SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR THE
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL DOGFISH HEAD POETRY PRIZE OPENS MAY 15, 2016!
Submission Guidelines
The fourteenth annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for the winning
book-length manuscript by a poet residing in the Mid-Atlantic states
(DE, MD, VA, PA, NJ, NY, WVA, NC and District of Columbia) will consist
of $500, two cases of Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Beer*, manuscript
publication by Broadkill River Press, and 10 copies of the book (in lieu
of royalties).
The rules are: Manuscripts must be received by
midnight,
August 15, 2016.
Manuscripts received after the closing date will not be considered.
Eligible poets must reside in the above listed states and be twenty-one
years of age by the date of the award. * The manuscript is to be
submitted electronically in one MS Word document attachment. Send to
Prize coordinator Linda Blaskey at
dogfishheadpoetryprize@earthlink.net. Snail mail submissions will not be accepted.
Send two title pages with each submission: the first with the title of
the manuscript, author’s name, address, phone numbers and e-mail
address; the second with just the manuscript title. No manuscript is
to have any author-identifying information other than the one title page
and will be rejected if it does. Judging is blind and double-tiered.
The manuscript must be book-length (between 48 and 78 pages of original
work – no translations) and no more than roughly thirty lines to a page,
including the poem’s title and two line-spaces between the title and
the body of the poem. A poem may be more than one page. The book’s
dimensions will be 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches, with a minimum of half-inch
side margins, and printed in 12 point type, so avoid very long lines.
One submission per entrant. There is no entry fee.
The award will be presented to the winner on Saturday evening, December
10, 2016 at the Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware. The winner
must agree to attend this event and to read from their winning book at a
reception honoring the winner. The prize will be officially awarded by
Sam Calagione, Founder and CEO of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and
Distillery, or by another company official.
The author of the winning manuscript also agrees to provide, within ten
days of notification, a color head-shot photograph, with photographer’s
credit, for the back cover and a dedication page for the interior of the
book. Also, an acknowledgement page of poems previously published, and
in which publications and/or websites they appeared will need to be
provided. The winner agrees to travel to Delaware at the winner’s
expense for awarding of the prize. Dogfish Head will provide the
winner two nights lodging at the Dogfish Inn in the beach resort town of
Lewes, Delaware.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales retains the right to use any of the winning work in promotional materials.
Co-workers of Dogfish Head and their families are ineligible to enter. Previous winners of the prize are ineligible to enter.
For questions and more information contact Linda Blaskey, Prize coordinator, at
linblask@aol.com
or at
dogfishheadpoetryprize@earthlink.net
