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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Nobel Prize Interview With Jon Fosse
Caption:
“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?
Taleamor Park
Taleamor Park offers two- to four-week residencies from April to September to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a working grain farm and nature preserve with walking paths in northwestern Indiana between the towns of La Porte and Rolling Prairie, near Lake Michigan and Chicago. Residents are provided with a private room in a restored 1854 brick Italianate house, work space, and a shared kitchen and bathroom. Residents have access to Taleamor’s library and the La Porte County Public Library.
Type:
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
yes
Event Date:
January 23, 2026
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
January 23, 2026
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
January 23, 2026
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Taleamor Park, P.O. Box 456, LaPorte, IN 46352. Clifford Peterson and Lisa Lee Peterson, Codirectors.
Clifford Peterson and Lisa Lee Peterson
Codirectors
Contact City:
La Porte
Contact State:
IN
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
46352
Country:
US
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Celia and Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program
The Celia and Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program offers residencies of one to three weeks year-round to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers looking to “explore the scientific process and interact with international scientific staff and visitors” at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on the wooded north shore of Long Island, New York. Residents are provided with a dorm room, a private bathroom, all meals, and a $1,000 to $1,500 stipend, depending on availability and the length of the stay.
Type:
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
yes
Event Date:
January 23, 2026
Rolling Admissions:
yes
Application Deadline:
January 23, 2026
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
January 23, 2026
Free Admission:
yes
Contact Information:
Celia and Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724. Tricia Loria, Fellowship Coordinator.
Tricia Loria
Fellowship Coordinator
Contact City:
Cold Spring Harbor
Contact State:
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
11724
Country:
US
Homero Aridjis and George McWhirter: Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence
Caption:
“On the wall of the room there was a mirror / reflecting back a comical skull that was laughing at itself.” In this bilingual poetry reading, “Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence” is read in the original Spanish by Homero Aridjis and the English translation is read by George McWhirter. Aridjis and McWhirter won the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize for the collection of the same name, published by New Directions.
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Guanajuato Writing Retreat
The Guanajuato Writing Retreat was held from September 22 to September 29 at the Florecer Casitas in Guanajuato, the hilly capital city of Guanajuato state, in Mexico’s high plateau region. The theme for the 2024 retreat was “Renewing Ourselves.” Programming (limited to eight writers) included workshops, a reading with local writers, guided exploratory writing sessions led by poet Bonnie Wolkenstein, local excursions to destinations including La Cañada de la Virgen, and independent time to write for poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, and translators.
Type:
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
yes
Event Date:
January 23, 2026
Rolling Admissions:
ignore
Application Deadline:
January 23, 2026
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
January 23, 2026
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Guanajuato Writing Retreat, 7511 Greenwood Avenue North, #321, Seattle, WA 98103. (206) 914-1444. Bonnie Wolkenstein, Workshop Leader.
Bonnie Wolkenstein
Workshop Leader
Contact City:
Guanajuato
Country:
MX
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