Writing Competition: 1729 Book Prize in Poetry

The 1729 Book Prize in Poetry

The 1729 Book Prize in Poetry is a new award offered by Mason Jar Press with support from The Ivy Bookshop. Mason Jar is a Baltimore-based, nationally- and internationally-focused independent press of accessible, experimental fiction. The Prize seeks challenging, engaging works of fiction and nonfiction, utilizing a patron-based economic model—funded by the Ivy Bookshopt—that is free to all. The Ivy is always eager to celebrate and support Baltimore's vibrant book culture, and is excited to collaborate with a press that is local in its base, national in its reach, and expansive in its sensibility.

Submission Guidelines:

CALL
We open for prize submissions in April! Send us your book-length works of poetry from April 15, 2023 until midnight July 31, 2023. We tend to lean toward semi-experimental works with a strong literary bent. Hybrid works are welcome. 50–75 pages/poems is probably the sweet spot, but a little under or over is fine!

Again, we tend to prefer work that pushes the bounds of literary norms, but that isn’t to say we only like that. We welcome surprise. Try us (but only try us with book-length poetry). We’ll read it, and if we love it, we’ll publish it. One chosen manuscript will be published in 2024.

Submission cap: 500

WHAT WE WANT
Collections of poetry

Hybrid collections that are primarily poetry

Translations of poetry (with written permission from original author)

Poetry collections

Experimental book-length works of poetry

WHAT WE DON'T WANT
Novels

Novellas

Story collections

Chapbooks

Memoirs

Auto/Biographies

Essay collections

If you have something that you are unsure of, ask us before submitting.

More information and submission link here.