Guy Owen Prize Contest

$1000 and publication in SPR awarded to the winning poem selected by a distinguished poet. Send 3-5 unpublished poems (10 pages max.), postmarked between March 1 and June 15. Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for reply only, and a check for $15 payable to Southern Poetry Review. We consider work published online or posted there as previously published. Include all contact information on cover sheet only; do not include name or contact information on poems. Please indicate simultaneous submissions. All entries will be considered for publication. We cannot accept electronic mail submissions, nor can we accept them on disk. Manuscripts will not be returned. The entry fee includes a one-year subscription to the journal.

Southern Poetry Review
Guy Owen Prize
Dept. of Languages, Literature and Philosophy
Armstrong Atlantic State University
11935 Abercorn Street
Savannah, Georgia 31419-1997

Previous Winners

2006: R. T. Smith, "Plantation of the Mad," selected by Dave Smith
2005: Enid Shomer, "'Gowned Waiting'," selected by Fred Chappell
2004: Alison Jarvis, "Listen," selected by David Kirby
2003: Andrew Grace, "For Tityrus," selected by Ellen Bryant Voigt
2002: Debra A. Daniel, "Hymn of Invitation", selected by Peter Meinke