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.
* (minus postage costs in mailing out additional prizes)
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 singly person who enters the contest something.
If you're interested in becoming a sponsor to this years contest in exchange for promotional consideration, please e-mail sponsor@PoetrySuperHighway.com for the details.
Additional Prizes:
From Pudding House Publications
1 two night writer's getaway retreat at Pudding House Bed & Breakfast for
Writers in Johnstown Ohio. Includes full breakfast. $150 value
1 Copy of "Prayers to Protest: Poems that Center & Bless Us" edited by Jennifer Bosveld
From Sacred Beverage Press
1 copy of "The Ellyn Maybe Coloring Book" by Ellyn Maybe
1 copy of "The Apocalyptic Kid" by Erica Erdman
1 copy of "Celestial Burning" by Jeanette Clough
1 copy of "Twisted Cadillac" by the Carma Bums
1 two-year subscription (4 issues total) to Blue Satellite literary journal
1 Copy of "The Poets & Writers Guide to Getting Your Manuscript Out of the Slush Pile"
From the Austin International Poetry Festival
5 Copies of the Austin International Poetry Festival Anthology
Copies of the Austin Slam Team's CD "Tina's Fine Ass Lingerie"
From Anthology Magazine
3 Subscriptions to Anthology Magazine
2 Anthology T-shirts
From Lummox Productions
1 one-year (12 issues) Lummox Journal Subscription
2 copies of the anthology "Dufus"
2 copies of each LRB series chapbook
2 copies of the Manx Tales by RD Armstrong
The Instagon Foundation (a creative alliance)
2 copies of "Thursday's Addiction" by Mindy Nettifee (chapbook)
2 copies of "120 BPM" by Sean Morrison (chapbook)
2 copies of "America II" by Tom Fely (chapbook)
2 copies of "Ardinger Comes Alive" by Charles Ardinger (cassette)
1 copy "Mystic Master of Space & Time" by Lob (chapbook)
20 "We Are Not The People" bumperstickers
From Anamnesis Press
10 copies of the book "Satan is a Mathematician"
10 copies of "What Rough Book"
From Poetry at Suite101.com
$25 gift certificate to Amazon.com
From Hellfire Poetry
$25 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble Online
From Cider Press Review
3 one-year subscriptions (one issue) to Cider Press Review.
From David Hunter Sutherland
10 copies of his book "Between Absolutes" from Menace Publishing
10 copies of the anthology "A Year on the Avenue" from Two Dogs Press
From APoetBorn.com
1 long sleeved black cotton T-shirt that states
"Stand back! I have poetic license and I know how to use it"
1 copy of the book, "A Hero Borne, A tribute to John Glenn"
From Daniel S. Weinberg
2 copies each of the chapbooks "Black Sheep" and "Mirrors Blink" from Mary Kuntz Press
10 "u-direct" zines
From Orange Ocean Press
1 copy of "Paper Shredders", an anthology of surf writing
1 copy of "Polluted Poems", and anthology of environmental poetry
1 copy of "Some Possible Poets", cartoons by Walt Hopmans
From Zzaj Productions
1 copy of the CD, FLAG SLEEPING, with poet John M. Bennett and Rotcod Zzaj
1 copy of the CD, TRIPLE DOSE, with poets Ernesto Diaz-Infante & Rotcod Zzaj
From Mega Press
3 Copies of Albert Depas' book "Metamorphosis Of Joy"
2 one year subscriptions (4 issues each) to "Show & Tell"
From Robert O'Sullivan Schleith
1 Copy of "Joe's Journal" 1998 anthology edited by Robert O'Sullivan Schleith featuring San Diego area poets and signed by those very same poets
1 Copy of the upcoming 1999 edition of "Joe's Journal" edited by Robert O'Sullivan Schleith and signed by the poets
From Terri's Books
1 beautifully constructed handmade journal for writing or drawing.
From Bea Sheftel
2 Copies of her book "Beauty in the Weeds"
From Maelstrom
1 one year subscription to Maelstrom (6 issues)
