VERSE DAILY BOOK PRIZE

Verse Daily in partnership with DHP, is now open for entries to the Verse Daily Book Prize.

Submission Deadline: February 28, 2024.

Eligibility: Open to any poet writing in English regardless of publication history.

Submissions accepted by email only, carefully following the instructions below: • Submit via email a previously unpublished, full-length poetry manuscript, in English, in PDF format only.
• Material in your manuscript may have been published previously in magazines, journals, anthologies, or a chapbook, but the book manuscript as a whole must not have been previously published in any form. Translations and previously self-published books are not eligible.
• Include a list of acknowledgments
• Use a standard 12 point font, minimum.
• Do not include artwork nor more than one poem per page.
• Length requirements: up to 60 pages of text.
• In your cover letter, include your full legal name, any pen names, email address, phone number, and permanent mailing address.
• You may submit multiple manuscripts, but each must be submitted separately with its own fee. Each manuscript requires a $28 fee.
• Fees are not refundable, so please be sure to submit your manuscript immediately after your fee. Please ensure that both contain reference to your name and the title of your manuscript.
• If your manuscript is accepted elsewhere, please inform us by email right away.
• If we receive a wealth of excellent collections, we may also offer one or more runners-up a publication contract, with terms different than that of the winning collection.
• Your submission and your fee must be received no later than 11:59 pm pacific time on February 28, 2024.

Fees help to support both Verse Daily and DHP.

The prize is $1000 and book publication.

The previous winner, White Doe by Maria Williams, is scheduled for release in 2024.

TO SUBMIT: 1. Click to make your Paypal payment.

then: 2. Click HERE to send your submission via email.

NOTIFICATION
Results will be posted on our websites and social media by Spring 2024.