The 2012 Beatrice Hawley Award - $28.00

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The deadline for the 2012 Beatrice Hawley Award is December 1, 2011.

Guidelines for online manuscript submission are:

- Entrants must reside in the United States.
- Manuscripts must be typed in a no less than 12 point font, paginated, and 48 – 80 pages in length (single spaced).
- Individual poems from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines, anthologies, or chapbooks of less than 25 pages, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished.
- Translations, multi-authored collections, and self-published books are not eligible.
- Manuscripts must have a table of contents and include a list of acknowledgments for poems previously published. The inclusion of a biographical note is optional.
- Your name, address, email and phone number should appear on the title page of your manuscript.
- No illustrations, photographs or images should be included.
- The online entry fee for the Beatrice Hawley Competition is $28. Payment for online submission must be made online.

The Beatrice Hawley Award is judged by consensus of the members of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board. Manuscripts are not read anonymously.

The winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award will be announced in April 2012. Please check our website, www.alicejamesbooks.org, for notification of winners, finalists and semi-finalists.

If you have any questions or concerns about submitting your manuscript, please contact the AJB office at 207.778.7071.
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