The Journal, the literary magazine of The Ohio State University MFA Program in Creative Writing, selects one full-length manuscript of poetry each year for publication by Mad Creek Books. In addition to publication under a standard book contract, the winning author receives the Charles B. Wheeler prize of $2,500.

Entries of at least 48 typed pages of original poetry must be submitted electronically on or before October 3rd. Your name or any other identification must not appear anywhere on the manuscript. All manuscripts will be read anonymously.

Manuscripts must be previously unpublished. Some or all of the poems in the collection may have appeared in periodicals, chapbooks, or anthologies, but these must be identified.

A nonrefundable handling fee of $28.00 (US dollars) will be charged for each entry. Entrants will receive a one-year subscription (two issues) to The Journal.

The winning entry, screened by the editorial staff of The Journal, will be chosen by Wheeler Prize co-editors Kathy Fagan and Marcus Jackson, and announced the following January.

Submissions are accepted only electronically.

(look for The OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Prize in Poetry submit button).

Contact Information -- Please note that email is preferred for a faster response.
Email: managingeditor@thejournalmag.org
Phone: 614-292-2242

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The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize Winners

2016	BK Fischer	Radioapocrypha
2015	Rosalie Moffett	June in Eden
2014	Talvikki Ansel	Somewhere in Space
2013	Karin Gottshall	The River Won't Hold You
2012	Corey Van Landingham	Antidote
2011	Rebecca Hazelton	Fair Copy
2010	Edward Haworth Hoeppner	Blood Prism
2009	Kevin Honold	Men as Trees Walking
2008	Kary Wayson	American Husband
2007	Andrew Grace	Shadeland
2006	Mark Svenvold	Empire Burlesque
2005	Jean Nordhaus	Innocence
2004	Brian Swann	Autumn Road
2003	Beth Gylys	Spot in the Dark
2002	Gary Fincke	Writing Letters for the Blind
2001	Patty Seyburn	Mechanical Cluster
2000	Joseph Duemer	Magical Thinking
1999	Lia Purpura	Stone Sky Lifting
1998	Mary Ann Samyn	Captivity Narrative
1997	Walt McDonald	Blessings the Body Gave
1996	Judith Hall	Anatomy, Errata
1995	John Haag	Stones Don't Float (out of print)
1994	Fatima Lim-Wilson	Crossing the Snow Bridge
1993	David Young	Night Thoughts and Henry Vaughan (out of print)
1992	Bruce Beasley	The Creation (out of print)
1991	Dionisio Martinez	History as a Second Language (out of print)
1990	Teresa Cader	Guests (out of print)
1989	Mary Cross	Rooms, Which Were People (out of print)
1988	Albert Goldbarth	Popular Culture (out of print)
1987	Sue Owen	The Book of Winter (out of print)
1986	Robert Cording	Life-list (out of print)