---- Submission Guidelines ----

All contributors receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee.
Please mention this to your friends and all others who might be interested!

Electronic and mailed entries must meet these requirements:
1. The manuscript should be at least 48 pages of poetry and no more
than 70 pages of poetry in length. Separations between sections are NOT
a part of the page count.
2. A one page cover letter. Include a brief biography, the book's
title, your name, address, and telephone number, and, if you have
e-mail, your e-mail address. This should be followed by a page which
lists publication acknowledgments for the book. For each
acknowledgement mention the publisher (journal, anthology, chapbook
etc.) and the poem published.
3. The manuscript should be bound with a single clip and begin with a
title page including the book's title, your name, address, and
telephone number, and, if you have e-mail, your e-mail address.
4. The second page should have only
the title of the manuscript. There are to be no acknowledgments or
mention of the author's name from this page forward. Submissions to the
contest are blind judged.
5. There should be no more than one poem on each page. The manuscript can contain pieces longer than one page.
6. The manuscript should be paginated, beginning with the first page of poetry.

Each year Pavement Saw Press will publish at least one book of poetry
and/or prose poems from manuscripts received during this competition.
Selections are chosen through a blind judging process. The competition
is open to anyone who has not previously published a volume of poetry
or prose. The author receives $1000 and five percent of the 1000 copy press run.
Previous judges have included Judith Vollmer, David Bromige, Bin Ramke
and Howard McCord. This year David Baratier will be the judge; past
students, Pavement Saw Press interns and employees are not allowed to
submit. All poems must be original, all prose must be original, fiction
or translations are not acceptable. Writers who have had volumes of
poetry and/or prose under 40 pages printed or printed in limited
editions of no more than 500 copies are eligible. Submissions are
accepted during the months of June, July, and until August 15th. All
submissions must have an August 15th, 2008, or earlier, postmark. This
is an award for first books only.

If you wish to send via regular mail your manuscript should be accompanied by a check in the amount of $20.00 made payable to Pavement Saw Press. All US contributors to the contest will receive books, chapbooks and journals equal to, or more than, the entry fee.
Add $3 (US) for other countries to cover the extra postal charge. Do
not include an SASE for notification of results, this information will
be sent with the free book. Do not send the only copy of your work. All
manuscripts are recycled and individual comments on the manuscripts
cannot be made.

If you wish to submit electronically, use the appropriate PayPal button below:

Transcontinental Award payment for US Entries

Transcontinental Award payment for Non-US and Canadian Entries

We will then send you an e-mail confirmation as well as where to e-mail
the manuscript. Electronic submissions need to be sent as PDF files or
as word (.doc) files. Other formats are not accepted. The extra cost is
to cover the paypal fees as well as the time, labor, ink, and so on, to
print out your manuscript. In addition to the prize winner, sometimes another anonymous manuscript is chosen,
if enough entries arrive. This "editors choice" manuscript will be
published under a standard royalty contract. A decision will be reached
in November.

Entries should be sent to:

Pavement Saw Press
Transcontinental Award Entry
321 Empire Street
Montpelier, OH 43543

All
submissions must have an August 15th, or earlier, postmark. Submissions
are accepted during the months of June, July, and August only.
If you have questions, please ask us: info AT pavementsaw DOT org

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