Genre: Poetry

Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards

Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College
Entry Fee: 
$18
Deadline: 
February 1, 2025
A prize of $2,000 and publication in Paterson Literary Review is given annually for a single poem. A second-place prize of $1,000 and publication is also given. The winning poets are invited to give a reading at the Poetry Center in Paterson, New Jersey. Submit three copies of up to five poems of no more than two pages each with an $18 entry fee by February 1. All entries are considered for publication. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Judith Siegel Pearson Award

Wayne State University
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
March 1, 2025
A prize of $500 will be given annually for a chapbook-length work of poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. The 2025 prize will be given in poetry. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of up to 30 pages by March 1. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Big Moose Prize

Black Lawrence Press
Entry Fee: 
$28
Deadline: 
January 31, 2025
A prize of $1,000, publication by Black Lawrence Press, and 10 author copies is given annually for a novel. The contest is open to traditional novels as well as “novels-in-stories, novels-in-poems, and other hybrid forms that contain within them the spirit of a novel.” The editors will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 90 to 1,000 pages with a $28 entry fee by January 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
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Paterson Poetry Prize

Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
February 1, 2025
A prize of $2,000 is given annually for a poetry collection published in the previous year. The winning poet is expected to participate in an awards ceremony, give a reading, and teach a workshop at the Poetry Center in Paterson, New Jersey. Publishers and authors may submit two copies of books of at least 48 pages published in 2024 by February 1. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

Yeats Poetry Prize

WB Yeats Society of NY
Entry Fee: 
$15
Deadline: 
February 1, 2025
A prize of $1,000 and publication on the WB Yeats Society of NY website is given annually for a single poem. The winner also receives a two-year membership to the organization and is invited to a ceremony in New York City. Submit a poem of up to 60 lines with a $15 entry fee ($12 for each additional poem) by February 1. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Book Prize

Center for African American Poetry and Poetics/Autumn House Press
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
February 15, 2025
A prize of $3,000 and publication by Autumn House Press is given annually for a first or second poetry collection (or a work that intersects with poetry, including hybrid text, speculative prose, and/or translation) by a writer of African descent. Cameron Awkward-Rich will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit 48 to 168 pages of poetry or poetry-adjacent work by February 15. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poets

Poetry Northwest
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
January 31, 2025
Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication in Poetry Northwest are given annually for a single poem by an Indigenous poet. The winners also receive an all-expenses-paid trip to read with the judge at Poets House in New York City in the fall. Writers who have published no more than one full-length book and who are community-recognized members of tribal nations within the United States and its territories are eligible. A Native poet of national prominence will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit up to three poems of no more than three pages each, a cover letter specifying any tribal affiliations and ties, and a brief bio by January 31. All entries are considered for publication. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest

WOMR/WFMR Community Radio
Entry Fee: 
$15
Deadline: 
January 15, 2025
A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a single poem. Marge Piercy will judge. Submit up to five poems totaling no more than seven pages with a $15 entry fee by January 15. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Hyperlocal Lore

The Time Is Now
12.10.24

For nearly three decades, from the early 1980s until 2013, Dr. Jonathan Zizmor’s skincare ads for his dermatology practice were a mainstay in New York City subway cars, touting treatments for various skin problems and displaying the doctor’s own slightly smiling visage. A 2016 New York Times article noting his retirement stated: “To know Dr. Zizmor is to know the city’s secret handshake, to appreciate its quirkier, more pedestrian pleasures that natives claim as their own.” What’s hyperlocal to where you live? Brainstorm some ideas of things that might qualify as local lore, your city’s secret handshake—perhaps some idiosyncratic window displays or advertisements, a distinctive element of the urban landscape, a quirk of the natural environment, or public street art. Write an ode to one of these items, to commemorate and share its pedestrian pleasures.

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