The deadline for Omnidawn’s First/Second Poetry Book Prize [3], which was previously June 30, has been extended to July 17. A prize of $3,000, publication by Omnidawn Publishing, and 100 author copies is given annually for a first or second poetry collection.

Submit a manuscript of 40 to 120 pages via e-mail with a $27 entry fee, or $30 to receive a book from the Omnidawn catalogue. Visit the Omnidawn website for complete guidelines [4].

The judge for this year’s award is Korean American poet Myung Mi Kim [5], whose most recent collection is Penury [6] (Omnidawn, 2009). Kim has previously judged Bayou Magazine’s Kay Murphy Prize for Poetry [7] and Kelsey Street Press’s Firsts! series for women poets [8], among other contests.       

Recent winning titles [9] of the First/Second Book Prize include Henry Wei Leung’s Goddess of Democracy (to be published in October), Jennifer S. Cheng’s House A [10] (2016), and Margaret Ross’s A Timeshare [11] (2015).

Check out our Grants & Awards database [12] and Submission Calendar [13] for more upcoming contests in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.