APBF 2023 Evaristo Prize for African Poetry (Up to $1,500) for Course

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility

• The Prize is open to African writers. An “African writer” is taken to mean someone who was born in Africa, who is a national or resident of an African country, or whose parents are African.
• The prize is open to African poets who have not yet had a full-length poetry book published at the time of submission. Self-published poetry books, chapbooks, and pamphlets are exempt from this stipulation.
• Only poems written in English can be considered, but they welcome poems in translation for consideration too. In the case that the winning work is translated, a percentage of the prize money would be awarded to the translator.
• No past or present paid employees of the University of Nebraska Press, Akashic Books, or Amalion Press, or current faculty, students, or employees at the University of Nebraska are eligible for the prizes.
• African poets who have published a chapbook in a New-Generation African Poets Chapbooks Box Set series remain eligible for the Evaristo African Poetry Prize if they have not published a full-length book of poems.

Requirements

• Poems must be the original work of the entrant and be no longer than 40 lines each.
• Poems may have been previously published or won previous awards.
• People who have entered previously for the prize can re-submit but are advised to share new poems.
• While they have no specific formatting rules, they suggest sending your manuscript in Times New Roman or Arial, 12-point font, single-spaced. The organizers also prefer one poem per page, meaning a new poem does not begin on the same page on which another ends. The entire submission must be in black ink, no colors.

Offered Benefits

• An award of USD $1,500 will be presented to the winner.

Application Process

Manuscripts of 10 poems, no more and no less, will be accepted annually between October 1 and November 1 via Submittable. Do not send any submissions via email. They do not have the capacity to track submissions by email and any manuscripts received as such will not be considered.