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2009 Bright Hill Press Poetry full-length Book Guidelines Below



BRIGHT HILL PRESS

15TH ANNUAL POETRY BOOK COMPETITION - 2009

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONPOSTMARK DEADLINE


November 30, 2009. 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 2010; publication 2011MANUSCRIPT 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

$25; $17 Word Thursdays/Bright Hill Press members (for information on how to join the organization, e-mail us at wordthur@stny.rr.com

THE WINNING ENTRYWinner 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 13846-0193SOME BRIGHT HILL PRESS FULL-LENGTH POETRY BOOKS: Infinite Beginnings (Lucyna Prostko) forthcoming; How the Brain Grew Back Its Own History (Liz Beasley); Need-Fire (Becky Gould Gibson); The Artist As Alice: From a Photographer’s Life (Darcy Cummings); The Aerialist (Victoria Hallerman); 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.


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