STREETLIGHT’S 2024 POETRY CONTEST

April 8th to July 1st

1st Prize — $150
2nd — $100

Entry Fee: $10 FOR UP TO 3 POEMS

CONTEST GUIDELINES:

1. Up to three of your best, previously unpublished poems. Any subject.
2. Multiple submissions are fine.
3. This is a blind contest. Please remove all personal information from the story pages.
4. We encourage simultaneous submissions but if your piece is accepted elsewhere, inform us at poetry1@streetlightmag.com or poetry2@streetlightmag.com, right away.
5. Contest deadline is Monday, July 1st, 2024 midnight EST.
6. Competition winners will be announced July 15th, 2024. Only winning authors will be contacted. However, all entries will be considered for general publication in Streetlight. If your poetry is a good fit for a subsequent issue, we will get in touch to see if it is still available.
7. Winners will be chosen by Streetlight staff led by poetry editors Sharon Ackerman and Fred WIlbur. Winning submissions will run in a later 2024 Issue.

This is a blind contest and your name will be hidden from our judges–do NOT include your name or address on the pages containing your work.

TERMS & CONDITIONS:

• By submitting your work, you grant Streetlight Magazine first North American print and electronic publication rights and guarantee that the submission is your own, original writing. All rights return to the author after publication.
• If you publish your work again at a later date, we request that you include a notice stating that it was first published at Streetlight Magazine.
• Our editors do not decline contest entries nor close them out. After the contest deadline, winners are announced, and non-winning entries are considered for general publication.
• All winning entries will be published online as well as in the 2024 Streetlight annual print anthology.

Sharon Ackerman is an Appalachian poet residing in central Virginia. Her poems have appeared in the Southern Humanities Review, Atlanta Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Roanoke Review, Appalachian Places, Still: The Journal, and several others. She has one poetry collection, Revised Light (Main Street Rag, 2021), and a second in the works.

Frederick Wilbur received his BA from the University of Virginia and an MA from the University of Vermont. He has authored three books on architectural and decorative woodcarving. His two poetry collections are As Pus Floats the Splinter Out and Conjugation of Perhaps. His work has appeared in many print and on-line reviews including Shenandoah, The Atlanta Review, The Comstock Review, The Dalhousie Review, Rise Up Review, and Mojave River Review. He was awarded the Stephen Meats Award by Midwest Quarterly (2017).