Mobilis in Mobili Poetry Prize

$1000 prize and book publication from BlazeVOX [books]

Moving within the moving element! or changing through change! This is Nemo's
motto for his Nautilus and it seems all too fitting for our poetry prize.
There is something happening right now in poetry that is very exciting. It
is neither a recreation of Stein's salon nor is it a thing of substance to
fill the empty souls of man. There is something coming down like the winds
outside, the rainfall. Something that speaks like the rains outside. It's
all moving but not necessarily moving towards a specific direction. And in
this contest we are in hope of promoting this underrated work.

3 runners-up receive ebook publication

Final judge: Kent Johnson

download guidelines in printable PDF format

The BlazeVOX Prize for Poetry is awarded annually for an original manuscript
of poems. The contest is open to poets either with or without previously
published books. BlazeVOX [books] Press publishes the winning manuscript,
and the author receives a $1,000 award and publication of the winning
manuscript. The first three runners-up will be have their winning manuscript
published as an electronic book with BlazeVOX [books].

electronic submissions [preferred]

email .DOC; .PDF, of .RTF files as an attachment
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snail mail to

   BlazeVOX Poetry Prize
   PO Box 303
   Buffalo NY 14201-303

Contest Administration Fee: $20



2004-2005 Submissions:

All manuscripts will be judged anonymously. Submissions will be accepted
between October 1 and January 30, 2005. The award winner will be announced
in July/August 2005, and publication scheduled for Spring 2006.

Guidelines

Manuscripts must be paginated and be between 50 and 110 pages in typescript.

Manuscripts will be judged anonymously. Each submission should have two
cover pages-one listing the title of the manuscript and the author's name,
address, phone number, and email address; and a second page listing only the
title. The author's name should not appear after the first cover page.


Electronic Submission entries to:

Send your reading fee of $20 to the snail mail address, below. Then send
your manuscript as an email attachment to [log in to unmask] Please send
the manuscript either as an Adobe pdf file or an MS Word file saved in
either, .doc or rich text format (rtf). In your email, give your name and
contact information, as well as the title of your manuscript and a short
author bio/publication history. Include only the title on your manuscript,
with no mention of the author's name. If you wish, include a self-addressed
postcard for notification that we have received both your manuscript and
fee, as well as the SASE for contest results. Any questions may also be
referred to [log in to unmask]

*Note: This is not a hypertext or electronic poetry contest. This is a means
by which you can send your manuscript to BlazeVOX electronically.


Mail all entries to:

There will be a reading fee of $20. Please do not send cash. The contest is
blind-judged, so the author's name and contact information should appear on
title page and nowhere else in manuscript. A second title page with only the
manuscript title should also be included. Please mail to :

BlazeVOX Poetry Prize
PO Box 303
Buffalo NY 14201-303


The Press and the board assume no responsibility for lost or damaged
manuscripts, and suggest that you retain a copy for your protection.

Ineligible Submissions

1. Manuscripts by more than one author.

2. Entries of more than one manuscript within the same year.

3. Translations.

4. Manuscripts from staff and interns of BlazeVOX and or Starcherone Books,
and former BlazeVOX Prize winners.



** for reasons of streamlining accounting we are gratefully using
Starcherone Books resources to accomplish the financial task for this
contest.