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COLORADO PRIZE FOR POETRY

SUBMISSION GUIDLINES

Manuscripts will be accepted from October 1, 2009, through the postmark deadline of January 14, 2010. The winner will be announced in May 2010.
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 2010.
There is a $25 entry fee, which includes a one-year subscription to Colorado Review (to US addresses only). Make checks payable to Colorado Review. VISA/Mastercard also accepted. (Include card number, expiration date, and name as it appears on the card.) If you prefer to pay the entry fee online (best for entrants outside the US), click below. Please print a copy of your PayPal receipt and include it with your entry.
This year's final judge is Donald Revell. Former students and close friends of the final judge are not eligible to compete.
Colorado State University employees, students, and alumni are not eligible to compete.
Manuscripts may consist of poems that have been published, but the manuscript as a whole must not have been previously published.
If individual poems have been previously published, you may include an acknowledgments page, though it is not necessary; screening and final judges will not see that page.
Include two title pages: top page with manuscript title and author name, address, e-mail address, and phone number; second page with manuscript title only. The author’s name should NOT appear anywhere else in the manuscript.
Manuscripts may be double- or single-spaced.
Manuscripts must be securely bound (for example, with a binder clip).
Manuscripts should be at least 48 pages but no more than 100 pages.
DO NOT SEND ORIGINALS: manuscripts will NOT be returned. Do not enclose stamped envelope for the return of your manuscript as manuscripts cannot be returned.
No submissions accepted via e-mail.
The theme and style are both open.
Authors do NOT need to be residents of Colorado or the United States. (Note that subscriptions can be sent only to US addresses, however.)
Writers should enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope for contest results and a self-addressed stamped postcard for notification of the manuscript's safe arrival.
Send your manuscript to:
Colorado Prize for Poetry - Center for Literary Publishing
9105 Campus Delivery
Dept. of English
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-9105
Questions? Please call us at (970) 491-5449 or send an e-mail to creview@colostate.edu