Salt Lake Community College students are invited to submit
poetry manuscripts in the sixth annual SLCC Chapbook Competition. The deadline
to submit a manuscript is Nov. 23. Submissions should be chapbook length—12 to
25 shorter poems (one page per poem), or a set of longer poems, equivalent in
length.
The writer of the winning manuscript will be awarded a $100
honorarium and the opportunity to work with Publication Studies students to
design and publish the collection in 250 chapbooks using the SLCC Publication
Center. The winner will receive a set of 25 chapbooks. Finalists will be
awarded publication of 25 chapbooks and five chapbooks for themselves.
The winning manuscript will be distributed on campus and in
the community. Finalists will have chapbooks of their manuscripts distributed
on campus. The winner and finalists will be celebrated at a gala chapbook
luncheon and public reading.
Any current SLCC student can submit a manuscript. The work
must be the writer’s original unpublished material. Students who transferred
from SLCC to another institution within the past year are also eligible to
submit manuscripts.
The guidelines for entry are as follows:
- Double space and paginate your manuscript using a PDF format.
- Begin with a separate title page with the following information: Name, email, street address, phone number, title of manuscript and word count.
- NOTE: Your name must not appear on the manuscript anywhere but on the title page.
- Send your manuscript to slccpubcenter@gmail.com
For more information call SLCC Poet Laureate
Lisa Bickmore at 801-957-4686 or email lisa.bickmore@slcc.edu.
