{"id":176421842,"date":"2013-07-09T01:38:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T06:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176421842"},"modified":"2013-07-09T01:38:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T06:38:40","slug":"pub-the-miller-williams-arkansas-poetry-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2013\/07\/09\/pub-the-miller-williams-arkansas-poetry-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"PUB: The Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/u-of-arkansas-press.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176421843\" alt=\"u of arkansas press\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/u-of-arkansas-press.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/u-of-arkansas-press.jpg 500w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/u-of-arkansas-press-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"981\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"84%\">\n<table width=\"800\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table width=\"850\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"25%\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: x-large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>The Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\nEnid Shomer, Series Editor<br \/>\nThe University of Arkansas Press publishes four books of poetry annually.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<strong>Announcing!<\/strong><br \/>\nThe University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series&#8217; annual\u00a0<strong>$5000 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize<\/strong><br \/>\nFor submissions in September and October of 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<strong>One winner and up to three finalists will be published in 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table class=\" alignleft\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;\">In addition to publication, the winner will receive the $5,000 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\nThe poetry prize is named in honor of Miller Williams, one of America\u2019s finest poets and cofounder and first director of the University of Arkansas Press. Williams was also a codirector of the University of Arkansas\u2019s nationally recognized creative writing program. As the director of the UA Press, Williams published the work of many outstanding poets and writers, including that of Billy Collins, Ellen Gilchrist, Robert Mezey, R. S. Thomas, Frank Stanford, and John Ciardi. He is known to many as the poet who read a poem at Bill Clinton\u2019s 1997 presidential inauguration.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">The University of Arkansas Press invites submissions of manuscripts each fall for its poetry series, now in its twenty-eighth year. We are committed to publishing diverse kinds of poetry by a diversity of poets. The only criterion is excellence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n1. The series is open to all book-length manuscripts by a single author of 60 to 90 pages, except translations. Individual poems may have been published in chapbooks, journals, and anthologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n2. The editor requests that her friends and current or former students refrain from submitting to the series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n3. We request that anyone whose manuscript has been previously selected for publication in our poetry series wait three years from publication before submitting another manuscript for consideration in the series. For example: if your book was published in 2009 you may not resubmit until Sept. 1, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>4. No more than one manuscript per author, please.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n5. Submissions will be accepted annually during the months of September and October. The postmark deadline for entries is October 31.\u00a0<strong>Please do not send revisions once you have sent a manuscript.<\/strong>\u00a0Up to four manuscripts will be chosen by the following July 1, one of which will win the $5,000 prize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n6. Manuscripts should be typed or machine-printed on single-sided pages, single-spaced, with no more than one poem per page. Please do not include an acknowledgments page.\u00a0<strong>No electronic submissions will be considered..<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n7. There is a reading fee of $25 payable by check or money order to the University of Arkansas Press.\u00a0<strong>Please do not send cash.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n8. Simultaneously submitted manuscripts are allowed provided we are notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n9. All entries will be judged anonymously. Please enclose two title pages with your submission: one page should include only the title of the manuscript and the other should list the title of the manuscript and the poet\u2019s name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and a brief, biographical statement. The poet\u2019s name must not appear anywhere else in the manuscript.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n10. If you wish to be notified that your manuscript was received, please include an SAS postcard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n11. If you submit a #10 SASE along with your manuscript, you will be notified of our decisions by July 1. Otherwise, check our Web site in mid-July (www.uapress.com), where the winners will be announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n12. Manuscripts will be recycled rather than returned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n13. Send your manuscript and reading fee to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nThe Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize<br \/>\nUniversity of Arkansas Press<br \/>\n105 N. McIlroy Ave.<br \/>\nFayetteville, AR 72701<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\nPlease contact Julie Watkins at jewatki@uark.edu if you have any questions about the submission requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uapress.com\/geninfo\/guidelines.html\">general submission guidelines<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The University of Arkansas Press \u2022 McIlroy House \u2022 105 N. McIlroy Avenue \u2022 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701<br \/>\n800-626-0090 \u2022 479-575-3246 \u2022 FAX 479-575-6044<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize Enid Shomer, Series Editor The University of Arkansas Press publishes four books of poetry annually. Announcing! 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