$5,800 Tom Howard Poetry
Contest
This site provides information for the $5,800 Tom Howard Poetry Contest only.
If you seek information on the $5,550 Tom Howard Short Story, Essay and Prose Contest, which is now open for entries:
Please use this link: Prose Contest
Humorous verse? Yes! When we say "all genres", we mean "ALL genres". Unlike many other contests, we will not only accept humorous and comic poetry, but we will award a special cash bonus prize of $250 for the best humorous entry. Here's a link to one of the Chief Judge's own e-books: NIBBLES OF NONSENSE
"Nibbles of Nonsense Hilarious Comic Verse" is also available in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain, but you will need to do a search at the local Amazon Kindle for "NIBBLES OF NONSENSE".
The 2012 Tom Howard Poetry Contest
for Poetry and Verse
in all styles
& genres is now open.
SAILING IN THE MIST OF TIME is the fourth and latest Anthology of Prize-winning Poems from both the Tom Howard Poetry Contest and the Margaret Reid Prize for Traditional Verse. Over 100 fascinating, award-winning poems (showcasing over 50 major prize-winners, including 19 of the 21 major winners from the 2007 Margaret Reid Prize and 29 of the 30 major winners from the 2006 Tom Howard Poetry Contest). 60 superb photographs. 194 large-format pages. Only $9.95. This anthology will NEVER be available as an e-book because of Copyright restrictions.
And just released is a new anthology of winning poems by Tom Howard himself. 20 of these poems were previously published 15 or more years ago, 21 are new translations of Spanish masters, but the other 55 have never before appeared in print. "Tom Howard" was a pseudonym for John Howard Reid.
As "Tom Howard" is no longer submitting his work to writing contests, the Kindle edition is published under Reid's own name. The cost? A mere 99 cents. Please click this link: Paradise Kindle
Absolute-must reading for all competition contestants! A new edition of the famous handbook "WRITE WAYS TO WIN WRITING CONTESTS: How to Join the Winners' Circle for Short Story Awards, Poetry Prizes, etc." is now available.
Price is $12.50. Buy from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other bookstores. NOOK at Barnes and Noble have the very latest updated e-book on sale for $3.99. A Kindle edition is available for only $2.99. Please click Write Ways to WIN WRITING CONTESTS
The 10th annual Tom Howard Poetry Contest is now open. A total of $5,800 will be awarded in prize-money for all styles and genres of poetry and verse as follows:
First Prize: $3,000. Second: $1,000. Third: $400. Fourth: $250. Plus a Special Prize of $250 for the Best Humorous Poem. Plus six Most Highly Commended Awards of $150 each. Eleven cash awards in all, including that First Prize of $3,000.
Grand total: $5,800.
In short, this Contest is a Premier Literary Competition for Original Creative Writing in Poetry or Verse in any Style and on any Theme.
US$5,800 in Cash Prizes, plus online publication for the top winners.
Closing date: September 30, 2012
Entries may be submitted online at http://winningwriters.com/contests/tompoetry/tp_guidelines.php
Visit the above site for email, PayPal and snail mail options.
Entry forms are not required for this Contest, however, by entering you agree to abide by the judge's decisions, and that those decisions are final. If you win a cash prize you agree to allow John H. Reid and Winning Writers to publish your poem online.
Entry fees are US$8 for every 25 lines (or part thereof).
There is no maximum limit on the number of lines (or number of entries) you may submit. There are no restrictions on subject matter and, unlike many other contests, humorous poems and comic verses are most welcome. In fact, you will find some excellent, winning examples of comic poems in our printed anthologies such as SAILING IN THE MIST OF TIME.
And this year, we are awarding a Special $250 prize for the Best Humorous Poem. All types of humorous verse are welcome. For some excellent examples, we recommend "Aardvarks in the Clouds".
Here's a link for the $7.99 printed edition: Aardvarks Lulu
And here is the $2.99 Kindle edition, NOW AVAILABLE AT THE SPECIAL PRICE OF ONLY $0.99: Aardvarks Kindle
TO REPEAT, ALL TYPES AND GENRES OF POETRY ARE ACCEPTED
THE BEST HUMOROUS POEM COULD POSSIBLY WIN TWO PRIZES
NO RESTRICTIONS ON PREVIOUS PUBLICATION
PRIZE-WINNERS FROM OTHER CONTESTS WELCOME
(SO LONG AS YOU HAVE RETAINED ONLINE PUBLISHING RIGHTS)
Please note that the entry fee of US$8 per 25 lines is calculated on the total number of lines. (Headings and spaces are not counted). If you submit two short poems, one of ten lines and one of 14 lines, the total fee is US$8. If, however, you submit two sonnets (14 lines each), the fee is US$16. If you submit a long poem between 76 and 100 lines, the fee is US$32.
If you have any questions, please email johnreid at mail.qango.com
The prizes are pegged in U.S. dollars. Prizes will be paid in other currencies (if required) at equivalent rates of exchange.
The chief judge of all entries in the Contest is John Howard Reid. Associate judge is Professor D.C. Konrad.
The judges wish to congratulate all the
fine poets who appear on the lists below. Judging poetry contests is extremely
difficult. All the poems that end up on the Most Highly Commended list are
extremely meritorious.
FIRST
$3,000 Carmine Dandrea: A Wake In The House; SECOND
$1,000 George Korolog: From tending sheep to confusion on the Amtrak
10:50; THIRD $450 Martin Steele: Almost Light; FOURTH
$250 Gordon Preston: Camp Four Jeffrey, Inyo County, CA. SIX HIGH DISTINCTION $150
AWARDS (Random order): Vernon Waring: juror number
twelve; Johnmichael
Simon: Playstation Universe; Barbara
Carpenter: Vibrations; Louis Giron: To
Misunderstand Mariachi Music; Marie Delgado
Travis: Friends; Carlos Andres Gomez:
Gifted.
2011 TOM HOWARD POETRY PRIZE LIST
MOST HIGHLY COMMENDED (Random order): A Poem to Marina by Julia Yampolsky;
Beauties (thoughts at the opening of Grand Opera) translated by Julia Yampolsky; Allusions by Julia Yampolsky;
Now That You Are Spirit by Doris Ferleger; Ordinary by Doris Ferleger; Now the Smoke Bushes by Doris Ferleger;
Duty, Honor and Country by Robert B. Robeson; In the Courtyard by Floriana Hall; Hummingbirds and
Butterflies by Floriana Hall; Djinni Jackie's Beanstalk by Eileen Annie; Canvas Calendar by Helen Bar-Lev;
The Miracle of Gazelles by Helen Bar-Lev; Spirit Captive by Helen Bar-Lev;
"Happily Ever After" Left with Daddy by Debra Gundy;
Gifted by Carlos Andres Gomez; Memories by Walter William Safar; From Darkness to Light by Ankur Pandya;
The Land of Maybes by Susan Keith; The Draft by Louis Giron;
Purple Irises by Lynn Veach Sadler; Seeing Animals by Lynn Veach Sadler; The visitor by Sean Lause;
The Crucified by John Christopher; In the Grenadines by Rodcliff Noel; This poem by Rodcliff Noel;
Bayou Bay by Christina L. Ruotolo; Juncture by Sally McCreary; Tickets, Please by Tony Peyser;
My Manhattan 2011 One Week Before 9/11 by Bernyce Alpert Winick.
