Upcoming poetry contest postmark deadlines

from Marsh Hawk Press (with thanks to Anny Ballardini of fieralingue Poets’ Corner & the NewPoetry list for posting the announcement):
The second annual Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize competition will be judged by Gerald Stern, submission deadline April 30, 2005. Marsh Hawk Press offers a cash award of $1,000.00 plus publication of the winning book. It is judged by a poet of national stature not connected with the press. The winner’s name and title of the winning book are announced nationally.

Also due this spring are entries for:

• The Poetry West Chapbook Contest (deadline April 30)
• The Anhinga Prize for Poetry (deadline May 1)
• The Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award (deadline May 15)
• “Lush Triumphant,” the annual literary awards from subTerrain (deadline May 20)
• WinningWriters.com’s War Poetry Contest (deadline May 31)
• The Five Fingers Review Poetry Award (deadline June 1)
• The Poetry Foundation’s first annual Emily Dickinson First Book Award for writers over the age of 50 (deadline June 15)
• The American Poet Prize from The American Poetry Journal (deadline June 30)
• The Caveat Lector Poetry Contest (deadline June 30)

Required reading before you submit to any contests:
“A Word To the Wise: On entering your poems in competition,” by Kurt Heintz
“You Do It Because You Love It,” by S.A. Griffin

Related resources:
More contest links