Contest Rules

• Postmark deadline: April 30, 2008
• Entry fee $15.00 for up to six pages of unpublished poetry (multiple entries are permitted.)
• Manuscripts must be typed. No more than one poem per page.
• Author's name, address, and phone number (and email address, if available) must appear on cover sheet only. Please include poem titles in addition to contact information. No names on poems, please.
• Simultaneous submission is permissible if we are notified when work is accepted elsewhere or awards received.
• For announcement of winners, include a SASE (self addressed, stamped envelope).
• Entries are screened and judged anonymously. Poems with which the judge has had prior contact are ineligible.
• Please, no email or fax submissions.
• Poems must not have received monetary awards or previous publication.
• Entries must adhere to all guidelines. Manuscripts will not be returned.

Dana Levin's first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was awarded the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. Her second book, Wedding Day, was published by Copper Canyon in 2005. Levin is a recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, fellowships from Breadloaf, the NEA, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Whiting Foundation. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, Levin teaches in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College and chairs the Creative Writing and Literature Department at College of Santa Fe.

Submit poetry and check or money order (no cash) with submission:
Poetry Contest: dA Center for the Arts, 252-D South Main St. Pomona, CA 91766-1630 (www.dacenter.org)

2007-2008 Literary Events Calendar

2007 dA Poetry Contest Winner and Finalists' Reading
Sunday, November 11 at 2 p.m. Awards Ceremony, Free Reading*, Reception, and Book Signing followed by an Open Mic at 3:30 p.m. ($6 donation; sign-ups at 1:45)

POETRY READING* by Lynne Thompson
Sunday, February 10 at 2 p.m. Free Reading*, Reception, and Book Signing followed by an Open Mic at 3:30 p.m. ($6 donation; sign-ups at 1:45)
Lynne Thompson, finalist for last year's prize, will read from Beg No Pardon, winner of the 2007 Perugia Press Prize. Lynne Thompson's work appears or is forthcoming in The Indiana Review, Louisiana Literature, and Runes. She is the director of Employee and Labor Relations at UCLA.

POETRY READING* by Holaday Mason
Sunday, May 11 at 2 p.m. Free Reading*, Reception, and Book Signing followed by an Open Mic at 3:30 p.m. ($6 donation; sign-ups at 1:45)
Holaday Mason's Towards the Forest will be published in Fall, 2007 by New Rivers Press. Her second book, Dissolve was finalist for the Autumn House Press Prize. A Pushcart nominee, she is author of two chapbooks, Light Spilling from its Own Cup and Interlude.

* This event is supported by Poets and Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.