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Deadline Approaches for BOMB Poetry Contest

Poetry
4.30.18

Submissions are currently open for BOMB Magazine’s 2018 Poetry Contest. A prize of $1,000 and publication in BOMB’s literary supplement, First Proof, is given biennially for a group of poems by an emerging writer. Dawn Lundy Martin will judge.

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Using the online submission system [1], submit up to five poems totaling no more than ten pages with a $20 entry fee, which includes a one-year subscription to BOMB for U.S. entrants, by May 6. The winner will be announced on July 31.

Previous winners of the contest include Marwa Helal [2], Daniel Poppick [3], and Steve Dickison [4]. BOMB’s literary prize is given in alternating years for fiction and poetry; the 2019 award will be given in fiction. Visit the website [5] for more information.

(Photo: Dawn Lundy Martin)


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Links
[1] https://bombmagazine.submittable.com/submit/109693/bombs-2018-poetry-contest [2] https://bombmagazine.org/articles/five-poems-1/ [3] http://bombmagazine.org/archive/search/Daniel-Poppick [4] http://bombmagazine.org/article/10103/from-wear-you-to-the-ball [5] https://bombmagazine.org/