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Unread 08-16-2014, 08:01 PM
Nausheen Eusuf Nausheen Eusuf is offline
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Default Helen Schaible sonnet contest

The Helen Schaible sonnet contest is open until Sept 1. No entry fee. Cathy Chandler of the Sphere received a special recognition last year, and the list of winners is here.

Go forth and conquer!

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Unread 08-17-2014, 02:12 AM
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Thanks for posting this, Nausheen!!

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Who is Helen Schaible?
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Who is Helen Schaible?
Thanks for the prompt, Michael. I found one book, Late Season (1981), by a poet of that name.

The contest is administered, as far as I can tell, by the Chicago-area group Poets and Patrons, which also does the Chicagoland Poetry Contest.

Not sure where the H.S. prize money comes from. It's just $100 a year -- $50, $35, $15. No entry fee. The Chicagoland Contest offers prizes of $45, $20, and $10 in seven open categories, with entry fees of $15 and $12. So in that contest, you could win third prize and still lose money on your entry.
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I wonder what happens to the winning poems. It looks like they just announce the title and the author's name, but that seems a little strange -- or are they published somewhere where I can't find them?
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The winning sonnets are not published. Terese Coe got 1st place one year; I got HM once.
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Who is Helen Schaible?
A distant relative of Morton Marr, perhaps?

I think we should thank Nausheen for the link instead of shooting down the contest.

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Okay - I'm curious. Why would anybody enter this contest? The winners are not published, so you have no idea of what the competition was like. When I googled the first through third places from last year's contest I found no signs of internet publication of those or any other poems of theirs, the judge doesn't appear to have any kind of a poetry history, etc. and etc. There are some good poets I know who have entered this contest. I assume you didn't do it for the money. What prompted you to take the time and invest the postage?
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Hi, Michael,
I won the contest one year. I entered it because it cost nothing to enter (but a postage stamp) and paid money for winning, and I still got my poem published elsewhere after the contest. There aren't very many contests for sonnets and I tend to write a number of them, so why not?

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Also, you could enter a previously published sonnet with a different title -- who'd ever know? (We are nothing if not devious).
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