SLCC students and alumni are invited to submit poetry manuscripts to the SLCC Publication Center Chapbook Contest. The deadline is Monday, November 26, 2012. Submissions should be a collection of poems in any style. Manuscripts should be between 15 and 30 poems.
The prize is publication by the Publication Center; 25 copies (to the winning writer); and a $100 honorarium. Finalists may also choose to work with Publication Studies students to produce a limited run of ten (10) copies of their manuscripts.
Eligibility: any current student at SLCC may submit a manuscript. In addition, former students who are still undergraduates, and who attended SLCC during the 2011-2012 academic year are welcome to submit manuscripts. The manuscript must be the original work of the writer, and must not have been previously published as a collection. If individual poems have been published elsewhere, that is acceptable.
The chapbook will be printed in a run of 250 copies; it will be circulated on campus and placed in local bookstores. The publication of the chapbook will be widely publicized at SLCC and beyond.
The publication of the chapbook will culminate in a reading and publication party in the spring of 2013.
This year’s judge is Joel Long. Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His most recent book, Knowing Time by Light, was published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010. His poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, and are forthcoming in Quarterly West and The Pinch. He has received the Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts at the Utah Arts Festival and the Writers Advocate Award from Writers at Work.
To submit: e-mail manuscript to slccpubcenter(at)gmail.com in the following format:
- Double-spaced and paginated
- PDF format
- Separate title page with the following information: Name of writer; e-mail address; street address; phone number; title of manuscript and word count.
- Besides the title page, the writer’s name must not appear on the manuscript.
If you have questions about the competition, please contact Lynn Kilpatrick at lynn.kilpatrick(at)slcc.edu.