Illinois State Poetry Society 19th Annual Poetry Contest (with haiku category)

The Illinois State Poetry Society is open to entries for its 19th Annual Poetry Contest.  There are several categories that you can enter -- most notably category #3, modern or traditional haiku.  The $6 entry fee allows you to submit three poems, and additional poems can be entered for $1 each.  Poems can not have been previously published or have won money in any other contest.  Prizes consist of $50, $20, and $10.  The postmark deadline is November 10th.

If you're in the mood for a good, short supernatural vengeance story, check out Lee Moan's "Guardian."  And with autumn and Thanksgiving creeping up on us, here's a good pumpkin pie haiku by Deborah P. Kolodji.

Niteblade #3

Editor Rhonda Parrish has just published issue #3 of Niteblade, and you need to check it out. It's got fiction by well-known writers Eric S. Brown and Lee Moan, among many others, and poetry by many of the genre's top names -- Terrie Leigh Relf, Stephen M. Wilson, Charles Gramlich, Tony Bernstein, and Kristine Ong Muslim to name a few. "County Hospital, 4am" by Christopher Hivner is an especially chilling one. I count myself lucky to have a poem in the same issue as these fine folks.

You can read the stories and poems from the website, but for just $2 you can buy a PDF ad-free copy of the magazine and help support a small but growing genre mag.