James Baker Hall Book Award
Accents Publishing is honored to partner with the
James Baker Hall Foundation to launch the James Baker Hall Book Award.
The inaugural award will be given in poetry to an emerging author who hasn't yet published a full-length collection.
In 2024, the award will recognize an unpublished manuscript of over 50 pages by a Kentucky author. We define a Kentucky author as someone who lives in Kentucky, has lived in Kentucky, has strong ties to Kentucky or whose work features a prominent Kentucky theme.
Award: The author of the winning manuscript will receive a
$3000 award and the manuscript will be published the following year by Accents Publishing, with the standard Accents Publishing contract.
Eligibility: Poets 18 or older. Current students of the judge, as well as personal friends and family may not submit.
Manuscript preparation: The submitted manuscript should consist of a minimum of 50 pages, including table of contents and title page, and must be anonymous. The author's name should not appear anywhere in the text. There is no maximum page limit.
Deadline: Manuscripts can be submitted between May 1
st and June 30
th.
Submission: Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please email the manuscript as a Word or PDF attachment to
accents.publishing@gmail.com with a subject line of "
[your name]: James Baker Hall Award submission". In the body of the email, please include the following information:
- name
- address
- phone number
- manuscript title
- brief bio of up to 100 words
Judging: Acclaimed poet Greg Pape will be the final judge.
Fees: None. There is no submission fee.
Announcement: Finalists and a winner will be announced on or before October 1
st and will be expected to read at a public James Baker Hall Foundation celebratory event.
The James Baker Hall Foundation
The mission of the James Baker Hall Foundation is to celebrate the legacy of our great artistic heritage by providing direct support to Kentucky's literary and visual creatives.
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Greg Pape is the author of
A Field of First Things (Accents Publishing),
Four Swans,
Animal Time,
American Flamingo (Crab Orchard Open Competition Award),
Sunflower Facing the Sun (Edwin Ford Piper Prize, now called the Iowa Prize),
Storm Pattern,
Black Branches,
Border Crossings (Pitt Poetry Series), and other books. His work has received the Discovery/The Nation Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, the Richard Hugo Memorial Poetry Award, the Pushcart Prize, and other awards. His poems have appeared in
The Atlantic,
Colorado Review,
Cutbank,
Field,
The Florida Review,
Iowa Review,
Literary Accents,
The Louisville Review,
Miramar,
The New Yorker,
Poetry,
Kyoto Review, and others. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Montana and former Montana Poet Laureate. He currently serves on the faculty in Spalding University's Naslund-Mann School of Writing and lives in Frankfort, Kentucky.
