Seaborn Jones Prize in Poetry Seeks Student Submissions
Author: News Bureau
Posted: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:46 PM
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Macon, GA
This year, the $100 prize is open to any student, regardless of major.
The prize is named for the poet Seaborn Jones, who was born in Macon in 1942. He worked for Fred Rogers on the set of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. At the Museum of Arts and Sciences, he was poet-in-resident and curator of live collections. A member of the San Francisco poetry scene in the early 1970s, he has published poems in New York Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, and the Louisiana Review. He has written numerous books, including Drowning from the Inside Out (1981), Lost Keys (1996), and Going Farther into the Woods Than the Woods Go (2011), winner of the first Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry from Mercer University Press. In 1991 he was chosen as the Alan Collins Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He won the Georgia Author of the Year Award in 1988, and has been the recipient of the Violet Reed Haas Poetry Prize. A veteran of the United States Marine Corps, he lives in Lizella.
Here are the submission guidelines:
1) Submit up to three poems written in English, typed, single-spaced, and titled.
2) Do not put your name on the poem.
3) No translations; no co-authored poems.
4) One poem per page.
5) Use your student email address to submit the poems (required).
6) Send one email to kevin.cantwell@mga.edu
7) In the email, enclose your full name (no aliases), your student i.d. number, and a phone number.
8) Include the title of each poem in the body of the email.
9) Send poems as separate email attachments in .doc, .docx, or .rtf files.
10) If your attachments cannot be opened, your submission will be discarded.
11) You may not hand-deliver submissions.
12) The deadline is Friday, March 28, 2014, by midnight.
13) Any style or subject matter is acceptable.
14) The judge will be a recognized poet identified when the winner is announced.
15) The decision of the judge is final.
16) There will be a First Prize and a Runner-up; there is no monetary prize for the Runner-up.
17) Students may not consult with Dr. Kevin Cantwell, chair of the Media, Culture & the Arts department, about their submissions beforehand.
18) Failure to follow the above instructions will disqualify any submission.
19) Authors retain copyright of poems, although the c ollege has the right to print or reprint the winning poem on the web or in print; in such cases, the author will be credited.
20) The winning poem may already be submitted to a literary magazine or to another competition and may be submitted for publication afterward without the permission of the college.
Every even-numbered year, the Seaborn Jones Prize will be open to any student at MGSC, regardless of major or class ranking. In odd-numbered years, the prize is open only to juniors or seniors in English, New Media and Communication or Interdisciplinary Studies.