Artists Among Poets - Contests to Consider
CONTESTS FOR INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP POEMS
Academy of American Poets
Academy of American Poets Prize
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/113
Adirondack Review/Black Lawrence Press
Fiddlehead Poetry Prize
http://adirondackreview.homestead.com:80/FiddleheadPrize.html
Akron Art Museum
New Words Poetry Competition for Ohio writers
http://www.akronartmuseum.org/
Alabama Writers' Conclave
http://alabamawritersconclave.org/contests.html
Alehouse Press
Happy Hour Poetry Award
http://www.alehousepress.com/
Alligator Juniper
Alligator Juniper National Writing Contest
http://www.prescott.edu/highlights/alligator_juniper/guidelines.html
American Poet Prize for Poetry
http://www.americanpoetryjournal.com/
Anderbo.com
Anderbo Poetry Prize
http://anderbo.com/
Anna Akhmatova Foundation
Akhmatova Award for Excellence in Writing
http://annaakhmatovafoundation.org/award.html
Arapahoe Community College Writers Studio
http://www.arapahoe.edu/deptprgrms/eng/writerscontest.html
Art Affair
http://www.shadetreecreations.com/ArtAffair_PoetryContest.htm
Art & Soul Festival
Natchez Poetry Contest
http://www.colin.edu/nlcc/
Arts Club of Washington
Scholarship Competition for Student Poets
http://www.artsclubofwashington.org/
Backwards City Annual Literary Contest
http://homepage.mac.com/languageismycopilot/backwardscitydotnet/contests/contests.html
Baltimore Review
Baltimore Review Poetry Contest
http://www.baltimorereview.org/
Banyan Review
http://www.banyanreview.com/competition_home.htm
Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award
http://www.bitteroleander.com/contest.html
Black Warrior Review
http://webdelsol.com/bwr/contest.html
Blue Collar Review
Working People's Poetry Competition
http://partisanpress.org/
Boston Review
Boston Review Poetry Contest
http://bostonreview.net/contests.html
Brainerd Writers Alliance
http://www.brainerdwriters.org/
Brick & Mortar Review
Brick & Mortar Review Poetry Contest
http://www.bmreview.com/contest_submissions.htm
Bridport Arts Centre
Bridport Prize
http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/index.htm
Burning Bush Publications
Burning Bush Poetry Prize
http://www.bbbooks.com/contests.html
California Institute of Arts and Letters
Robert Greer Cohn Prose Poetry Award
http://www.calartsandletters.org/
Campbell Corner
http://pages.slc.edu/~eraymond/ccorner/pcontest/submit.html
http://writers.ciweb.org/literary-journal/
Claremont Review
Annual Writing Contest for writers aged 13-19
http://www.theclaremontreview.ca/annual_contest.htm
Comstock Review Poetry Contest
http://www.comstockreview.org/annualcontest.html
Confluence
http://www.marietta.edu/~conflu/
Connecticut Poetry Society
Brodine/Brodinsky Poetry Competition
http://ct-poetry-society.org/
Crab Creek Review
http://www.crabcreekreview.org/contest.htm
Crab Orchard Review
Richard Peterson Poetry Prize
http://www.siu.edu/~crborchd/dyer.html
Crazyhorse
http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/
Creekwalker
Creekwalker Poetry Prize
http://www.creekwalker.com/
CUTTHROAT
Joy Harjo Poetry Award
http://www.cutthroatmag.com/contest.html
dA Center for the Arts
http://www.dacenter.org/literaryarts.html
DINER
DINER Poetry Contest
http://spokenword.to/diner/alldiner.html#contest
Dogwood
Dogwood Poetry Contest
http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/dogwood/
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize
http://dorothysargentrosenbergmemorialfund.org/
Dream Quest One
http://www.dreamquestone.com
Earth Vision
http://www.evbooks.net:80/contest.htm
Ekphrasis
Ekphrasis Prize
http://www.hometown.aol.com/artspoetry/
Eleventh Muse
http://www.poetrywest.org/contest.htm
Espy Foundation
Espy Award
http://www.espyfoundation.org/html/awards_espy.html
Euphoria
http://www.jlabriola.com/id4.html
Evanston Public Library
Jo-Anne Hirshfield Memorial Poetry Awards
http://www.epl.org/
Fiddlehead
Ralph Gustafson Prize
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Fiddlehead/contest.html
Firstwriter.com
International Poetry Competition
http://www.firstwriter.com/competitions/poetry_competition.shtml
Five Fingers Review
http://www.fivefingersreview.org/contest.htm
Five Points
James Dickey Prize for Poetry
http://webdelsol.com/Five_Points/guidelines/contest.htm
Florida First Coast Writers’ Festival
Douglas Freels Contest, Robert Grimes “Good Earth” Contest
http://www.fccj.org/wf/contests/poetryrules.html
Florida Review
Florida Review Editors' Award
http://www.english.ucf.edu/~flreview/contest.htm
Friends of Acadia Journal
Friends of Acadia Poetry Prize
http://www.friendsofacadia.org/events/poetrycompetition.shtml
Fugue
Fugue Annual Contest in Poetry
http://www.uidaho.edu/fugue/contest.htm
Georgetown Review
http://georgetownreview.georgetowncollege.edu/grcontest.htm
Georgia Poetry Society
Edgar Bowers Prize
http://www.georgiapoetrysociety.org/contests.htm
Ghost Road Press
http://www.ghostroadpress.com/contest.htm
Grain Magazine
Short Grain Contest
http://www.grainmagazine.ca/contest/index.shtml
Grandmother Earth
http://www.grandmotherearth.org/id2.html
Greater Augusta Arts Council
Annual Porter Fleming Writing Competition for writers residing in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, and North Carolina
http://www.augustaarts.com/PorterFleming.htm
Grimm Magazine
http://www.grimmagazine.com/competition.html
GSU Review
GSU Review Annual Writing Contest
http://www.review.gsu.edu/contest.html
Guild Complex
Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award
http://www.guildcomplex.org/
Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast Poetry Prize
http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/
Gulf Coast Ethnic & Heritage Jazz Festival
http://www.gcehjazzfest.com/poetry_contest.htm
Harpur Palate
Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry
http://harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/miltkessler.html
HeartLodge: Honoring the House of the Poet
http://www.heartlodge.org/?page_id=14
High Desert Journal
Obsidian Prize for Poetry
http://www.highdesertjournal.com/html/obsidian.html
Hunger Mountain
Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry
http://www.tui.edu/hungermtn/poetry.asp
Ice-Floe
John Haines Award
http://www.icefloepress.org/haines.shtml
Illinois Center for the Book
Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award
http://illinoiscenterforthebook.org/projects.html#emergingWriters
Illinois State Poetry Society
http://www.illinoispoets.org/
Imagine
Creative Minds Poetry Contest
http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine/ContestGuidelines
Indiana Review
1/2 K Prose-Poem Prize, Indiana Review Poetry Prize
http://www.indiana.edu/~inreview/general/prize.html
Inglis House Poetry Workshop
http://www.geocities.com/IHPoetry/contest.htm
Inkwell
Inkwell Annual Poetry Competition
http://www.inkwelljournal.org/competitions.htm
Inspirit
Inspirit Poetry Prize
http://www.gbgm-umc.org/baughmanumc/litmag.htm
Iowa Review
Iowa Review Award
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/iowaaward.html
Iowa Source
http://www.iowasource.com/
Isotope
Isotope Editors' Prize
http://isotope.usu.edu/web/contest.htm
Jane's Stories Press Foundation
Jane’s Stories Poetry Award
http://www.janesstories.org/id3.html
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards for Poems on the Jewish Experience
http://jccsf.org/
Juked
Juked Poetry Prize
http://www.juked.com/prize/
Juniper Creek/Lone Mountain Writers
http://www.junipercreekpubs.com/events.html
Kalliope, A Journal of Women's Literature & Art
Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Award for the Best Poem by a Woman
http://opencampus.fccj.org/kalliope/k-contst.html
Kennesaw Review
Don Russ Poetry Prize
http://www.kennesawreview.org/artman2/publish/contests/Don_Russ_Poetry_Prize_2007.php
Kilkenney International Swift Society
Swift Satire Poetry Competition
http://www.swiftsociety.com/
Kudzu
http://www.hazard.kctcs.edu/kudzu/contests.html
Ledge
http://www.theledgemagazine.com/Poetry%20Awards%20Contest.htm
Lilith
http://www.lilith.org/competition.htm
Litchfield Review
http://www.thelitchfieldreview.com/
The Loft
Speakeasy Prize in Poetry
http://www.loft.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=45
Louisiana Literature
Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry
http://www.louisianaliterature.org/press/poetryprize.php
Lumina
http://pages.slc.edu/~lumina/contest.htm
MacGuffin
http://www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/poet.asp
Mad Hatters' Review
http://www.madhattersreview.com/contest.shtml
Mad Poets Review
http://www.madpoetssociety.com/
Malahat Review
Poetry Contests: Far Horizons Award for Poetry (even years), Long Poem Contest (odd years)
http://www.malahatreview.ca/
Many Mountains Moving
http://mmminc.org/
MARGIE
Marjorie J. Wilson Award, Editor's Prize, Strong Rx Medicine Contest
http://www.margiereview.com/CONTESTS/contests.html
Marginalia
http://www.western.edu/marginalia/contest.php
Marlboro Review
Marlboro Review Prize for Poetry
http://www.marlbororeview.com/
Measure
Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award
http://measure.evansville.edu/SonnetContest.htm
Meridian
Editors' Prize
http://www.readmeridian.org
Merton Institute for Contemplative Living
Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Contest
http://www.mertoninstitute.org/merton_prize.php
Mid-American Review
Fineline Competition, James Wright Poetry Award
http://www.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview
Midwest Writing Center
Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest
http://www.midwestwritingcenter.org/MVWC_poetry_contest.html
Milford Fine Arts Council
http://www.milfordarts.org/
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Art of Poetry/The Poetry of Art Contest
http://www.mam.org/education/adults.htm
Mississippi Review
Mississippi Review Prize
http://www.mississippireview.com/contest.html
Missouri Review
Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize, Audio Competition
http://www.missourireview.com/contest/
http://www.missourireview.com/contest/audio_competition.php
Missouri State Poetry Society
Summer and Winter Poetry Contests
http://www.nfsps.com/mo/index.htm
MO: Writings from the River
MO Prize for Poetry
http://www.msugf.edu/litguild/Contest.html
Mountain Heritage Literary Festival
http://www.lmunet.edu/alumni/festival/guide.html
National League of American Pen Women, Boca Raton Branch
Jane R. Harwood Memorial Poetry Contest
http://www.bocapenwomen.org/
National Poetry Review
Laureate Prize, Annie Finch Prize
http://www.nationalpoetryreview.com/
National Writers Union
http://nwu7.org/contests.htm
New Letters
New Letters Poetry Award
http://www.newletters.org/awards.asp
New Millennium Writings
New Millennium Writings Award
http://www.newmillenniumwritings.com/awards.php
New Writer
New Writer Poetry Prize
http://www.thenewwriter.com/entryform.htm
Newburyport Art Association
http://www.newburyportart.org/pages/poetcontest.html
NEWN
http://www.newnmag.net/contests.html
Nick Virgilio Haiku Association
Nicholas A. Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition
http://www.haikuworld.org/contests/virgilio.contest.html
Nimrod
Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry
http://www.utulsa.edu/nimrod/awards.html
North American Review
James Hearst Poetry Prize
http://www.webdelsol.com/NorthAmReview/NAR/NAR/Hearst%20Poetry%20Prize.html
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award
http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/programs/awards-&-contests/index.htm
Old Red Kimono
Paris Lake Poetry Contest
http://www.highlands.edu/ork/
OnceWritten.com
http://www.oncewritten.com/Contests/PoetryContest.php
Oregon State Poetry Association
http://www.oregonpoets.org/Contest.html
Other Voices
Other Voices Poetry Contest
http://othervoices.ca/contest.htm
Ottawa Valley Writers' Guild
Ray Burrell Poetry Award
http://www.valleywritersguild.ca/burrell.php
Paris Review
Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry, Plimpton Prize
http://www.theparisreview.org/page.php/prmID/49
Passages North
Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize
http://www.webdelsol.com/Passages_North/contest-poetry.html
Patterson Literary Review
Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, Paterson Poetry Prize
http://www.pccc.edu/Poetry/Prize/index.html
Pennsylvania Poetry Society
Annual Contest
http://www.geocities.com/paperlesspoets/contests.html
Penumbra
Annual Penumbra Poetry & Haiku Contest
http://www.tallahasseewriters.net
Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art
Greg Grummer Poetry Award
http://www.gmu.edu/pubs/phoebe/contests.htm
Pinch
River City Writing Award in Poetry
http://cas.memphis.edu/english/pinch/contest/contest.htm
Pittsburgh Quarterly
Sara Henderson Hay Prize
http://www.city-net.com/~tpq/
Poesia
Oliver W. Browning Poetry Competition
http://www.indianbaypress.com/
Poetica Magazine, Reflections of Jewish Thought
Annual Poetry Contest
http://www.freewebs.com/poeticamagazine/annualpoetrycontest.htm
Poetry Center at Smith College
High School Prize
http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/highschoolprize.html
Poetry Center of Chicago
http://www.poetrycenter.org/
Poetry London
Poetry London Competition
http://www.poetrylondon.co.uk/
Poetry Society of America
http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-awards_gdln.html
Poetry Southeast
http://poetrysoutheast.com/award.htm
Poets Corner Press
Sonnet Contest
http://poetscornerpress.com/
Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction
http://www.sdiworld.org/presence_journal.html
Prism Quarterly/Daybreak Press
Dancing Galliard Sonnet Contest
http://www.daybreakpoetry.com/contest.htm
Pulsar Poetry Magazine
Pulsar Poetry Competition
http://www.pulsarpoetry.com/Pulsar_poetry_competition.htm
Ragged Raven Press
Annual International Poetry Competition
http://www.raggedraven.co.uk/competition.htm
Rattle
Rattle Poetry Prize
http://www.rattle.com/rpp/hardguide.htm
Red Hen Press
Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award
http://www.redhen.org/awards.asp
Reed: A Journal of Poetry & Prose
Edwin Markham Prize in Poetry
http://www.sjsu.edu/reed/markham.htm
RHINO
http://www.rhinopoetry.org/
River Styx
http://www.riverstyx.org/contestguidelines.html
Rock & Sling
Virginia Brendemuehl Prize for Poetry
http://www.rockandsling.org/contest.htm
Robert Frost Foundation
http://frostfoundation.home.comcast.net/wsb/html/frostsite1215/contest.htm
RochesterInk
http://www.rochesterink.org/adult_contest.html
Rome Art & Community Center
Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize
http://www.romeart.org/poetry.html
Rosebud Magazine
William Stafford Award for Poetry
http://rsbd.net/contests.htm
Runes
Runes Poetry Award
http://members.aol.com/Runes/RunesGuidelines.html
S. Portia Steele Award Organization
S. Portia Steele Award for Excellence in Poetry
http://portiasteeleaward.org/contest.htm
Sacramento Poetry Center
http://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org/contest.html
Salem College Center for Women Writers
Rita Dove Poetry Award
http://www.salem.edu/go/cww/
Santa Clara Review
Palm Poetry Prize
http://old.santaclarareview.com/
Saturday Writers
http://www.saturdaywriters.org/contest.htm
Seattle Review
Carolyn Kizer Prize in Poetry
http://depts.washington.edu/seaview/poetrycontest.html
SLAB
Elizabeth R. Curry Prize in Poetry
http://academics.sru.edu/SlabLitMag/
http://www.valdosta.edu/getlit/SnakeNation.htm
So to Speak
So To Speak Poetry Contest
http://www.gmu.edu/org/sts/contests.htm
Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Ethnographic Poetry Competition
http://www.smcm.edu/sha/poetry.htm
Sonnet Writers
http://www.sonnetwriters.com/about/contests/
South Carolina Poetry Initiative
http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/poetry/poets.htm
Southeast Review
http://www.southeastreview.org/contests.php
Southern Hum
http://www.southernhum.com/
Southern Indiana Review
Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award
http://www.usi.edu/sir/mohr.asp
Southern Poetry Review
Guy Owen Prize Contest
http://www.spr.armstrong.edu/guyowen.html
Southern Women Writers Conference
Emerging Writers Contest
http://www.berry.edu/academics/humanities/english/swwc2007/
Southwest Review
Morton Marr Poetry Prize
http://southwestreview.org/MarrPoetryPrize.htm
Sow's Ear Poetry Review
http://sows-ear.kitenet.net/competition.html
Split This Rock Poetry Festival (DC)
http://www.splitthisrock.org/
Spoon River Poetry Review
http://www.litline.org/Spoon/contest.html
Stephens College
International Women's Poetry Scholarship
http://www.stephens.edu/academics/programs/english/sigmataudelta/contest.htm
Summer Literary Seminars—Kenya
http://www.sumlitsem.org/kenya/
Summer Literary Seminars—Russia
http://www.sumlitsem.org/russia/contests.aspx
Swink
Swink Editors' Awards for Emerging Writers
http://www.swinkmag.com/contests.html
Sycamore Review
Wabash Prize for Poetry
http://sycamorereview.com/contest/
Third Coast
Third Coast Poetry Award
http://www.wmich.edu/thirdcoast/Contests_homepage.htm
Tor House Foundation
Tor House Prize for Poetry
http://www.torhouse.org/
Towe Auto Museum
Annual Automotive Poetry Contest
http://www.toweautomuseum.org/html/poetry.html
Trellis Magazine
Sonnet Contest
http://trellismagazine.com/contest.html
Tricinium/MacDowell Colony
Tricinium Poetry Contest
http://www.tricinium.com/poetry-contest.html
Tusculum Review
Tusculum Review Poetry Contest
http://www.tusculum.edu/tusculumreview/contest.html
University of New Orleans
Writing Contest for Study Abroad
http://lowres.uno.edu/contest.cfm
Urban Echoes
http://www.urbanechoes.net
W.B. Yeats Society of New York
http://www.yeatssociety.org/
Washington Square Review
Washington Square Review Contest
http://cwp.fas.nyu.edu/page/wsr
Water~Stone Review
Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize
http://www.waterstonereview.com/contests.html
Western Humanities Review
Utah Writers' Contest
http://www.hum.utah.edu/whr/contest.html
Western North Carolina Woman
http://www.wnc-woman.com/
Whiskey Island
Whiskey Island Annual Poetry Contest
http://www.csuohio.edu/whiskey_island/submissions.html
Willow Springs
Vachel Lindsay Poetry Award
http://willowsprings.ewu.edu/Contests.htm
Winning Writers
http://www.winningwriters.com/
Wisconsin People & Ideas
Contest for Wisconsin writers
http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/review/index.html
Wisteria: A Journal of Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka
Pinewood Haiku Contest
http://wistaria.blogspot.com/
World Haiku Association
WHA Haiga Contest
http://www.worldhaiku.net/haiga.htm
Writecorner Press
Writecorner Press Annual Poetry Award
http://www.writecorner.com/poetry_guidelines.asp
Writer's Digest
Writer's Digest Poetry Award
http://www.writersdigest.com/
Writers' Forum
http://www.writers-forum.com/poetry_competition.html
Writers' Journal
http://www.writersjournal.com/PoetryContest.htm
Yemassee
Pocataligo Poetry Contest
http://yemasseejournal.org/contests.html
Zone 3
Rainmaker Award in Poetry
http://www.apsu.edu/zone3/