Genre: Poetry

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.

Barthelme Prize for Short Prose

Gulf Coast
Entry Fee: 
$20
Deadline: 
August 31, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Gulf Coast is given annually for a short work of prose. Submit up to three prose poems, works of flash fiction, or micro essays (or a mix of up to three works in those categories) of no more than 500 words each with a $20 entry fee, which includes a subscription to Gulf Coast, by August 31. All entries are considered for publication. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
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short-shorts

Ledbury Poetry Competition

Ledbury Poetry
Entry Fee: 
$8
Deadline: 
July 8, 2024
A prize of £1,000 (approximately $1,268) and publication on the Ledbury Poetry website is given annually for a single poem. The winner is also invited to attend a weeklong poetry course with Arvon, a London-based creative writing nonprofit, and to read at the Ledbury Poetry Festival in Ledbury, England, in July 2025 (travel expenses are not included). Using only the online submission system, submit up to ten poems of no more than 40 lines each with a £6 (approximately $8) entry fee per poem by July 8. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Support for Artists Grants

New York State Council on the Arts
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
July 17, 2024

Grants of $10,000 each will be given annually to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators who are residents of New York State and are sponsored by an eligible

Award for Poetry

Press 53 
Entry Fee: 
$30
Deadline: 
July 31, 2024
A prize of $1,000, publication by Press 53, and 53 author copies is given annually for a poetry collection. Tom Lombardo will judge. Submit a manuscript of 50 to 120 pages with a $30 entry fee by July 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Prize in Translation

Gulf Coast
Entry Fee: 
$20
Deadline: 
August 31, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Gulf Coast is given in alternating years for a group of poems or a prose excerpt translated from any language into English. The 2024 prize will be given for a single poem. Submit up to 10 pages of poetry translated into English, a copy of the original text, a brief bio of the author, a synopsis of the work being translated, and proof of permission to translate the work with a $20 entry fee, which includes a subscription to Gulf Coast, by August 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
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translations

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.

Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
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Jon Fosse
Nobel Prize
Nobel laureate
interview
Norwegian
2023

Coming Down Hard

The Time Is Now
6.11.24

“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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