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CONTACT:
Standing Rock Cultural Arts
257 N Water St
Kent OH 44240
330.673.4970
info@standingrock.net
www.standingrock.net
Chapbook inquiries to: SRCAChapbook@gmail.com
Also at www.twitter.com/Kent_SRCA and www.facebook.com/SRCAKent
WHO: Standing Rock Cultural Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit cultural arts organization in Kent, Ohio
WHAT: SRCA Rock in the River Annual Open Poetry Chapbook Competition
-Poetry Chapbook Contest – to result in publication & prize to winner, copies to submitters. Submissions begin July 1st and end September 30th.
-Winning chapbook will be released as the new title in the SRCA Rock in the River Literary Series in early 2013
WHERE: Electronic entries are strongly encouraged and preferred. We now accept submissions at www.srcarockintheriver.submishmash.com!
-Snail Mail Entries for those without internet access may be sent to SRCA Chapbook, 257 N. Water St., Kent, OH 44240.
-PLEASE READ ALL GUIDELINES AND RIGHTS PRIOR TO SENDING SUBMISSION.
ENTRY FEE: $9 per manuscript submission, payable on Submishmash (including PayPal options); Snail mail entries may pay by check payable to SRCA.
-Fees will be used to defray expenses of the contest. Any remaining fees will benefit our nonprofit arts programming including the literary arts. Submishmash submissions begin July 1, 2012.
WHEN: See calendar outline below:
- Entries accepted: Jul 1-Sep 30th (electronic entries must be received by Sep 30th midnight; postmark must be dated by Sep 30th)
-Winners Notified electronically in early December
-Books mailed or ready to be picked up in early spring (February 1st approximately)
PURPOSE: To promote the literary arts in our general area, promote poet/s with publication, and potentially raise funds for SRCA arts programming through any remaining entry fees/gallery sales of winning chapbook.
PRIZES: The winner of the contest will receive 25 copies & $50 cash prize
-Each entrant to the contest aside from winner will receive a copy of the winning chapbook (multiple copies or titles as available if multiple entries)
-In the event of a tie, each winner will receive 15 copies & $25
JUDGES: Guest (Blind) Judges Lynne Albert, John Dorsey, and Allen Hines (with potential semifinalist/finalist Editor/Judge Tina Puckett)
LYNNE ALBERT has a bachelor's degree in Children's Book Illustration from The University of Findlay but has directed her creative energy primarily towards poetry lately. At Valparaiso University, where she began undergraduate study, she served as Assistant Editor of the literary magazine The Lighter, in which her work also appeared.. She has additionally had poetry and prose published in the literary magazines at the University of Findlay and Ursuline College. Most recently, Lynne had poems included in the Vending Machine: Poetry for Change and Hessler Street Poetry Anthology compilations. Active in the Cleveland literary community, Lynne’s creative focus includes raising awareness about mental illness and homelessness. She has been working on a poetry compilation about her volunteer experiences at a homeless shelter, where she was involved with therapeutic poetry and sketching groups.
JOHN DORSEY currently resides in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including harvey keitel, harvey keitel harvey keitel, with S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg (Butcher Shop Press/Rose of Sharon Press/Temple of Man, 2005), Teaching the Dead to Sing: The Outlaw's Prayer (Rose of Sharon Press, 2006), and Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books, 2010). His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
ALLEN MICHAEL HINES, winner of a 2007 Stan and Tom Wick poetry scholarship, is a writer and researcher for the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador. His chapbook Screaming Freedom was published in 2009. Allen’s poetry has appeared in several publications and is forthcoming in an anthology from BlazeVOX.
TINA PUCKETT is a graduate student of the Northeast Ohio MFA (NEOMFA) program with a concentration in Poetry. She has appeared in Phoebe (SUNY), The Penguin Review, MUSE, The Listening Eye, Luna Negra, Jenny, and the Hessler Street Poetry Anthology amongst other publications and currently has a poem exhibited in The Wick Poetry Center’s Speak Peace Traveling Exhibition. Tina additionally serves as the Editor for the series and previously served as Editor-In-Chief for (then national) literary journal Canto.
INFO AND UPDATES: www.standingrock.net.
Entry Guidelines: Please see our website for detailed entry guidelines. Standing Rock Cultural Arts reserves the right to disqualify any entry that does not follow the guidelines provided above.
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Standing Rock Cultural Arts is a nonprofit art and educational organization located at 257 N Water St in downtown Kent, Ohio, whose mission is to build community through the arts. We always welcome donations to assist in the operation of our programs, and all donations are tax-deductible.
Thank you for supporting the arts! Good luck to our chapbook competitors!