Ploughshares offers its annual Emerging Writer’s Contest and is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book. One winner in each of the three genres is awarded publication, $2000, review from Aevitas Creative Management, and a one-year subscription. To submit, please check out the following guidelines. The 2024 contest...Read More
The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work made in the previous year and combining poetry and any other art or discipline.The finished work should have been produced or published in 2023 but can involve or be based in part on work from any era. All are welcome to apply...Read More
The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work made in the previous year and combining poetry and any other art or discipline.The finished work should have been produced or published in 2022 but can involve or be based in part on work from any era. All are welcome...Read More
The Emerging Writer’s Contest is open to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry who have yet to publish or self-publish a book. Award includes publication, $2,000, review from Aevitas Creative Management, and a 1-year subscription for one winner in each of the three genres. The 2022 contest judges are Amelia Gray (Fiction), Chen Chen (Poetry), and Danielle...Read More
The National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships program offers $25,000 grants in poetry to published creative writers that enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Applications are reviewed through an anonymous process in which the criteria for review are the artistic excellence and artistic merit of the...Read More
The Guggenheim is collaborating with the Academy of American Poets to establish a year-long poet-in-residence position open to a contemporary poet with strong interest in public engagement beginning in January 2022. The selected poet-in-residence, with the Guggenheim’s public programs department, will design activations and experiences with poetry as an artistic form for the museum’s adult,...Read More
Philadelphia Stories is seeking poetry for the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry contest. First place features a $1,000 cash award. Three runners up will each receive a $250 cash award. The winning and runner up poems are published in the Spring issue. The poems and honorable mentions will appear online. The Crimmins Prize celebrates risk,...Read More
Seeking Poets! Color is Pride: The True Colors Challenge is open for submissions through May 16, 2021, at 11:59 PM EST. Each of the 15 selected winners will receive a $2,000 prize as well as the opportunity to work directly with Moleskine on their Pride Month campaign throughout the month of June, the aim of...Read More
The Poetry Society of America is now accepting applications for their annual awards. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including student poetry award and book awards for publishers. They are accepting applications for the Anna Rabinowitz Award, Student Poetry Award, Book Awards for Publishers, as well as individual awards.Read More
