Submissions to the 2022 Half Poetry Marathon Anthology are open now and will stay open through the 22nd of July! For the first time the anthology will have two different editors. Make sure you submit to the right editor.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Half Marathon Editor Cristy Watson<\/strong> is an award-winning author of eight novels for MG and YA readers. She loves entering writing contests and was thrilled to receive Editor\u2019s Choice in the CV2, 2-Day Poem Contest in 2013. She also regularly participates in the Poetry Marathon in June, and she has a poem in an important and timely new anthology, \u2018Worth More Standing\u2019 (Caitlin Press; Christine Lowther, editor). She also volunteers at the Surrey International Writer\u2019s Conference and was recently Committee Chair for Wise Words through the BC Federation of Writers. She completed a manuscript evaluation for an author through The Writers Union of Canada, as well as helping to previously judge their short fiction contest, and in the past few years, she has assisted writers of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and poetry. You can find her here: cristywatsonauthor.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n The following guidelines are for Half Marathoners only. Read our guidelines carefully before submitting. The anthology is only sustainable if people follow the guidelines.<\/p>\n All poems submitted must<\/em> be written during the 2022 Half Marathon, and the writer must have completed the Half Marathon in 2022.<\/p>\n All poems should be completely edited and as much as possible contain no major grammatical errors. Revisions are allowed and encouraged before submitting. Please check your punctuation. All poems should be single spaced. Any extra space will probably be interpreted as a stanza break. The first word of every line should not have a capitalization unless it is intentional.<\/p>\n When you submit you must include in the email the following:<\/p>\n Please follow all these guidelines. Use the above list as a checklist for your email submission and only press send once you’ve reviewed it twice.<\/p>\n\n