Genre: Poetry

Chapbook Prize

Oversound
Entry Fee: 
$18
Deadline: 
April 30, 2024
A prize of $1,000, publication by Oversound, and 50 author copies is given annually for a poetry chapbook. Diana Khoi Nguyen will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 15 to 30 pages with an $18 entry fee by April 30. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry

Trustees of the Robert Frost Farm
Entry Fee: 
$6
Deadline: 
March 31, 2024
A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a poem written in metrical verse. The winner also receives a scholarship to attend and give a reading at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference in Derry, New Hampshire, in August. A.M. Juster will judge. Submit any number of poems with a $6 entry fee per poem by March 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Etel Adnan Poetry Prize

University of Arkansas Press
Entry Fee: 
$25
Deadline: 
April 15, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication by University of Arkansas Press is given annually for a first or second poetry collection by a writer of Arab heritage. Series editors Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 48 to 90 pages with a $25 entry fee by April 15. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Single Poem Contest

Omnidawn Publishing
Entry Fee: 
$12
Deadline: 
April 12, 2024
A prize of $1,000 is given annually for a single poem. The winner also receives 20 copies of a letterpress broadside of the winning poem. Claire Marie Stancek will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a poem of 8 to 24 lines with a $25 entry fee ($15 for each additional poem) by April 12. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Poetry Award

Moon City Press
Entry Fee: 
$27
Deadline: 
June 1, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication by Moon City Press is given annually for a poetry collection. The editors will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of at least 48 pages with a $27 entry fee by May 1. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

Disability Poetics: Cyrée Jarelle Johnson

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In this video for the Disability Poetics series, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson speaks about the intersection between disability and enslavement, and reads his poem “Eating the Other,” which appears in his second poetry collection, Watchnight (Nightboat Books, 2024). Watchnight is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Southampton Writers Conference

The 49th annual Southampton Writers Conference was held from July 10 to July 14 at the Stony Brook Southampton campus in Southampton, New York, located on the Atlantic coast 90 miles east of New York City. The conference featured workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as readings and an agent panel. The faculty included poets Billy Collins and Diana Khoi Nguyen, fiction writer Julia Phillips, fiction and nonfiction writers Matthew Klam and Frederic Tuten, and memoirist Nadia Owusu.

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CONFERENCE
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yes
Event Date: 
June 14, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 14, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 14, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Southampton Writers Conference, Stony Brook Southampton, Chancellors Hall, 239 Montauk Highway, Southampton, NY 11968. (631) 632-5007. Christian McLean, Conference Director. 

Christian McLean
Conference Director
Contact City: 
Southampton
Contact State: 
NY
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
11968
Country: 
US

Sewanee Writers’ Conference

The 34th annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference was held from July 16 to July 28 on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference featured workshops, special topics classes, lectures, one-on-one meetings with faculty, and readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poets Marianne Chan, Eduardo C.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 14, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 14, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 14, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Sewanee Writers’ Conference, University of the South, 735 University Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383. 

Contact City: 
Sewanee
Contact State: 
TN
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
37383
Country: 
US

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