2008
Winners
Salt is delighted to announce
that the 2008 winners of The Crashaw
Prize are:
Tom Chivers How
To Build A City is the
Crashaw Prize-winning debut
collection of poetry by Tom
Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation
of the twenty-first century
urban experience, peopled by
ghosts of London’s past
as well as the distinctly modern
spectres of international terrorism,
spam email and the credit crunch.
Abi Curtis Abi
Curtis’s first collection, Unexpected
Weather, makes the familiar
extraordinary, and the supernatural
everyday. In poems about animals
and clouds, scientists and circus
performers, about love and bean-pods,
about bruises and myths and the
moments before death, her deft
use and playful subversions of
form give her verse an exquisite
poise between gravity and lightness.
Jamey Dunham The
Bible of Lost Pets is
the debut collection of one
of America’s celebrated
up-and-coming practitioners
of the prose poem. Jamey Dunham
artfully combines vivid, surreal
imagery with a fresh, distinctive
style. The result is a collection
that, “establishes [Dunham]
as one of the accomplished
prose poets of the new century.”
Jared Stanley  Comprised
of lyrics, mock journal entries,
prose portraits and odes, Book
Made of Forest answers the
“summons and challenge” of
being both human and animal,
urban and rural, cultured and
philistine, formal and ruinous,
willful and acted-upon. Jared
Stanley strikes at the absurd
thingness of things, rings out
their histories, traces their
loss in the 6th extinction, figures
his voluminous overhearing into
poems rhetorical and fragmented,
mournful and comedic.
The Crashaw Prize
The Crashaw Prize is an international
annual prize for a first collection
of poetry. Entrants must not have
been published before, and must
permanently reside in the UK & Ireland,
the USA, or Australia & New
Zealand.
Salt accept submissions of poetry
manuscripts postmarked from 1st
January until 31st October each
year. The winners will be announced
in December and published the following
June.
The Richard Crashaw Prize winners
will receive synchronous publication
in paperback in the UK, USA and
Australia by Salt. There may be
up to six winners each year. Winners
will be issued with a standard
publishing contract from Salt.
Terms and conditions
- Only electronic manuscripts
are admissible. No printed paper
entries will be accepted. Electronic
manuscripts must be typed in
Microsoft Word or supplied as
an RTF file, paginated, and 65–70
pages in length (single spaced).
- Individual poems from the manuscript
may have been previously published
in magazines, anthologies, or
pamphlets of less than 20 pages,
but the collection as a whole
must be unpublished. Translations
and self-published books are
not eligible. The work must be
by a single author. Pseudonymous
works will be disqualified.
- Manuscripts must include a
table of contents and a list
of acknowledgments for poems
previously published. The first
page must include a biographical
note of not more than 80 words.
Your name, address, phone number
and email address should appear
on the title page of your manuscript.
- No alterations to the manuscript
will be accepted after submission.
No correspondence can be entered
into for entries once they are
made.
- No illustrations, photographs
or images should be included.
- The Crashaw Prize is judged
by members of the Board of Salt
Publishing. Manuscripts are not
read anonymously. Manuscripts
may be screened by Salt staff.
Entries are logged on to databases
for the duration of each prize.
No personal details will be stored
beyond the end of the competition.
- Salt abides by the CLMP
Contest Code of Ethics
The CLMP Code of Ethics: CLMP's
community of independent literary
publishers believes that ethical
contests serve our shared goal:
to connect writers and readers
by publishing exceptional writing.
We believe that intent to act
ethically, clarity of guidelines,
and transparency of process form
the foundation of an ethical
contest. To that end, we agree
to
- conduct our contests as
ethically as possible and
to address any unethical
behavior on the part of our
readers, judges, or editors;
- to provide clear and specific
contest guidelines
— defining conflict
of interest for all parties
involved; and
- to make the mechanics of
our selection process available
to the public. This Code
recognizes that different
contest models produce different
results, but that each model
can be run ethically. We
have adopted this Code to
reinforce our integrity and
dedication as a publishing
community and to ensure that
our contests contribute to
a vibrant literary heritage.
- Winners will be announced in
December and listed online.
- Entry fee for The Crashaw Prize
is £18 (i.e. eighteen pounds
Sterling). The prize is administrered
in the UK. The fee is only payable
online through the Salt Publishing
Website, details are below. No
cheques or cash are accepted.
Please ensure your name, address,
phone number and email address
details in your online payment
match those on your electronic
manuscript. Use the additional
information box of the online
payment to cite the title of
your manuscript.
- The entry fee is non-refundable.
Please notify the prize as soon
as possible if you wish to withdraw
your submission.
- We cannnot offer feedback on
individual entries.
- Email your entry to: crashawprize@saltpublishing.com.
Do not email any director of
Salt Publishing, doing so will
disqualify your entry.
Checklist for The Crashaw Prize
- I have submitted my electronic
manuscript in MS Word or RTF
format.
- I have paid my £18 entry
fee online through the Salt Web
site.
- I have listed the title of
my manuscript under additional
information in the online payment
system.
- I have ensured that the name,
address, phone number and email
address of my payment match those
on the title page of my manuscript.
- I have read and understood
the terms and conditions above.
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