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2008 Many Mountains Moving Press Poetry Book Contest Guidelines [updated 07/03/2008]
Prize: The winner receives $1,000 and publication by MMM Press in 2009 (Spring).
EXTENDED DEADLINE: August 16, 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: MMM Press is pleased to announce the judge, Steven Huff.
Steven Huff’s second book of poems More Daring Escapes was released in 2008 by Red Hen Press. A book of stories, A Pig in Paris will be released in 2008 by Big Pencil Press. He is a Pushcart winner in fiction, and his poetry has been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. He teaches creative writing at Rochester Institute of Technology and in the MFA program at Pine Manor College. He is proprietor of a new literary publishing company, Tiger Bark Press.
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