PUB: Colorado Prize for Poetry > Center for Literary Publishing

COLORADO PRIZE FOR POETRY

  1. Manuscripts will be accepted between October 1, 2011, and the postmark deadline of January 14, 2012. The winner will be announced by May 2012.

  2. The winning book-length collection of poems will be published by the Center for Literary Publishing and distributed by the University Press of Colorado in the fall of 2012. The author receives a $2,000 honorarium.

  3. There is a $25 entry fee, which includes a one-year subscription to Colorado Review (to US addresses only). Make checks payable to Colorado Review. VISA, Mastercard, and American Express are also accepted (include card number, expiration date, and name as it appears on the card).

  4. This year’s final judge is Elizabeth Willis. Friends and students (current & former) of the final judge are not eligible to compete.

  5. Colorado State University employees, students, and alumni are not eligible to compete.

  6. Manuscripts may consist of poems that have been published, but the manuscript as a whole must be unpublished.

  7. Please do not include acknowledgments/publication credits; the judges do not see these.

  8. Include two title pages: top page with manuscript title and your name, address, e-mail address, and phone number; second page with manuscript title only. Your name should NOT appear anywhere else in the manuscript.

  9. Manuscripts may be double- or single-spaced. You may print front and back if you wish.

  10. Manuscripts should be at least 48 pages but no more than 100 pages.

  11. Manuscripts will NOT be returned. Please do not enclose extra postage for the return of your manuscript.

  12. You may enter more than one manuscript. Each manuscript requires the $25 entry fee. You may send multiple manuscripts in one package with one combined check, or you may send each entry separately—whichever method is more convenient for you. If you’d like the additional subscriptions sent to someone other than yourself, include that information (US addresses only). Otherwise, your subscription will be extended by one year for each additional entry.

  13. The theme and style are both open.

  14. Authors do NOT need to be residents of Colorado or the United States. (Note, however, that subscriptions can be sent only to US addresses.)

  15. Writers should enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope for contest results and a self-addressed stamped postcard for notification of the manuscript’s safe arrival.

  16. Send your entry to:
    Colorado Prize for Poetry – Center for Literary Publishing
    9105 Campus Delivery
    Dept. of English
    Colorado State University
    Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105

  17. Questions? Please call us at (970) 491-5449 or send an e-mail to creview@colostate.edu
via coloradoreview.colostate.edu