Jacopone da Todi Poetry Prize
There are presently no open calls for submissions.
Franciscan University Press is accepting 48-100 page manuscripts during August 2018 for its Jacopone da Todi Poetry Prize. We want work which reflects a disciple's heart. Please submit your manuscripts, contact information, acknowledgements, and biography. The Press will be reading submissions from August 1-31, 2018.
Submission Guidelines:
- Deadline: Entries must be sent by email to the editor and co-editors (see addresses below) or postmarked and sent to the Franciscan University Press by August 31, 2018. Manuscripts submitted to the contest will be read and judged anonymously.
- Open to any poet writing in English, age 18 or older, regardless of publication history.
- Individual poems in the manuscript may have been published previously in a chapbook, magazines, journals or anthologies, but the work as a whole must be unpublished. Poets must own rights to all poems submitted. Please let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
- Translations are not eligible.
- Send 48-100 pages of poetry—any style or theme—with a table of contents and an acknowledgements page for any previously published poems.
- The page count does not include the table of contents or acknowledgements.
- Email submissions are preferred. Emailed submissions should include the author’s name on the last page only.
- If submitting by hard copy, the submission must be typed with each poem beginning on a new page, each page numbered, and have the following information included on a separate title page:
- contest title,
- manuscript title,
- author name,
- address,
- telephone number,
- email (if available).
It is important that your name and contact information not appear anywhere else in the manuscript. Please also include a flash drive or CD-ROM with an electronic copy of the manuscript.
The submission can be sent to:The Jacopone da Todi Poetry Book Prize
℅ David Craig, Poetry Series Editor
Franciscan University Press
1235 University Blvd.
Steubenville, OH 43952 - Contestants may submit more than one manuscript, but a title page must accompany each manuscript.
- Receipt of manuscript will be acknowledged by email if submitted electronically. If submitted in hard copy, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard. Manuscripts will not be returned, and all manuscripts will be recycled at the end of the contest.
- Winner and finalists will be announced in early 2018 on our website. For mail notification of contest results, please include a self-addressed and stamped envelope. If no manuscript is judged worthy of the prize, the prize will not be awarded.
- The winning author will receive 20 copies of the manuscript.