The deadline is fast approaching for entries into Calyx Books” annual Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize competition. Each year, Calyx awards $300, publication in the Calyx Journal and a volume of poetry to a poem written by a woman poet. The Calyx Journal was created to feature and highlight the work of women in poetry, fiction and art, and has been publishing since 1976.

2006 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize

Submission dates: March 1, 2006, through May 31, 2006. (These are inclusive postmark dates.)

Prize: Winner will receive $300 cash award, publication in CALYX Journal, and a one-volume subscription. Finalists will be published on CALYX’s website and will receive a one-volume subscription.

Details: Each entry can include up to three (3) unpublished poems, no more than six (6) manuscript pages total. Do not put your name on the same page as a poem; all entries are read blind. Include a separate cover letter with your name, address, phone, e-mail, and titles of poem/s. No manuscripts will be returned. Please send unpublished work and please don’t send simultaneous submissions. The Journal Editorial Collective reads manuscripts first, then selects 15 to send to the final judge. Judge’s decisions are final.

Alicia Ostriker is the Final Judge for the 2006 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize. She is the author of eleven books of poetry, including The Crack In Everything, and The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, both National Book Award finalists. Ms. Ostriker is a Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University, and teaches in the New England College low-residency Poetry MFA Program.

Reading fee: $15 per entry, all checks in U.S. currency on a U.S. bank, checks payable to CALYX.

Contest winner and finalists will be notified by October 30, 2006, and will be announced on CALYX’s website. The winning poem will be published in CALYX Journal Vol. 23, no. 3 (Winter 2007) and on the website. All entrants will receive prize results. U.S. entrants will receive an issue of CALYX Journal with the prize results.

Send submission to:

CALYX, Inc.
Lois Cranston Poetry Prize
PO Box B
Corvallis OR 97339

Lois Cranston was an editor for CALYX Journal for more than ten years. Her remarkable life experiences and knowledge of literature enriched the editorial collective and the journal issues she helped edit. This poetry prize in her name honors the memory of her commitment to the creative work of women from all walks of life.