For poets who are spending the long winter evenings reading, revising and combining their poems into collections, here’s an updated list of upcoming contest entry deadlines:
- Perugia Press Prize for a first or second book by a woman (postmark deadline November 15)
- Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award (postmark deadline November 15)
- Yale Series of Younger Poets Award (postmark deadline November 15
- Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards (postmark deadline November 16)
- Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition (postmark/online entry deadline November 29)
- The Motherwell Prize for a first or second book by a woman from Fence Books (postmark deadline November 30)
- A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions, Ltd. (postmark deadline November 30)
- Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition (postmark deadline November 30)
- The Motherwell Prize from Fence Books (postmark deadline November 30)
- The Plough Prize Poetry Competition (postmark/email deadline November 30)
- Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers from Kenyon Review (online submissions only, deadline November 30)
- The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize from Waywiser Press (postmark deadline December 1)
- Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books (postmark deadline December 1)
- Missouri Review Audio & Video Competition (postmark deadline December 1)
- Meridian Editor’s Prize in Poetry from the University of Virginia (online submission only, deadline December 15)
- Gival Press Poetry Award (postmark deadline December 15)
- The Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press (postmark or online submission deadline December 31)
- Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Contest (postmark or online submission deadline December 31)
- The Colorado Prize for Poetry from Colorado State University’s Center for Literary Publishing (postmark deadline January 14)
- Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize from Letras Latinas at the University of Notre Dame (postmark deadline January 15)
- John Ciardi Prize for Poetry from BkMk Press at the University of Missouri Kansas City (postmark deadline January 15)
- Grayson Books Chapbook Contest (postmark deadline January 16)
- Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prizes, First Book competition and Open Competition (postmark deadline February 15)
- Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry from Sarabande Books (postmark deadline February 15)
- New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition from Finishing Line Press (postmark deadline February 15)
- National Poetry Series (postmark deadline February 16)
- Robert E. Lee Wilson & Ruth I. Wilson Poetry Book Award from Margie Review (postmark deadline February 27)
- Fence Modern Poets Series (postmark deadline February 28)
- The American Poetry Journal Book Prize from Dream Horse Press (postmark deadline February 29)
Required reading before you submit to any contests:
"What's Really Wrong with Poetry Book Contests?," by David Alpaugh
How to put together a poetry manuscript for publication
"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
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