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49th Parallel Award for Poetry

1st Prize: $1,000

Final Judge: to be announced

First place winners will be published in the Bellingham Review. Second and third place winners and finalists may be considered for publication.

Submission Guidelines

1. Entry Fees:

2. Deadline:

3. For each entry, submit the following:

4. Maximum length:

5. Restrictions:

6. Send entries to:

49th Parallel
Bellingham Review
Mail Stop 9053
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225

7. Manuscripts will not be returned. Winners will be announced by July 2009.

8. Download a printer-friendly, Microsoft Word version of the Contest Submission Guidelines.


Past Winners

2007 Winners
Final Judge Carolyne Wright
1st Place

Luisa A. Igloria, of Norfolk, VA
"The Clear Bones"

Runners-Up Lina Chern
Finalists Rae Gouirand, Carol Quinn, Lorraine Healy, Greg Rappleye, Charity Ketz, Vandana Khanna, Elizabeth McLagan, Susanna Childress, Courtney Jo Good

2006 Winners
Final Judge Timothy Liu
1st Place

Maya Pindyck, of Brooklyn, NY
“So Much Went Into”

Runners-Up Marika Ismail
Finalists Aleda Shirley, Sarah Jefferis, Susan McCabe, Holly Hughes, Jennifer Militello, Kathy Dull, Aaryn Richard, David Keplinger, Rae Gouirand

2005 Winners
Final Judge Peggy Shumaker
1st Place Jennifer Perrine, "My Mother Learns the Language of Pregnancy"
Runners-Up Margaret Hoehn, Mary Cornish
Finalists Charity Ketz, Rebecca Dunham, James R. Marshall, Ava Haymon, Beth Martinelli, Rosalyn Driscoll, Elizabeth Krajeck, John Pursley III, Alice George, Margaret Wycisk, Joshua Wilkinson

2004 Winners
Final Judge Lucia Perillo
1st Place Christopher Bursk, "E Pluribus Unum"
Runners-Up Matthew Frank, Allen Braden
Finalists Richard Wollman, Kathryn Ugoretz, Jennifer Perrine, Maureen Clark, Amy Uyematsu, Patricia Murphy, Kristina Martinez, Kate Umans, Megan Kruse, Regina O'Melveny, Nicole Walker, Otis Rubottom

2003 Winners
Final Judge Robert Wrigley
1st Place Simone Muench, "Window"
Runners-Up Elizabeth McLagan, Susanna Childress
Finalists Krista Kay Feakes, Valerie Free, Jennifer Militello, Rusty Morrison, Veronica Patterson

2002 Winners
Final Judge Mark Doty
1st Place Kerri Webster, "Winter, Noun"
2nd Place Kathryn St. Thomas, "Coming to Terms"
3rd Place David Roderick, "The Point"
Finalists Rosalyn Driscoll, M.S. Eisele, Sarah Kennedy, Cheryl Anne Latuner, Rennie McQuilken, Simone Muench, Jonathan Powers, Catherine Harnett Shaw, A.F. Thomas

2001 Winners
Final Judge David Lee
1st Place Don Judson, "Field Guide"
2nd Place Ryan Van Cleave, "Dear Theodore Roethke"
3rd Place Joshua Poteat, "Documenting the Birds: Office Park"
Finalists Janée Baugher, Cal Bedient, Karen Carcia, Matt Donovan, David Hernandez, Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, Kip Irwin, Richard Lyons, Erika Meitner, Simone Muench, Joan Mitchell, Shari Diane Willadson