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A Panel Presentation
Would you like to crack the code on entering and winning poetry contests? Learn the tricks of the trade to entering single poem and manuscript contests from a panel of experts who win them and run them!. In this panel, the poets with Michael Kleber-Diggs, Joan Kwon Glass, Sally Rosen Kindred, Jessica Cuello, and Jessica Jacobs and moderator MWPA’s program director Meghan Sterling, will discuss their experiences with entering and judging poetry contests, their successes and failures, and the practical details they wish they’d known throughout the process. The panel will conclude with a Q&A session.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) (he / him / his) is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. His debut poetry collection, Worldly Things (Milkweed Editions 2021), won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, the 2022 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry, the 2022 Balcones Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award. His poems and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Michael teaches creative writing through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and at Augsburg University's low-res MFA program. He is married to Karen Kleber-Diggs, a tropical horticulturist and orchid specialist. Karen and Michael have a daughter who is pursuing a BFA in Dance Performance at SUNY Purchase.
Joan Kwon Glass's first full-length poetry collection (NIGHT SWIM, 2022) won the Diode Editions Book Contest, her chapbook (How To Make Pancakes For A Dead Boy) won the 2022 Harbor Editions Marginalia Contest. Her poems have been runners-up or finalists for the Sundress Broadside Contest, the Subnivean Award & the Lumiere Review Award. She serves as Editor-in-Chief for Harbor Review, as a Brooklyn Poets Mentor & serves on the faculty of Hudson Valley Writers Center & the Fine Arts Work Center of Provincetown. Joan’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, Asian American Writer’s Workshop (The Margins), RHINO, Rattle, Dialogist & elsewhere. Please follow her on Twitter @joanpglass and see her website at www.joankwonglass.com.
Jessica Cuello’s Liar, which was selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with a CNY Book Award, a finalist nod for The Housatonic Book Award, and a longlist mention for the Julie Suk Award. Her manuscript Yours, Creature is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in spring of 2023. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, The 2017 CNY Book Award, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. She is a poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY.
Jessica Jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You’re Going (Four Way Books), winner of the Devil’s Kitchen and Goldie Awards, Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press), winner of the New Mexico Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire (Spruce Books/ PenguinRandomHouse), which she co-authored with her wife Nickole Brown. unalone, her collection of poems in conversation with the Book of Genesis will be out from Four Way Books in 2024. Chapbook Editor for Beloit Poetry Journal, she is the founder of Yetzirah, a literary organization for Jewish poets.
Sally Rosen Kindred’s third full-length poetry collection is Where the Wolf, winner of the 2020 Diode Book Prize, and winner of the 2022 Julie Suk Award. Her previous books are Book of Asters (2014) and No Eden (2011), both from Mayapple Press. Her chapbooks include Says the Forest to the Girl from Porkbelly Press, and Garnet Lanterns, winner of the Anabiosis Press Prize. A recipient of two Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, she teaches writing workshops for The Poetry Barn and is a poetry mentor for MTSU Write, as well as a Contributing Editor for Cave Wall.
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