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The Waywiser Press is now accepting submissions of poetry
manuscripts for the seventh annual Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.
Collections may be submitted online (in which case the deadline
is midnight on December 1st 2011)
or by post (in which case the postmark deadline is December
1st 2011).
The Winner Receives
1)
£1,750 or $3,000 paid in May 2012
2)
Publication of the winning manuscript by Waywiser both in United
Kingdom and in the United States in the autumn of 2012.
Eligibility
1)
Entrants must be at least 18 years of age.
2)
Entrants may not have published more than one
previous collection of poems, though they may have published an
unlimited number of books belonging to other genres, and individual
poems from the submitted collection may have been published in
magazines, journals, anthologies, chapbooks of 32 pages or less,
or self-published books of 46 pages or less.
3)
Nobody who has a book published by or forthcoming
from Waywiser may enter.
4)
Manuscripts must be in English, and the original
work of the entrant (though as much as one third of the poems
they contain can consist of public-domain or permission-secured
translations).
Judging
The
final judge's decision will be made known in May 2012, and the
news will be posted on this website at that time.
Guidelines
(i)
Format
1)
Manuscripts must be a minimum of 50 and a maximum
of 85 pages.
2)
Manuscripts must be typed or word-processed
- preferably in 11-point type - on standard paper.
3)
Pages must be numbered consecutively, and a
table of contents, as well as a list of acknowledgements (where
appropriate), should be included.
4)
The author's name and contact details (i.e.
physical address, phone number and email address (where possible))
must appear on the front page of the manuscript and nowhere else.
5)
No illustrative material should be sent, unless
it forms an inextricable part of the manuscript.
6)
A list of previous poetry book publications
should be included, and with it a list of the magazines in which
you have had poems published.
7)
Entrants may submit a manuscript elsewhere simultaneously,
but must immediately notify Waywiser of its withdrawal from the
competition if it is accepted for publication by another organization.
8)
Once submitted, a manuscript may not be altered,
though the winner of the prize will be given the opportunity to
revise before publication.
9)
Waywiser cannot accept responsibility for missing
submissions.
10)
If the judge is not satisfied that a high-enough standard
has been met, the press reserves the right not to award the prize
in a particular year.
The decision of the judge is final.
Submission
of a manuscript will be deemed to constitute acceptance of
all of the provisions set out above.
(ii)
Entry Fee
1)
Online submission: US $27, or the equivalent
in whatever currency your card draws on. (Please note that the
difference between this and the postal submission fee shown below
is to cover the online submission administration costs.)
2)
Postal submission: £15 or US $25
(iii) Submission Procedure
(a)
Online
1)
Manuscripts may be submitted between August
1st 2011 and December 1st 2011.
1)
Only single file submissions can be accepted,
so if your manuscript is stored in multiple files, they will need
to be amalgamated.
2)
We can accept files in three different formats:
Doc, Docx and PDF. Please do not lock the file you submit (i.e.
make it impossible for us to print or cut and paste from it).
3)
You will need to have your credit or debit card
or PayPal account details ready, since you will only be allowed
to submit after the entry fee has been paid.
4)
When you are ready to upload your manuscript,
please click
on the link below:
Submit
to The Waywiser Press
5) If
you wish to withdraw your manuscript for any reason, please contact
us directly rather than using the submission manager. Fees cannot
be refunded.
(b)
Postal
1)
Please complete the entry form (see below for instructions on
how to obtain this), combine it with your stamped self-addressed
postcard and/or envelope (if required), your manuscript and a
cheque for your entry fee made payable to THE WAYWISER PRESS.
You shouldf post everything to one of the two addresses shown
below. As stated above, the postmark deadline for submissions
is December 1st 2011, and no late entries will be accepted.
Residents
of the UK and all other non-USA residents should send to:
The
Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
The Waywiser Press
29A, Carr Hill Road
Upper Cumberworth
Huddersfield
HD8 8NW
UK
Residents
of the USA should send to:
The
Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
The Waywiser Press
P.O. Box 6205
Baltimore
MD 21206
USA
2)
Manuscripts should be bound with a spring- or bulldog-clip (no
paperclips or staples, please, and no folders, files or boxes).
3)
If you would like notification of receipt of entry, please include
a stamped self-addressed postcard with the words "Hecht Prize:
Entry Received" appropriately entered.
4)
If you would like notification of the results, please include
a stamped self-addressed envelope.
5)
Manuscripts cannot be returned. As a result, we strongly advise
all entrants to keep a copy of their submission.
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