Friday, April 1, 2011

Switchback Books is now open to submissions for the 2011 Gatewood Prize!


The Gatewood Prize is Switchback Books' annual competition for a first or second full-length (48-80 pp.) collection of poems by a woman writing in the English language. It is named after Emma Gatewood, the first woman to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail.


2011 JUDGE: Harryette Mullen


READING PERIOD: April 1-June 1, 2011

HARRYETTE MULLEN's most recent books are Recyclopedia (Graywolf Press, 2006) and Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California Press, 2002), a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mullen was the 2009 recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Fellowship Award. She teaches African American literature and creative writing in the English Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Hanna Andrews & Becca Klaver, Editors

Whitney Holmes, Managing Editor

Dolly Lemke, Assistant Editor

Brandi Homan, Board President

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