Submissions are currently open for the Omnidawn Single Poem Broadside Poetry Contest, given for a single poem. The winner receives $1,000 and publication in OmniVerse, Omnidawn Publishing’s online journal. The winner also receives fifty copies of a letterpress broadside of the winning poem. Dean Rader will judge.
Submit a poem of 8 to 24 lines with a $10 entry fee ($5 for each additional poem) by August 20. Writers may submit using the online submission system or via post to Omnidawn Publishing, 1632 Elm Avenue, Richmond, CA 94805. The winner will be announced in December and published in April 2019. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Previous winners include Beatrice Szymkowiak for her poem “Yangtze Baiji Expedition Log” and Anca Roncea for her poem “Turns.”
Judge Dean Rader is the author of two poetry collections, most recently Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), and the chapbook, Landscape Portrait Figure Form (Omnidawn, 2013). He is also the coeditor of the anthologies Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2003) and Bullets Into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence (Beacon Press, 2017), as well as the editor of 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: An Anthology of Poetry (99: The Press, 2014).
Established in 2001, Omnidawn Publishing publishes poetry and prose that seeks to “open readers anew to the myriad ways that language may bring new light, insight, awareness, as well as a heightened respect for and appreciation of differences.” The press has published poets Rosmarie Waldrop, Lyn Hejinian, Craig Santos Perez, and among others.