The deadline for the third annual Littoral Press Poetry Prize is August 16, 2010. The first place prize is 50 letterpress-printed broadsides of the winning poem. Three honorable mentions will receive earlier Littoral Press broadsides.
Guidelines:
$10 entry fee for 1-2 poems, $5 for each additional poem (may be previously published). Maximum length: 30 lines. Mail check & poems to P.O. Box 3226, Berkeley, CA 94703, postmarked by 8/16/10. Include a separate cover sheet with your contact info & title(s); do not put your name on the poems; you don’t need to send biographical info or prior publications. Poems will not be returned; the mss. will be recycled. The contest will be judged blind. Final judge: Dan Bellm. Results will be announced by 9/30/10, and the winning entries will be posted here.
About this year’s judge:
Dan Bellm is a poet and translator living in San Francisco. His third book of poetry, Practice (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008), won a California Book Award and was named one of the year’s top ten poetry books by the Virginia Quarterly Review. Currently he teaches Spanish-to-English Literary Translation online for New York University.
Upcoming Open Studio
As part of Pro Arts, Littoral Press will once again participate in the annual East Bay Open Studios extravaganza. Come visit Saturday or Sunday, June 12th or 13th, between 11am and 5pm: 3249 Helen Street, near Hollis, in West Oakland, California. On display [and for sale!] will be artist’s books, poetry broadsides, ephemera, cards & gifts, all printed letterpress, by hand. And the next installment of the keepsake series, which you may print yourself, will make its appearance. Also there will be good things to eat and drink!