Saturday, September 28, 2024

Writing Competition: The Test Site Poetry Prize

Interim Test Site Poetry Prize flyer

2024 will be the seventh year of The Test Site Poetry Series. Thanks to a generous gift, we’re delighted to announce that in 2024 and going forward, Interim will choose two winning books for the series—one title publicized as the winner of The Test Site Poetry Series and the other as the Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry. Both winners will receive $1,000 and their books will be published by the University of Nevada Press.

Interim editors and poets Claudia Keelan and Andrew S. Nicholson serves as series editors. The winning book will be chosen by Claudia Keelan and an advisory board, which includes poets Sherwin Bitsui, Donald Revell, Sasha Steensen, and Ronaldo V. Wilson.

We're looking for manuscripts that engage the perilous conditions of life in the 21st century, as they pertain to issues of social justice and the earth. The winning book will demonstrate an ethos that considers the human condition in inclusive love and sympathy, while offering the same in consideration of the earth. Because we believe the truth is always experimental, we'll especially appreciate books with innovative approaches.

Along with Witness and The Believer, Interim is affiliated with Black Mountain Institute and housed in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Established by the late Wilber Stevens in 1944, Interim is one of the longest-running "little" literary magazines in the country.

Please submit manuscripts through:

Submittable https://interimmagazine.submittable.com/submit

with a $25 reading fee.

The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2024. The winning manuscript is announced in February and published in the fall of 2025.

Submit your entry here.

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