Polishing your poetry manuscript this summer? Send it into competition in the fall.

from Perugia Press:
Now accepting submissions: A prize of $1000 and publication by Perugia Press is given annually for a first or second unpublished poetry collection by a woman. Submit manuscripts with a $20 entry fee between August 1 and November 15. Visit our Web site for complete guidelines or to purchase the 2005 winner, The Disappearing Letters by Carol Edelstein.

Also due this fall are entries for:

• The New Criterion Poetry Prize (deadline September 30)
• The Poetry Super Highway Contest (online submission, entry fees due October 8)
• The May Swenson Poetry Award at Utah State University Press (deadline October 15)
• The Larry Levis Editor’s Prize in Poetry at Missouri Review (deadline October 15)
• The Frederick Morgan Poetry Prize (renamed -- it was formerly the Nicholas Roerich Prize) at Story Line Press (deadline October 31)
• The Paris Review Prize in Poetry (deadline October 31)
• The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition (deadline October 31)
• The T.S. Eliot Prize at Truman State University (deadline October 31)
• The CBC Literary Awards from Radio-Canada (deadline November 1)
• The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award (deadline November 15)
• National Writers Union Poetry Contest judged by Adrienne Rich (deadline November 30)
• The Beatrice Hawley Award at Alice James Books (deadline December 1)

Required reading before you submit to any contests:
“A Word To the Wise: On entering your poems in competition,” by Kurt Heintz
“You Do It Because You Love It,” by S.A. Griffin

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