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IR's 2011 Poetry Prize Guidelines
$1000 Honorarium and Publication
Final Judge: Marie Howe

Marie Howe’s debut volume, The Good Thief, was selected by Margaret Atwood as winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series, published in 1988 by Persea Books. Since then, she has published two more collections, What the Living Do (W. W. Norton, 1998) and The Kingdom of the Ordinary (2008). Her awards include a fellowship at the Bunting Institute, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She has served on the faculty of several schools, including Tufts University and Dartmouth College. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia University in New York City, where she lives with her daughter.

POSTMARK DEADLINE: March 25, 2011
Reading Fee: $15
Includes a one-year subscription

• All entries considered for publication.
• Send no more than three poems per entry, 8 pages maximum.
• All entries considered anonymously.
• Previously published works and works forthcoming elsewhere cannot be considered. Simultaneous submissions okay, but fee is non-refundable.
• Multiple entries okay, as long as a separate reading fee is included with each entry.
• Entrant's name must not appear on the poems.
• Manuscripts will not be returned.

Entrant’s name should appear ONLY on the entry form. If desired, include self-addressed stamped envelope for notification. Each fee entitles entrant to a one-year subscription, an extension of a current subscription, or a gift subscription. Please indicate your choice and enclose complete address information for subscriptions. International addresses, please add $12 for postage ($7 for addresses in Canada).

IR cannot consider work from anyone currently or recently affiliated with Indiana University. In addition, IR cannot consider work from anyone who is a current or former student of the prize judge. We also will not consider work from anyone who is a personal friend of the judge.

If submitting by post:

• Please click here for our official entry form
• We prefer you to pay online. Payment instructions are available here. With your entry, include a print out of the receipt that is e-mailed to you as confirmation of payment.
• If you are unable to pay online please contact us.

Send entries to:
Poetry Prize Indiana Review
Ballantine Hall 465
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN
47405-7103

If submitting electronically:

Please click here for our submission manager. Be sure to select the genre "Poetry Prize 2011" and to include your payment confirmation code in the comments box.

For payment instructions, please click here. Electronic submissions will close on March 25, 2011 at 5 pm EST.

 

 

Please note that, while we attempt to contact entrants whose submissions are not in accord with our guidelines, this is a courtesy. It is ultimately and solely the responsibility of entrants to ensure they have followed the guidelines. Submissions that do not follow guidelines may not be considered.