Summer is here, and if you’re over 21, we might have just the thing to keep you cool and occupied: The 11th Annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. It’s a full mid-Atlantic poetry contest with some great prizes. Obviously you have a little under two months to write up some poetry, but don’t slack! The guidelines are as follows:
The Eleventh Annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for the winning book-length manuscript by a poet residing in the Mid-Atlantic states (DE, MD, VA, PA, NJ, NY, WVA, and NC) will consist of $500, two cases of Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Beer*, book publication by Broadkill River Press, and 10 copies of the book (in lieu of royalties).
The rules are: Manuscripts must be received by midnight, September 2, 2013 (Labor Day). Manuscripts received after Labor Day will not be considered. Eligible poets must reside in the above listed states and be twenty-one years of age or older by the date of the award. * The manuscript is to be submitted electronically in one MS Word document attachment. Send to Prize co-ordinator Linda Blaskey at dogfishheadpoetryprize@earthlink.net. Snail mail submissions will not be accepted.
Send two title pages with each submission: one with the title of the manuscript, your name, address, phone numbers and e-mail address; the second with just the manuscript title. No manuscript is to have any author-identifying information other than the one title page and will be rejected if it does. The manuscript should have an acknowledgement page of poems previously published, and in which publications and/or web-sites they appeared. Judging is blind and double-tiered.
The manuscript must be book-length (between 48 and seventy eight pages of original work – no translations) and no more than roughly thirty lines to a page, including the poem’s title and two line-spaces between the title and the body of the poem. A poem may be more than one page. The book’s dimensions will be 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches, with a minimum of half-inch side margins, and printed in 12 point type, so avoid very long lines.
The award will be presented to the poet on Sunday, December 8, 2013 at the Dogfish Head Brewpub and Restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The winner must agree to attend this event and to read from their winning book at a reception honoring the winner. The prize will be officially awarded by Sam Calagione, Founder and CEO of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Distillery, or by another company official.
The author of the winning manuscript also agrees to provide, within ten days of notification, a color head-shot photograph for the back cover and a dedication for the interior of the book. The winner agrees to travel to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware at the winner’s expense for awarding of the prize. Dogfish Head will provide the winner one night’s lodging in Rehoboth Beach where Dogfish Rehoboth Brew Pub and Restaurant is located.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales retains the right to use any of the winning work in promotional materials.
For questions and more information contact Linda Blaskey, Prize co-ordinator, at linblask@aol.com
Good Luck!
Philadelphia Stories 
I would love to be able to tweet out information about this contest – and other contests/event that Philadelphia Stories sponsors – but your emails never include a link that could send people who might want to know more about the contest before they actually query or send a submission.
Michael, great to hear your interest, and thank you! In this case Linda Blaskey would be the point of contact for people who might want to know more about the contest. Linda can be reached at linblask@aol.com.