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Contest Guidelines
The Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry

$1,000 for best poem

2009 Judge: Chris Forhan

Postmark submissions between July 1 and November 29, 2008.

Entry fee: $15 for 3-5 poems (includes one-year subscription to The Broome Review).

Winner announced by end of the year and published in the Spring 2009 edition of The Broome Review.

Five honorable mentions will be offered publication in The Broome Review.

How To Submit:

Please follow the guidelines below in order to help us process your submissions more effectively. Entries that do not meet the guidelines may be disqualified.

*Author's name should not appear anywhere on the individual poem pages.

*Include one cover page with author's name, address, phone number, Email address, and titles of poems. Do not include anything else on this page.

*Include a separate cover page with only the poems' titles.

*A formal cover letter is not necessary.

*No need to include a SASE. Manuscripts will not be returned. Winner and honorable mentions will be notified via Email and publicized here on the Web site by the end of December 2008.

*You may include a self addressed, stamped postcard if you wish to be notified that we've received your submission.

Mail poems along with payment to:

Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry
The Broome Review
P.O. Box 900
Vestal, NY 13850

Please address any questions or submission queries to: info@thebroomereview.com




We make every reasonable effort to ensure that manuscripts are judged fairly. For this reason, names should not appear anywhere on manuscripts. Friends and former students of a judge are ineligible in that genre. Genre editors who serve as preliminary readers are instructed to recuse themselves from deliberations on any piece they recognize.

 We subscribe to the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Contest Code of Ethics:

"CLMP's community of independent literary publishers believes that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that end, we agree to 1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors; 2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and 3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available to the public. This Code recognizes that different contest models produce different results, but that each model can be run ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests contribute to a vibrant literary heritage."
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