KATHLEEN MCCLUNG "BELOVED" SONNET PRIZE CATEGORY
1st Prize: $100.... 2nd Prize: $50.... Third Prize:.... $25
Category Details
One Shakespearean, Petrarchan, or nontraditional sonnet per entry. Am Looking for contemporary, beautifully crafted sonnet on the theme of the beloved. I welcome celebrations, meditations, and passions of all varieties. As Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland write, a sonnet "is a form of true power, malleable, nomadic, humane. It speaks to something that is deep within us. It turns us both inward and outward. It is both timely and timeless."
About Judge/Sponsor
KATHLEEN McCLUNG, Associate Director of the contest lives in San Francisco, CA an) teaches at Skyline College and the Writing Salon. She has also served as managing editor at small presses and taught/advised student teachers in public high schools. She holds masters degrees from Stanford University and California State University Fresno where she studied with poets Alan Shapiro, Philip Levine, and Peter Everwine. She is the author of Almost the Rowboat, and her poetry, memoir, and fiction appear widely in journals and anthologies, including Mezzo Cammin, Unsplendid, Atlanta Review, Ekphrasis, Spirituality & Health, Poets 11, A Bird Black as the Sun: California Poets on Crows and Ravens and Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she won the 2012 Rita Dove Poetry Award and has been a finalist for the Morton Marr, Robert Frost, and 49th Parallel poetry prizes. She has participated in recent panels and workshops at the Southern Festival of Books, Litquake, and Crossroads Irish-American Festival. Kathleen serves as a reviewer for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, sponsored by the Stanford University Libraries, and she coordinates Women on Writing (WOW) community events.
Links:
Writing Salons
Unsplendid
Green Poet Press
Frost Foundation
Kathleen McClung
LAST YEAR'S WINNERS (2016)
First Prize: Diane Lee Moomey of El Granada, CA for "Thirty Below"
Second Prize: Christopher Goff of Bronxville, NY for "As We Walked Out One Evening"
Third Prize: Lucille Gang Shulklapper of Boca Raton, FL for "Rhythm and Blues in the Nursing Home"
Honorable Mentions: Marilyn L. Taylor of Madison, WI for "To the Mother of a Dead Marine";
Diane Lee Moomey of El Granada, CA for "Forty-Three and One Half, on reading Millay #43"; John Oliver Simon of Berkeley, CA for "Widower's Tango"; Grace Marie Grafton of Oakland, CA for "Something unusual, something familiar"; Robert Eastwood of San Ramon, CA for "Insistence";
Catharine Clark-Sayles of San Rafael, CA for "Not Enough"; Katharyn Howd Machan of Ithaca, NY for "At the Veterans Hospital"