“Sumer Is Icumen In,” bringing in a new round of poetry contest deadlines. Some are poetry book and chapbook publication competitions (for those of you who’ve been working on a manuscript, and choose to go this route to getting it published), others are single poem competitions, where the prize is publication in the sponsoring periodical. Gather your stamps and envelopes, or choose the contests that accept online entries—poets ready, set, go!
- Field Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press (postmark deadline May 31)
- Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest (email entry deadline was May 18, postmark deadline May 31)
- Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize from Calyx (postmark deadline May 31)
- The Bordighera Poetry Prize for Italian American poets (postmark deadline May 31)
- War Poetry Contest from Winningwriters.com (postmark/online submission deadline May 31)
- Boston Review Poetry Contest (postmark deadline June 1)
- PressPress Chapbook Award (postmark deadline June 30)
- Onmidawn First/Second Book Contest (postmark/online submission deadline June 30)
- Barrow Street Press Book Contest (postmark deadline June 30)
- Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award from Southern Illinois University (postmark deadline July 1)
- Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition (online submissions only, deadline not posted yet, but previous year’s postmark deadline was July 31)
- Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Award (postmark deadline August 15)
- Aesthetica Creative Works Competition (online entry deadline August 31)
- Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press (postmark deadline August 31)
- May Swenson Poetry Award from Utah State University Press (postmark deadline September 30)
- The Laureate Prize for Poetry from The National Poetry Review (postmark/online submission deadline September 30)
- The National Poetry Review Book Prize (postmark/online submission deadline September 30)
- The New Criterion Poetry Contest for a book-length manuscript of poems that “pay close attention to form” (postmark deadline September 30)
- Pudding House Chapbook Competition (postmark deadline September 30)
- Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award from Red Hen Press (postmark deadline September 30)
- Poetry Super Highway Contest (postmark deadline in September)
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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