Submit to the Lily Poetry Prize

Kevin McLellan will judge. Kevin McLellan is the author of Hemispheres (Fact-Simile Editions, forthcoming), Ornitheology (The Word Works, 2018), [box] (Letter [r] Press, 2016), Tributary (Barrow Street, 2015), and Round Trip (Seven Kitchens, 2010). He won the 2015 Third Coast Poetry Prize and Gival Press’ 2016 Oscar Wilde Award, and his poems have appeared in numerous literary journals. Kevin lives in Cambridge Massachusetts.

All poetry prize submissions will be read blindly. Decisions are final.

Winners will be announced prior to the winter issue 2019/2020.

The 1st place winner will receive $500 and 2nd and 3rd place winners receive $100 and publication.

To submit, please submit no more than 3 unpublished poems of no more than 50 lines per poem in ONE MSWord file (.doc / .docx / .rtf only, no .pdf please). Please remove your name from your file, as the poetry is read blind by our editorial staff and contest judge.

Deadline is September 15, 2019 11:59pm

SUBMIT HERE

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