The Journal/OSU Press Wheeler Poetry Prize

Submissions open September 1st for the annual The Journal/OSU Press Wheeler Poetry Prize, sponsored by The Journal.

Each year, manuscripts by emerging and established poets are screened, in accordance with CLMP guidelines, by volunteer readers associated with The Journal and OSU. Associate Poetry Editor of OSU Press Pablo Tanguay selects semi-finalists and Kathy Fagan, OSU Press Poetry Editor, selects one full-length manuscript of poetry for publication by The Ohio State University Press. This year the final selection will be made by guest editor Marcus Jackson. In addition to publication under a standard book contract, the winning author receives the Charles B. Wheeler prize of $2500.

Entries of at least 48 typed pages of original poetry must be submitted electronically during the month of September. The submitter’s name or other identifying information should appear only on a separate cover page. All manuscripts will be read and judged anonymously.

Manuscripts must be previously unpublished. Some or all of the poems in the collection may have appeared in periodicals, chapbooks, or anthologies, but these must be identified in an acknowledgments page.

A nonrefundable handling fee of $28.00 will be charged for each entry. All entrants receive a one-year subscription to The Journal.

Our 2015 guest editor is Marcus Jackson.

Marcus Jackson was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. After earning his BA at the University of Toledo, he continued his poetry studies in NYU’s graduate creative writing program and as a Cave Canem fellow.

Marcus Jackson’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Harvard Review, and The Cincinnati Review, among many other publications. He is the author of a chapbook, Rundown (Aureole Press, 2009), and a full-length collection, Neighborhood Register (Cavan Kerry Press, 2011).

The winning entry will be announced in January.

Submit via Submittable starting September 1st:
https://thejournal.submittable.com/submit

Talvikki Ansel is our 2014 winner for her third collection of poems, Somewhere In Space, due out this fall from The Ohio State University Press. She is the author of the Yale Younger Poets selection, My Shining Archipelago, and Jetty and Other Poems. Previous winners over the past 27 years include: Karin Gottshall, Corey Van Landingham, Rebecca Hazelton, Edward Haworth Hoeppner, Kary Wayson, Lia Purpura, Mark Svenvold, and Mary Ann Samyn.