St. Louis Poetry Center announces the 2012 Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest
2012 Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest
for High School Students
$50 First Prize, $35 Second Prize, $20 Third Prize
First, second, third prize and honorable mention winners
will be invited to read their poems at
The Annual Poetry Concert, May 20, 2012
Winning poems will be published in a chapbook available at the concert.
Judge: Andrew Cox
Andrew Cox is the author of The Equation That Explains Everything (BlazeVOX, 2010), the chapbook Fortune Cookies (2River View, 2009) and the hypertext chapbook, Company X (Word Virtual). He lives in University City, MO, the Brooklyn of St. Louis, where he edits UCity Review. (www.ucityreview.com) He is a board member of River Styx. 
Guidelines:
1. Eligible poets must be high school students living within 100 miles of St. Louis.
2. Submit up to 3 unpublished poems, any form and length. Poems must be typed.
3. Poems judged anonymously. Do not include author name or pen name on poems.
4. Enclose an 8 ½ x 11 typed cover sheet containing the following information:
Author's name, address, parents’ phone number, email address, high school, teacher’s name and email address, and the titles of poems submitted.
Mail entries to:
St. Louis Poetry Center, High School Contest,
567 North & South Road, #8,
St. Louis, MO 63130-3938
ENTRIES MUST BE POSTMARKED by March 15, 2012
There is no entry fee. For more information, go to www.stlouispoetrycenter.org/contests.
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