Poetry Prize: Bellday Books

Bellday Books, Inc.                                                          
BELLDAY POETRY PRIZE
$2,000 PRIZE TO WINNING POET 
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2011

CONTEST FINAL JUDGE: ELAINE EQUI.
Elaine Equi has published 11 books of poetry, including her most recent work Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems (2007) and Voice-Over (1999), which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and in The Best American Poetry (1989, 1995, 2002). She lives in New York with her husband and teaches creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts programs at City College of New York and The New School.

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

CONTEST RULES·        
Submit a manuscript of 60-90 pages of original poetry in any style 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.  Entries may consist of individual poems, a book-length poem or any combination of long or short poems.

Submitted manuscript must contain 2 title pages: Name and contact information should appear on first title page only. Name should not appear anywhere else in the manuscript. Include a table of contents page, but do not send an acknowledgements page.

Manuscript must be typed single-spaced, paginated and bound with a spring clip.
Enclose an SASE for announcement of the winner. Manuscripts cannot be returned.
Postmark deadline: March 15, 2011.
Include a 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 3687
Pittsburgh, PA 15230

Questions may be directed to: office(at)belldaybooks.com
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