Flatmancrooked (recently recognized by Esquire as one of the top 5 online literary journals in the U.S.) is seeking the best poetry for our Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetry: 2010 (due out spring, 2010).
1st Place: $500, featured online, designation online and in print as the recipient of the 2010 Flatmancrooked Poetry Prize, and 3 complimentary copies of Flatmancrooked’s Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetry: 2010, in which the winning poem will be featured.
2nd Place: $300, featured online, designation online and in print as 2nd place in the 2010 Flatmancrooked Poetry Prize, and 2 complimentary copies Flatmancrooked’s Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetry: 2010, in which the poem will be featured.
3rd Place: $100, featured online, designation online and in print as 3rd place in the 2010 Flatmancrooked Poetry Prize, and 2 complimentary copies Flatmancrooked’s Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetry: 2010, in which the poem will be featured.
Finalists (place 4th-10th): featured online, designation online and in print as a finalist for the 2010 Flatmancrooked Poetry Prize, and 1 complimentary copy Flatmancrooked’s Slim Anthology of Collected Poetry: 2010, in which the poem will be featured.
Semi-Finalists (place 11th-20th) will be featured online and published in Flatmancrooked’s Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetry: 2010.
All entrants will receive an ebook copy of Flatmancrooked’s Slim Volume of Contemporary Poetry: 2010 upon its publication.
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