Genre: Poetry

Poetry Prize

White Pine Press
Entry Fee: 
$20
Deadline: 
November 30, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication by White Pine Press is given annually for a poetry collection. Submit a manuscript of 60 to 80 pages with a $20 entry fee by November 30. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Colorado Prize for Poetry

Colorado Review
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
January 14, 2025
A prize of $2,500 and publication by the Center for Literary Publishing is given annually for a poetry collection. Craig Morgan Teicher will judge. Submit a manuscript of 48 to 100 pages with a $25 entry fee ($28 for online submissions), which includes a subscription to Colorado Review, by January 14, 2025. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Nina Riggs Poetry Award

Nina Riggs Poetry Foundation
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
November 30, 2024
A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a single poem that examines relationships, family, or domestic life and was published in a book or magazine in the last three years. Nominate up to 30 poems published in a book or magazine in 2022, 2023, or 2024 by November 30. No more than six nominated poems can have been written by the same author or published in the same book or magazine. Self-nominations are not accepted. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

California Book Awards

Commonwealth Club of California
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
November 15, 2024
Four prizes of approximately $2,500 each are given annually for a poetry collection, a book of fiction, a first book of fiction, and a book of creative nonfiction that relates to California. Three additional prizes of approximately $1,000 each are also given. Books written by authors residing in California are eligible. Publishers may submit six copies of books published in 2024 by November 15. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for the required entry form and complete guidelines.

Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

Ohio University Press
Entry Fee: 
$30
Deadline: 
December 31, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication by Ohio University Press is given annually for a poetry collection. Natalie Shapero will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 60 to 95 pages with a $30 entry fee by December 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

McKnight Fellowships for Writers

Loft Literary Center
Entry Fee: 
$0
Deadline: 
November 19, 2024
Four prizes of $25,000 each will be given annually to Minnesota poets, prose writers, and spoken word artists. Fellows will also receive an all-expenses-paid, one- or two-week residency in partnership with Artist Communities Alliance and have the opportunity to attend one-on-one career consultations, workshops, and networking events run by the nonprofit organization Springboard for the Arts. The prize will be offered in poetry/spoken word and prose in alternating years; the 2025 fellowships will be awarded to fiction and creative nonfiction writers. Writers who have been residents of Minnesota for the year prior to the deadline and who will reside in Minnesota for the duration of the fellowship are eligible; writers must also have published at least one book, have had work appear in several journals, or have been booked to perform their work. Using only the online submission system, submit 20 to 25 pages of prose by November 19. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Falling

10.8.24

“One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me; / But the stars above my head / Burn in white and delicate red, / And beneath my feet the earth / Brings the sturdy grass to birth,” begins Sara Teasdale’s 1915 poem “Leaves.” Write a poem that uses rhythm and meter to evoke the feeling of the autumn season and describes the sights and sounds of the natural environment drying and withering, beginning the descent to decomposition. You might use this as an opportunity to ruminate on the larger themes of slowing down, and cycles of renewal and decay. Pay particular attention to consonance, short and long vowel sounds, and the length of your words and lines to create the desired tone of your poem.

2024 Jackson Poetry Prize Reading: Fady Joudah

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In this Poets & Writers event, 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize winner Fady Joudah reads a selection of poems, including from his National Book Award–nominated collection, [...] (Milkweed Editions, 2024), and joins Pádraig Ó Tuama for a conversation about his work and life as a poet.

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