[starbase]

I forgot to add a $10,000 book publishing contract went with the 20,000! Big time stuff...

Doh! How often does a juicy prize like that come around on the poetry circuit? I bet not often. Do you have to be a published author to get an invite to those affairs?

[Soaring Feather]

No, anyone can enter. The work one offers must be unpublished, however.
I am known as an amateur poet to the publishing world.

This is open to the public, take a crack at it Starbase. They have a contest three times a year.