Sundress Publications is pleased to announce that we are now open for submissions for our annual poetry broadside contest. The contest will be open for submission between September 1st to November 30th, 2024.
The winner’s poem will be letterpress-printed as an 8.5” x 11” broadside complete with custom art and made available for sale on our online store. The winner will receive $200 and 20 copies of their broadside.
To submit, send up to three poems, no longer than 28 lines each (line limit includes stanza breaks but not the title) in one Word or PDF document in each submission slot on the Google Form by November 30, 2024. Be sure to include a copy of your payment receipt or purchase order number (see below for payment of fees).
Please make sure that no identifying information is included in the submitted poems.
From September 1st through 14th, submissions to this contest are free for the first submission for any and all writers. If you submit more than one set of poems during the free period, only the first set will be accepted without a submission fee.
Beginning September 15th, the reading fee is $10 per batch of three poems, though the fee will be waived for entrants who purchase or pre-order any Sundress title. Entrants can place book orders or pay submission fees at our store.
Once the purchase is made, the store will send a receipt with a purchase code. This code should be included in the submission, or you may forward the email receipt at the same time as you send the submission. This fee is waived for all writers of color.
Previously published material is welcome so long as you maintain the rights to the work. Let us know in your cover letter if any of your submitted poems have been previously published. Poems translated from another language will not be accepted for this particular contest.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but we ask that authors notify us immediately if their work has been accepted elsewhere; poems accepted for publication are still qualified provided the author retains the rights to the work at the time of printing.
The judge for this year’s contest is Ashley Hajimirsadeghi. Ashley Hajimirsadeghi is an Iranian American multimedia artist, journalist, and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, U.S. State Department, University of Arizona, and Brooklyn Poets. From 2024-2025, she will be in Kolkata, India creating ethnographic and documentary poetry around climate change, migration, and India’s Chinatowns through an arts-based Fulbright-Nehru Open Research Award. She received her M.A. in Global Humanities from Towson University, and a Bachelor of Science in International Trade & Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her creative poems, essays, and fiction have appeared in Passages North, Salt Hill, Salamander, and The Journal, among others. Previously, she was a film & television critic at MovieWeb. Find her at www.ashleyhajimirsadeghi.com // Instagram: @nassarine
Any questions or concerns, as well as withdrawal notifications, can be sent sundresscontest@gmail.com.
