Burnside Review Press
Book Contest
JUDGE: RICK BAROT
SUBMISSIONS WILL BE OPEN NOVEMBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 2025.
Submit 50-100 pages of poetry, including a list of acknowledgments. Your name and contact information should not appear anywhere in the manuscript.
A $25 entry fee must be paid at the time of submission.
Each entrant will receive a copy of one Burnside Review Press title.
Poems may have appeared in journals and chapbooks but not in a full-length, single-author collection.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know immediately if your manuscript has been accepted elsewhere.
Former students, colleagues, and friends of the judge are not eligible to enter the contest. Ineligible entries will be disqualified and entry fees returned as appropriate.
All manuscripts will be read by the Burnside Review Press editors. At least ten finalists will be sent to the judge. The editors may select an additional title from the submission pool for publication.
The winner will receive $1,000, plus ten copies of the book.
Results will be announced by May.
We only accept submissions through our online submission manager. Work sent by any other means will not be read.
About the Judge:
Rick Barot's most recent book of poems isMoving the Bones, published by Milkweed Editions in 2024. His previous collection,The Galleons,was longlisted for the National Book Award. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry, The New Republic, The Adroit Journal, and The New Yorker. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Stanford University. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University.