POETRY JOURNALS

Octopus Magazine
Drunken Boat
3rd Bed
Ambulant
Conduit
Crown
Rain Taxi
Slope
Milk
Green Integer
Spork
Fence
Moria
Diagram
Fail Better
Forklift, Ohio
can we have our ball back
Chain
The Canary
Jacket
Konundrum
La Petite Zine
Painted Bride Quarterly
Oyster Boy Review
Opium
onedit
NO: a journal of the arts
Typo
Tarpaulin Sky
Spinning Jenny

POETRY CONTESTS

MONIQUE WITTIG WRITER'S SCHOLARSHIP $500 (Due March 1st, 2005)

In honor of Monique Wittig, the Monique Wittig Writer?s Scholarship will foster innovation in literary forms and the connection between politics and language. It will allow University of Arizona graduate and undergraduate students to allocate more time to their writing.

This scholarship is open to writers in all fields including literature, film,theater, poetry, essays and new/mixed media.

Applications should include the application form, a cover letter indicating how the student's work addresses the political and artistic goals of the scholarship, a writing sample, and a plan that demonstrates how the student's work will benefit from the scholarship. An application form can be obtained either by downloading it from the Women's Studies website (http://ws.web.arizona.edu - Events/Scholarships), or by picking up a hard copy in the Women's Studies office.

Applications due MARCH 1, 2005 by 5:00 p.m.
Submit to: Monique Wittig Writer?s Scholarship
Women's Studies Department
108 Communication Building
P. O. Box 210025
Tucson, AZ 85721

Marc Penka Poetry Award: $500 First Prize To Be Awarded in June 2005

An important new annual poetry contest has been established by the family and friends of Marc Penka, a radically original American poet who died in October 2000 at age 44. The Marc Penka Poetry Award, with a First Prize of US $500, aims to promote poets whose work exemplifies the same uncompromising spirit and approach to truth-seeking that characterizes Mr. Penka's own poetry. The competition is open to poets of any age writing in English.

The First Prize will be granted to an author based on a body of representative work. In addition to the $500 cash award, the winning work will be announced via press releases and displayed at www.marcpenka.com for a year. The Award is an initiative of the Marc Penka Poetry Awards Foundation, whose principal aim is not only the diffusion of Marc Penka's work in both prose and poetry, but also the promotion of poets, whether young or established, whose writing reflects to some degree the linguistic rigor, humor and incisive vision typical of Marc Penka's literary contributions.

Entries must be submitted online and posted directly to the Award's official website at www.marcpenka.com. For eligibility, length and submission guidelines, please consult the "Poetry Award" link on the home page at www.marcpenka.com.

The entry deadline is May 1, 2005.

Judges will be chosen by invitation each year. Winners, including an optional runner-up at the judges' discretion, will be announced on June 7, 2005. There will be a nominal $5 administration fee for each entry, and all submissions will be acknowledged.

Contact:
Marc Penka Poetry Awards Foundation
PO Box 16102
Phoenix, Arizona 85014
Tel/602 249 6813
e-mail: info@marcpenka.com