Please see previous post for more information on submitting. If you have questions, contact Christopher Howell.

$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The Prize is awarded for an unpublished, full-length volume of poems by a U.S. author, which includes foreign nationals living and writing in the U.S. and U.S. citizens living abroad.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 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
• A self-addressed, stamped envelope

Send to:

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

Postmark deadline: May 15th, 2013

For questions regarding the contest, please contact Christopher Howell.

Bentley has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Ohio Arts Council. His poems have appeared in the Southern Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Sou’wester, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. He has published nine chapbooks and three books of poetry, including The Trouble with a Short Horse in Montana, which won the White Pine Poetry Prize and was published by White Pine in 2006.

$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The Prize is awarded for an unpublished, full-length volume of poems by a U.S. author, which includes foreign nationals living and writing in the U.S. and U.S. citizens living abroad.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.

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.

$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

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.