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Submission Deadline: The Marie Equi Prize For Poetry
February 1, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 11:30 pm
FreeBuckman Journal is proud to announce The Marie Equi Prize For Poetry. One poet will receive $200.00 and appear in Buckman Journal 004. There is no entry fee.
Firebrand Marie Equi (1872-1952) was a Portland physician, suffragette, birth control advocate, labor activist, and perhaps the first publicly known lesbian on the west coast.
The prize is open to Oregon and SW Washington residents only.
Please send 4 to 6 poems, or 4 to 6 pages of unpublished poetry (no more than 6 pages). Do not print your name or any self-identifying annotation on your pages of poetry. Please include a cover letter with your name, contact email address, AND phone number. Only winning or honorably mentioned submissions will be notified. Simultaneous submissions are fine.
Email submissions are NOT accepted and will NOT be read.
Submissions will not be returned. They will be shredded before being recycled.
Entries close February 1, 2020. Entries post dated after February 1 2020 will not be read.
Please mail submissions to:
Buckman Publishing
Poetry Editor
PO Box 14247
Portland OR 97293