CALL FOR SUBMISSION
Yale Younger Poets
INFO: The Yale Series of Younger Poets is seeking submissions for its 2017 competition. This contest champions the most promising new American poets. The winning poetry manuscript will be selected by the series’ current judge, critically acclaimed poet Carl Phillips, to be published by Yale University Press in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The competition is open to emerging poets who have not previously published a book of poetry and who reside in the United States.
APPLICATION FEE: $25
SUBMISSION PERIOD: October 1 – November 15, 2017
2017 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
Red Hen Press
INFO: Established in 1998, in honor of the poet Benjamin Saltman (1927-1999), this award is for a previously unpublished original collection of poetry. Awarded collection is selected through an annual competition, which is open to all poets.
AWARD: $3000, publication of the awarded collection by Red Hen Press, and a four-week PLAYA Residency.
SUBMISSION FEE: $25
DEADLINE: October 31, 2017
2017 QUEER SOUTHEAST ASIA BOOK AWARD
INFO: The award is open to all emerging Southeast Asian writers. It comes with SGD 1,000 (tax-free) and book publication. The winning manuscript will be critically introduced by one of the editors of Queer Southeast Asia: a literary journal of transgressive art.
WHAT TO SUBMIT:
1. Full-length manuscript without the author’s identifying information and acknowledgments. Submitted manuscripts should not be under consideration in another competition or for publication by another press. PDF copy only.
- For poetry submissions -- Submissions must be in Times New Roman (font size 12) and single-spaced with 1 inch margin on all sides. Page number must appear consecutively at the center of the bottom margin of each page.
- For prose submissions -- Submissions must be in Times New Roman (font size 12) and double-spaced with 1 inch margin on all sides. Page number must appear consecutively at the center of the bottom margin of each page.
- Note: prose genres except novel.
2. The author must provide an essay (2-4 pages; single-spaced) answering the questions below. The essay must appear in the manuscript after the title page and before the contents.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The essay will not be judged. Submitting writers should take this requirement as a way to introduce the context/s within which they write and the things they do in order to create or be creative. In addition, the questions below are supposed to be just guide questions. If submitting writers feel they should avoid these questions and respond to others not stated here, they may freely do so.
- Question 1 -- As an artist, what of (queer) Southeast Asia are you concerned the most?
- Question 2 -- How is your submitted manuscript relevant to (queer) Southeast Asia?
- Question 3 -- What politics, frameworks, or conditions shaped your manuscript and the writing of your manuscript?
- Question 4 -- What kind of impact do you wish your manuscript to incite?
3. The author’s curriculum vitae. No prescribed length. PDF copy only.
Note: The author's CV will not be judged. The author should submit only one manuscript.
DEADLINE: November 1, 2017.
queersoutheastasia.com/book-prize
WALT WHITMAN AWARD
Academy of American Poets
INFO: The Walt Whitman Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by an acclaimed poet, is published byGraywolf Press, a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in the Umbrian region of Italy, and distribution of the winning book to thousands of Academy of American Poets members.
The award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet’s first book. It is made possible by financial support from the members of the Academy of American Poets.
The 2017 judge for the Walt Whitman Award is Joy Harjo
DEADLINE: November 1, 2017
poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/walt-whitman-award
SILLERMAN FIRST BOOK PRIZE FOR AFRICAN POETS
African Poetry Book Fund
INFO: The African Poetry Book Fund is accepting submissions for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.
The contest is open to African writers who have not yet published a book-length poetry collection. (An African writer is taken as someone who was born in Africa, who is a national or resident of an African country, or whose parents are African.)
PRIZE: $1,000 US and publication through the University of Nebraska Press and Amalion Press in Senegal.
SUBMISSION FEE: $0
DEADLINE: December 1, 2017