May 1: Occasional Verse Contest Deadline

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The New Quarterly announces the Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest.

$1000 for one glorious poem. Sponsored by TNQ editor Kim Jernigan and family in celebration of the man who sparked their love of poetry, this contest is for poems written in response to an occasion, personal or public--poems of gratitude or grief, poems that celebrate or berate, poems that make of something an occasion or simply mark one. We are interested in light verse and in verse more sober, in the whole spectrum of tones and occasions. We will award a grand prize of $1000 to the poem judged most worthy. Another $1000 in prize money will be distributed as the judges fancy. However the prize money falls, the best of what we see will be published in The New Quarterly, at our usual rates, and posted on our website.

Postmarked May 1. Entry fee: $40 for up to 2 unpublished poems, $5 each for additional poems. Submissions include a one-year subscription (or extension) to The New Quarterly. See tnq.ca/contests for full details.