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Submission dates: March 1, 2008, through May 31, 2008. (These are inclusive postmark dates.)

Prize: Winner will receive $300 cash award, publication in CALYX Journal, and a one-volume subscription. Finalists will be published on CALYX’s website and will receive a one-volume subscription.

Details: Each entry can include up to three (3) unpublished poems, no more than six (6) manuscript pages total. Do not include your name on the same page as a poem; instead, include a separate cover letter with your name, address, phone, e-mail, and titles of poem/s. No manuscripts will be returned. Please send unpublished work and please don’t send simultaneous submissions. Judge’s decisions are final. The final judge for the 2008 prize is Ursula K. Le Guin.

Reading fee: $15 per entry, checks payable to CALYX.


Contest winner and finalists will be notified by October 30, 2008, and will be announced on CALYX’s website, index2. The winning poem will be published in CALYX Journal Vol. 25, no. 1 (Winter 2009) and on CALYX’s website. All entrants from the U.S. will receive prize results in October 2008.

Send submission to:

CALYX, Inc.
Lois Cranston Poetry Prize
PO Box B
Corvallis OR 97339

About... Lois Cranston was an editor for CALYX Journal for more than ten years. Her remarkable life experiences and knowledge of literature enriched the editorial collective and the journal issues she helped edit. This poetry prize in her name honors the memory of her commitment to the creative work of women from all walks of life.