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Hazel Lipa Contest: Deadline Extended!

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Flyway is now accepting entries for the Hazel Lipa Poetry Chapbook Contest through March 25, 2011. Contest details can be found below. We look forward to reading your work! 

 

Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment

Hazel Lipa Poetry Chapbook Contest

Entries due: March 25, 2011 (Postmark or Submishmash)

 

Winning chapbook of no more than 40 poems will appear online in Flyway's premiere online edition (available to subscribers only) and anthologized in 2011-2012 print anthology. Individual poems may be previously published, but the chapbook should not be published.

 

Hard copy entry fee: $10, or $24 with a subscription (includes online access). Please submit hardcopy chapbooks with your name and all relevant contact information in a cover letter. A title page and the poems should not include your name. Please send to:

 

Flyway

206 Ross Hall

Department of English

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa 50011-1201

 

Electronic entry fee (http://flyway.submishmash.com/Submit): $12, or $27 with subscription (includes online access). Please submit electronic entries via Submishmash and include contact information in your cover letter. Judges will not see this information. Please make sure your uploaded document does not contain your name.

 

Winner: Publication, $250 cash, plus 2 contributor's copies of the anthology and a Flyway t-shirt

Runner-up: $50 cash, plus 2 contributor's copies of the anthology, a Flyway t-shirt, and publication of selected, previously unpublished poems.

The staff of Flyway reserves the right to consider all poems submitted in the chapbook contest for individual publication.

 

We're Going Online!

Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment is pleased to announce its online migration! Subscribers will now have online access to the current issue of Flyway and in the future, will also have access to back issues of the journal. In addition, subscribers will receive the yearly print anthology (beginning in 2012). Please visit our website: www.flyway.org!

 

We will continue to accept both electronic and hard copy submissions. See our website for submission details.

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