HPU, the Hawai‘i Literary Arts Council, and the State Foundation for Culture and the Arts currently seek entries for the Fourth Annual James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry. The award will recognize a Hawai‘i writer for an outstanding poem or group of poems. The winner will receive a $500 cash award and have his or her works featured in the Hawai‘i Pacific Review, the annual literary magazine published by HPU.

Interested poets should send three unsigned poems, 100-line limit, with a cover page that lists name, address, phone number, e-mail address, the names of the poems, and a five-line biography to the James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry, 1060 Bishop Street, suite 402, Honolulu, HI, 96813.

Participants must be a current resident of Hawai‘i. Submissions need to be postmarked by December 1, 2003. Manuscripts will not be returned.

The winner will be announced in January, 2004 and an award will be given at HPU’s annual Ko‘olau Writing Workshops on March 13, 2004. The winner will also be asked to share his or her poetry and writing experience with HPU students and faculty during the spring semester. The awardee’s name will be engraved on a perpetual plaque to be displayed at HPU.

For more information, contact HPU English Instructor Patrice Wilson at 544-1108 or pwilson@hpu.edu.