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CLMP Contest Code of Ethics:
CLMP's community of independent literary publishers believes
that ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connect writers
and readers by publishing exceptional writing. We believe
that intent to act ethically, clarity of guidelines, and transparency
of process form the foundation of an ethical contest. To that
end, we agree to
1) conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address
any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges,
or editors;
2) to provide clear and specific contest guidelines—defining
conflict of interest for all parties involved; and
3) to make the mechanics of our selection process available
to the public. This Code recognizes that different contest
models produce different results, but that each model can
be run ethically.
We have adopted this Code to reinforce our integrity and dedication
as a publishing community and to ensure that our contests
contribute to a vibrant literary heritage.
The staff of The Southeast Review supports the CLMP
code, and in an effort to make our contest selection process
as ethical as possible, close friends, relatives, and current
or former students of the contest judges, as well as anyone
who has been affiliated with Florida State University within
the last five years are ineligible to enter our contests.
The Southeast Review Poetry Contest uses a blind
judging system to arrive at the contest winner. This is how
we do it:
1. We ask that identifying information be included on cover
letters only, not on the poems themselves. When we receive
an entry, we remove any identifying information from the manuscript
and assign it a unique number. Cover sheets are filed in a
folder that remains unopened until after final decisions have
been made and a winner has been chosen. Each poet’s
name, contact information, poem titles, and the number we
have assigned are entered into a database in order to keep
track of entries.
2. All poems, identified only by the assigned number, are
initially read and ranked by the poetry editor. All of the
poems are then distributed to members of the poetry staff
for a second review and ranking.
3. After the editor and staff members have ranked the poems,
roughly fifty poems with the highest rankings are selected
as semi-finalists and receive a third review by members of
our poetry staff. The ten highest ranked poems after this
review are selected as finalists to be published in The
Southeast Review.
4. The finalist poems are subsequently mailed to the contest
judge, who selects the winner of the monetary award. The poems,
again, do not contain any identifying information, nor do
they include any of our notes or rankings.
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