Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award
The winning author will have his/her poetry collection published with Cinnamon Press and receive a commissioning fee of £100.
The runners up and best short-listed poetry will be included in a winners’ anthology & receive a complimentary copy (in addition to the copy sent to all entrants)
- Entrants should not previously have had a collection published (though may have had a pamphlet published)
- Entries must be made by post.
- Please enclose sae
- Deadline for submissions –30 th June 2008
- Submit ten poems; any style up to 40 lines, each on a separate sheet.
- Please mark each sheet with a nom de plume and collection title.
- Do not put any other identification on the poem/s, but enclose a separate sheet with name, address, email contact, collection title, nom de plume and titles of poems.
- Entry is £16 per collection. This includes a free copy of the winners’ anthology featuring both the best submissions to the poetry competition as well as the winning stories from the short story competition and worth £8.99.
- Please make cheques payable to ‘Cinnamon Press’ or you can pay online in a range of currencies using paypal
- Poems submitted to the competition must be previously unpublished, but the full collection may include some poems previously published in magazines or small press anthologies.
- Work will not be returned, so please keep a copy.
- Send collection to: Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award, Meirion House, Glan yr afon, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 3SU.
- Entries from outside UK may be submitted electronically – contact jan@cinnamonpress.com
- Results will be sent to everyone who includes a sae or valid email by October 2008.
The selected top three authors will be invited to submit a further ten poems and the selected winner will receive a £100 commissioning fee, plus a contract to complete a collection of around 50-60 poems to be published by Cinnamon Press.
Send collection to:
Cinnamon Press Poetry Collection Award, along with your cheque made out to:"Cinnamon Press" to:
Meirion House, Glan yr afon, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 3SU.
alternatively pay by PayPal:
£16:
£14.00 for Envoi subscribers:
send in your poetry in the normal way stating that you have made a payment by pay pal, giving your email address.
If you have any questions email