Mr. Ian Pounds, contest coordinator
The Bakeless Contest
c/o Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Middlebury College
Middlebury VT 05753

Tricia Currans-Sheehan, Editor
The Briar Cliff Review Poetry and Fiction Competition
3303 Rebecca St.
Sioux City, IA 51104-0100

CCW Contest, c/o Martin Dodd, 23799 Monterey Hwy #63, Salinas, CA 93908

Kalliope Poetry Contest
FCCJ—South Campus
11901 Beach Boulevard
Jacksonville, Florida 32246

Willard R. Espy Literary Foundation
PO Box 614
Oysterville, WA 98641

Poems: Residencies are available for the months of March, June, and October from the 1st through the end of the month inclusive. Writers will share accommodations in bay-view cottages in the serenely beautiful village of Oysterville and will receive a weekly stipend for food. Our goal is to provide writers with an environment in which they can pursue their work without interruption. A suitable applicant is a writer who has demonstrated talent and commitment to his or her career. Both emerging and established poets, fiction writers, creative non-fiction writers, playwrights, and screen writers are eligible for the residencies. People of some self-sufficiency are our ideal. Applicants may not be current board members, advisory board members, staff or consultants for the Espy Foundation, or their immediate family members. Residents are expected to provide their own transportation to and from Oysterville, which is 180 miles from Seattle and 120 miles from Portland, and they are encouraged to keep a car with them for the duration of the residency. Deadline for application: November 1 for the FEBRUARY Residency, March 1 for the JUNE Residency, July 1 for the OCTOBER Residency. Applications must include the enclosed application form and all required materials specified in the form. Applications and Sponsors' Letters must be postmarked on or before the deadlines. (Sponsors' Letters are acceptable by fax to (360) 665-5224 if received by the deadline. A non-refundable fee of $20, made payable to The Willard R. Espy Literary Foundation, must be included with your application form, project description, and work samples. The two sponsors’ letters should be sent directly to the Foundation at the above address by the sponsor writing the letter. You will be notified by mail of the panel’s decision approx. three weeks after the deadline.

New Rivers Press, MVP Competition
c/o Minnesota State University Moorhead
Moorhead, MN 56563

Book manuscript: New Rivers Press invites emerging writers (genre varies from year to year) to submit to the annual MVP series. The press will publish the winning manuscripts. This competition is open to all writers: one title will be selected from all submissions, while two titles will be selected from writers who reside in Minnesota or New York City. The MVP competition is one of the few that deliberately sets out to find the best unpublished work from new and emerging writers. Children's books (picture books) are not eligible. Winners of previous MVP competitions will be eligible to enter again after three years, providing authors meet the other requirements. Due to our limited resources, and the careful reading we give to each submission, no individual may submit more than one manuscript to the MVP competition in any given year. Send two complete copies of your manuscript. Each copy must be placed in a binder or folder—plain manila folders preferred. Include name and address on an outside page but not on the title page. Pages must be numbered. Prose submissions should be between 100 and 250 pages. Poetry submissions should be between 50 and 70 pages. All entries must be accompanied by an official entry form. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a SASE for notification of results. Entrants may also include a SASP for notification of receipt of submission. We recycle manuscripts. Manuscripts must be word-processed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Use one side of the sheet only. Fiction and other prose must be double-spaced. Poetry may be single-spaced but no more than one poem should appear per page. Simultaneous submissions are okay if noted as such. If your manuscript is accepted elsewhere, you must notify New Rivers Press immediately. If you do not give such notification and your manuscript is selected, your signature on the entry form gives New Rivers Press permission to go ahead with publication. Individual poems, stories, and other pieces published in magazines, anthologies, and elsewhere are acceptable but must be acknowledged. Notify New Rivers Press in writing of any change of your address or telephone number.

Edwin Markham Prize
REED Magazine
SJSU English Department
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0090

reed@email.sjsu.edu

Poems: poetry manuscripts of 3-5 original unpublished poems. DO NOT include the entrant’s name or address on the manuscript itself. Do not send originals, as entries cannot be returned. Each poem must be typewritten, double-spaced and formatted with dark type, proper margins and numbered pages. The pages may be stapled. Please include a cover letter with your name, the title of the poems, and contact information. A reading fee of $10 is required for each manuscript submission of 3-5 poems. Checks should be payable to Reed Magazine. Writers may submit multiple entries, but each must be submitted separately and accompanied by a separate entry fee. Simultaneous submissions are accepted with notice. The ten finalists will be sent to the judge. During that time, typically two weeks, the finalists will be required to withdraw their entries from other magazines. A SASE should be sent with entry if entrant would like a copy of the contest results. Employees and board members of REED Magazine are not eligible to participate in the competition. The work submitted must be your own—no translations allowed. We will begin accepting Edwin Markham Prize submissions for the 2008 edition of Reed Magazine August 1.

Professor Jenn Monroe
Parnell Prize in Poetry
Chester College of New England
40 Chester Street
Chester, NH 03036

Poems: All entries will be considered for publication in Compass Rose. The contest fee is $3 per poem with a limit of 5 poems per entry. Judge for the 2006 contest to be announced soon! Contest entrants are asked not to include their names on poems; instead, please enclose a cover letter listing titles and contact information, as well as SASE for notification of the results. No email submissions or previously published work will be accepted. Relatives, friends, and colleagues of the judge are not eligible. NB: fastest turnaround of any contest I've ever entered—refreshingly competent. NB: old site is still up on college website.

Smartish Pace
Beullah Rose Poetry Prize
P.O. Box 22161
Baltimore, MD 21203

Poems: A prize for exceptional poetry by women. Submit online at website using PayPal or mail 3 poems along with a $5 entry fee. Entry fees can be paid with a check or money order made payable to Smartish Pace. Additional poems may be submitted for $1 per poem. No more than 12 poems may be submitted (maximum submission: 12 poems = $5 + $9 = $14). All entries must include a bio. Please review bios from our most recent issue, to see the sort of information that we print in our contributors section. The bios will NOT be used by the judging panel to determine the winner. Bios are needed only for the purpose of creating the contributors section of the journal. Include a SASE with your entry. Include your name, address, e-mail and telephone number (preferred) on each page of poetry submitted. Write or print "Beullah Rose Poetry Prize" on the top of each poem submitted. All poems submitted for the prize will be considered for publication in Smartish Pace.

Errol Hess, Managing Editor
355 Mt. Lebanon Rd.
Donalds, SC 29638-9115

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes
PO Box 2306
Orinda, California 94563

Poems: The intent is to encourage the work of new, young poets. Several prizes varying from $1,000 up to as much as $25,000 will be awarded for the finest lyric poems celebrating the spirit of life. The competition is open to any writer under the age of 40 on November 6, 2007. All poets, published or unpublished, are welcome to enter, but only previously unpublished poems are eligible for the competition. Each entrant may submit one to three separate poems. Submissions must be in English, the original work of the entrant, and previously unpublished. Poems should express the personal experience of the entrant, so please no translations! Brevity will be appreciated: if more than one poem is submitted, only one of the submitted poems may be more than thirty lines in length. Entries must be received no later than November 6, 2007. Each poem must be printed on a separate sheet. Please submit two copies of each poem, with your name and address clearly marked on each page of one copy only. Please include an index card with your name and address, phone number, e-mail address and the title(s) of your poem(s). Poems submitted will not be returned. A $10 entry fee is required for submissions mailed in the United States. Foreign entries are exempted from the entry fee because of the hassles of international payments. Prizewinners may reenter in subsequent years until their cumulative prizes have reached $25,000.

Pauline Uchmanowicz
Codhill Press Chapbook Prize
P.O. Box 79
Rosendale, NY 12472

Poems: open to any poet who writes in English. Previously published poems with proper acknowledgement are acceptable. Translations and previously self-published books are not eligible. Poets should submit 20-30 pages (no more than one poem per page) plus SASE for contest results and $20 reading fee. Manuscripts should be on good-quality white paper, paginated consecutively, with a table of contents and acknowledgements and bound with a clip. Include two cover pages, one with the title of the manuscript alone, and a second with your name, address, phone number, and email address, together with the title. Your name must not appear anywhere else on the manuscript. Entries must be postmarked before November 14, 2007. No UPS or FedEx. You may include a SASE postcard for confirmation. Manuscripts will not be returned. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are permitted, but Codhill Press must be notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

Pauline Uchmanowicz
Codhill Press Chapbook Prize
P.O. Box 79
Rosendale, NY 12472

Poems: open to any poet who writes in English. Previously published poems with proper acknowledgement are acceptable. Translations and previously self-published books are not eligible. Poets should submit 20-30 pages (no more than one poem per page) plus SASE for contest results and $20 reading fee. Manuscripts should be on good-quality white paper, paginated consecutively, with a table of contents and acknowledgements and bound with a clip. Include two cover pages, one with the title of the manuscript alone, and a second with your name, address, phone number, and email address, together with the title. Your name must not appear anywhere else on the manuscript. Entries must be postmarked before November 14, 2007. No UPS or FedEx. You may include a SASE postcard for confirmation. Manuscripts will not be returned. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers are permitted, but Codhill Press must be notified immediately if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

2008 Contest
Georgetown Review
400 East College St.
Box 227
Georgetown, KY  40324

Poems: short story, poem, or essay on the subject of redemption. We’re very flexible about what satisfies our theme requirement. We’d be equally interested stories, poems, and essays about folks who undergo a big change or folks who resist change. We’d interested in just about any subject that involves change or transformation—a move, a career change, a religious conversion, a loss of faith, a diet, a marriage, the list goes on and on. Entry fee is $10 for the first entry, $5 for each entry thereafter. Simultaneous and multiple submissions are okay. Your name can appear on the texts as well. We have a small editorial staff and would not award the prize to any previous colleagues, students, or friends. All entries are considered for publication. In last year’s contest, 21 runner-up works were selected for publication. If your work is selected for publication, Georgetown Review acquires First North American rights, which means that after we publish the piece the rights to it revert back to you.

John Poch , Series Editor
Department of English
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091

Book manuscript: Submit 50- to 80- page, typed manuscript, including an additional title page that does not bear the name of the poet. All pages indicating the poet's identity will be removed from the manuscript prior to its being forwarded to the final judge. Manuscripts cannot be returned, but must be accompanied by: $20 fee, payable to UNT Press, #10 SASE for notification. Previously published portions of the manuscript should be identified on a separate acknowledgments page.

Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award
The Formalist
320 Hunter Drive
Evansville, IN 47711

http://measure.evansville.edu/SonnetContest.htm

New American Press Chapbook Competition
2707 Trenton Way
Fort Collins, CO 80526

http://www.newamericanpress.com/contest.html

Nightboat Books
PO Box 656
Beacon, NY 12508

Book manuscript: Any poet writing in English is eligible. Age and previous book publication are not considerations for eligibility. Poems published in print or on-line periodicals, anthologies, or chapbooks may be included, but the manuscript itself must be unpublished. Original work only; translations are ineligible. Suggested length: 48 to 70 pages, single-spaced, paginated, no more than one poem per page, one side of the page only. The manuscript must be typed (clear photocopies are acceptable) and bound only by a clip. Include Required Entry Form and two title pages (one with book title, name, address, telephone and email; one with book title only), table of contents, and acknowledgments page. The author's name should not appear anywhere in the manuscript except on the Entry Form and first title page. These pages will be removed before judging. (Cover letter or biographical note are optional, but should be placed at the front of the manuscript.) Begin paginating after the frontmatter. (If your book is divided into parts or has an epigraph, Page 1 will be the first part title or epigraph. Otherwise, page 1 will be the first poem.) Enclose a standard business-size SASE for winner notification. We will not return manuscripts. Please do not send your only copy. Send a self-addressed, stamped postcard (optional) for notification of manuscript receipt; small index cards will not be accepted by the post office. Finalists will receive personal responses and will be considered for future publication. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please notify Nightboat Books immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Submission of more than one manuscript is acceptable. Each manuscript must be submitted separately, each with a separate entry fee and SASE. The winner will have the opportunity to revise the manuscript before publication. No revisions will be considered during the reading period. A $20 entry fee in the form of a check or money order payable to Nightboat Books must accompany all hard copy submissions. In the event that the judge does not find an entry suitable for publication, reading fees will be returned to all entrants. Electronic submission available on website.

http://www.nightboat.org/Submit_To_Contest.htm

Perugia Press Intro Award
P.O. Box 60364
Florence, MA 01062

Poets Out Loud Prize
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
113 West 60th St, Room 924I
New York, NY 10023

The Walt Whitman Award
The Academy of American Poets
588 Broadway, Suite 604
New York, NY 10012-3210

Yale Series of Younger Poets
P.O. Box 209040
New Haven, CT 06520-9040

Jon Tribble, Series Editor
Open Competition Awards
Southern Illinois University
1000 Faner Drive
Carbondale, Illinois 62901

"NMW"
Room M2
PO Box 2463
Knoxville, TN 37901

Elizabeth R. Curry Prize in Poetry
SLAB, Dept. of English
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Chapbook manuscript: submit manuscript of 16-40 pages of poetry or short fiction using the guidelines to the right, along with a $15 entry fee for each manuscript entered. Multiple submissions are acceptable. Checks should be made payable to Black Lawrence Press. Money orders are also acceptable. Send SASE or e-mail address for results. Please be sure to include your e-mail address. Entry fees are non-refundable. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but you must notify Black Lawrence Press immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere for publication.

Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition
P.O. Box 193
Treadwell, NY 13846-0193

Cider Press Review
777 Braddock Lane
Halifax, PA 17032

Five Points
James Dickey Prize for Poetry
P.O. Box 3999
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30302-3999

Gell Prize
Writers & Books
740 University Ave.
Rochester, NY 14607

Isotope
Utah State University
Department of English
3200 Old Main Hill
Logan UT 84322-3200

Motherwell Prize
Fence Books
Science Library 320
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222

New Issues Poetry Prize
Department of English
Western Michigan University
1903 West Michigan Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331

herbert.scott@wmich.edu

Book manuscript: Eligibility: Poets writing in English who have not previously published a full-length collection (48+ pages) of poems in an edition of 500 or more copies. Submit a manuscript at least 48 pages in length, typed on one side, single-spaced preferred. Photocopies are acceptable. Please do not bind manuscript. A manila folder or metal clasp will do. Include a brief bio and relevant publication information, cover page with name, address, phone number, and title of the manuscript. A $15 reading fee must accompany each manuscript. Checks should be made payable to New Issues Poetry & Prose. Enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification that the manuscript has been received, or your canceled check may be used as a notification of receipt. For notification of title and author of the winning manuscript enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Manuscripts will be recycled. A manuscript may be submitted that is being considered elsewhere but New Issues should be notified upon the manuscript's acceptance elsewhere. New Issues publishes three to six first books of poems per year. Manuscripts in addition to the winner will be considered for publication in the series. New Issues does not consider manuscripts outside the context of its competitions. Manuscripts may be submitted at any time up to the deadline.

Poetry Competition
NWU-G
PO Box 2409
Aptos, CA. 95001-2409

bonnie.thomas@att.net

Poems: Submit any number of poems (single copies) on any subject matter. Ineligible submission categories include translations, published poems (including self-published) and unpublished award winners. Note that the NWU celebrates multi-cultural creativity. Entries will not be returned. Poems are to be typed, double-spaced on 8.5 x 11 paper without your name on the page, no more than 3 pages per poem, and unstapled. Submit the titles of the poems on a separate page with your name, address, and e-mail address if available. Enclose a check of $4 for each poem, payable to National Writers Union. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. Include a SASE if you wish to be notified of winners.

Chapbook manuscript: submit manuscript of 16-40 pages of poetry or short fiction using the guidelines to the right, along with a $15.00 entry fee for each manuscript entered. Multiple submissions are acceptable. Checks should be made payable to Black Lawrence Press. Money orders are also acceptable. Send SASE or e-mail address for results. Please be sure to include your e-mail address. Entry fees are non-refundable. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but you must notify Black Lawrence Press immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere for publication.

Poulin Prize
BOA Editions, Ltd.
PO Box 40490
Rochester, NY 14604

Book manuscript: The A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize is awarded to honor a poet's first book. Entrants must be a citizen or legal resident of the United States. Poets, who are at least 18 years of age, who have yet to publish a full-length-book collection of poetry. Translations are not eligible. Individual poems from the manuscript may have been published previously in magazines, journals, anthologies, chapbooks of 32 pages or less, or self-published books of 46 pages or less, but must be submitted in manuscript form. Published books in other genres do not disqualify contestants from entering this contest. Send one copy of the manuscript, our entry form, and the $25 entry fee, to BOA Editions, Ltd., between August 1, and November 30. Make check or money orders payable to BOA Editions. Do not pay by credit card. Minimum of 48 pages, maximum of 100 pages of poetry. At least 11 pt. font. Name, address and telephone number must appear on the title or cover page of the manuscript. Do not send artwork or photographs. Typed or word-processed on standard white paper, on one side of the page only. Paginated consecutively with a table of contents. Bound with a spring clip (no paperclips, please). Attach publications acknowledgments if any. Include a stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification of receipt of manuscript. Do not send by FedEx or UPS. Electronic and fax submissions will not be accepted. Neither late nor early manuscripts will be accepted. Contestants may submit the manuscript elsewhere simultaneously, but must notify BOA Editions immediately if a manuscript is accepted by another publisher. Once submitted, manuscripts cannot be altered. Winner will be given the opportunity to revise before publication. Contestants may submit more than one manuscript, but a separate entry fee and entry form must accompany each manuscript. Manuscripts mailed from foreign countries risk not being received before final selections have been made. Send manuscript in a plain or padded envelope. Please, no boxes. For notification of competition results, include a business-size SASE. Keep a copy of your manuscript, as manuscripts will not be returned. We advise that you send your manuscript by first class or priority mail. Honorarium will be awarded within two weeks of the announcement. Winning manuscript will be published in the A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series. The winner will retain full copyright of his or her work and will be offered a standard book contract which will include royalty rate. All manuscripts will be recycled after the winner is announced. BOA Editions assumes no responsibility for loss of manuscripts.

Creative Writing Program,
Department of English
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2087

Short Manuscript: Stanford offers ten two-year fellowships each year, five in fiction and five in poetry, for a total of twenty Fellows. Fellows in each genre meet twice a week in workshop with faculty. Fellows are regarded as working artists, intent upon practicing and perfecting their craft. There are no curricular requirements other than workshop attendance, and the program offers no degree. In awarding fellowships, we consider the quality of the candidate's creative work, potential for growth and ability to contribute to and profit from our writing workshops. The Stanford Creative Writing Program's students are diverse in ethnicity and experience, with talent and seriousness the true common denominators. To be a Stegner Fellow we do not require a degree for admission, no school of writing is favored over any other, and chronological age is not a consideration. Fellowships include a living stipend of $22,000 and required workshop tuition of approximately $6,500, totaling $57,000 for the two-year period. The stipend will be awarded in equal installments at the end of each month of the academic year.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/creativewriting/stegner.html

White Pine Press Poetry Prize
PO Box 236
Buffalo, NY 14201

716-627-4665