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Winners of the 2001 Poetry Contest

First Place:  Janet I. Buck

Second Place: Carol Frith

Third Place:  Joyce Odam

Congratulations, Winners!  A chapbook with the winning poems will be available for purchase during December! 

Prizes -- $100.00 first place and publication in Kimera.

Deadline August 30, 2001 -- extended

All entries considered for publication.

Each contestant will receive winner's issue.

Contest Guidelines Page

All work will be considered if accompanied by contest fee, $2.00 per poem.

3 poem minimum
10 poem maximum

Mail submissions along with money order or check to

Poetry Contest
Kimera: A Journal of Fine Writing
N. 1316 Hollis
Spokane, WA 99201, USA

Submission Format Requirements:

include one original, unpublished poem per page;
use double spacing;
use legible type;
submit typed copies only;
avoid simultaneous submissions;
include a short bio;
include both email (if any) and snail mail address on cover page only;
include a SASE for reply only.

Winners will be announced on or before October 15th, 2001 when the new edition of Kimera goes online. All contestants will receive a copy of the hard copy which will include the winners of the contest.

Any author who enters the contest should understand that if the work is chosen as a winner of one of the prizes, it will be automatically published in the online edition or the hard copy or both. An author whose work is accepted for any particular issue grants Kimera the following rights: the right to use the work for the issue of Kimera's choosing, one time rights to publication with the option of printing the accepted work in Kimera's hard copy annual issue of prose, poetry and art.

To subscribe to the online edition of Kimera, send your name and email address to kimera@js.spokane.wa.us--this is not a listserv. To subscribe to the hardcopy edition, send $10.00 to the above address.

To subscribe to the hard copy edition, send $10.00 to the above address.

The Editors

Kimera: Journal of Fine Writing

http://www.js.spokane.wa.us/kimera

kimera@js.spokane.wa.us

Previous Winners in the Summer 2000 Poetry Contest

1st Place
Chloe' Estrera

2nd Place
Ruth Moon Kempher

3rd Place
John Surowiecki

Honorable Mentions
B. J. Ward
Carol Frith
Janet Buck
Susan Spilecki
Susan Edwards Richmond
Jarret Keene
Annie Farnsworth

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