Contests
V Press LC invites submissions of NONFICTION Books
V Press LC will offer one cash prize of $700 US dollars to the top prize along with publication of the winning book. If there is a tie for first then the cash prize will be equally divided among the winners and both books will be published.
In the event that no manuscript is worthy of publication, V Press LC will not publish anything for this category.
Finalists and runners up are not offered a cash reward. However, they may be offered a book contract.
There will be three deadlines/rounds of submission. Notable books acquired before the first deadline will move to the second round and join new submission entries; then, notable books from the first and second rounds will join new submission entries from the third round of submissions. The award is highly selective, so submit your best.
V Press LC invites submissions from anyone, anywhere in the world, but those submissions must be written in the English language.
Read submission Guidelines/Rules and Rights on our Submission page.
Contest Winners
Poetry Book Prize Winner
The Vital Function of Constant Narrative
by Marlys West
Released January 2023
Compilation Book Prize Winner
Lyrics for Rock Stars
by Heather Mateus Sappenfield
Released September 2020
Chapbook Prize Winner
A Month’s Worth of Instructional Poems
by Rebecca Bridge
Released September 2020
Chapbook Honorary Mentions
Derek Barry
Sloppy Magician
Milton Bates
Forty-Six Degrees North
Beatriz Fernandez
How Stone Sings to Fire
Allen Guest
The Smell of Heaven
William Heath
Night Moves in Ohio
Heather Machan
Passport
Jody Winer
Welcome to Guardian Angel School
Compilation Book Honorary Mentions
Kathryn Etters Lovatt
How to Euthanize a Fish