{"id":5090,"date":"2024-04-23T12:47:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=5090"},"modified":"2024-04-23T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:48:25","slug":"p-frontier-poetrys-2024-nature-place-prize-theme-nature-place","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/p-frontier-poetrys-2024-nature-place-prize-theme-nature-place\/","title":{"rendered":"P – Frontier Poetry’s 2024 Nature & Place Prize. Theme: Nature & Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2024 Nature & Place Prize<\/b><\/h2>\n

February 22, 2024, to April 28, 2024<\/h3>\n

In our pursuit of gentleness, nostalgia, and a reimagining of \u201chome,\u201d\u00a0Frontier Poetry<\/i>\u00a0is reviving the Nature & Place Prize. In her poem\u00a0\u201cDrowning Creek,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Ada Lim\u00f3n takes us into the countryside, \u201cPast the strip malls and the power plants, \/ out of the holler, past Gun Bottom Road \/ and Brassfield and before Red Lick Creek, \/ there\u2019s a stream called Drowning Creek\u2026.\u201d On her journey, she has the strong urge to stop the car and observe the kingfisher perched on the transmission wire \u201ceyeing the creek \/ for crayfish, tadpoles, and minnows.\u201d She has aptly combined the urge to be in communion with nature, with the visceral landscape of place observed from the loneliness of a car ride. In this same vein, we invite you to submit work to the 2024 Nature & Place Prize.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re looking for poems rich and robust in language, technique, and form that pay homage to the natural world and all of the small marvels that occur in nature. We\u2019re also interested in poems that observe geography and the landscape of home.\u00a0Frontier Poetry<\/i>\u00a0warmly encourages poets of all backgrounds, identities, and ethnicities to enter.<\/p>\n

The first-place winner will receive $3,000 and publication. Second- and third-place winners will receive $300 and $200 respectively, as well as publication. All shortlisted writers will also be considered for paid publication in New Voices.<\/p>\n

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About the Guest Judge:<\/h3>\n

\"\"Flower Conroy<\/b>\u00a0is a LGBTQIA+ artist, NEA and MacDowell Fellow, and former Key West Poet Laureate. Conroy\u2019s books include\u00a0Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder<\/i>\u00a0(winner of the Stevens Manuscript Prize),\u00a0A Sentimental Hairpin\u00a0<\/i>(Eric Hoffer Finalist), and\u00a0Greenest Grass<\/i>\u00a0(winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry prize). Her work has appeared\/is forthcoming in\u00a0New England Review,<\/i>\u00a0American Literary Review<\/i>,\u00a0The Yale Review<\/i>, and elsewhere. Currently she is curating a series of Ephemeral Altars that celebrate poetry collections through assemblage art.<\/p>\n

What Flower Is Looking For:<\/h3>\n

When I initially heard the theme \u201cNature & Place,\u201d I had a confident (albeit vague) idea what that might mean; however, the more I thought about it, my sense of nature and place became excitingly less certain, amorphous, vast. I want (from these submissions) what I\u2019d want from any poem: I want to encounter that which I didn\u2019t know I needed to encounter; I want surprise of detail and syntax, for a microcosm of a perspective and language (or languages) to flesh out a world I get lost in, to be entranced by keenness of being and experience retold; I want nuance, subtext, and imagery to awe me. The theme of “Nature & Place” strikes me as abstractly concrete and concretely abstract\u2014it conjures landscape, yes, but perhaps landscape as a presence in relation to a self or selves. It\u2019s flesh and dirt, past and future, internal and external. I\u2019ve no preconceived notions of what the poems should be beyond being visceral.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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