Free contest, The Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets, prize: $500

Deadline: 30 November 2010

This annual prize of $500 is awarded by Shenandoah and the Virginia Poetry Center for a single poem by a writer born in or with current established residence in Virginia. The winning poem will be published in SHENANDOAH, and the author will receive broadside copies of the poem to be published by the Virginia Poetry Center.

Entrants are invited to submit up to three previously unpublished poems. Send two copies of each poem (one with name and address and one without), sase and brief biographical note, which should confirm the basis for eligibility to:

The Graybeal-Gowen Prize
Shenandoah
Mattingly House / 2 Lee Avenue
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450-2116

Entries should be postmarked between November 1 and November 30, 2010.

No entry fee is required.
View the 2009 prize-winning poem, Jefferson's Daughters by Jennifer Key.

More information here.