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Submission
Guidelines
The University
of Arkansas Press publishes books in history, southern history,
African American history, civil rights studies, Civil War
in the West, poetry (see below), Middle East studies, and
Arkansas and regional studies.
To
submit a manuscript contact:
Lawrence J. Malley
Director and Acquisitions Editor
email: lmalley@uark.edu
phone: 800.626.0090
mail: 105 N. McIlroy Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701
Submissions
are not invited in general fiction, textbooks, or children's
books.
The
University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series
Enid Shomer, Series Editor
Announcing!
The University of Arkansas Press’s Inaugural
$5000 Miller Williams
Poetry Prize
For submissions in September and October of 2008
One finalist and three semi-finalists will be awarded in 2010
In addition
to the Prize the finalist will give a featured reading at
the Arkansas Festival of Writers sponsored by the University’s
Programs in Creative Writing and Translation.
The poetry
prize is named in honor of Miller Williams, one of America’s
finest poets and cofounder and first director of the University
of Arkansas Press. Williams was also a codirector of the University
of Arkansas’s nationally recognized creative writing
program. As the director of the UA Press, Williams published
the work of many outstanding poets and writers, including
that of Billy Collins, Ellen Gilchrist, Robert Mezey, R. S.
Thomas, Frank Stanford, and John Ciardi. He is known to many
as the poet who read a poem at Bill Clinton’s 1997 presidential
inauguration.
Submission
Requirements (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY):
The University
of Arkansas Press invites submissions of manuscripts each
fall for its poetry series. We are committed to publishing
diverse kinds of poetry by a diversity of poets. The only
criterion is excellence.
1. The series is open to all book-length
manuscripts of 60 to 90 pages, except translations. Individual
poems may have been published in journals and anthologies.
2. The series editor requests that no former
or present students, friends, or family members submit manuscripts
for consideration.
3. We request that anyone whose manuscript
has been selected for publication in our poetry series wait
three years before submitting another poetry manuscript for
consideration.
4. No more than one manuscript per author,
please.
5. Submissions will be accepted annually
during the months of September and October. The postmark deadline
for entries is October 31. (Please do not send revisions
once you have sent a manuscript.) Four manuscripts
will be chosen by the following July 1.
6. Manuscripts should be typed or machine-printed,
single-spaced, with no more than one poem per page. Please
include an acknowledgments page detailing the publication
history of individual poems in the manuscript. No
electronic submissions.
7. There is a reading fee of $25 payable
by check or money order to the University of Arkansas Press.
(Please do not send cash.)
8. We accept simultaneously submitted manuscripts
provided we are notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere.
9. All entries will be judged anonymously.
Please enclose two title pages with your submission: one page
should include only the title of the manuscript and the other
should list the title of the manuscript and the poet’s
name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and a brief,
biographical statement. The poet’s name must not appear
anywhere else in the manuscript.
10. If you wish to be notified that your
manuscript was received, please include an SAS postcard.
11. If you submit a #10 SASE along with your
manuscript, you will be notified of our decisions by July
1. The four selections will be announced on our Web site (www.uapress.com)
by mid-July.
12. Manuscripts will be recycled rather than
returned.
13. Send your manuscript, reading fee, and
other information to:
Poetry Series
University of Arkansas Press
105 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville, AR 72701
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