$500 + 20 copies and standard publishing contract

www.spirepress.org/contest.html

Finalists may also be chosen for publication.

Please send manuscripts of 18-28 pages, double-spaced, a $15 entry fee, and a SASE.

Include your name only on a cover sheet and not on the manuscript. Include the title of the entire collection on the cover sheet and each page of the manuscript.

Postmark Deadline is May 1, 2009.

All manuscripts will be recycled at the close of the contest.

This contest will be judged blindly.

Spire Press, Inc.
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New York, NY 10012

tel: 646.736.7701

email: info@spirepress.org