The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2009
The Waywiser Press is now accepting submissions of poetry manuscripts for the fifth annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. The postmark deadline for submissions is December 1st 2009.
The Winner Receives
1) $3,000 or £1,750, paid in May 2010
2) Publication of the winning manuscript by Waywiser both in the United States and in the United Kingdom in the autumn of 2010.
Entry Fee:
$25 for residents of the USA
£15 for entrants in the rest of the world
Eligibility:
1) Entrants must be at least 18 years of age.
2) Entrants may not have published more than one previous collection of poems, though they may have published an unlimited number of books belonging to other genres, and individual poems from the submitted collection may have been published in magazines, journals, anthologies, chapbooks of 32 pages or less, or self-published books of 46 pages or less.
3) Nobody who has a book published by or forthcoming from Waywiser may enter.
4) Manuscripts must be in English, and the original work of the entrant though as much as one third of the poems they contain can consist of public-domain or permission-secured translations.
Judging:
The final judge’s decision will be made known in May 2010, and the news will be posted on this website at that time.
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