Nine Syllables Press will soon be accepting submissions for the Tammis Day Poetry Prize, which will be awarded for a debut full-length collection by a woman poet over the age of forty. (Cis women, and trans and nonbinary poets of all genders are eligible to submit, full guidelines below.) Winners will be awarded $1,000, publication, a reading at Smith College, and a 2 week residency at the Vermont Studio Center.
Trans and nonbinary poets over 40 years of age of all genders, and cis women poets can submit their chapbook to the Tammis Day Poetry Prize. You must be over 40 at the time of submitting your work. We especially encourage trans/LGBTQIA+ poets and BIPOC poets to submit their work. Poets cannot have previously published full-length collections of poetry (48 pages or longer), but can have published chapbooks. Individual poems from the collection may have been published elsewhere. Poets outside the US are also welcome to submit.
9SP complies with the CLMP Code of Ethics in the administration of this contest. The judge will select a manuscript in an anonymous review process and will not award the prize to any writer whose personal relationship to the judge poses a conflict of interest. Current students, staff, and faculty at Smith College are not eligible to submit, and those with a personal relationship with the final judge are not eligible to submit.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed, please withdraw your work if it is accepted elsewhere. Send us an original, unpublished poetry collection of 48-100 pages. Please note, we are not able to consider collections which include images such as photographs, collage, or other visual media.
