Founded in 2020, the CAAPP Book Prize is a publishing partnership between the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetic
Submit To Center For African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize 2023
Founded in 2020, the CAAPP Book Prize is a publishing partnership between the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press with the goal of publishing and promoting a writer of African descent. The prize is awarded annually to a first or second book by a writer of African descent and is open to the full range of writers embodying African and African diasporic experiences.
The book can be of any genre that is, or intersects with, poetry, including poetry, hybrid work, speculative prose, and/or translation. The winning manuscript will be published by Autumn House Press and its author will be awarded $3,000.
Previous winners include Carly Inghram's The Animal Indoors, Jacqui Germain's Bittering the Wound, and Richard Hamilton's forthcoming Discordant.
Submission Guidelines For Center For African American Poetry and Poetics Book Prize 2023
- The reading period opens on December 15, 2022, and is open until February 15, 2023.
- Please submit a manuscript between 48-168 pages.
- Please submit your manuscript as a doc, docx, or pdf file.
- Only one manuscript submission is permitted per person.
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