Why It Takes Us So Damn Long to Get Back to You

CALYX’s General Submission period opens next Thursday, October 1st, and runs until December 31st. I love this time of year because I get to read beautiful, brilliant poetry and prose for four months straight. But I recognize that for the women who submit, this can be an extremely frustrating time. After all, if you submit in October,

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2012 Lois Prize: What good are contests anyway?
2012 Lois Prize: What good are contests anyway?

With the start of the 2012 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize reading period, I’ve been thinking a lot about why people submit (or should submit) to literary contests. I recently had a conversation with a friend that went something like this: Me: Hey friend who is also a poet. You should submit to the 2012

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