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From: Gilda or James <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 12 April 1999 17:24
Subject: Herb Barrett Award 1999
>Here is updated information on the 1999 Herb Barrett Award. Please pass
>along to whatever writers' groups, publications, or on-line listings you
>think would be interested.
>Thank you very much.
>James Deahl
>Mekler & Deahl, Publishers
>
>
>THE HERB BARRETT AWARD
>for short poetry in the haiku tradition
>
>First prize: $150 US
>Second prize: $100 US
>Third prize: $50 US
>Other prizes: anthology publication
>
>RULES
>Poems must be no more than 4 lines long. They may or may not follow the
>traditional 17-syllable form, but should be in the haiku tradition.
>Poems may be published or unpublished.
>The entry fee is $12. Payment by cheque or money order, payable to Mekler &
>Deahl, Publishers.
>Up to 10 poems may be submitted per entry.
>Manuscripts must be typed or word-processed, one poem per page, on
>letter-size paper, with no identifying marks. Name, address, and phone
>number, with titles or first lines, should be on a separate sheet of paper.
>All entrants will receive one copy of the anthology.
>Entrants with poetry in the anthology will receive one additional copy.
>Copyright remains with the author.
>Deadline: Entries must be postmarked by November 30, 1999.
>Winners will be notified in spring, 2000.
>1997 winners: 1st prize: Giovanni Malito (Cork, Ireland); 2nd prize
>Elizabeth
>St Jacques (Sault Ste-Marie, Canada); 3rd prize: Sandra Fuhringer
(Hamilton,
>Canada)
>Please address entries to:
>The Herb Barrett Contest
>Mekler & Deahl, Publishers
>237 Prospect Street South
>Hamilton, ON L8M 2Z6
>phone: (905) 312-1779
>fax: (905) 312-8285
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>for a copy of Cold Morning,
>the anthology of prize-winning haiku
>from the 1997 contest, add $7.
>Cold Morning may also be
>ordered separately.
>
>
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