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Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry
Zone 3 First Book Award Competition

• Poetry manuscripts of 48-80 pages.
• Two title pages: one with name, address, phone number and one with title only.
• Acknowledgments page may be included.
• $20.00 reading fee made payable to Zone 3 Press. Reading fee includes a one-year subscription to Zone 3 Magazine.
• Deadline: May 1, 2008.

• Anyone who has not published a full-length collection of poems (48 pages or more) is eligible; those with chapbooks may participate.
• The final judge is Phillis Levin.
• In order to ensure the integrity of this award, current and former students and faculty of APSU are not eligible to enter. In addition, Zone 3 Press will not accept manuscripts from contestants who have previously studied with, or have a personal relationship with the announced judge. Zone 3 Press is committed to providing an ethically responsible competition; as such, the editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that display any form of ethical impropriety.
• Winner will be notified by e-mail or telephone.
• Please include a self-addressed postage paid postcard for confirmation of manuscript receipt. Please use a standard postcard—small index cards will not be accepted by the post office.
• For contest results, please include a SASE. All manuscripts other than the winning one will be recycled.
• Questions should be addressed to Blas Falconer at falconerb@apsu.edu or Susan Wallace at wallacess@apsu.

Blas Falconer, Acquisitions Editor
Zone 3 Press
First Book Award for Poetry
Austin Peay State University
P.O. Box 4565
Clarksville, Tennessee 37044