Eat a Peach: A Poetry Journal is holding a contest for best Humor or Light Verse poem. The entry fee is $10 and the winner will receive $100. The winning poem will be published in the Fall 2010 issue. If there are fewer than 15 entries, the contest will be canceled and all entrants will receive a refund.
Poems will be evaluated by three judges: Christian Ward of London, Byron Beynon of Swansea, Wales and Neal Whitman of California. Their backgrounds are described below.
Mail poems and Checks or Money Orders in US dollars, with "poetry contest" in the memo space made out to: Anne Rettenberg, 7 Lexington Avenue, Suite P-2, New York, NY 10010. Or, you may submit the poem via the submission link on the Submissions page, and mail the check or money order separately. Entries will be accepted until June 1, 2010.
Judges:
Christian Ward lives in London where he is a freelance journalist as well as a poet. His work has appeared in "Diagram", "Denver Syntax" and other publications.
Neal Whitman lives in Pacific Grove, California, and is a volunteer docent at the Robinson Jeffers Tor House in nearby Carmel. A retired teacher, since 2006 he has published over 50 poems in print and online.
Byron Beynon is a tutor at Swansea University. He has read his work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Hay Festival, Cork and the Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury, London. In 1990 his work won an award in the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition and a sequence of his poems, inspired by the work of Vincent Van Gogh, appeared in a Painters and Poets exhibition in Harrow. His work has appeared in numerous publications.