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The Crashaw Prize for Poetry

For the publication of debut collections of poetry from major new talents

2008 Winners

Salt is delighted to announce that the 2008 winners of The Crashaw Prize are:

Tom Chivers

How to Build a CityHow 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

Unexpected WeatherAbi 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 PetsThe 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

The Bible of Lost PetsComprised 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.

The Crashaw Prize

Terms and conditions

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. No alterations to the manuscript will be accepted after submission. No correspondence can be entered into for entries once they are made.
  5. No illustrations, photographs or images should be included.
  6. 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.
  7. 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

    1. conduct our contests as ethically as possible and to address any unethical behavior on the part of our readers, judges, or editors;
    2. to provide clear and specific contest guidelines — defining conflict of interest for all parties involved; and
    3. 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.
  8. Winners will be announced in December and listed online.
  9. 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.
  10. The entry fee is non-refundable. Please notify the prize as soon as possible if you wish to withdraw your submission.
  11. We cannnot offer feedback on individual entries.
  12. 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

  1. I have submitted my electronic manuscript in MS Word or RTF format.
  2. I have paid my £18 entry fee online through the Salt Web site.
  3. I have listed the title of my manuscript under additional information in the online payment system.
  4. I have ensured that the name, address, phone number and email address of my payment match those on the title page of my manuscript.
  5. I have read and understood the terms and conditions above.

 

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Unexpected Weather

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