Perugia Press Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry by a Woman

Perugia Press Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry by a Woman
http://www.perugiapress.com/contest.html

Prize: $1000 and publication

 

Guidelines

 

Manuscript Requirements

• Send between 48 and 72 pages, on white, 8.5 x 11-inch paper, with legible typeface, pagination, and fastened with a removable clip. No more than one poem per page.
• Include two cover pages: one with title of manuscript, name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, and one with just title of manuscript. Cover letter and bio not required.
• Include contents and publications acknowledgments pages.

Eligibility

• Poet must be a living US resident.
• Poet must have no more than one previously published book of poems. Chapbooks and books in other genres do not count. If the submission is for a second book, please indicate on acknowledgments page the title of your first book.
• Translations and previously self-published books are not eligible, nor are revisions; the winning manuscript may undergo revisions before publication.
• Poets who have had manuscripts reviewed by Perugia Press Editor Susan Kan are not eligible to enter.

Terms

• An entry fee of $25 must accompany each submission, made payable to Perugia Press. You may submit more than one manuscript; each is considered a separate submission and must include a separate entry fee.
• Individual poems may have been published previously in magazines, journals, chapbooks of fewer than 48 pages, or anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished.
• Simultaneous submissions permitted. Notify Perugia Press if accepted elsewhere.

Judging Process

• To be certain that manuscripts receive the fairest consideration, all manuscripts are submitted to the judging panel anonymously.
• Identifying material, acknowledgment pages, and bios are removed and filed for reference at the conclusion of the competition.
• All readers are trusted and respected by Perugia Press.

Notification

• Winner is announced via e-mail or enclose SASE. Notification will be by April 1.
• Do not enclose SASE for return of manuscript; all manuscripts will be recycled at the conclusion of the competition. Please do not send your only copy.

Deadline

• Entry must be postmarked between August 1 and November 15.
• Early submissions strongly encouraged.

Mail manuscript and entry fee to (no FedEx or UPS):

Perugia Press Prize

P.O. Box 60364

Florence, MA 01062