* CityLit Press is pleased to announce that prize money for the fourth annual Harriss Poetry Prize has doubled to $500.  We are proud to announce that Marie Howe, NEA and Guggenheim fellowship recipient, will judge.  Deadline postmark October 1, 2012.

Launched in 2009, the Harriss Poetry Prize is named in honor of Clarinda Harriss, eminent Baltimore poet, publisher, and professor of English at Towson University.  Harriss, educated at Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College, is a widely published, award-winning poet (her most recent collection, Dirty Blue Voice, came out in July, 2007) and, off campus, serves as editor/director of BrickHouse Books, Inc., Maryland’s oldest literary press.

2013 Winner: TBD
Judge: Marie Howe

2012 Winner: Katherine Bogden (Brooklyn, NY)
Every Bit of It
Judge: Tom Lux



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2011 Winner: Bruce Sager (Westminster, MD)
Famous
Judge: Dick Allen



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2010 Winner: Laura Shovan (Ellicott City, MD)
Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone
Judge: Michael Salcman



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Series Editor: Michael Salcman

Send $25 entry fee and manuscript of 25 to 30 pages of poetry with table of contents, acknowledgments, and two coversheets (one with name, title, mailing address, daytime phone, and email address and one with title only) to:

Harriss Poetry Prize
c/o CityLit Project
120 S. Curley Street
Baltimore, MD 21224

All submissions must be postmarked before October 1, (annually). Winner receives publication by CityLit Press, $500, and 25 copies.

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