Incendiary Lit

So you have your poems collecting dust, the journals they’ve been in are sitting on your bookshelf, or worse even, in a box somewhere. Now what? Put together a book of course. But you don’t want to just slip through the waters of the poetry world and sink to the bottom, you want to make a splash! Well, that’s a lot tougher than it seems like it should be. But your first book winning a prize, that’s a little something extra to put on a resume. Here are some First Book Awards that are coming upon their deadline still in the ‘07 year:

The Gatewood Prize Deadline: October 1 (for only women between 18 and 39)
The Gerald Cable Book Award Deadline: October 15
Three Candles Press First Book Award Deadline: October 15
APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry Deadline: October 31
Patricia Bibby First Book Award Deadline: October 31
Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Prize Deadline October 31 (For only an American woman)
Walt Whitman Award Deadline: November 15
Yale Series of Younger Poets Deadline: November 15
Perugia Press Prize Deadline: November 15 (for only a woman’s first or second book)
New Issues Poetry Prize Deadline: November 30
A Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize November 30

Posted: Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Category: Publishing, Books.