For all you poets and wordsmiths out there, Blue Mountain Arts is looking for contemporary prose or poetry, written from personal experience, for publication on greeting cards. Pay is $300 per poem for the worldwide, exclusive rights to publish it on a greeting card and other products, and $50 per poem for one-time use in a book. Writer's guidelines are here: http://www.sps.com/help/writers_guidelines.html.
Good luck! Please keep us posted if you submit and get a response.
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Additionally, there's a poetry contest going on at the Blue Mountain site through June 30: http://www.sps.com/poetry/index.html. First prize is $300, second is $150 and third prize is $50. Here are the poetry contest rules:
"All entries must be the original creation of the submitting author. All rights to the entries must be owned by the author and shall remain the property of the author. The author gives permission to SPS Studios, Inc. to publish and display the entry on the Web (in electronic form only) if the entry is selected as a winner or finalist. Winners will be contacted within 45 days of the deadline date. Contest is open to everyone except employees of SPS Studios and their families. Void where prohibited."
Perhaps you can try both ways of submission!
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Additionally, here's a poetry contest going on at the Blue Mountain site through June 30: http://www.sps.com/poetry/index.html. First prize is $300, second is $150 and third prize is $50. Here are the poetry contest rules:
"All entries must be the original creation of the submitting author. All rights to the entries must be owned by the author and shall remain the property of the author. The author gives permission to SPS Studios, Inc. to publish and display the entry on the Web (in electronic form only) if the entry is selected as a winner or finalist. Winners will be contacted within 45 days of the deadline date. Contest is open to everyone except employees of SPS Studios and their families. Void where prohibited."
Perhaps you can try both ways of submission!
I am. Thank you Mary. It's so kind of you to be thinking of others in this time of what I can only imagine is emotional pain for you. I think you're mom had it right. More uplifting words could not have been spoken. This does indeed need to be a card, to help others in your shoes.
Congratulations!
And Lance, do give it a shot. It's easy to enter, and you can enter as many times as you wish. Indeed, you've inspired me to go enter one right now. I'll let you know how it goes.
I know this was a special day for you
before your special someone passed.
My thoughts are with you as you make it through.
Cry, laugh, whatever it takes
to keep those memories alive.
Your someone was someone special.
It's us that will keep that alive.