Accents Publishing is honored to partner with the JamesBaker 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In 2024, the award will recognize an unpublished manuscript of over 50 pages by a Kentucky author. 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.

Manuscripts can be submitted between May 1st and June 30th.

There is no submission fee.

Acclaimed poet Greg Pape will be the final judge.

For more details, please visit https://www.accents-publishing.com/contest.html