Cyclamens and
Swords September 2011 Newsletter
Poetry Contest Reminder
Now that the
summer vacation is over i t 's the right time to enter the
Cyclamens and Swords Poetry Contest.
http://cyclamensandswords.com/contest_guidelines.php
What to submit - This is an open contest for poetry of any
style or theme. Your entry should be your own original work.
You may submit the same poem(s) simultaneously to this
contest and others and you may submit poems that have been
published elsewhere, as long as you own the online
publication rights. Only poems that have won cash prizes in
other contests are excluded.
Entry fee - $5 for one poem, $10 for 3 poems, $15 for 6
poems.
Length - Not to exceed 30 lines length (excluding title and
spaces between stanzas).
Prizes - First prize $300, second prize $100, third prize
$50 and seven honorable mentions. Winning poems and
honorable mentions will be published in our winter issue . A
chapbook containing these poems will be published and
presented to the winners in addition to their cash prize.
Judges – Ricky Rapoport Friesem, Helen Bar-Lev and
Johnmichael Simon. We believe that our system of having
three judges working independently and by then combining and
averaging the three scores is the best and fairest way of
giving every entry an unbiased chance of winning a prize.
Poems, of course, are judged anonymously.
The Theme
for our December Issue is HEALTH
§ Awaiting your
poetry submissions on this subject
§ Short stories can be submitted on ANY SUBJECT.
§ And of course, interesting and high quality artwork
§ Submit now. Early submissions stand a better chance of
being published!
§ For submission guidelines, please go to:
http://cyclamensandswords.com/submissions.php
Check out
the new titles in our Bookshop
Chapbooks by
Kaila Shabat, Johnmichael Simon, MJD Algera
http://cyclamensandswords.com/bookshop.php
PLEASE FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER TO YOUR FELLOW POETS, WRITERS
AND ARTISTS. THANKS
Johnmichael Simon & Helen Bar-Lev, Editors
