Adonis Designs Press

James Alexander MacDonald Poetry Book Award

Mr. MacDonald was an avid lover of books, writing, and poetry. With a BA and MA in English from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland he traveled to Canada and finally settled in the United States in the late fifties. His life cut short at age 49 from complications with rheumatoid arthritis, he left behind a novel based loosely on the amputation of his right foot, short stories, and poetry, such as the one written here for his wife.

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Guidelines

Adonis Designs Press offers annually the publication of a previously unpublished manuscript of poetry in English and a $200 prize for the winner of the James Alexander MacDonald Poetry Book Award.

Send 50-70 pages typed, single-spaced on one side of the page only, on white 8 1/2" X 11" paper. Please do not send your only copy, as manuscripts cannot be returned.

Include two title pages. On one include name, current address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Also include a short biography and an acknowledgements page.

Judge: To be announced.

Deadline: Send in your entry today for the 2010 JAM Book Award. Postmark deadline August 3, 2010.

Mail to: JAM Poetry Book Award, P.O. Box 202, Chatham, IL  62629 along with a check or money order for a non-refundable entry fee of $25 in the US and Canada. Make checks payable to Adonis Designs Press.

Only winners will be notified. A list of winners will be available at this website.

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