Randall Jarrell Poery Competition Open!

2005 JARRELL WINNER TO JUDGE 2011 JARRELL CONTEST

Poet and editor Dan Albergotti, the winner of the 2005 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, will judge this year’s Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition.

Submissions for this year’s Jarrell contest are now open, until the March 1 deadline. The winner will be announced in May.

A graduate of the MFA program at UNC Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, Albergotti currently teaches creative writing and literature courses and edits the online journal Waccamaw (www.waccamawjournal.com) at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. He is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses.

The Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition honors the work and legacy of the poet and critic Randall Jarrell, who taught at what is now UNCG for nearly eighteen years. The contest accepts one-poem submissions. The winner receives $200, publication in The Crucible literary journal, and an invitation to read his or her poetry at UNCG’s Founders Day activities.

The competition is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers’ Network and administered by Terry L. Kennedy and the graduate program in creative writing at UNCG, and is open to any writer who is a legal resident of North Carolina or a member of the NCWN. Questions may be directed to Kennedy at tlkenned@uncg.edu. Full guidelines are below.

Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition
Postmark deadline: March 1 (annual)

Eligibility and Guidelines
• The competition is open to any writer who is a legal resident of NC
or a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network.
• Submissions should be one poem only (40-line limit).
• Poem must be typed (single-spaced) and stapled in the left-hand corner.
• Names should not appear on the poem but on a separate cover sheet along with address, phone number, and poem title.
• Poem will not be returned. Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for a list of winners.
• An entry fee must accompany the poem. Multiple submissions are accepted, one poem per entry fee: $10 for NCWN members, $15 for nonmembers. You may pay member entry fee if you join the NCWN with your submission. Checks should be made payable to the North Carolina Writers’ Network.

Send submissions, indicating name of competition, to:

Terry Kennedy
MFA Writing Program
3302 MHRA Building
UNC Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170