Although Ernest Miller Hemingway is world famous for his fiction novels, Hemingway also wrote poetry. Like his fiction, Hemingway’s poetry was strong and powerful. The E. M. Hemingway Poetry Prize celebrates this tradition by encouraging poets of all calibers to strive for the “true gen.”

The 2004 E. M. Hemingway Poetry Prize complete submission rules will be posted online at this site in late Fall 2003. The general rules will include submission of three poems by January 15, 2004, panel judged, 25 lines or less per poem, and a $6.00 one-time entry fee.

The winner shall receive publication in the Houston Poetry Review’s Spring 2004 issue. Subject matter of all submitted poems must encompass “Hemingway-esque” themes, including but not limited to (1) wartime love, (2) bohemian Paris, (3) strong outdoor themes, (4) powerful “African” settings, and/or (5) so-called “American” existentialism.