The theme for Issue #16 is: Homelands. Artworks featured in this issue will be those of the Group of Seven, once known as the Algonquin School, a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933.
The deadline is March 31st, 2024. A single $100 award will be given for an outstanding poem. There is never a reading fee. An interview with the prize winner will be published in the same issue (optional).
Poems can be any style, but preferably non-rhyming. Submit up to three poems, each no longer than 64 lines, to laststanza@outlook.com as a single Word document or within the body of your email. There is no budget for author copies. Published poems will be considered for a Pushcart Prize nomination. Authors retain all rights to their poems. Reprints are rarely accepted, and if the poem has been previously published, please credit the prior publication.
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