Dominic Fox wrote:
>Heh. I entered a literary competition a while back, which is not
>something I normally bother with. It was free, it was online, it was
>run by BBC Northamptonshire. They put all the entries up on the
>website before they were judged. Of the poems, I successfully picked
>two out of the three that I had seen beforehand that made it into the
>list of ten "commended" entries (the winning entry was prose). Mine
>of course were nowhere - a glance at the judges' bios told me I had no
>chance...
>
>Dominic
>
>
Oh what the hell--the Secret I won't talk about for fear of jinxing it?
Tee hell. I beat the June 15 deadline on a book contest: Poetry
Foundation, a first book by a poet over 50. There was NO entry fee.
The same people who do Poetry magazine are spending some of their $100M
endowment. Rewards: publication, promotion, and $10,000. I had the MS
in by the end of May because I was sick to death of living with it, out
of the hard drive endlessly tweaking, etc. Funny part is they don't
disclose the identity of the judge or judges. The Grand Inquisitor
wearing a hood? Results are supposed to be announced in October. If I
expected to win I'd be even nutsier than I am.
K
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