To honor the editorship, mentorship, and friendship of David Hamilton, who was editor of The Iowa Review for more than 30 years, we are pleased to announce the David Hamilton Prize for Iowa Review Alumni, launching in 2017 and continuing biennially.
In the spirit of David Hamilton’s support and encouragement of his students and their writing, anyone who has ever worked for The Iowa Review, whether as paid staff or volunteer reader, and whose name is listed as such on the masthead of any back issue of the magazine is eligible to enter the contest.
The prize will be $1,000 and publication in The Iowa Review. The winner will be selected by the current editor of The Iowa Review.
The contest will accept genres on a rotating basis, with the first contest being for poetry. The schedule for the next three contests is as follows:
2019 Contest: Nonfiction 2021 Contest: Fiction 2023 Contest: Poetry
2019 Contest Rules: Nonfiction
- The contest is open to former staff, volunteers, and interns of The Iowa Review (TIR).
- Please indicate on your cover letter what year(s) and in what capacity you worked for TIR.
- Submit a nonfiction manuscript of up to 25 pages, double-spaced.
- Poems must be previously unpublished.
- Submit at iowareview.submittable.com. If accessibility issues prevent you from using Submittable, please email iowa-review@uiowa.edu for instructions.
- Submissions will be accepted between May 1 and June 1, 2019.
- Current students, faculty, or staff of the University of Iowa are not eligible to enter the contest.
The David Hamilton Prize for Iowa Review Alumni is funded by a generous contribution from anonymous donors.
About David Hamilton
David Hamilton, emeritus professor of English at the University of Iowa, served as editor of The Iowa Review from 1978 through 2009. While at the University of Iowa he taught literature, both medieval and modern, and in the Nonfiction Writing Program. He is the author of Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm (University of Missouri Press) and Ossabaw: Poems (Salt Modern Poets Series).
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