1,000 Grand Prize!
Guidelines
Send up to 3 Poems with a maximum page limit per poem of 3 and $20 reading fee payable to Montgomery College/Potomac Review. All entrants will receive a one-year (2 issues) subscription to Potomac Review.
Include a cover letter with contact info (i.e. name, address, etc.) and names of poems. Put author’s name and address on the cover letter only. Entries will not be returned.
All poems must be typed and previously unpublished; no name or address should appear on the poems.
If submitting online, either send in the check or pay through Paypal to
potomacreview@gmail.com when this function is operational in the next few weeks.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please note this in your cover letter and notify us immediately of acceptance elsewhere.
Contest entries will be accepted from October 1, 2011 to February 1, 2012.
Winners will be announced April 1, 2012 on our website.
The winning poem will appear in Potomac Review Issue 52.
Semifinalists will be listed on the website and all entries will be considered for publication.
Manuscripts that do not follow contest guidelines will be disqualified.
Please direct all contest questions to the Editor-in-Chief:
zachary.benavidez@montgomerycollege.eduSend mail submissions to
Potomac Review Poetry Contest
Montgomery College
51 Mannakee Street, MT/212
Rockville, MD 20850
Send online submissions to
http://www.potomacreview.org/prsp/Submit under the genre “contest” and mail the fee to address above.