Poetry Contest - August 2009
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Purpose: Have fun, enjoy the competition, and become a better poet by participating in our peer critique process for this contest.
Who Can Enter: This contest is open to all poets. All submissions must be posted and assigned critiques completed by August 31, 2009. Poems must be 50 lines or fewer. You may post additional poems to this site for critique, but only one poem will be eligible for this contest.
Subject Matter: A Bull Fighter. The poem should adhere to our content policy.
Prizes: The winner of this contest will receive $50.
How to Enter: It’s pretty easy
- Create a free account or sign in for existing members.
- Upload your poem; make sure you select “Poetry Contest” as the category.
- Submit your poem for peer critique.
- Complete your assigned reviews, this is discussed more below.
Decisions: There will be 3 rounds of judging.
- Authors from the Review Fuse staff will select the 10 best poems for Round 2.
- Of these 10 poems, Review Fuse management will select the 5 authors who gave the most detailed and well thought out critiques of their peer’s poetry for Round 3.
- The winner will then be selected by 3 creative writing and poetry professors.
Entry Fee: There are no entry fees or purchases of any kind required to enter and win the contest. After you submit your poem to the contest you will be required to complete assigned critiques of other poets (4 for free members and 3 for premium members). You will receive 3 critiques of your poem in return. Those who do not complete their critiques will not be eligible to win the contest.
Rights: All poems remain the sole property of the author. After we have selected the winner we will seek permission from the author to publish the winning poem on our blog. The author is under no obligation to allow this.
Notification: The prize winner will be notified by email on September 12, 2009. We will announce the prize winner on our blog on September 14, 2009.
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May 13th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
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May 29th, 2009 at 6:52 am
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June 3rd, 2009 at 11:13 am
Having a theme does put people (including me) off. I think people prefer to write about something they choose, not something assigned to them.
I would only be interested if the theme was removed.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
I think having themes are necessary to compel writers of different contexts, such as myself. I usually do not write poetry because I am mainly into writing screenplays, but if the given topic is intriguing enough I will force myself to write a poem. This was the case for my father’s eulogy. In the case of this competition I am interested, because I have been to Spain, and I have seen a bullfight. I have formulated a good argument in regards to bullfighting, and now that this contest has caught my eye I think I will give it a stab! PS, if it weren’t for catching a theme that interested me in the Hillerman Mystery Novel Contest, I would have never provoked myself to write a novel…so yes, I think themes are necessary to open up previously closed off writers such as myself.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
i’m all for prompt contests–sometimes having that added level of challenge gets the adrenaline going, the juices flowing. i haven’t entered yet because i wasn’t aware of the contest! i really need to check this page more often . . .
July 24th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
As a writer, I think we all need to come out of our comfort zone.. A theme is challenging.. We can all write about things we know and are comfortable with. To be creative, we must each challenge ourselves to step out of the known and jump into the unknown. Why limit yourself to a box? Challenge yourself.. otherwise you limit yourself!
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