Prose poem contest

Prose Poem Postcard Prize Contest

Meridian is excited to announce an innovative new contest. The winner of our Prose Poem Postcard Prize Contest will be printed on a postcard, and will receive an award of $100 and 100 stamped, ready-to-send postcards. The postcard will also be distributed with the Summer 2007 issue of Meridian and handed out at the 2007 AWP Conference to promote the magazine.

THE DEADLINE IS MIDNIGHT ON JANUARY 31st, 2007!!!

CONTEST SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

• This contest requires a $3 (U.S. dollars) entry fee. After uploading your submission, you will be directed to a secure credit card payment page. For your entry fee, one of our editors will review it for a final decision. We expect to announce the winner in mid-February 2007.
• You may submit up to 3 prose poems per entry. There is no set length limit, but the idea is that this has to fit on a 4" × 6" postcard, so let common sense be thy guide. All submissions must be unpublished work; simultaneous submissions are fine.
• Please submit only PDF, word processor, or text files: Acrobat (.pdf), MS Word (.doc), MS Word RTF (.rtf), and text (.txt). Use your word processor's "Save As" feature to select one of these file types. Any other file type will be rejected and deleted.
• Artistic types are welcome to design a 4" x 6" postcard featuring their work, but we must receive it in .PDF format. No Quark, Illustrator, or image files, please.
• Shorter filenames without spaces work best.
• Don't forget to give us a working e-mail (one valid through May of 2007). It's the only way for us to contact you.
• Entries will be considered for regular publication in Meridian, as well.
• You may enter more than one time; however, in the past, entering muliple times has not significantly increased a contestant's odds. If you do wish to enter more than once, please complete the contest submission process and then return to the main page to submit again, rather than using the Back button on your browser.

ELIGIBILITY:

• Current UVA students, staff, and faculty are NOT eligible.
• UVA alumni who graduated before June 2004 may enter the contest.
• Former Meridian staff are not eligible. (If you've been on our masthead, don't enter.)
• Friends, relatives, and former teachers of current Meridian staff are not eligible.
• Current subscribers may enter the contest for the same $3 fee. Your subscription will be extended by one year (and you will remain, as always, one of our favorite people in the world, even if you get treated like everyone else for the purposes of the contest).