Winning Writers to Award $5,000 in New Sports Poetry and Prose Contest
Northampton, MA (PRWEB) January 19, 2012 Winning Writers invites entries to its new contest for sports poetry and prose. The top winners in the poetry and prose categories will each win $ 1,500. Two second prizes of $ 500 and 10 honorable mentions of $ 100 will also be awarded, bringing the total purse to $ 5,000. The winning entries will be published online at WinningWriters.com, which receives over one million page views per year.
Jendi Reiter will be the final judge of the contest. She is the author of the poetry collection A Talent for Sadness (Turning Point Books, 2003) and the award-winning poetry chapbooks Swallow (Amsterdam Press, 2009) and Barbie at 50 (Cervena Barva Press, 2010). She recently received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists' Grant for Poetry, the OSA Enizagam Award for Fiction, and the Anderbo Poetry Prize.
"Whether you're a player or a fan," says Ms. Reiter, "or the kid who counted the minutes till gym class was over, sports ...