Writing Competition: Broken River Prize

Broken River Prize

 

The Broken River Prize is an annual poetry chapbook contest from Platypus Press. Each year a different poet will judge the contest—this year’s judge is poet and teacher Eduardo C. Corral.

 

Submissions are now open.

 

To submit, use the following email:

 

brpATplatypuspressDOTcoDOTuk (Change AT to @ and DOT to .)

 

Details

• Runs between June 1st and August 31st, 2018.

• Finalists and winner will be announced in early 2019.

• No submission fee.

• Win publication and $250/£200 prize money.

• For books between 20 and 40 pages in length.

• The contest is open internationally.

• Finalists will be considered for publication.  

Eduardo C. Corral is a poet and the son of Mexican immigrants. His first book, Slow Lightning, was selected by Carl Phillips in the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.

Guidelines

• Please include a title page and acknowledgements section with your submission.

• The manuscript does not need to be double-spaced unless intended to be reproduced that way.

• You can include previously published poems; however, we would prefer that at least a third be unpublished.

• We accept simultaneous submissions but will require all finalists to withdraw their manuscripts upon notification. Also, please let us know if a submission has been accepted elsewhere.

• All work should be attached in a single .doc/docx or PDF file, and your email must include a brief, third-person bio.

• Please do not submit manuscripts with images and/or artwork, we are also not accepting submissions of erasure or found poetry for the contest.

The winner will receive ten (10) copies of the published book as well as the $250 prize money.
The Broken River Prize is an annual poetry chapbook contest from Platypus Press. Each year a different poet will judge the contest—this year’s judge is poet and teacher Eduardo C. Corral.