Miami Book Fair Accepting Submissions For Paz Prize For Poetry

The Miami Book Fair is accepting submissions for the Paz Prize for Poetry until June 15.

The Paz Prize is awarded to an unpublished, Spanish-written book-length manuscript of poetry by a writer residing in the United States. The winner will receive $2,000 and their manuscript will be translated and published in a bilingual edition of Akashic Press.

Manuscripts must contain a table of contents and be paginated. The suggested length is 48-64 pages.

The winner will be selected by Rigoberto González, who is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award, Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Finalists will be announced in July and the winner will be allowed in September.

Applicants need to submit manuscripts at thenationalpoetryseries.submittable.com/submit