Closed: Wild Leek Press Inaugural Poetry Chapbook Competition 2017
Deadline: April 4, 2017
The Wild Leek Press Inaugural Poetry Chapbook Competition is now closed to submissions. The writer whose manuscript receives first place will be awarded publication and 12 author copies, which will be beautifully-designed, hand-crafted, and letterpress-printed using hand-set type in a limited-edition run. The writer whose manuscript receives second place will receive 12 copies of one poem from their manuscript printed as a limited-edition letterpress broadside, which will be printed using hand-set type. Wild Leek Press is located on the campus of Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia. All entries must be submitted through Submittable.
Final Judge: Ron Rash
Ron Rash is the author of four collections of poems, including Eureka Mill, Among the Believers, Raising the Dead, and Waking; five novels, including New York Times bestselling novel Serena, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, The World Made Straight, and The Cove; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award; and most recently, Something Rich and Strange. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.
Prizes:
- First place: Publication of manuscript as a hand-crafted, limited-edition letterpress chapbook and 12 author copies
- Second place: One poem from manuscript published as a limited-edition letterpress broadside and 12 prints
Guidelines:
- Please submit 15-25 pages of poetry in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format via Submittable.
- Submit a cover letter with your name and title of manuscript.
- Entry Fee: $10
- Individual poems in manuscript may be previously published, but chapbook must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions accepted; please withdraw your submission as soon as possible if accepted elsewhere.
- Submissions will be accepted until midnight (EST) April 4, 2017.
- Notification of results will be sent via email and posted publicly on the Wild Leek Press
- Submissions that contain misogyny, homophobia, racism, or religious intolerance will not be considered for publication.
- Keep in mind that, though we are not specifying character counts of lines, the length of lines and poems will need to fit in a handcrafted standard-sized book using handset type.
- For all work accepted, we request First North American serial rights, with all rights reverting back to the author upon publication. We ask that you please credit Wild Leek Press as the original publisher for reprints.