Colorado State University
csu home | libarts | cla central
Center for Literary Publishing

Submission Guidelines – Online

If you prefer sending your manuscript online, please follow these guidelines

  1. Manuscripts will be accepted between October 1, 2011, and the postmark deadline of January 14, 2012. The winner will be announced by May 2012.
  2. The winning book-length collection of poems will be published by the Center for Literary Publishing and distributed by the University Press of Colorado in the fall of 2012. The author receives a $2,000 honorarium.
  3. There is a $28 entry fee ($3 of which goes to the good people at Submishmash), which includes a one-year subscription to Colorado Review (to US addresses only).
  4. This year’s final judge is Elizabeth Willis. Friends and students (current & former) of the final judge are not eligible to compete.
  5. Colorado State University employees, students, and alumni are not eligible to compete.
  6. Manuscripts may consist of poems that have been published, but the manuscript as a whole must be unpublished.
  7. Upload a brief cover letter separate from the manuscript and include the title, your name, address, e-mail address, and phone number.  Your name should NOT appear anywhere else in the manuscript.
  8. Please do not include acknowledgments/publication credits of individual poems.
  9. Manuscripts may be double- or single-spaced.
  10. Manuscripts must be at least 48 pages but no more than 100 pages.
  11. You may enter more than one manuscript. Each manuscript requires the $28 entry fee. If you’d like the additional subscriptions sent to someone other than yourself (US addresses only), include that information in your cover letter. Otherwise, your subscription will be extended by one year for each additional entry.
  12. The theme and style are both open.
  13. Authors do NOT need to be residents of Colorado or the United States. (Note, however, that subscriptions can be sent only to US addresses.)
  14. Poets who submit online will receive contest results via e-mail by May 2012.
  15. On or after October 1, 2011, please submit here: Submit to Colorado Prize for Poetry
  16. Questions? Please call us at (970) 491-5449 or send an e-mail to creview@colostate.edu