Kalamalka Press seeks chapbook-length collections of poetry, short fiction or hybrids thereof for its second annual John Lent Poetry Prose Award! Entrants should be residents of Canada and in the early stages of their writing careers, having not published more than two full-length books. The winning work will be published in a limited fine-press edition by Kalamalka Press.
Guidelines:
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced in a legible 12-point font and span no more than 15 single-sided pages.
• Please include your name, mailing address and email on a separate cover page, and place only the title and page numbers on every page.
• Excerpts from the manuscript may be previously published in periodicals, but should not yet have appeared in a trade collection.
• The competition is open to poetry, short prose narratives or any combination of the two. Please do not send work in translation.
• Manuscripts should be submitted on plain 8.5" x 11" paper, fastened either with a staple or clip, and will be recycled unless accompanied by a return self-addressed stamped envelope.
Entry fee:
• $10 for each manuscript. Writers may enter as many times as they wish. Please make cheques out to Okanagan College Foundation.
Prizes:
• The winner receives $500.00 and ten percent of the book's print-run.
Deadline:
• All entries must be postmarked between March 15 and May 15, 2014.
• Submissions received outside of this time frame will not be considered.
• The winner will be announced by July 1, 2014, and published during the subsequent academic year.
Contact:
Send submissions to
The John Lent Poetry Prose Award
c/o Okanagan College
7000 College Way
Vernon, BC V1B 2N5
Direct queries to the contest coordinator, Kevin McPherson: kmcpherson@okanagan.bc.ca.
