Announcing the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize, given biennially for an exceptional second collection of poems.
Prize: $1,500 and publication by W.W. Norton & Co.
The contest is open to U.S. women poets who have already published one book of poetry. (The first collection should have been printed in an edition of 500 or more copies. Chapbooks do not qualify.) Although a writer may submit a manuscript that has been submitted to other contests, any manuscript under option or under contract to another publisher is not eligible.
Because the prize is given to a poet who has already published a first book, the manuscripts are not read anonymously. Every qualified manuscript will be read with care by the panel of judges and the chief judge, who changes every year.
Manuscript submissions will be accepted from August 1 to October 15, 2010. The winner will be announced in April 2011.
A qualified applicant should submit three copies of her book-length manuscript (at least 55 pages) with a cover letter naming the title and publisher of her first collection.
Entry fee: $20, payable in check to Women Poets at Barnard.
Women Poets at Barnard
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
More information here.
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