| Issue No.2, Vol.1


Uncle Spider's Poetry Essay Contest
 

 

 

Dear Readers,

Uncle Spider has been bringing you snippets on the subject of poetry since October of 2005, and now we'd like to see some of your scholarly essays on the subject. Your essay may be on any subject you like, so long as the main argument is about poetry related to dark subject matter. Your facts must be in order, your essay must have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and you must be able to write something interesting enough to be read from beginning, middle, and end. Your essay may be no longer than 5,000 words, with preference on making your point in 3,000 or less. Uncle Spider does not like long-winded posturing, but will look past the extra adverbs so long as the gist is most excellently observed.

PRIZES:

1st Prize will go to the best essay received. This includes (aside from bragging rights), a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, a gorgeous limited edition published by Biting Dog Press, our Featured Publisher for Issue #2 & 3, and publication in Spiderwords, Issue #3, April 31st (through May).

2nd Prize will go to the second-only-to-the-first-best essay received. This includes a DVD copy of the independent film Yes, directed by Sally Potter, which was written entirely in rhyming verse and often cited as an innovative use of poetry in film. 2nd Prize also includes publication in Spiderwords, Issue #3, June 1st.

3rd Prize will also be awarded as a well-done pat-on-the-back. You will receive a $5 gift certificate to Shocklines Independent Bookstore, and publication in Issue #3 on July 1st.

All the winners will be announced on Issue #3's publication date.

HOW TO ENTER:

Send a cover letter with a bio (even if you don't have one, we are sure you can be creative enough to make one up), along with an attached word or rtf document of your article or essay to Uncle Spider. Only one entry per person is allowed. Winners will be notified prior to publication of issue #3. Your entries will not receive confirmation or receipt of delivery, and no queries will be accepted. You'll just have to trust the powers of the almighty SpiderServers that your work is safely caught in Uncle Spider's web, ready for consumption.

Keep reading and writing,

 

Uncle Spider

Head Hunter

Spiderwords.com

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Uncle Spider does not exist, except to those people who can also see Faeries and Leprechans. Occassionally Uncle Spider will manifest to some lucky normal individual, but this only happens when he's hungry. He is known to be very dangerous, especially when reciting the poetry of Angus Griswold. If you see Uncle Spider and you are not taking drugs of any kind, we suggest you run. Very fast.

 


" Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present."


—Percy Bysshe Shelley

     A Defense of Poetry

 
       

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