The Joie De Vivre Book Award

Reading Period:  July 1, 2008 - December 1, 2008
Judge:  Louis McKee

Contest Guidelines

• Manuscripts accepted between July 1 and December 1, 2008.
• Grand Prize Winner receives $100.00 and 50 copies of their book. There will be five finalists who will receive Joie De Vivre Spirit Awards; and Certificates, and cash prizes. Name of Grand Prize Winner & finalists will be published in the Mad Poets Review (2009)
• All chapbooks are screened by the Editor and Staff Editors of Mad Poets Review.
• Entry Fee is $15.00 per manuscript.
• Submit between 44-52 pages of poetry. One page = maximum 38 lines, including spaces between lines.  This is NOT a chapbook, the book will have a spine.
• Manuscripts either too short or too long will be disqualified.
• Do not count title page, dedication page, bio, or acknowledgements in the page length.  The page limit refers to 44-52 actual pages of poetry.
• Do not send illustrations photos or any other graphics.
• No names are to appear on any poems or on the actual manuscript. The only thing on the title page should be the title of the manuscript.
• Manuscripts should be paginated and secured with a binder clip.
• Poems previously published in journals must be listed on the acknowledgments page.
• Attach an index /3” by 5” card with your (1) TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT on first line; (2) then name (2) address; (3) phone number; (4) Email Address
• Manuscripts as a whole must be previously unpublished.
• Include a full size business envelope, i.e., (#10) for results and for a small thanks to all entrants (should they decide to get a book through Infinity:  A $50 certificate toward publication of your manuscript if you decide to publish through Infinity Publishing. Infinity will be publishing the winner.
• No corrections can be made after submission.  No manuscripts will be returned.
• Each poem should be on a separate page, typed or printed neatly.
• Entries will not be returned following the contest, they will be destroyed. Send copies. No exceptions.  Winners will be notified. Please do not call for results.
• Infinity Publishing will design custom cover, assign ISBN, and list the book with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Baker & Taylor, Books in Print, and on the Infinity website, Buy Books on the Web. Winner can reorder copies directly from Infinity Publishing.

*Joie de vivre* from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: In definition, a photo appears of Grützner's depiction of Falstaff, a literary character well known for his joie de vivre.  Joie de vivre (from the French joie "joy"; de, "of"; vivre, "to live, living"; "the joy of living") is a term used to express a cheerful enjoyment of life. Joie de vivre, as one scholar has written, "can be a joy of conversation, joy of eating, joy of anything one might do and joie de vivre may be seen as a joy of everything, a comprehensive joy, a philosophy of life, a Weltanschauung. Robert's Dictionnaire says joie is sentiment exaltant ressenti par toute la conscience, that is, involves one's whole being. (*In English common usage, the phrase is sometimes mutated to "joie de vie", a corruption of the traditional expression. This would translate to "joy of life" or "zest for life", rather than the more affirmative "joy of living".)