Smart Search List of the Day Paying Poetry Collections Smart Search is one of several search options for our members. It enables you to search for publishers and agents using the most common options and provides a short list of results that's curated and updated daily. This helps you find that gold nugget in the stream with as little effort as possible. Although you aren't a member yet, we are giving you a free preview of our Smart Search List of the Day below. Check back tomorrow for a new search. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature. Instructions: Select at least one bolded (asterisk) option below and click Search. To include some lesser-known publishers, select "Include Wildcards." Piece: Clear Poetry Form:* Any Poetry Form Ballad Beat poetry Blank verse Cinquain Dramatic verse Experimental poetry Formal verse Free verse Ghazal Haiku (or related) Hybrid form Invented/Nonce form Light verse Limerick Long poetry Lyric poetry Metrical Narrative poetry Pantoum Persona poetry Prose poetry Rhyming Rondeau Sestina Short poetry Sonnet Tanka Villanelle Visual poetry Other form Topic:* Include Scholarly publications Genre:* Any Genre General Action-Adventure Erotica Fantasy Horror Mystery/Crime Romance Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller Western Style:* Any Style Absurdist Dark Experimental Humorous Literary Mainstream Minimalist Pulp Quirky Realist Satirical Surrealist Transgressive Medium:* Length Type:* Any Length Type Poem Poetry Chapbook Poetry Collection Include literary agents as well as publishers Max. Results: 10 20 30 40 50 Fees: Include Fee-Based Submissions Pay: Paying Projects Only Include 'Unknown' Payscale Refinements: Include Wildcards Wildcards are listings that are lesser-known and don't have enough data yet for complete statistics. Exact Matches Only Sort By: Acceptance Pct (high to low) Acceptance Pct (low to high) Avg Response Time (low to high) Number of Submitters (reporting to Duotrope) Title Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Poetry Collections. Check back tomorrow for a new list.Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else. Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award Fees Established in 1998, in honor of the poet Benjamin Saltman (1927-1999), this award is for a previously unpublished original collection of poetry.Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Professional advance. No royalties. Details: USD $3,000.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 233.9 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. Colorado Prize for Poetry Fees The Colorado Prize for Poetry is an international poetry book manuscript contest established in 1995. Each year’s prizewinner receives an honorarium and publication of his or her book by the Center for Literary Publishing.Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Professional advance. < 15% royalties. Details: USD $2,500 for winner as advance; 10% of net royalties.Avg. Response: Average responder. 85.6 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. Donald Justice Poetry Prize Fees Wildcard The Donald Justice Poetry Prize is part of the Spencer Poetry Awards, which Kean W. Spencer created in honor of his mother, Iris N. Spencer. The prize recognizes the distinguished American poet, teacher, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Donald Justice. The WCU Poetry Center welcomes submissions of unpublished, original book-length manuscripts that pay attention to form for consideration in this competition.Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Semi-pro advance. Unknown royalties. Details: USD $1,500.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 61.8 days. Dorset Prize Fees The Dorset Prize is an open competition for a poetry manuscript, with a cash prize. Poets submitting work for consideration may be published authors or writers without previous book publications. Submissions are accepted from anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abroad (translations are not eligible for this prize). Prior winners include G.C. Waldrep, Joshua Corey, Rusty Morrison, and Ilya Kaminsky.Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Professional advance. < 15% royalties. Details: USD $3,000 for winner.Avg. Response: Average responder. 110.7 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. Longleaf Press Book Contest Fees No description available.Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Semi-pro advance. Unknown royalties. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $1,200 prize for winner.Avg. Response: Average responder. 96.9 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. Miller Williams Poetry Series and Prize Fees Every year, the University of Arkansas Press accepts submissions for the Miller Williams Poetry Series and from the books selected awards the Miller Williams Poetry Prize in the following summer. For almost a quarter century the press has made this series the cornerstone of its work as a publisher of some of the country’s best new poetry. The series and prize are named for and operated to honor the cofounder and longtime director of the press, Miller Williams.Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Professional advance. Unknown royalties. Details: USD $5,000.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 290.6 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. Nightboat Poetry Prize Fees No description available.Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Semi-pro advance. Unknown royalties. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $1,200 advance and a "standard" royalty contract.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 149.6 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. Phoenix Poets Series Since its founding in 1983, the Phoenix Poets series has published contemporary poets with a keen awareness of the history and possibilities of poetry. Books in the series have won major accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize…Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.Avg. Response: Average responder. 103.1 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry Fees No description available.Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Semi-pro advance. Unknown royalties. Details: USD $1,000.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 53.5 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. The Wishing Jewel Prize Fees Named for an essay in Anne Carson’s Plainwater, we seek work that questions the boundaries of genre, form, or mode while engaging the rich possibilities of lyrical expression. All finalists are considered for publication.Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Semi-pro advance. Unknown royalties. Details: USD $1,000 for winner.Avg. Response: Average responder. 93.1 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. 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