White Pine Press Poetry Prize
The Thirteenth
Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize competition will open for
submissions on July 1. The award consists of a $1,000 cash award
and publication by White Pine Press.
Manuscripts must be between 60 and 80 pages in length. Poems
must be original, but may have appeared in magazines, anthologies,
or chapbooks. Translations are not eligible.
Manuscripts
must be postmarked by November 30th. They must be typed and
should include a table of contents. The author’s name,
address, email address, and telephone number should appear
on the cover sheet only. Manuscripts will be recycled at the
end of the competition. Please include a self-addressed, stamped,
business-size envelope with your submission if you wish to
be notified of the results.
Manuscripts
must include a $20 entry, reading, and processing fee. Checks
should be made out to White Pine Press. The manuscript, along
with a self-addressed, stamped postcard for notification that
it has been received, if so desired, should be sent to:
If you send
the manuscript via express mail services, the manuscript should
be sent to:
Manuscripts
are screened by the editorial staff, and a poet of national
reputation makes the final selection. The name of the final
judge is not revealed until the end of the competition.
We alternate between a male and a female poet each year
as final judge.
Due to the
large number of entries received, manuscripts cannot be returned.
1996 - Nancy Johnson, Zoo & Cathedral
1997 - Doborah Gorlin, Bodily Course
1998 - Jacqueline Johnson, A Gathering of Mother Tongues
1999 - Joel Long, Winged Insects
2000 - David Keller, Trouble in History
2001 - Stephen Frech, If Not for These Wrinkles of Darkness
2002 - Sandra Castillo, My Father Sings to My Embarrassment
2003 - John Sorowiecki, Watching Cartoons Before Attending A Funeral
2004 - Frances Richey, The Burning Point
2005 - George Looney
, The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels
2006 - Roy Bentley, The Trouble With A Short Horse in Montana
2007 - Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Paper Pavilion
Copies of
these books should be available from your local bookseller.
If you cannot find them, they may be ordered directly from the
press for $12.00 plus $3.00 shipping and handling.