Annual Award Celebrating Upstate Authors
Prize: $2,000
For best poetry collection published by an Upstate author.Submission Deadline:
August 31, 2012
Entry Fee:
There is no entry fee.Final Judge:
Don Bogen, poet.
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Entry Instructions:
Send completed entry form, a brief CV listing creative and scholarly accomplishments, and two (2) copies of the work to:Contest Coordinator
Utica College
School of Arts and Sciences
1600 Burrstone Road
Utica, NY 13502
Note:
Books may be sent in by author or publisher.Submission Criteria:
Submitted work must be a book of poems in English, at least 48 pages long, published between January 1, 2011 and July 1, 2012 by a resident of Upstate New York with a press run of at least 250 copies. Collections by more than one author,
"collected" or "selected" volumes, collections of translations, self-published works, and vanity press publications are not eligible.Additional Requirements:
Winner must agree, upon contest entry:All books entered in competition will be donated to the Utica College library and the Utica Public Library.
- to give permission for portions of the winning work to be reproduced for publicity; and
- to, at a mutually agreeable date, 1) receive the award in person, 2) give a reading at Utica College, and 3) meet with students in a master class.