Many Mountains Moving Press Poetry Book Contest Guidelines [updated 04/07/2008]

 

Prize: The winner receives $1,000 and publication by MMM Press in 2009 (Spring).

Deadline: June 1, 2008 (postmark).

Entry fee: $25

{Entitles entrants to a free back issue and the opportunity to buy a new MMM Subscription for $10.00, and any of the MMM Press Books, They Sing at Midnight, invisible sister, & Feeding the Fear of the Earth, Silkie, & Ashes in Midair for $10. Please use this order form (second page of printed guidelines) if you want a free back issue or anything else.}

Final Judge: TBA

Eligibility:

• Open to all poets and writers whose work is in English.

• Staff and their family members are not eligible to enter.

• Simultaneous submissions are allowed if the poet agrees to notify MMM
Press of acceptance elsewhere.

• Entries may not be previously published, but individual poems and
chapbook-length sections may have been if the previous publisher
gives permission to reprint. (More than half of the ms. may not have
been published as a collection.)

 

 

Submission Checklist & NEW email submission guidelines:

• A typed ms. of 50–100 pages of original poetry, single- or double-spaced.
(The author’s name must NOT appear anywhere on the ms.)

• A cover letter with the title of the collection, a brief bio, your name,
address, phone number, and e-mail address(es).

• Acknowledgments may be included in the ms. but are not required.

• A $25 check or money order payable to Many Mountains Moving Press.

• An SASE for the winner announcement. Mss. will not be returned.

• The order form for contest entrants with a choice of any available free back issue and discounts on subscriptions and books.

(This order form is on the the second page of the printable guidelines.)

 

 

Or via e-mail, send an attachment (RTF, Word, WordPerfect or PDF) to jeffreyethan@att.net without any identification in the ms. itself.

Send a cover letter on paper along with the paper order form to the address below with a check and identification of the ms. etc.

as with any paper submission. Mss. will be acknowledged as received as soon as the check and order form arrive.

 

 

Send to:

Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest

Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Senior Poetry Editor

Many Mountains Moving Press

1705 Lombard Street

Phila. PA 19146