2009 GPS Chapbook Contest
Every two years, the Charles Dickson Chapbook Contest honors poetic achievement in a chapbook-length work. Dickson, an internationally respected poet of the haiku, was the author of A Touch of Wholeness, Taste of Summer, Fragrance of Frost Grapes, and Out of Casseopeia. The chapbook contest is funded in part by a grant from the estate of John King and Mary Harvey Ottley and a gift from Virginia Dickson.
How to Enter Your Chapbook
1. Send two copies of not more than 20 pages of poems. You may include a title page, table of contents, and acknowledgements pages. These will not count against the 20-page limit of poems. Published poems are acceptable.
2. Use a conventional typeface, such as Times Roman, in 12-point font.
3. Do not include illustrations.
4. Poems must be typed and in English.
5. Use only 8 ½ X 11-inch white paper.
6. Poems must demonstrate appropriate language and good taste, be on any subject, and in any form.
7. Put your name and address on one copy of the manuscript. No author identification of any kind on the second copy (which will be sent to the judge).
8. $20 entry fee for Charles Dickson Chapbook Competition. Make check or money order payable to Georgia Poetry Society. Do not send cash.
9. Only one entry is permitted per member.
10. Entrant must be a member in good standing of the Georgia Poetry Society.
11. Deadline: must be received by October 15, 2009. No late entries will be considered.
12. No email, text message, disc, MP3 or other electronic submissions.
13. Mail entries to:
Georgia Poetry Society
Chapbook Contest
Box 2184
Columbus, GA 31902
14. Only one winner will be chosen. No honorable mentions or runners-up.
15. GPS determines printing and binding specifications and book design. Publication rights rest with GPS until the chapbook is published. After that, rights revert to the author.
16. Winner receives 200 printed copies of the chapbook. The author may dispose of these as he or she deems appropriate, including selling them.
17. GPS will print additional copies of the winning chapbook over and above those presented to the author and reserves the right to sell these copies.
18. Enclose a SASE if you want to know whether you won prior to the official announcement.
19. The contest will not be judged by a GPS member. The judge’s decision will be final.
20. Non-winning entries will not be returned.
21. Winning manuscript will be subject to editing for standard English grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Contest Chair
John Ottley.