Bona Fide Books annually awards the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize for an unpublished collection of poems.

Submissions for this year’s contest are being taken until Aug. 31.

The winner will receive publication, 10 copies, a $500 cash award, and a reading at Lake Tahoe. Submit a previously unpublished, full-length poetry manuscript of between 48 and 100 pages. For more information, go here.

Lexa Hillyer, winner of the 2011 prize for her collection, “Acquainted with the Cold” (to be published by Bona Fide Books this year), will be in South Lake Tahoe to read on Nov. 2 as part of Lake Tahoe Community College’s Writers’ Series.