Founders’ Prize

OPEN TO ALL POETS WITH A DISTINCTIVE VOICE

Submissions must be postmarked between July 1 – October 1 (mail and online submissions guidelines below)

All contest submissions will also be considered for regular publication in the 2013 edition of RHINO Poetry.

  • The winner will receive $300.00, publication in the next issue, and will be featured on our website, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
  • Two runners up will receive $50.00, publication in the next issue, and will be featured on our website.

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2012 Founders’ Prize Winner
Emari DeGiorgio • 1434 Dead

Runners-Up
Mary Clara White •  Garden Song at a Cremation
Holly Amos • full of magic words

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Guidelines:

SUBMISSIONS BY MAIL

  • Send up to 5 unpublished poems (no more than 5 pages total) between July 1 and October 1. No identifying information should appear on the poems.
  • Submissions must include a cover letter to “Founders’ Prize Contest” listing your name, address, email address and/or telephone number and titles of your poems, and how you learned of the contest.
  • Enclose a $10 entry fee (make checks payable to RHINO)
  • Manuscripts will not be returned. Include a SASE for notification of results.

Mail your submission to:

“Founders’ Contest“
RHINO Poetry
P.O. Box 591
Evanston, IL 60204

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS

  1. Group your poems into one document – no identifying information should be on this document; Upload a single file in Word .doc or .docx format
  2. Cover letter – to “Founders’ Prize Contest” listing your name, address, email address and/or telephone number and titles of your poems, and how you learned of the contest. Copy your cover letter and then paste it in the “comments” field.
  3. Pay your $10 entry fee through the online submission page (preferred), or send your check made out to RHINO with a copy of your cover letter to the address above, and note in the “Comments” field that your check is on the way. PLEASE NOTE that your entry will not be considered until your check is received and processed.
  4. The electronic submission manager will be available for Founders’ Prize July 1 – October 1.

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2011 Founders’ Prize Winner
Abby Paige • The Undefended Border – poem (PDF)

Runners-Up
Kirsten Rian • “It’s better to know in advance that we are going to fail.” (from 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life) - poem (PDF)
Steven Schroeder• souls falling (for Katia Mitova) – poem (PDF)

2010 Founders’ Prize Winner
y madrone • Pocketed – poem (PDF)

Runners-Up
Amanda Auchter • Tether – poem (PDF)
Andy Trebing • Dear Ellie – poem (PDF)

2009 Founders’ Prize Winner

Penelope Scambly Schott • In which I am the Skeleton Girl – poem (PDF)

Runners Up

Bethany Schultz Hurst  • Elegy for Beauty School and Fallen Satellites – poem (PDF)

Marissa Bell Toffoli • Lacework – poem (PDF)

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