Submit to the
JAKE ADAM YORK BOOK PRIZE
for a First or Second Poetry Collection
Ends on 10/16/2016
who have published no more than one full-length poetry
collection. It is a collaboration between Copper Nickel and
Milkweed Editions.
MILKWEED EDITIONS. Screening for the prize will be facilitated
by COPPER NICKEL.
All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to COPPER NICKEL in exchange for their reading fee.
More details:
• Translations are not eligible, nor are previously self-published books.
• Current employees of the University of Colorado Denver or Milkweed Editions are not eligible.
• Work in the manuscript may have been previously published in periodicals or in a chapbook. If so, please include an acknowledgments page.
• All initial screeners for the prize will have published at least one poetry collection. Screening will be facilitated by the poetry staff of Copper Nickel. No screener will screen a manuscript by a friend, colleague, or former student.
• The judge for 2016 will be Ross Gay. All finalists will be asked to affirm that they are neither close friends, current colleagues, nor current or recent students (within the past three years) of Mr. Gay.
To submit:
• Upload a manuscript of poetry in word, pdf, or rich text format.
• Include two cover pages—one with the author’s identifying information on it, the other just with the title.
• Please exclude any other identifying features in the manuscript that might make clear the author’s identity.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email Copper Nickel’s editor/managing editor Wayne Miller at wayne.miller@ucdenver.edu.