We’re excited to announce the 4th year of ESWA’s Crossroads Poetry & Micro-Fiction contest!  This year’s contest will be judged by Salisbury Poet Laureate, Nancy Mitchell! Submissions were due by midnight July 10th and are being reviewed. The top ten finalists will read their piece on Thursday, July 21st at our annual Crossroads Reading on Thursdays with ESWA from 7:30-9 PM EST where the winners will be announced. Prizes include:

1st Place: Free admission to the 26th annual Bay to Ocean Writers Conference and $100.00 cash.
2nd Place: $50.00 cash
3rd Place: $25.00 cash

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Nancy Mitchell is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Salisbury, MD, and a 2012 Pushcart Prize winner. She is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Near Surround, Grief Hut and The Out-of-Body Shop and co-editor of Plume Interviews 1. She was a 2019 guest on The Poet and The Poem broadcast from the Library of Congress.  Her poems have appeared in Agni, Green Mountains Review, Poetry Daily, Washington Square Review and other journals and have been anthologized in Last Call (Sarabande Books) The Working Poet (Autumn House Press) and Plume 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.  She has received artist-in-residency fellowships at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in San Angelo, Virginia and in Auvillar, France, and at the Shotpouch Creek in Oregon. Formerly a professor of Creative Writing at Salisbury University, Maryland and producer of the annual literary/fine arts festival WORDSTOCK, Mitchell taught in the Maryland Summer Center for the Arts. Mitchell is a book discussion facilitator, and teaches poetry workshops in the Worcester County Library System. She serves as Associate Editor of Special Features for Plume Poetry. For more information about Nancy Mitchell, visit: www.nancymitchellwriter.com