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• Deadline for postmarking entry fees (or paying them via PayPal) is Saturday, October 2, 2010.
  
  
• Regardless of when you postmark, your entry fees must be received by Friday, October 8, so if you're mailing your entry fee, please account for the amount of time it will take for your it to travel between your home and Los Angeles.
  
  
• This is a not for profit contest. All of the collected entry fees will be divided between the top three scoring poems (minus postage for mailing out additional prizes. See Prize List below)
  
  
• Once your entry fee is received, your poems will be sent with your name removed to the three judges who will score them 0 - 5 (5 being best).
  
  
• Your poems will not be forwarded to the judges until your entry fee is received.
  
  
• If you have any questions or need any of the contest details clarified, please e-mail Contest@PoetrySuperHighway.com

First Prize: 50% of the entry fees collected plus winning poem featured on the PSH

Second Prize: 30% of the entry fees collected plus winning poem featured on the PSH.

Third Prize: 20% of the entry fees collected plus winning poem featured on the PSH.

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, we are able to supplement the cash prizes with an impressive array of prizes which would be of interest to poets and writers.

The following prizes will be used to bolster first through third prize as well as distributed to other contest entrants.

Our goal is to be able to send every single person who enters the contest something.

If you're interested in becoming a sponsor to this years contest in exchange for promotional consideration, please click HERE for the details.

Additional Prizes:

• Brenda Levy Tate (Nova Scotia, Canada)
  Brenda Levy Tate lives in southwest Nova Scotia just up the road from the Tusket Falls power dam. Because she especially loves her camera, motley assortment of books and unwieldy fossil collection, Brenda's house is slowly collapsing under boxes and shelves crammed with photos, flea-market hardcovers and rocks. Her work has appeared in numerous print publications and anthologies, most recently Lilith and Postcards from Eve (Fortunate Childe Publications, 2009 & 2010 respectively). She is a current Pushcart nominee for one of the poems included in Lilith. She is also a contributor to online journals, including Soundzine (June 2009) and Contemporary American Voices (August 2009 & June 2010) and was a featured poet with Triggerfish Critical Review (December 2009). Her books include Cleansing (Rising Tide 2003) and the chapbook Beeline (Lopside Press 2007). Brenda may also be heard reading her poetry and singing on YouTube under the username Silharima. In her former life, she taught senior high school in Yarmouth, NS.
  
  
• Jim Knowles (Andover, Massachusetts)
  Jim Knowles is a poet, engineer, and artist from Andover, Mass. His work has appeared places like Mipoesias Best of Cafe Cafe, From East to West, Durable Goods, and "The Ranfury Review". He was a finalist in the 2008 Poetry Superhighway Contest, first in the 2009 PSH Contest, and won honorable mention (2nd) in the 2010 Inkwell Poetry Competition. He likes to explore as a reader, and to be surprised.
  
  
• Sian Lindsey (County Donegal, Ireland)
  Sian Lindsey is a poet who recently retired from the US Air Force and is now in the final course of her MFA in Creative Writing. She has three children (two grown and a nine-year-old at home), two cats, and a husband who deploys to Afghanistan every other year. In those years Sian and her youngest son spend their time at home in County Donegal, Ireland, where life is beautiful, slow, and happy. In the intervening years she is captive in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she remains a slave to the air conditioner between April and October. Sian finds inspiration for her poetry in the wild green of Ireland, in the separation from her husband every other year, and in the constant chaos of moving from place to place, trying to bring and keep her family together. She is 44 years old and loves gadgets, technology, travelling, reading, writing, and being outdoors (when it's 70F or less).
  

• July 15: Contest begins
  
  
• July 19 - 25: Judges featured as Poets of the Week
  
  
• July 25, 2:00 pm (pacific): PSH Live Judges Event: Live broadcast where Judges will have the chance to read poems and discuss the contest and you can call in live and ask them questions. Click here for more info.
  
  
• October 2: Final deadline for contest entries. (Entry fees must be received by PayPal or postmarked by October 2 or they'll be returned.)
  
  
• October 9: Judges deadline for returning scored poems.
  
  
• October 14: Second round scoring deadline (in the event of tied scores.)
  
  
• October 17: 2pm (pacific) PSH Live Event: "Winners Announced" in a special broadcast. Listen to it live and if any of the winners happen to be listening, they'll be invited to call in and read their winning entries live on the air..
  
  
• October 18 - 24: Contest Winners featured as Poets of the Week.