2010 St. Petersburg Review Poetry Contest

Prize: $1000 and publication in St. Petersburg Review 2010

All writers not associated with the editors of St. Petersburg Review may enter. Postmark deadline: January 15, 2010 for publication in fall 2010. Entry/reading fee: $15.00 (U.S. checks or money orders made payable to St. Petersburg Review). Each entrant will receive a copy of the issue carrying the winning poem if a complete address is enclosed. An entry may consist of up to three unpublished poems.

There will be one winner. All entrants will be considered for publication (St. Petersburg Review will publish four entrants in addition to the 2009 winner in its 2009 issues). Simultaneous submissions are OK; please let us know immediately if they have been accepted elsewhere. Fees will not be refunded and submissions will not be returned. Please type all entries and submit individual entries separately. Include a page with your name, address, phone number, email address and the title(s) of your poems. Your name must not appear on the manuscript itself.

SPR will not be able to answer individual entrant requests for information about contest status. If you would like to receive the results by mail, please send a SASE.

Send entries to St. Petersburg Review, Attention: Contest, Box 2888, Concord, NH 03302.

The St. Petersburg Review is an independent, international, nonprofit review of contemporary literature that seeks to foster global connections and affinities through the annual publication of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama.