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The Midwest
Writing Center is proud to announce Meghan Brinson as
the winner
of the 2009 Mississippi Valley Poetry
Chapbook Contest!
Her collection, Broken
Plums on the
Sidewalk, was selected by our guest judge Rachel
Contreni Flynn,
who described the manuscript as “a
deeply moving, powerful collection of poems
driven by
language that doesn’t spare a word.”
 
Meghan's chapbook is now available for purchase at the
Midwest Writing Center.
Get your copy today!
Meghan Brinson hails from Charleston, SC. She holds
an MFA in poetry from Arizona State University
where she
served as poetry editor of Hayden's Ferry Review. She
also taught creative writing as an
international fellow
at the National University of Singapore. She has poems
appearing or forthcoming
in Puerto del Sol, Gulf Coast,
The Greensboro Review, Pebble Lake Review, and Copper Nickel among
others. Her post-lapsarian chapbook
Fragrant Inferno is forthcoming as the 2009 winner of
the Anabiosis
Press
Chapbook Contest.
Congratulations to our 2009
Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest Finalists!
Francesco Levato (Evanston, IL) - Elegy for Dead
Languages
Lois Parker Edstrom (Coupeville, WA) - What Brings Us
to Water
Christina Hutchins (Albany, CA) - Radiantly We
Inhabit the Air
The Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook
Competition annually invites submissions for the
election of one
poet’s collection to be published by MWC Press.
Submissions must be
postmarked between May 1 and July
31 each year. The annual winner is announced online
in
November.
Past winners include Stephen Frech,
The Dark Villages of Childhood (2008), and Meghan
Brinson,
Broken Plums on the Sidewalk (2009).
Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Competition
2010
Judge
Jennifer
Perrine
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Jennifer Perrine’s first book of
poetry, The Body Is No Machine, was published by New Issues
in 2007 and won the
2008 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry. Other recent awards
include the U.S. Poets in Mexico Mérida Fellowship
and first prize in the Black Warrior Review Fourth-Ever
Poetry Contest and the Virginia Arts of the Books Center Taste 'Test. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of journals, including
Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, RATTLE,
and Third Coast. Perrine lives in Des Moines, Iowa, and works
at Drake University, where she organizes the Writers &
Critics Series and teaches courses in creative writing, queer
literature and theories, and gender studies.
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Review Guidelines
Submit between 16 to 24 pages of poetry;
manuscripts should be paginated and secured with a
binder clip
(no staples). No names or identifying information should
appear on the poems.
Enclose one cover page that includes:
o -
chapbook title
o
-
author name
o -
address
o -
phone
o -
email
Enclose a second cover page that includes
only the chapbook title to allow for blind review.
No cover letter is required; however, if
poems have been previously published, an acknowledgments
page should be included. Poems may be more than one page
in length, but only one poem per page.
Midwest Writing Center will publish the winning chapbook
through MWC Press and make it available
for sale. No manuscripts will be returned. Submissions
that arrive ‘postage due’ will be returned unopened.
Submission Information
Submissions should be sent directly to
Midwest Writing Center (see address below).
Contest results will be announced via
email. If you wish to receive the results in the mail,
please include a
SASE. All entries that include a check for $4 postage
will receive a complimentary copy of the winning
chapbook. Contact the contest administrator with any
questions by emailing
contest@midwestwritingcenter.org
with the word “chapbook:” in the subject line.
Deadline Dates
Submissions must be postmarked between
May 1 and July 31 each year.
Prizes
The winner of the Mississippi Valley
Poetry Chapbook Contest will receive $100 prize money,
have his/her
manuscript published by Midwest Writing Center, and
receive 15 free copies of the finished chapbook.
Reading Fee
There is a $15 reading fee per chapbook
entry (multiple submissions accepted). If paying reading
fee by
check, make check payable to MWC and include payment
with the manuscript submission to:
Midwest Writing Center
Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook
Contest
225 E. 2nd St., Suite 303
Davenport, IA 52801
MasterCard and Visa are also accepted
(please send your name as it appears on the card, the
card number,
expiration date, and v-code along with your manuscript)
or reading fee may be paid online via PayPal below.
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