Three Omnidawn Postal & Online Poetry Contests:
Omnidawn Open (Poetry Book Contest)—$3,000 (Nov 1, 2013–Jan 15, 2014)
Chapbook Poetry Contest—$1,000 (Feb 1–Mar 31, 2014)
First/Second Book Poetry Contest—$3,000 (May 1–June 30, 2014)
Essential Information for All Three Poetry Contests
The winner of each of the three Omnidawn poetry book competitions wins a cash prize as indicated above for each contest, publication of the book with a full color cover by Omnidawn, 100 free copies of the winning book, and extensive display advertising and publicity, including prominent display ads in American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books and other publications. For all contests, Omnidawn poetry editors seek a wide range of styles, approaches, forms, diversities, and aesthetics to send to the judge (for example: lyric, prose poems, experimental, etc). Winning books have been reviewed inLibrary Journal, Publishers Weekly, Colorado Review, The Huffington Post, American Book Review, and other publications, and all winning books that have been published for at least one year have been adopted as texts for college classes. All three Omnidawn poetry book contests have very similar guidelines and submission procedures, as completely described on this web page. The requirements that are the same for all contests are as follows: Postal and online poetry contest submissions are accepted from around the world with no citizenship limitations. Simultaneous submissions and multiple submissions are acceptable. Revisions are not allowed during the contests. Manuscript submissions for all contests must be original, in English, and previously unpublished, although individual poems in a manuscript are still eligible for this contest if they have been previously published in print or web magazines, journals, anthologies, or on a personal web site. NOT ELIGIBILE are translations; collaborations by more than one author; students, colleagues, or close friends of the judge; Omnidawn past and present staff and interns; and authors of books Omnidawn has published. All Omnidawn poetry competitions are blind, so you can submit manuscripts that contain identifying information, but please be aware that such information will be removed from manuscripts before they are passed on to our editors who select manuscripts to be sent to the judge. (If you use your name in your poetry please contact us for guidelines for substituting a pseudonym.) If we find a serious error in your entry we will contact you to obtain a correction at no cost to you, so your error will not disqualify you. Nor will a few smaller errors in your manuscript, including spelling, punctuation, formatting, or typographic errors, reduce your chances of winning. (We fully understand that such errors sometimes occur for everyone, and that these can be easily corrected later.) The only differences between the three Omnidawn poetry competitions are the contest dates, the judge, the dollar amount of the prize, the reading fee, the manuscript page limit, an optional Omnidawn book offer, and for one contest only, the First/Second Poetry Book Contest, a limit on the number of previously published full-size poetry books by a submitting poet. These differences are described immediately below, under the “Current Poetry Competition” and “Upcoming Poetry Competitions” headings.
Current Poetry Contest
2013 Omnidawn Open (Poetry Book Contest—$3,000 & Publication) Nov 1, 2013–Jan 15, 2014 Judge: Forrest Gander
Please Note: The deadline for this contest has been extended from December 31, 2013 to January 15, 2014
Open poetry book competition for all writers with no limitations on the amount of poetry a writer has published. The manuscript page limit is 120 pages for this poetry book contest. (Most manuscripts we receive are 40-80 pages long.) Colleagues, students, and close friends of the judge, Forrest Gander, are not eligible. Postal and online poetry contest submissions accepted. Online entries must be received and postal entries must be postmarked between November 1, 2013 and January 15, 2014 at midnight Pacific Standard Time. Reading fee is $27. For $3 extra to cover shipping cost, entrants who provide a U.S. mailing address may choose to receive this contest’s winning book or any Omnidawn book (including 4 PEN USA winning books). A complete list of all current Omnidawn poetry books is available at www.omnidawn.com/products-page/poetry. The winner will be announced to our Email list and on this web page in June 2014, and we expect to publish the winning book in December of 2014. To view details below about previous winners and excerpts from some of the reviews those books have received, click here.
All the essential information for the Omnidawn Open (Poetry Book Contest) is contained in the above two paragraphs.
If you want to read helpful additional details below, which are virtually identical for all Omnidawn contests, and then go to the submission procedures, you can:
OR, if you want to skip the additional details and go directly to concise submission procedures, you can either:
Go to the POSTAL submission procedure below by clicking here.
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Go to the ONLINE poetry contest submission web page by clicking here, or paste the following link into your browser: www.omnidawn.net
Upcoming Poetry Contests
2014 Poetry Chapbook Contest ($1,000 & Publication) February 1–March 31, 2014 Judge: Kazim Ali
Open to all writers with no limitations on the amount of poetry a writer has published. Submissions should be 20–40 pages of poetry, not including front and back matter. (Keep in mind that this is intended to fit in a 5.5 x 7 inch published chapbook of approximately 60 pages or less, although you can submit on standard 8.5 x 11 inch pages, and we will format to fit the smaller size.) Colleagues, students, and close friends of the judge, Kazim Ali, are not eligible. Postal and online poetry contest submissions accepted. Online entries must be received and postal entries must be postmarked between February 1 and March 31, 2014 at midnight Pacific Standard Time. Reading fee is $18 for the poetry chapbook contest. For $2 extra to cover shipping cost, entrants who provide a U.S. mailing address may choose to receive this contest’s winning chapbook or any Omnidawn chapbook. A complete list of all Omnidawn chapbook publishing titles is available at http://www.omnidawn.com/products-page/chapbooks/. The poetry chapbook contests winner will be announced to our Email list and on this web page in September 2014, and we expect to publish the winning chapbook in March of 2015. Click here for helpful additional details and submission procedures that are virtually identical for all Omnidawn Contests.
2013 First/Second Book ($3,000 & Publication) May 1–June 30, 2014 Judge: Timothy Donnelly
First/Second Book poetry contest open to writers who have either never published a full-length book of poetry, or who have published only one full-length book of poetry, so that the winning book would become a poet’s first or second published full-length book of poetry. Writers who have published two or more full-length books of poetry are NOT eligible. (Chapbooks do not count.) The manuscript page limit is 120 pages for this poetry book contest. (Most manuscripts we receive are 40-70 pages long.) Colleagues, students, and close friends of the judge, Timothy Donnelly, are not eligible. Postal and online poetry contests submissions accepted. Online entries must be received and postal entries must be postmarked between May 1 and June 30, 2014 at midnight Pacific Daylight Time. Reading fee is $27. For $3 extra to cover shipping cost, entrants who provide a U.S. mailing address may choose to receive this contest’s winning book or any Omnidawn book (including 4 PEN USA winning books). A complete list of all current Omnidawn poetry books is available at www.omnidawn.com/products-page/poetry. The winner will be announced to our Email list and on this web page in December 2014, and we expect to publish the winning book in the June of 2015. (Established in 2008, this was Omnidawn’s first book contest.) Click here for helpful additional details and submission procedures that are virtually identical for all Omnidawn Contests.
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