A roundup of approaching poetry contest deadlines

Wednesday October 19, 2005

The Frederick Morgan Poetry Prize from Story Line Press (postmark deadline October 31, Keats’ birthday)
The Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press (postmark deadline October 31)
The Paris Review Prize in Poetry from Zoo Press (postmark deadline October 31)
The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition (postmark deadline October 31)
The T.S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University (postmark deadline October 31)
The Vallum Award for Poetry (postmark deadline October 31)
The Radio Canada CBC Literary Awards for both French & English language poets (postmark deadline November 1)
The Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (postmark deadline November 15)
The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award (postmark deadline November 15)
The Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University/Lincoln Center (application deadline November 15)
The Perugia Press Intro Award for a first or second book by a woman (postmark deadline November 15)
The Alberta Prize from Fence Books for a first or second full-length collection of poems by a woman writing in English (postmark deadline November 30)
The National Writers’ Union Local 7 Poetry Competition (postmark deadline November 30)
Alice James Books’ Beatrice Hawley Award (postmark deadline December 1)
The Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press (postmark deadline December 1)
The annual Del Sol Press Poetry Prize (postmark deadline January 15, 2006)
The John Ciardi Prize for Poetry (postmark deadline January 16, 2006)

Required reading before you submit to any contests:
“A Word To the Wise: On entering your poems in competition,” by Kurt Heintz
“You Do It Because You Love It,” by S.A. Griffin

Related resources:
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