Matrix Magazine: Robert Kroetsch Award

Matrix Magazine are thrilled to have Karen Solie as their judge for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry! Karen is a Griffin Prize-winning poet who recently released her Selected Poems in the United Kingdom. She is one of Canada's greatest living poets and we are so lucky to be working with her.

The winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award wins a trade paperback publishing contract, a 500 dollar advance, and has their book published and distributed by one of North America's most respected literary presses. The Robert Kroetsch Award is without a doubt the best opportunity for emerging poets in Canada!

Invisible Publishing and Matrix Magazine are pleased to bring you the 2015 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.

NOTE: THIS COMPETITION IS OPEN TO CANADIAN RESIDENTS ONLY

The prize is awarded annually to the best poetry manuscript by an emerging Canadian writer (a writer who has published two books or fewer). Each year the winning manuscript is selected by an established poet in co-operation with Matrix Magazine and Invisible Publishing's Snare Imprint.

About Karen Solie:

Karen Solie’s most recent collection of poems, Pigeon, won the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her first collection of poems, Short Haul Engine, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, the ReLit and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her second, Modern and Normal, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous North American journals. She is a native of Saskatchewan and now lives in Toronto.

The deadline is January 31, 2015.

Entries can be submitted through Matrix Magazine's Submittable site.

Each entry must be accompanied with a business size SASE and an entry fee for $30.00 Canadian. Please make all cheques and money orders payable to “Matrix Publications.” No cash please.

Or if you prefer to use PAYPAL, you may send you manuscript electronically to kroetsch2015@gmail.com and send your payment via PAYPAL at Matrix's Robert Kroetsch Award Page.

Alternatively, you may send manuscripts to:
The Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry 

Invisible Publishing's Snare Imprint 

c/o Matrix Magazine / 
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. LB 658
 Montreal QC / H3G 1M8

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