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The
University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series
Enid Shomer, Series Editor
The University of Arkansas Press publishes four books of poetry
annually.
Announcing!
The University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series' annual $5000
Miller Williams Poetry Prize
For submissions in September and October of 2009
One winner and up to three finalists will be published
in 2011
In
addition to publication, the winner will receive the
$5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize and 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.
View
the 2010 Press Release.
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The
University of Arkansas Press invites submissions of manuscripts
each fall for its poetry series, now in its twenty-eighth
year. We are committed to publishing diverse kinds of poetry
by a diversity of poets. The only criterion is excellence.
SUBMISSION
REQUIREMENTS (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY):
1. The series is open to all book-length manuscripts by a
single author of 60 to 90 pages, except translations. Individual
poems may have been published in chapbooks, journals, and
anthologies.
2. The editor requests that her friends and current or former
students refrain from submitting to the series.
3. We request that anyone whose manuscript has been previously
selected for publication in our poetry series wait three years
from publication before submitting another manuscript for
consideration in the series. For example: if your book was
published in 2008 you may not resubmit until Sept. 1, 2011.
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. Up to four manuscripts will
be chosen by the following July 1, one of which will win the
$5,000 prize.
6. Manuscripts should be typed or machine-printed, single-spaced,
with no more than one poem per page. Please do not include
an acknowledgments page. No electronic submissions
will be considered.
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. Simultaneously submitted manuscripts are allowed 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. Otherwise, check
our Web site in mid-July (www.uapress.com), where the winners
will be announced.
12. Manuscripts will be recycled rather than returned.
13. Send your manuscript and reading fee to:
Poetry Series
University of Arkansas Press
105 N. McIlroy Ave.
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Please contact Katy Henriksen at khenrik@uark.edu if you have
any questions about the submission requirements.
general
submission guidelines
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