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Winners
Open
to Canadian Residents Only
Grand
Prize: $100 for the best poem
Plus $100 to be donated to the favorite charity
of the Grand Prize Winner
Plus 18 Honourable Mention Awards
All winning poems to receive a fancy certificate
Plus all winning poems to be published in a chapbook
Plus all the winners will receive one free chapbook
Rules
and Guidelines:
Blind
Judging: No author ID to be anywhere
on the same page as the poem, back or front.
Enclose a cover page with poem title (or first line if no title),
Author name, address, phone number & e-mail if possible.
On your cover page, state Charity and complete mailing
address for the Charity of your choice.
Poems
may be previously published,
but no previous contest winners, please.
Poems must include at least one of the following Heart themes:
Love won, Love lost, Love of family, Love of animals,
Love of Humanity, Valentine poems, Bonding, Charity,
Generosity, Compassion, Courage, Heart health problems, Heart wood,
Broken heart, Heartache, Hard hearted, Emotions carried in the heart
Poems not to exceed 36 lines and the stanza breaks count as lines.
All styles welcome.
Deadline:
December 25th, 2014
Contest
Judge: Kate
Marshall Flaherty
Contest Fee:
$5 for the first poem, additional poems $1 each.
There is no limit to the number of submissions per entrant.
Enclose a #10 s.a.s.e. for winners list and $1 coupon for our
next contest.
Send entries with
payment to:
The Ontario Poetry Society,
#710 65 Spring Garden Avenue,
Toronto, Ontario M2N 6H9
The Grand Prize
Winner will receive the charitable donation receipt.
Additional copies
of the chapbook will be available for $7 each (postage included).
Buy 5 for $35 and get an extra copy for free.
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