Winners announced! Read the 2013 winning poems.

SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED. Contest opened July 1. Submission deadline was August 15, 2013. Winners to be announced by October 1, 2013. Michael A. Burstein is the contest Chair.

Contest Rules:
The 2013 SFPA speculative poetry contest is open to all poets, including non-SFPA-members. Prizes will be awarded for best poem in 3 categories: Dwarf (poems 1–10 lines); Short (11–49 lines [prose poems 0–499 words]); Long (50 lines and more [prose 500 words and up]). Line count does not include title or stanza breaks. All sub-genres of speculative poetry allowed in any form.

In each category, a first prize of $100, a second prize of $50, and a third prize of $25 will be awarded. No limit on number of poems; entry fee of $1.00 for SFPA members and $2.00 for non-members per poem can be paid via PayPal to sfpatreasurer@gmail.com. Please indicate name/e-mail under which poems are submitted if different.

Judge: Jane Yolen, SFPA Grand Master (janeyolen.com). Blind-judged: author identification will be removed before poems are sent to readers or judge.

Submission guidelines:

• Deadline is August 15, 2013.
• Unpublished poems only.
• Submissions by e-mail only to 13contest@sfpoetry.com.
• Send as many poems as you like, but an entry fee of $1 member/$2 non-member per poem must be paid via PayPal to sfpatreasurer@gmail.com.
• Poems must be included in the body of the e-mail or sent as .rtf attachments; no other methods will be accepted. If a poem contains unique formatting, please send it in .rtf format. Please use single-spacing; if pasting into e-mail from a .doc, convert your poems to plain text format. In e-mail, indicate indentation with spaces, NOT tabs, and italics with _underlines_.

Confirmation of receipt of your submission should follow within 3 days.
Announcement of winners will be posted on the SFPA website by October 1, 2013.

Prizes:
Iin each category (Dwarf, Short, Long): $100 First Prize, $50 Second Prize, $25 Third Prize. Publication on Poetry Planet (StarShipSofa.com) podcast magazine and on the SFPA website for first through third places.