The Yellow Couch Cento Competition for a Cash Prize
Ever wanted to combine Charlotte Brontë’s first person narration, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s political satire, and Langston Hughes’s blues verses? What about Zora Neale Hurston’s free indirect discourse, Shakespeare’s soliloquies, and José Olivarez’s parentheticals? Here’s your chance!
The Yellow Couch, a poetry journal of the Harvard English Department, is holding a cento writing competition. Latin for “patchwork garment,” centos are poems composed of lines from various authors. Curate, cook up, and combine literary lines into the most horrifyingly beautiful Frankenstein monster possible!
Oh, and the winning cento writer receives a whopping cash prize! Submit your cento today!
Submit here.