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Submission Guidelines – Mail

If you prefer dealing with a physical manuscript, please follow these guidelines

 

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  1. Manuscripts will be accepted now through the postmark deadline of January 14, 2011. The winner will be announced by May 2011.
  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 2011.
  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 Cole Swensen. Friends and students (current & former) of the final judge are not eligible to compete.
    • Cole Swensen is the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently Ours (U. of California Press, 2008). Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the S.F. State Poetry Center Book Award, a National Poetry Series selection, and two Pushcart Prizes. She’s also the co-editor of the anthology American Hybrid (Norton 2009), and on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Program.
  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 Manuscripts may consist of poems that have been published, but the manuscript as a whole must be unpublished.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. If individual poems have been previously published, you may include an acknowledgments page, though it is not necessary; screening and final judges will not see that page.
  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. DO NOT SEND ORIGINALS: manuscripts will NOT be returned.
  12. You may enter more than one manuscript. Each manuscript requires the $25 entry fee. 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. Do not enclose extra postage for the return of your manuscript as manuscripts cannot be returned.
  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

 

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