Beyond Baroque First Annual Poetry Contest

Beyond Baroque is one of the United States' leading independent Literary/Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to literary and cultural production, contact, interaction, and community building. Founded in 1968, it is based in the Old Town Hall in Venice, California, near the Pacific Ocean. It offers a program of readings, free workshops, publishing, bookstore, archiving, and education.  Like most art / cultural centers, Beyond Baroque is struggling to meet its financial obligations.

Toward that end, they are hosting a Poetry Contest - so yes, there is a fee, but there are cash prizes for the top 3 poets ($500, $250, $100) and the reader's fee will go back into keeping the doors open on this beloved center.  The final judge will be Tony Barnstone

CONTEST RULES
1. Submit up to three unpublished poems, 40line limit.
2. All themes and styles welcome.
3. Deadline Sept. 1st. 2010 (postmarked)
4. No ID on poems; poet's name, address, phone, e-mail address and poem titles on cover sheet.
5. Send entries, including $15 reading fee, to: 

Beyond Baroque Contest

681 Venice Blvd., 

Venice, CA 90291.

6. Checks payable to Beyond Baroque
7. No SASE. Poems not returned.

Note: A reading/reception will be held for the three cash winners and five top finalists at Beyond Baroque on Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010.

Rattle Poetry Prize - $5,000

We don't always promote contests but the Rattle Poetry Prize is worthy of a little blogpress.

There is a $18 reader's fee, but that $18 also buys you a year's subscription to the magazine and here's the real draw.....

First prize for a single poem is $5,000.  They also give honorable mention to ten others along with a $100 for each of them and all eleven poems are published in the winter edition of Rattle.

You can go here to read the email guidelines for submission (separate link for hardcopy submission).