Call for Poetry Book Submissions

Tupelo Press Open Submissions Month for Poetry

Deadline: July 31st, 2009

Website: www.tupelopress.org

Type: Poetry Book

Reading Fee: $25

Looking for: Book Length Poetry Collections, 48-90 pages

Accepts: Electronic Submissions

From their site:

Throughout July, Tupelo Press will hold open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages). Aware of the current economy, we have reduced our reading fee from $35 to $25. We also now accept electronic submissions, which saves on photocopying and postage, via a special transfer site. This ensures correct formatting and provides automatic receipts and a log-in option to check the status of your manuscript. We will continue to accept submissions by postal mail as well.

Historically Tupelo Press has granted contracts each year to three to five poetry books submitted in July, for example Ted Deppe's ORPHEUS ON THE RED LINE, Karen An-hwei Lee's ARDOR, Mark Halliday's KEEP THIS FOREVER, Ellen Doré Watson's THIS SHARPENING, and Michael Chitwood's SPILL. Tupelo Press editors will read all manuscripts.

In addition to July's open submissions for poetry, fiction and nonfiction manuscripts are welcome year-round. Click here and scroll down to view the complete Submissions Guidelines for fiction and nonfiction.

See the Submissions tab on our website for complete guidelines.

Rough Copy magazine seeks poetry submissions

http://roughcopy.net

Rough Copy magazine, online magazine for creative writing, short stories and artistic expression, is soliciting poetry submissions for its Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 issues.

Visit their submissions page to see where to send your work. We heard that all submissions will receive a reply within two weeks, and that simultaneous and previous submissions are okay. How much do we love that?! Go forth and submit.

March 16: Bellday Poetry Prize, Poetry Book Contest

THE 2009 BELLDAY POETRY PRIZE
http://www.belldaybooks.com/contest.html

Bellday Books will publish the winning book and award $2,000 and 25 copies of the book to the winning author.

CONTEST FINAL JUDGE: Linda Gregerson
Linda Gregerson has published 4 books of poetry, including Magnetic North, Waterborne, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep and Fire in the Conservatory, and several books of criticism. She has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Studies and National Endowment of the Arts. She teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature at the University of Michigan.

Submission Deadline: Postmarked March 16, 2009

Contest Rules:

Submit manuscript of 60-90 pages of original poetry in English. The manuscript must not have been published in book or chapbook, but may contain poems that have appeared in print or on the Internet.

Manuscript must contain 2 title pages: Name and contact information should appear on first title page only. Name should not appear anywhere else in manuscript. Manuscript should be typed, single-spaced, paginated, and bound with spring clip.

Include a table of contents page, but no acknowledgements.

Enclose an SASE for announcement of the winner.

Manuscript cannot be returned.

Check or money order for $25 reading fee, payable to Bellday Books.

Bellday Books reserves the right not to select an award winner, in which case all reading fees will be refunded.

CONTEST MAILING ADDRESS:
Bellday Books, Inc.
P.O. Box 2
03687
Pittsburgh, PA 15230

Questions may be directed to: office@belldaybooks.com