Tapestry of Bronze Fall 2009 Contest
Thanks to FM contributer Stephen Mead for sharing this:
The Tapestry of Bronze is sponsoring a series of poetry contests to celebrate Greek and Roman mythology and the Olympian gods. The subject of the fourth contest is Demeter (also known as Ceres), the Goddess of the Harvest.
All poems remain the property of the authors. However, Tapestry of Bronze reserves the right to post winning poems and those receiving Honorable Mention on the Tapestry of Bronze Web site. Furthermore, interest has been expressed in setting the poems to music.
E-mail your poem (no more than 30 lines) to tapestryofbronze (at) yahoo (dot) com.
Please, NO ATTACHMENTS! Paste the poem into the e-mail instead. Don’t get fancy with formatting—pretty pictures and peculiar fonts are distracting and may irritate the judges. Please limit creativity to the poem.
Make sure your poem is about Demeter/Ceres. They received a surprising number of irrelevant poems during the last contest. These are guaranteed to irritate the judges and are all discarded.
Please also include your real name and your alias if you have one. Make sure they can respond to your e-mail. If you are entering the contest for those under 18, please include your birthdate; otherwise, simply indicate that you’re an adult.
No entry fee. Entries will be evaluated by the owners of the Tapestry of Bronze and additional experts at their discretion. It costs nothing to submit a poem to the contest, but each contestant may enter only once, so take time to make your poem your best.
The first prize winner in each age group (’Under 18′ and ‘18 and Over’) will receive $50. Honorable Mentions may be awarded as well, but without cash prizes. If no poem is of sufficient quality, no prizes will be awarded.
tapestryofbronze.com/OdeForm.html. Deadline: November 30, 2009.
Editor
Sari Krosinsky lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her partner and two cats.
She received a B.A. in religious studies and a M.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico. Her poems have appeared in Poesia, Pebble Lake Review, The American Poetry Journal, Arsenic Lobster, Verse Daily, and others. Fiction Editor
Leslie Fox lived in Central America during her formative years and in New Mexico since the mid-70s – before it was cool.
She writes novels, short stories, plays, screenplays and creative nonfiction. Some of her short fiction has appeared in The Medical Muse, red. a journal of arts, Earth’s Daughters and Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection. She has a M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of New Mexico.Art Editor
Dianne Schlies is a practicing artist and has taught studio art since 1986. She received her M.F.A. from SMU at Dallas, Texas in 1990. She has studied or worked with David Bates, Mel Bochner, Squeak Carnwath, Harmony Hammond, Ed Harris, Joyce Kozloff, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michals and Robert Rauschenberg. Schlies presently teaches Drawing and 2-D Design in Albuquerque, New Mexico.