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____________________ Deadlines Etcetera ____________________

• Deadline for postmarking entry fees (or paying them via PayPal) is Saturday, September 19, 2009.
  
  
• Regardless of when you postmark, your entry fees must be received by Friday, September 25, 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:

• Ellaraine Lockie (Sunnyvale, California)
  Ellaraine Lockie writes poetry, nonfiction books and essays. She's received a writing residency at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA, eleven Pushcart Prize nominations, the Lois Beebe Hayna Award from The Eleventh Muse, the One Page Poem Prize from the Missouri Writers' Guild, the Writecorner Press Poetry Award, the Skysaje Poetry Prize, the Dean Wagner Poetry Prize and the Elizabeth R. Curry Prize from SLAB, among many other awards.  Recently released is Mod Gods and Luggage Straps, a poetry/art broadside from BrickBat Revue.  Forthcoming are chapbooks from FootHills Publishing and Pudding House. Lockie also teaches a poetry workshop for schools, libraries and writing groups, and she serves as Poetry Editor for the lifestyles magazine, Lilipoh. Her home page is on Literati at: http://literati.net/ellaraine-lockie
  
  
• F.J. Bergmann (Poynette, Wisconsin)
  F.J. Bergmann frequents Wisconsin. She has no academic literary qualifications, but hangs out a lot with people who do. Publication credits include Asimov’s, DIAGRAM, Southern Poetry Review, Subtropics, and Weird Tales. She is the winner of the 2008 SFPA Rhysling Award for the Short Poem and the author of three chapbooks: Constellation of the Dragonfly (Plan B Press, 2008), Aqua Regia (Parallel Press 2007), and Sauce Robert (Pavement Saw Press 2003). One of her pseudopodia can reach all the way from the bedroom to the refrigerator.
  
  
• Salvatore Buttaci (Princeton, West Virginia)
  Salvatore Buttaci’s poems, stories, articles, and letters have appeared widely in publications that include New York Times, U. S. A. Today, The Writer, Cats Magazine, and Christian Science Monitor. He was the recipient of the $500 Cyber-wit Poetry Award in 2007 and second-place winner in the 2008 Poetry Super Highway Contest. Buttaci has lectured on Sicilian American pride and conducted numerous poetry workshops and readings. Retired from teaching, Salvatore Buttaci lives with his wife Sharon in Princeton, West Virginia.
  

• July 2: Contest begins
  
  
• July 6 - 12: Judges featured as Poets of the Week
  
  
• July 12, 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.
  
  
• September 19: Final deadline for contest entries. (Entry fees must be received by PayPal or postmarked by September 19 or they'll be returned.)
  
  
• September 26: Judges deadline for returning scored poems.
  
  
• October 1: Second round scoring deadline (in the event of tied scores.)
  
  
• October 4: 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 5 - 11: Contest Winners featured as Poets of the Week.