Kore Press- 2011 First Book Award For Poetry Deadline Extended

2011 First Book Award for Poetry Judge: Bhanu Kapil Deadline Extended August 31, 2010

“I like to think of this contest as providing a potentially catalytic boost forward for the life of a writer…and as a beacon of possibility to new writers out there who struggle every day in the solitary practice of writing. We are over here saying “I know you can, I know you can.”  - Lisa Bowden, Kore Press Co-Founder & Director the poets 2010 Winner Laura Newbern’s Love and the Eye selected by Claudia Rankine Previous First Book Award Winners: 2009: Heather Cousins’ Something in the Potato Room selected by Claudia Rankine 2008: Holly Iglesias’ Souvenirs of a Shrunken World selected by Harryette Mullen 2007: Spring Ulmer’s Benjamin’s Spectacles selected by Sonia Sanchez 2006: Sandra Lim’s Loveliest Grotesque selected by Marilyn Chin 2005: Elline Lipkin’s The Errant Thread selected by Eavan Boland the contest A prize of $1,000 plus book publication by Kore Press will be given for a book-length poetry manuscript. Deadline: August 31, 2010 This competition is open to any female writer who has not published a full-length collection of poetry. Writers who have had chapbooks of less than 42 pages printed in editions of no more than 400 copies are eligible. How to Submit Submit your manuscript and $20 reading fee on-line here. Comment box should include:   daytime and evening telephone numbers where you heard about the contest Manuscripts must be:   anonymous (do not include your name anywhere on the manuscript) original poetry written by applicant (translations are not eligible) For more information email kore@korepress.org, or call 520-327-2127.   the judge Bhanu Kapil is a British-Indian writer, and new U.S. citizen, who lives now in Colorado, where she is core faculty at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She also teaches writing at Goddard College in Vermont. She is the author of four books: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a Space for Monsters (Leon Works, 2006), Humanimal: a Project for Future Children (Kelsey Street, 2009), and Schizophrene (forthcoming from Nightboat Books, 2011.)

Special deal for contest entrants only! For $39, your manuscript will be entered into the contest and you will receive one copy each of the two latest First Book Award winners. For $45, you will be entered and will receive one copy each of the three latest First Book Award winners. Please e-mail kore@korepress.org to take advantage of this deal!   Offer Expires: August 31, 2010

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