Winner receives $100 and 15 copies of winning chapbook

Submissions accepted from May 1 to July 31


  Mail submissions and payment to: Our distinguished judges include:
 


Mississippi Valley Poetry Chapbook Contest
c/o Midwest Writing Center
225 East 2nd Street, Suite 303
Davenport, IA 52801
Kristin Abraham, Ashford University
Ryan Collins, Quad City Arts
Dr. Patrick Connelly, St. Ambrose University
Farah Marklevits, Augustana College
 John Turner, Scott Community College
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  Submission Guidelines:  
  • $15 submission fee per chapbook entry (multiple submissions accepted).
  ...For credit card payments please call (563) 324-1410  
  • Submit between 16 to 24 pages of poetry; manuscripts should be paginated and secured with a binder clip (no staples)
  • $15 submission fee includes copy of winning chapbook
  • No names should appear on the poems
  • Enclose two cover pages: first includes chapbook title, author’s name, address, phone, and email address and the second includes
...only the chapbook title to allow for blind review
  • No cover letter is required; however, if poems have been previously published, an acknowledgement page should be included
  • Winners will be posted online by November 1  
  • Midwest Writing Center will publish and make the winning chapbook available for sale
  • No manuscripts shall be returned  
  • Submissions that arrive ‘postage due’ will be returned unopened