Burnside Review Press
Book Contest
JUDGE: DANIELLE PAFUNDA
SUBMISSIONS WILL BE OPEN NOVEMBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 2026.
Submit 50-100 pages of poetry. Your name and contact information should not appear anywhere in the manuscript. It's fine to include a list of journal acknowledgments.
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:
Danielle Pafunda is the author of ten books of poetry and prose, including Along the Road Everyone Must Travel, selected for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize by Hoa Nguyen; Spite (The Operating System); The Book of Scab (Ricochet Editions); and The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (Bloof Books), which was recently translated into Spanish by Cristina Rivera Garza (Dharma Books). Her work has appeared in APR, Poetry, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing, worldbuilding, and literature at Rochester Institute of Technology and serves on the board of Beneath the Wild Sky, a foundation that supports individual artists and arts organizations.