Susan, that is a great point about grants -- thank you. I am a registered artist with the Canada Council for the Arts, which is our national grant body, though I haven't actually applied for anything yet. But they do cover things like workshop fees and even childcare for the same, so I'll have to dig around and see if submission fees would also qualify. I'm slowly inching my way toward a first chapbook right now, so I will definitely keep it in mind as an option!
As far as single-poem contests go, the only one I ever do is the Rattle poetry prize... the prize itself is a moonshot but the fee extends my subscription by another 3 issues so that's good enough for me!
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