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2007 Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition Guidelines (Note: there is no free reading period in 2008.) In addition, Bright Hill will not be holding a poetry chapbook competition in 2008, due to substantial publishing commitments. The chapbook competition will resume in 2009. Check here in late 2008 to learn if BHP will be holding a free reading period in 2009.
BRIGHT HILL PRESS

14TH ANNUAL POETRY BOOK COMPETITION - 2007



 

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

POSTMARK DEADLINE
November 30, 2007. Submissions with a later postmark date will be discarded.

FREE BRIGHT HILL PRESS FULL-LENGTH POETRY BOOK

Include sturdy padded 6 x 9 or sturdy 9 x 12 envelope with $2.50 postage, and we will send you a free, award-winning Bright Hill Press Poetry Book.

NOTIFICATION DATES

Results will be announced in 2008; publication 2009

MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS

Send 48-64 pages, plus bio, table of contents, acknowledgments page, and title page. No dot-matrix, but good photocopies acceptable. Manuscript must be paginated and secured by bulldog or spring clip; no bound manuscripts or manuscripts in book form.

MANUSCRIPTS WILL BE JUDGED ANONYMOUSLY

1.Include 2 title pages: one with title only; one with title, author's name, address, and telephone. Poems may be published in journals or anthologies; attach acknowledgments page to title page with author's name, address, telephone, and e-mail.

2. Manuscripts will not be returned; include SASE for results only.

3. More than one manuscript may be submitted but each requires a reading fee.

4. Simultaneous submissions are accpetable but Bright Hill Press must be notified if the manuscript is taken elsewhere.

READING FEE

$22; $18 Word Thursdays/Bright Hill Press members (for information on how to join the organization, e-mail us at wordthur@stny.rr.com

THE WINNING ENTRY

Winner receives publication, $1000, and 25 copies of his/her professionally printed book; review copies will be sent to more than 20 reviewers. BHP will advertise the book in national publications and market it by retail and through distributors.

Send to:

Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition, POB 193, Treadwell, NY 13846-0193

SOME BRIGHT HILL PRESS FULL-LENGTH POETRY BOOKS: Need-Fire (Becky Gould Gibson); The Artist As Alice: From a Photographer’s Life (Darcy Cummings); The Aerialist (Victoria Hallerman) forthcoming; Strange Gravity (Lisa Rhoades); The Singer's Temple (Barbara Hurd); Heart, with Piano Wire (Richard Deutch); Every Infant's Blood: New and Selected Poems (Graham Duncan); My Father and Miro (Claudia Reder); Traveling Through Glass (Beth Copeland Vargo); To Fit Your Heart into the Body (Judith Neeld); Blue Wolves (Regina O'Melveny); My Own Hundred Doors (Pam Bernard).

BRIGHT HILL PRESS ANTHOLOGIES: Out of the Catskills and Just Beyond: Literary and Visual Works by Catskill Writers and Artists, with a Special Section by Catskill High-School Students; Iroquois Voices, Iroquois Visions: A Celebration of Contemporary Six Nations Arts; Speaking the Words Anthology; On the Watershed, The Second Word Thursdays Anthology; others.


Dear Poets:
Due to a substantial publishing commitment, Bright Hill Press is canceling the 2008 free reading period. Check back in late 2008 to confirm a free reading period for 2009. We apologize if this decision causes any distress or change in plans.
Bertha Rogers, Editor in Chief