Joy Bale Boone Prize 2010

Leatha Kendrick is the author of three volumes of poetry, the most recent one, Second Opinion (2008). She currently leads workshops in poetry and life writing at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky, and directs their reading series, New Books by Great Writers. Leatha has also led workshops in writing and healing at regional and national conferences and has been a presenter at several of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs’ annual meetings. Her poems and essays appear widely in journals and anthologies including Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia; The Kentucky Anthology—Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State; and I to I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists. She co-edited Crossing Troublesome, Twenty-Five Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop and wrote the script for a documentary film: A Lasting Thing for the World—The Photography of Doris Ulmann. The recipient of grants in both poetry and fiction from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kentucky Foundation of Women, she is at work on a novel, entitled Leavings.

Guidelines:

• THR asks for a $10 contribution for up to 3 poems to support the contest and our journal. Please make checks out to The Heartland Review.
• Send a cover page with name, address, and a short biography (30 words maximum).
• Name and address should not appear on poems.
• Poems should be typed and no longer than 30 lines.
• Send a Self Addressed Stamped Legal-sized Envelope for results.

Mail entries to:

2010 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community & Technical College
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701

Winners will be announced in April and invited to read at the Morrison Gallery Poetry Series Poetry Month Celebration

For more information e-mail: Mick.Kennedy@KCTCS.edu
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*in the event of a tie, prize money will be divided accordingly