NEO•GRIOT

Congratulations to Khadijah Queen, whose manuscript Black Peculiar is the winner of the 2010 Noemi Book Award for Poetry. We will also publish Campeche by Joshua Edwards, a finalist for the award. A complete list of finalists and semifinalists can be found here.

The 2011 Noemi Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Noemi Book Award for Poetry will be judged by the editors. The winners will receive $1000, publication by Noemi Press, and 10 author's copies. Guidelines for Submissions FICTION Send a novel or a collection of short fiction of any length, along with a $25 entry fee (check or money order) made out to Noemi Press, via U.S. Postal Service, to the following address: Noemi Book Award for Fiction P.O. Box 1330 Mesilla Park, NM 88047 Include two title pages: one with title, acknowledgments (if applicable), name, and contact information; one with title alone. Your name must not appear anywhere in the manuscript. Current and former students, close friends, and relatives of the Noemi Press editors are not eligible to enter. Please use a binder clip to fasten your manuscript. Enclose an SASE for notification of winners. Manuscripts will not be returned. Revisions of entries cannot be accepted. Shorter fictions that have been previously published individually are eligible, but manuscripts must not have been previously published as a whole. Do not submit works that appear in a full-length book already published or under contract for publication. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable under the condition that you notify us in the event your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Multiple submissions are acceptable when each manuscript is accompanied by its own entry fee. All entries must be postmarked on or before March 15, 2011. POETRY Send 48-70 pp. of poetry, along with a $25 entry fee (check or money order) made out to Noemi Press, via U.S. Postal Service, to the following address: Noemi Book Award for Poetry P.O. Box 1330 Mesilla Park, NM 88047 Include two title pages: one with title, acknowledgments (if applicable), name, and contact information; one with title alone. Your name must not appear anywhere in the manuscript. Current and former students, close friends, and relatives of the Noemi Press editors are not eligible to enter. Please use a binder clip to fasten your manuscript. Enclose an SASE for notification of winners. Manuscripts will not be returned. Revisions of entries cannot be accepted. Poems that have been previously published individually are eligible, but manuscripts must not have been previously published as a whole. Do not submit poems that appear in a full-length book already published or under contract for publication. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable under the condition that you notify us in the event your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Multiple submissions are acceptable when each manuscript is accompanied by its own entry fee. All entries must be postmarked on or before March 15, 2011.