Poetry Contests, Competitions & Prizes
Our articles on submitting your work in competition, plus links to online poetry contests, & to online listings of offline competitions (those that require you to submit your entry on paper).
David Alpaugh, who has both run and won a poetry book contest himself, investigates what's wrong with the whole business of selecting poetry books for publication by holding a competition.
Our friend Kurt Heintz has some sage advice for the poet who asked this question: “What is the reliability of the hundreds of poetry contests being run on the Net? Is it prudent to submit manuscripts to them?”
Francisco Aragón tells the story of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, the first and only national first book award for Latino/Latina poets, and highlights the origins of the Prize & its first winner: Pity the Drowned Horses, by Sheryl Luna (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005).
The idea of competition in poetry remains a perennial debate topic... and we think our friend S.A. Griffin’s comments on the PoetsAllOver Yahoo mailing list are worth rereading, for a perspective on why we keep doing this art, making poems.
The
About Poetry Forum is one of six original participants in the IBPC, a monthly series of competitions among the most active poetry workshops & discussion forums on the Net, founded by Michael Neff and
Web del Sol in 2000.
