The submission period for the Backwaters Press yearly poetry prize is now open, and ends May 1. Guidelines for the prize series can be found here. The judge for the 2024 contest is Tomás Q. Morín. Morín is the author of the … Continue reading The 2024 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is now open
The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Tomás Q. Morín will be the judge for the 2024 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Morín is the author of the poetry collections Machete, A Larger Country, and Patient Zero. He … Continue reading Announcing the Judge for the 2024 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry
The submission period for the Backwaters Press yearly poetry prize is now open, and ends May 1. Guidelines for the prize series can be found here. The judge for the 2023 contest is Hilda Raz. Raz is the editor of the … Continue reading The 2023 Backwaters Prize in Poetry competition is now open
The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Hilda Raz will be the judge for the 2023 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Raz is the editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of … Continue reading Announcing the Judge for the 2023 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry
The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Christine Stewart-Nuñez, the 2019-2021 Poet Laureate of South Dakota, will be the judge for the 2022 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Submissions will be accepted April 1 through May 1. The … Continue reading Announcing the Judge for the 2022 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry
The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Huascar Medina, the current Poet Laureate of Kansas, will be the judge for the 2021 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Submissions will be accepted April 1 through May 1. … Continue reading Announcing the Judge for the 2021 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry
The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Matt Mason, the current Nebraska State Poet, will be the judge for the 2020 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Submissions will be accepted April 1 through May 15. The … Continue reading Announcing the Judge for the 2020 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry
Deadline Extended to February 1! The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) has been publishing prestigious, award-winning literature for seventy-five years, but this contest is a first for UNP. In celebration of our 75th anniversary, UNP will publish a … Continue reading Lit Contest Deadline Extended
The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) has been publishing prestigious, award-winning literature for 75 years, but this contest is a first for UNP. In celebration of our 75th anniversary, UNP will publish a volume of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written … Continue reading 75th Anniversary Literary Contest
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