Banyan Poetry Prize
Banyan Review
Entry Fee:
$20
Deadline:
September 1, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Banyan Review will be given for a single poem. Natasha Kane will judge.
Genre: Poetry
Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Call This Mutiny: Uncollected Poems by Craig Santos Perez and The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma.
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Open Poetry Book Contest
Omnidawn Publishing
Entry Fee:
$27
Deadline:
August 31, 2024
A prize of $3,000, publication by Omnidawn Publishing, and 20 author copies is given annually for a poetry collection. Katy Peterson will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 40 to 120 pages with a $27 entry fee from July 1 to August 16. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
The Waiting Seasons: One Poet’s Life in Alaska
From her home just outside of Fairbanks proper, a poet subverts mainstream Alaskan imagery to conjure the reality of her writing life, which includes a local waste transfer site, muddy shoulder seasons, and slow internet.
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First Book Award
Academy of American Poets
Entry Fee:
$35
Deadline:
September 1, 2024
A prize of $5,000 and publication by Graywolf Press is given annually for a poetry collection by a poet who has not published a book of poetry in a standard edition. The winning book will also be distributed to over 5,000 members of the Academy of American Poets. Alberto Ríos will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 48 to 100 pages with a $35 entry fee (fee waivers may be requested via e-mail) from July 1 to September 1. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
Comstock Review
Entry Fee:
$28
Deadline:
July 15, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Comstock Review is given annually for a single poem. Charles Rafferty will judge. Submit up to five poems of no more than 60 lines each with a $27.50 entry fee (or $5 per poem via postal mail) by July 15. All entries are considered for publication. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Experimental Poetry Contest
Connecticut Poetry Society
Entry Fee:
$15
Deadline:
July 31, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Connecticut River Review is given annually for an innovative poem. Claire Donato will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit up to three poems of no more than 80 lines each composed using a new form, an existing experimental form, or a radical subversion of a traditional form with a $15 entry fee by July 31. Audio and video recordings are also eligible. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Richard-Gabriel Rummonds Poetry Prize
Ex Ophidia Press
Entry Fee:
$25
Deadline:
August 31, 2024
A prize of $2,000, publication by Ex Ophidia Press, and 10 author copies will be given annually for a poetry collection. Rebecca Lindenberg will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 50 to 100 pages and a brief bio with a $25 entry fee by August 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Nobel Prize Interview With Jon Fosse
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“I think that literature is really needed, and art in general. It’s saying something that cannot be said in any other way, and that’s why you do it.” In this interview, Norwegian author Jon Fosse, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2023, talks about how music inspired him to write at a young age, and how pauses and silences are used to generate rhythm in his work.
Coming Down Hard
“The sun had just gone out / and I was walking three miles to get home. / I wanted to die. / I couldn’t think of words and I had no future / and I was coming down hard on everything.” In Linda Gregg’s poem “New York Address,” which appears in her retrospective collection, All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2008), the speaker recounts bleak existential angst. Despite the pain and darkness, there are glimmers of light. In the second half of the poem, questions are stubbornly answered with snappy, tidy pacing: “Yes I hate dark. No I love light. Yes I won’t speak. / No I will write.” Write a poem that goes all in on angst, channeling a time that felt overwhelmingly uncertain and full of trepidation. How can you experiment with sound and diction to gently steer the dramatic toward the life-affirming?
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