APSU’s Zone 3 Press, Goldsmith Press launch poetry competition
(Posted Oct. 1, 2019)
Zone 3 Press in collaboration with Austin Peay State University’s Art + Design department is launching an annual poetry competition, and the winning poem will be featured on a broadside poster printed on the University’s letterpress.
Poets have until Dec. 1 to submit their work to the Zone 3 Press Broadside Competition. Zone 3 will announce a winner in early 2020.
The prize is $100, and five copies of the custom, limited-edition broadside will be designed and printed by APSU’s Goldsmith Press and Rare Type Collection. The winning poem will be published in Zone 3, a literary magazine.
The broadside poster will be revealed at the 2020 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference and later available for purchase at the .
All submissions will be considered for publication in Zone 3. Full guidelines can be viewed at the broadside competition .
“The Goldsmith Press and Rare Type Collection at Austin Peay State University is a unique letterpress facility that includes thousands of hand-carved wood letters, typesetting materials and antique printing presses,” Cindy Marsh, founder of the Goldsmith Press, said.
The wood type was originally created for a New England advertising company, Metropolitan Showprint, established in 1890. The collection was purchased in 1997 with a grant from the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU.
TO LEARN MORE
- For more about Zone 3 Press, go to .
- For more about APSU’s Art + Design department, visit .
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