The 2010 Del Sol Press Poetry Prize
Deadline for the 2010 contest is: March 15, 2010.
We invite contest submissions from both emerging and established poets, published or unpublished. In keeping with the philosophy of Web del Sol, we are only interested in the very best poetry, regardless of source or type.
Finalist manuscripts will also be considered for publication.
Winner Receives
A $1,200 Honorarium, paid in Summer 2010; book publication by Del Sol Press in fall 2010, in The Annual Del Sol Press Poetry Series; and 20 copies of the winning book.
Eligibility
- Poets who are at least 18 years of age and who live inside or outside the United States.
- Translations are eligible.
- Simultaneous submissions are acceptable (as long as you let us know immediately if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere).
- Individual poems from the manuscript may have been published previously in magazines, journals, anthologies, chapbooks, or self-published books, but must be submitted in manuscript form. Published books in poetry or other genres do not disqualify contestants from entering this contest.
- Employees, volunteers, and board members of Web del Sol, their partners, spouses, and immediate families, and immediate family, friends, and former students of the judge are not eligible.
Competition Guidelines
- Deadline (postmark): March 15, 2010.
- 50 to 100 typed manuscript pages, each poem starts on a new page.
- $18.00 contest fee; Please make checks out to Web Del Sol.
- Include two cover pages: one with your contact information (phone, email, address), and one with the title of your collection (minus your name). Your name should not appear on the manuscript itself.
- Type or word-process on standard white paper, on one side of the page only.
- Paginate consecutively with a table of contents.
- Bind with a binder clip (no paperclips, please).
- Attach publications acknowledgments if any.
- Include a stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification of receipt of manuscript.
- Please keep a copy of your entry. Manuscripts not selected for publication will be recycled.
- Multiple submissions are acceptable; include an additional reading fee of $5.00 with each.
- Queries to Katie Jean Shinkle, Contest Coordinator. Email: katie "at" webdelsol.com (replace "at" with @).
Postmark no later than March 15, 2010 and include $18.00 contest fee to:
Del Sol Press Poetry Contest
Web del Sol Association
P.O. Box 1550
Tuscaloosa, AL 35403
ATTN: Katie Jean Shinkle/Contest Coordinator
12 comments:
why pay money to be in a contest???
i really want to be in this contest but i dont want to pay money for it...
The submission deadline was eight and a half months ago -- has a winner been named yet? I can't seem to find an announcement on Del Sol's web page.
I'm wondering what's happening with the contest too. It's not uncommon for judging to take longer than expected, but it's great when presses communicate with entrants about that so we kniow what's happening. Thanks!
Is anybody out there???
If I understand correctly, they were late in announcing a winner last year, and by October their first choice had inked a publishing deal with a different press, so they had to go with one of the runners-up. After that experience, you’d think they’d have realized the advantages of deciding quickly and locking in a contract to publish their favorite collection. It’s really quite strange that it is already December and they still haven’t announced.
I'm not so sure they're going to announce a winner.
As of January 4, 2011, Duotrope has Del Sol Press listed as being defunct: http://www.duotrope.com/market_3766.aspx.
If that's true, it'd nice to hear *something* from the editors, just as a courtesy, for all of us who paid them entry fees for a contest that seems to have disappears into the night. Really not the right way to do things!
I agree -- according to their own competition guidelines, they should have awarded the prize last summer and published the book in the fall: "A $1,200 Honorarium, paid in Summer 2010; book publication by Del Sol Press in fall 2010." This looks like a dead contest. If it drew the 400 submissions typical of such contests, then one wonders where the $7200 in reading fees ended up.
I'm not even sure who is running things now -- in her most recent bio notes, Katie Jean Shinkle no longer lists that she is an editor at Del Sol. Not a good sign...
I emailed her twice over the past several months, to ask about the status of the contest, but never got a response...
This is very disheartening.
P.S. When I contacted her, it was via an email address for her that was listed on the DSP website. I just noticed that it's no longer on the site...
Thanks for the update. If KJS is no longer involved, then I guess Michael Neff is the only one left. And Joel Brouwer, of course: I'm sure he'd know what was going on, and it's in his interest to clear things up, since he is now -- through no fault of his own -- associated with a contest that is looking more and more fraudulent.
Many competitions reserve the right not to award a prize, but I don't see that language on Del Sol's guidelines. If the press has gone bust, I don't know who would want to be published there, but they should at least hand out the cash prize to someone and announce any finalists and runners-up. I've seen similar contests receive around four hundred entries, in which case Del Sol would have taken $7,200 in entry fees. If the press is closing and they can't publish a book, that's bad, but pocketing the proceeds from this contest and walking away would be a whole different level of bad...
The winner was just announced here: http://delsolpress.org/dsp-poetryprizewinners.htm.
No list of finalists, nor a title, though from other websites it looks like the collection will be called "Adorable Airport" and will appear in 2011.
Better late than never.
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