Submitting For Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry

Announcing the 2011 winner of our Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry,

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc

Death of a Ventriloquist

chosen by Lisa Russ Spaar

will be published in April 2012

University of North Texas Press is also pleased to announce the publication of the 2010 winner:

Caki Wilkinson

Circles Where the Head Should Be

was selected by J. D. McClatchy and published in April 2011

The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2012

The winner of this annual award receives $1000 and publication by the University of North Texas Press.

This year’s judge will be Major Jackson. To avoid conflicts of interest, current or former students of the judge should not enter.

Postmark deadline: November 15, 2011

Submit 50- to 80-page, typed manuscript, including an additional title page that does not bear the name of the poet. All pages indicating the poet's identity will be removed from the manuscript prior to its being forwarded to the final judge.

Manuscripts cannot be returned and must be accompanied by $25 entry fee (payable to UNT Press) and a letter-sized SASE for notification.

Previously published portions of the manuscript should be identified on a separate acknowledgment page. Once a winner is declared and contracted for publication, UNT Press will hold the rights to the poems in the winning collection. They may no longer be under consideration for serial publication elsewhere and must be withdrawn by the author from consideration.

Winning manuscript will be announced by March 15, 2012.

Send manuscripts to:

John Poch
Vassar Miller Prize
Department of English
Texas Tech University 
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091

Previous Winners: