![]() If you are unsure whether or not your manuscript fits the parameters of this book prize, we encourage you to send it! As we have said on Essay Daily, we consider "the lyric essay book prize" as a kind of anti-category category.Close friends, relatives, and current and former students of the contest judge, Wendy S.Such manuscripts will be re-assigned to a neutral editor. To avoid conflicts of interest, the Seneca Review editors will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts if they can recognize the work of a close friend, relative, or current or former student.(Your identifying information will be available to us via Submittable if needed.) No identifying material should appear anywhere in the body of the manuscript. Your manuscript should include a single cover page with the title of the manuscript only, so that your manuscript document remains anonymous.There is a non-refundable submission fee of $27 payable through Submittable.The author of the winning manuscript will have the opportunity to work with the editors in making revisions prior to publication. No revisions to submitted manuscripts will be considered.Please update any changes in contact information via your profile on Submittable.Be sure that your document is complete and formatted correctly before uploading.The competition is open to writers who have previously published book-length collections, as well as to unpublished writers.If applicable, please include with your manuscript an acknowledgments page for prior publications. Individual essays/pieces may have been previously published in magazines, journals, anthologies, or chapbooks, but the work as a whole must be unpublished.Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please be sure to withdraw your submission via Submittable if your work is accepted elsewhere.Multiple submissions are acceptable as long as they are submitted separately with separate entry fees.We also welcome more traditional approaches to creative nonfiction. Cross-genre and hybrid work, verse forms, text and image, connected or related pieces, and “beyond category” projects are all within the ambit of the contest.Please submit an original manuscript of 48-120 pages (primarily) in English.Please do not submit if you currently attend HWS. We cannot consider work by current HWS students.(Mailed submissions *must* include a SASE, or they will be recycled.) However, since we believe that writers should, ideally, be able to submit without paying any fee whatsoever, we will still accept free submissions mailed to our physical address. Due to budgetary concerns, and in an effort to curb our Submittable expenses, Seneca Review charges a $3 fee for work sent via Submittable.Copyright is held by Hobart and William Smith Colleges until publication, at which time rights revert to the author.Accepted authors receive two complimentary copies of their issue and a two-year subscription to Seneca Review.Editors typically respond within 6 to 9 months, sooner if we can.Only one submission per reading period, please.Recommended submission: 3-5 poems (as ONE FILE) or essays up to 20 pages of original, unpublished work.(Reviews are accepted year-round and require no submission fee.) Seneca Review typically accepts submissions twice annually-from September 1st through October 15th and from February 1st through March 15th.
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