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**OUR MISSION**
Fence maintains a venue, in print, aural, and digital forms, for writing that speaks across genre, sociocultural niche and ideological boundary as accessibly as it can, such that Fence publishes largely from its unsolicited submissions and is committed to the literature and art of queer writers and writers of color.
Fence encourages collective appreciation of variousness by inhering collectively outside of the constraints of opinion, trend, and market.
The Ottoline Prize awards publication and $5,000 to a book-length work of poetry by any person who identifies as a woman. First, second, third, fourth, and beyond books are welcome.
The author of the selected book also receives a two-week residency at Eliot House, in Gloucester, MA. The submission fee is $25, and all entrants receive a complimentary subscription or renewal to Fence.
The winner of the previous Ottoline Prize is Kim Rosenfield. Her book of poems, Phantom Captain, will be published in late 2023.
If you are experiencing financial difficulties and are unable to afford the reading fee, please write to Publishers Emily Wallis Hughes and Jason Zuzga at fence.fencebooks@gmail.com.