Omnidawn Poetry Competition:

        Chapbook Competition (January–March 15, 2012)

        1st/2nd Book Competition (May–June, 2012)

        Open Book Poetry Competition (November–December, 2012)

The winner of each of the three Omnidawn poetry book competitions wins either a $1,000 or a $3,000 cash prize, publication of the book with a full color cover by Omnidawn, 100 free copies of the winning book, and extensive display advertising and publicity, including prominent display ads in American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books and other publications. All three Omnidawn poetry book contests have very similar guidelines and submission procedures, as completely described on this web page. The requirements that are the same for all contests include the following: Postal and online poetry contest submissions are accepted for all contests. Manuscript submissions for all contests must be original, in English, and previously unpublished, although individual poems in a manuscript are still eligible for this contest if they have been previously published in print or web magazines, journals, anthologies, or on a personal web site. Revisions are not allowed during the contests. Translations and manuscripts by more than one author are not eligible. All Omnidawn contests are blind, so you can submit manuscripts that contain identifying information, but please be aware that such information will be removed from manuscripts before they are passed on to our editors who select manuscripts to be sent to the judge. If we find a serious error in your entry we will either fix it or contact you to obtain a fix at no cost to you, so your error will not disqualify you. The only differences between Omnidawn poetry contests are the contest dates, the judge, the dollar amount of the prize, the reading fee, the manuscript page limit, an optional Omnidawn book offer, and for one contest only, the First/Second Book Poetry Contest, a limit on the number of previously published full-size books by a submitting poet. These differences are described immediately below, under the "Current Poetry Competition" and "Upcoming Poetry Competitions" headings.

Current Poetry Competition

2012 Chapbook Contest ($1,000 & Publication)     January 1–March 15, 2012            Judge: Joseph Lease

(Note that the deadline has been extended to March 15, 2012.) Open to writers with no limitations on the amount of poetry a writer has published. Submissions should be 20–40 pages of poetry, not including front and back matter (so that this will fit in a 5.5 x 7 inch published chapbook of approximately 50 pages or less). Friends, colleagues and students of the judge, Joseph Lease, are not eligible. Postal and online poetry contest submissions accepted. Manuscripts must be received or postmarked between January 1 and March 15, 2012 at midnight Pacific Standard Time. Reading fee is $15 for the poetry chapbook contest. For $2 extra to cover shipping cost, entrants who provide a U.S. mailing address may choose to receive any Omnidawn chapbook or this chapbook competitions winning chapbook. The poetry chapbook contests winner will be announced to our email list and on this web page in August 2012, and we expect to publish the winning chapbook in December of 2012.

 

All the essential information for the current chapbook contest is contained in the above two paragraphs.

 

If you want to read helpful additional details, which are virtually identical for all Omnidawn contests, and then go to the submission procedures, you can:

         Click here for helpful additional details and the submission procedures.

OR, if you want to skip the additional details and go directly to concise submission procedures, you can either:

         Go to the POSTAL submission procedure by clicking here.

         OR

         Go to the ONLINE submission web page by clicking here, or paste the following link into your browser:     www.omnidawn.net