
Individual poems in a submitted manuscript may have been previously published in periodicals and/or in chapbooks.Past editors and interns of Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions are also ineligible to submit. Current employees of the University of Colorado Denver or Milkweed Editions are not eligible, not are current University of Colorado Denver students.Self-published book DO count as prior publications if those books were at least 48 pages, had an ISBN, and/or received any sort of distribution.Translations are not eligible, nor are previously self-published books.The prize is facilitated by the staff of COPPER NICKEL.Īll entrants will receive a one-year subscription to COPPER NICKEL in exchange for their reading fee. The prize-winning poet will receive $2,000 and publication by MILKWEED EDITIONS. (If you have a second book under contract, you are also ineligible.) The prize is a collaboration between Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions. The Jake Adam York Prize is open to poets writing in English, who live in the US or are US citizens, and who have published no more than one full-length poetry collection. Please note that we are charging the absolute minimum Submittable allows, and that we pay the writers we publish. Submittable has raised their rates and we can no longer entirely absorb the cost of receiving submissions online. The Jake Adam York Book Prize accepts submissions Jul 1–Oct 15.Īs of January, 2020, we will be charging a $2 submission fee for submitting to Copper Nickel. If you're visiting this page during the regular submission period and don't see any Copper Nickel submission genres available, we have been overwhelmed by submissions beyond those numbers allowed by Submittable and have had to shut down till the 1st of next month.

(It's easy to do.) Note that subscriptions begin with the current issue unless you email editor Wayne Miller to indicate that you would rather wait for the next issue.Ĭopper Nickel accepts submissions Sep 1–Dec 15, Jan 15–Mar 1. To order or to subscribe, you'll need to register for Submittable if you're not already registered. Please scroll down to order the current issue, to subscribe, or to submit either to Copper Nickel or to the Jake Adam York Book Prize. Thank you for your interest in Copper Nickel!
