Deadline: January 15, 2020
Winners announced March 1, 2020
Entry Fees:
$5/poem (or 5 poems for $20)
Prizes:
1st: $100 & publication, 2nd: $50 & publication, 3rd: $25 & publication.
Publication is for one year, on the Pandora's Collective website.
This year's judges are Cynthia Sharp and Trevor Carolan:
Cynthia Sharp is the City of Richmond's 2019 Writer in Residence. She is a full member of The League of Canadian Poets and The Writers' Union of Canada and on the executive of the Federation of British Columbia Writers. She's featured at Word Vancouver, The Simon Fraser University Reading Series, Spoken Ink, Words on Fire in Port Alberni, Poesic Fest in Denver, the Writers Read Series in Toronto and other literary events through North America. Her work has been published and broadcast internationally and is used in classrooms in Canada, the U.S. and Scotland. Poems from her book Rainforest in Russet can be found in journals such as CV2, Lantern Magazine and untethered, among others.
Trevor Carolan's work includes many books of non-fiction, poetry, translation, and anthologies, as well as journalism and interviews. He served as literary coordinator for the XV Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, and has been Coordinator of writing and publishing programs at the Banff Centre. He has also worked as media advocate on behalf of Aboriginal land claims and Pacific Coast watershed issues. A former elected Councillor in North Vancouver, he holds a PhD. for studies in Literature, Ecology and ideas of the Sacred in International Relations. His documentary film Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World features appearances by many distinguished eco-writers. He teaches English and Creative Writing at University of the Fraser Valley, and is Co-editor of Pacific Rim Review of Books. His eco-lit collection Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World received a Best American Essays Citation in 2013.
