The Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry is currently accepting entries for their annual writing contest. It is open to writers from the upper Midwest – North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, or Wisconsin.

The prize is $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions.

The manuscript must be unpublished, but individual poems may be previously published.

Poets should submit a book length manuscript; though no specific length is specified.

The deadline to enter is February 15th, 2017.

To learn more, read the contest guidelines.