Tucson Poetry Festival™ XXI

presents

with co-sponsor
Reader's Oasis
the
20th Annual Statewide Poetry Contest

The winner of the Statewide Poetry Contest will read the winning poem at Tucson Poetry Festival™ XXI and will receive a $150 cash award. Second and Third Place winners each receive $50 cash awards.

Deadline: March 10, 2003
Judge: Jorie Graham
Entry Fee: $10.00

Contest Rules:

1. Open to all Arizona poets who have not published --through the Internet, self-publication, or any other press -- a full-length collection or chapbook of poetry. No previously published poems are acceptable. Only one entry per poet will be accepted.

2. Entrants poems are NOT governed by the theme of Tucson Poetry Festival™ XXI. There are NO restrictions on form or content.

3. Entrants must submit two (2) identical copies of up to six (6) pages of recent work. Only one poem may appear on a single page; poems of more than one page in length are acceptable. Entrants' name must NOT appear on manuscript pages. Please staple the individual sets of poems together. Photocopied excerpts from books or periodicals will NOT be accepted.

4. Enclose a title page including your name, address, day & evening phone numbers, and titles (or first 2 lines) of the poems submitted. Your check for $10.00, payable to Tucson Poetry Festival Committee™, must also be enclosed. Entries containing incomplete or false information will forfeit Entrant's eligibility for the Contest. No manuscripts will be returned.

Finalists will be notified by March 17th.
Winners will be notified by March 24th.

Mail entries to:

TPF™ Statewide Poetry Contest
P.O. Box 44000
Tucson, Arizona 85733

Entries must be postmarked by March 10, 2003.