Subtitle: The Hillary Gravendyk Prize, whose deadline is April 30, aims to raise stature of Inland poets.
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The nonprofit literary center, Inlandia Institute of Riverside, has launched a national poetry contest to raise the profile of Inland poets.
The Hillary Gravendyk Prize, for which the entry period began Feb. 1, offers two awards: a national prize open to American poets and a regional prize for Inland Southern California residents. The winners will each get a poetry book published and $1,000.
Most poets must win contests to get their books published.
Nearly all major poetry awards are given out on the East Coast, home to the country’s biggest publishing houses, and usually go to people connected to the poetry scene there, said poet Chad Sweeney, an English professor teaching poetry at Cal State San Bernardino.
Southern California has only one big literary printing press with a national reach that publishes books of poetry: Red Hen Press in Los Angeles, said Sweeney, who will judge the contest.
“The whole West Coast is really, really light on presses,” he said. “As a result, we’re at a big disadvantage for being known as writers. So this (contest) is a big, big deal.”
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