The 6th annual Narrative Poetry Contest will be open for submissions July 1 – Sept. 1.
Our final contest judge this year is Monica Hand. Finalists and winners will be announced here on the website in November.

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This year’s Contest Judge:

Monica A Hand is the author of me and Nina (Alice James Books, 2012.) Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including Aunt Chloe, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, Naugatuck River Review,The Sow’s Ear, Drunken Boat, Beyond the Frontier: African-American Poetry for the 21st Century, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade and American Creative Writers on Class. She has her MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University.