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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 2008
One winner and three finalists will be published in
2010
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.
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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
Please contact Lorraine Robert at llrobert@uark.edu if you
have any questions about the submission requirements.
general
submission guidelines
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