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CHAPBOOK CONTEST: The Clarinda Harriss Poetry Prize

09/01/2009

Launched in 2009, the Harriss 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.

2009 Winner: Laura Shovan, Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone (Judge: Michael Salcman)

Send $15 entry fee and manuscript of 16 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 Prize
c/o CityLit Project
120 S. Curley Street
Baltimore, MD 21224

All submissions must be postmarked before October 1, 2010. Winner receives publication by CityLit Press, $250, and 25 copies. Judge TBA.

Please read the complete guidelines by clicking on the link below.
 
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