Byline's Biennial Poetry Chapbook Competition is open to all writers. FMI: http://www.bylinemag.com
- Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages. Do not include photocopies of poems from magazines or journals.
- Please submit only one copy of your manuscript. Manuscripts should include no more than
one poem per page (maximum length of poems should be 39 lines including title and stanza breaks. Poems longer than two pages are discouraged. - Manuscripts by more than one author will not be accepted. Translations will not be accepted.
- Prize: A $200 cash award, plus 50 copies of the published book. Additional copies available at an author's discount. All finalists will receive one copy of the published book.
- Deadline: September 1, 2008. Manuscripts postmarked after September 1 will not be read. (Deadline date has been changed from June 1.)
- Judging: All manuscripts will be read by published poets. Final judging will be conducted by prize-winning poet and author Ellen Bass, whose fourth book of poems, The Human Line, was published by Copper Canyon Press in June 2007.
