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2010 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize

Deadline for Submissions

January 16, 2010 (postmark)

Judge

Leatha Kendrick is the author of three volumes of poetry, the most recent one, Second Opinion (2008). She currently leads workshops in poetry and life writing at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky, and directs their reading series, New Books by Great Writers. Leatha has also led workshops in writing and healing at regional and national conferences and has been a presenter at several of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs’ annual meetings. Her poems and essays appear widely in journals and anthologies including Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia; The Kentucky Anthology—Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State; and I to I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists. She co-edited Crossing Troublesome, Twenty-Five Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop and wrote the script for a documentary film: A Lasting Thing for the World—The Photography of Doris Ulmann. The recipient of grants in both poetry and fiction from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation of Women, she is at work on a novel, entitled Leavings.

Submission Guidelines

No more than three poems should be submitted. Poems should be typed and be no longer than 30 lines. They should be mailed to:

2010 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
600 College Street Rd
Elizabethtown KY 42701

Include a cover letter with your name, address and a short biography (30 words maximum). Names should NOT appear on the poems. Poems must be typed and be no longer than 30 lines.  Include a self-addressed stamped envelope (legal size) in order to receive the results of the contest.

The Heartland Review asks for a $10 contribution for up to three poems to support the contest and our journal. Please make checks out to the Heartland Review.

Winners will be announced in April and invited to read at the annual Morrison Gallery Poetry Series Poetry Month Celebration

For more information about the contest email Mick Kennedy at mick.kennedy@kctcs.edu

Prizes

1st Place $350 (in the event of a tie, prize money will be divided accordingly). All finalists will be published in The Heartland Review Spring 2010 issue

2008 Winners

2008 Finalists

2007 Winners

2007 Finalists