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By Admin, May 10, 2012

The 16th Annual Blue Lynx Prize (2012)

$2000 plus publication for a full-length poetry collection

The Prize is awarded for an unpublished, full-length volume of poems by a U.S. author, which includes foreign nationals living and writing in the U.S. and U.S. citizens living abroad. Poems included may not have appeared in full-length, single-author collections. Acknowledgments pages and author names may be included, but will be removed prior to final judging.

Entries must be at least 48 pages in length and must be accompanied by a $25 reading fee, the printed and filled out submissions form (link below; note: comment feature doesn’t substitute for the form), and an SASE (for notification only). Please make checks payable to Lynx House Press.

Blue Lynx Prize Submission Checklist:

• Poetry manuscript of 48+ pages
• Check or money order for $25
• Blue Lynx Prize Form (Printed, filled out, and mailed in)
• A self-addressed, stamped envelope

Send to:

Lynx House Press
P.O. Box 940
Spokane, WA 99210

Postmark deadline: May 15th.

For questions regarding the contest, please contact Christopher Howell.

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By Admin, February 21, 2012

The fifteenth annual Blue Lynx Prize has been awarded to Thomas Brush for his full-length poetry collection, Last Night.  The winning collection was chosen from among more than five hundred submissions and will be published in spring, 2012, by Lynx House Press, the contest’s founding sponsor.  The winner also receives a cash prize of $2000, payable upon publication.

Thomas Brush is a life-long resident of Seattle. He has a B.A. from Central Washington University and an M.A. from the University of Washington and taught for many years in nearby Kent, Washington.  His work has appeared in many distinguished journals, including Poetry, Prairie Schooner, the Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, and the North American Review. The quality of that work has also been acknowledged by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Washington Arts Commission, and the Washington Artist Trust.

The poems in Last Night are drawn from the lost who walk the streets, discarded road signs and postcards, the natural world, and memory.  The people in them wager every day on cars, their dreams, garage sales, love (real and imagined), old hymnals, rain forests, raccoons, and flights of gulls.  Sometimes they win, more often they lose, even when the bartender says, “sure thing.”  The overall effect of the book is hard hitting, direct, gritty, and sweet; it has much in common with the work of another Seattle area native, the late Richard Hugo.

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By Admin, May 18, 2011

The Blue Lynx: A POETRY PRIZE 2011

$2000 plus publication for a full-length poetry collection.

Postmark Deadline Extended to May 31, 2011!

Send:

• A manuscript of 48 pages or more
• A $25 reading fee
• SASE for notification only

To:
Lynx House Press
P.O. Box 940
Spokane, WA 99210

Postmark Deadline Extended to May 31, 2011!

Guidelines: Poems may have appeared in periodicals and anthologies, but not in full-length, single author collections. All US citizens and residents may enter.

The 2010 Blue Lynx Prize Winner: If This World Falls Apart, by Lou Lipsitz

Previous winners include: Jim Daniels, Lynne Burris Butler, Carolyne Wright, Doren Robbins, Lisa Beskin, Randall Watson, Julie Gamberg, Robert Gregory & Miguel Murphy

Previous final judges include: Yusef Komunyakaa, Primus St. John, Dorianne Laux, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Michael Heffernan, Robert Wrigley, Christopher Buckley & Dara Wier

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By Admin, January 15, 2010

For its 15th year, the Blue Lynx Prize is returning to Lynx House Press.

The Prize is awarded for an unpublished, full-length volume of poems by a U.S. author, which includes foreign nationals living and writing in the U.S. and U.S. citizens living abroad. Poems included may not have appeared in full-length, single-author collections. Acknowledgments pages and author names may be included, but will be removed prior to final judging.

Entries must be at least 48 pages in length and must be accompanied by a $25 reading fee, the submissions form (link below), and an SASE (for notification only). Please make checks payable to Lynx House Press.

Blue Lynx Prize Submission Checklist:

• Poetry manuscript of 48+ pages
• Check or money order for $25
• Blue Lynx Prize Form (Printed and mailed in)
• A self-addressed, stamped envelope

Send to:

Lynx House Press
P.O. Box 940
Spokane, WA 99210

Postmark deadline: May 15th.

For questions regarding the contest, please contact Christopher Howell.