360 Carman Avenue, Springfield,
IL 62703.
Additional inquiries should be made to
David Pitchford
Additional inquiries should be made to
David Pitchford
We encourage submitting writers to read our publications for
insight into our tastes. Please check out our eclectic print journal
Prism Quarterly. |
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