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BRITTINGHAM AND POLLAK POETRY
PRIZE SUBMISSION GUIDE
The University of Wisconsin Press awards
the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Each winning poet will receive $2,500 ($1,000
cash prize and $1,500 honorarium to cover expenses of reading
in Madison). Prizes are awarded annually to the two best book-length
manuscripts of original poetry submitted in an open competition.
Each manuscript submitted will be considered for both prizes.
There are no restrictions on the kind of poetry or subject matter,
although translations are not acceptable. The winners will be
announced and the prizes awarded in February of each calendar
year, with publishing contracts to follow soon thereafter.
Submission Guidelines
SUBMISSION PERIOD:
Manuscripts received September 1 through October 1 each calendar
year will be considered. Manuscripts postmarked before September
1 or after September 30 will be returned unread.
MANUSCRIPT FORMAT:
- All submissions must be unbound (no binders,
clamps, etc., please), typed
on 8 1/2 x 11 paper, and should be 50–80 manuscript pages
in length.
- Manuscripts may be typed single-spaced
with a double space in between stanzas, or may be double-spaced.
- Clean photocopies are acceptable.
- Poet's name, address, and telephone number
should appear on the title page.
- The manuscript must be previously unpublished
in book form. Poems published in journals, chapbooks, and anthologies
may be included but must be acknowledged.
- No changes in the manuscript will be considered
between submission and acceptance.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
- A $25.00 non-refundable reading
fee must accompany each manuscript, and covers entry to
both prizes. Please make check or money order payable to "The
University of Wisconsin Press." Do not send cash or stamps.
Foreign entries: please remit reading fee in U.S. funds drawn
on a U.S. bank.
- Manuscripts will not be returned. Please
do not enclose return packaging.
- For contest results, enclose a stamped,
self-addressed business envelope (no postcards, please).
- First Class or Priority Mail is preferred.
It is not necessary to send your manuscript via a Federal Express
service.
- Simultaneous submissions to other contests
are permitted provided the poet agrees to inform the Press of
the manuscript's acceptance for publication elsewhere.
SELECTION PROCEDURE:
Qualified readers appointed by the Press
will screen all manuscripts. The final selections will be made
by a distinguished poet who will remain anonymous until the winner
is announced in mid-February.
SEND CORRESPONDENCE AND MANUSCRIPTS TO:
Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes
c/o Ronald Wallace, UW Press Poetry Series Editor
Department of English
600 N. Park Street
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
E-mail : rwallace@wisc.edu
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