Looking for online publishers, poetry contests or magazines for submissions is quite a monotonous and tiresome process in itself, let alone the chances of finding relevant info. But not anymore!
Here you’ll find monthly updated contests and submission portals that’ll help you grow as beginners and support your writing career at the same time. Every contest is provided with all the information you need to know before submitting to it. Poets from all nationalities can take part in the poetry contests without worrying about submission fee. So, go writers!
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Poetry Contests:
1. The Letter Review Poetry Prize
Deadline: Open
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Submission Requirements: Entry Up to 70 lines per poem. Open to anyone in the world: No style or subject restrictions.
Prize: $1000 USD Prize pool for 2-4 Winners. Winners are published by The Letter Review. 10-20 Shortlisted. All entries are considered for publication, and submission to anthologies such as The Pushcart Prize. Judges’ feedback available.
2. The Letter Review Prize for Unpublished Poetry Books
Deadline: Open
Submission Requirements: Open to anyone in the world: No style or subject restrictions. Submit the first 15 pages of your poetry chapbook. Poems of all varieties are welcome. Sonnets, comedy, blank verse, epic, rhyming, childrens, free verse.
Prize: $1000 USD Prize pool for 2-4 Winners. Optional: Winners are offered the chance to publish an extract at The Letter Review. 10-20 Shortlisted. Judges’ feedback available.
3. Southern Poetry Review
Deadline: open.
Submission requirements: welcomes previously unpublished poetry submissions from all nationalities. submissions are limited to five poems (1 file), and should not exceed ten pages.
Prize: Publication
4. Arc Poetry Fall 2024
Deadline: JULY 1, 2024
Submission requirements: Must not exceed 3 poems. Arc Poetry is looking for submissions around the theme of “Home” and all of the relationships we can have with our physical or metaphorical homes. Arc especially encourages submissions from Indigenous poets, immigrants and refugees. Open to all nationalities.
Prize: $50 per page. Free copy of the issue in which the work appears.
5. The 2024 Laux/Millar RR Poetry Prize
Deadline: June 1, 2024 at midnight EST. Duosuma deadline is February 2, 2024.
Fee free pathway limited to those who cannot afford the standard fee.
Submission requirements: five pages of unpublished poems per entry. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable.
Prize:
- First Prize includes $500 USD and publication.
- Finalists will receive a standard $15payment along with publication.
- 2-year subscription to Raleigh Review.
6. TSF Open Submissions May 2024
Deadline: Wednesday May 29th 2024
Submission requirement : Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed. Send up to 3 poems.
Prize: €45 per magazine page, but with a minimum payment of €70 per poem.
Featured Poet: €425
Cover artwork image: €425
7. 2024 “I Matter” Contest
Deadline: July 23, 2024
Submission requirement: Each entry must be original poetry solely created by students. The topic of the contest is :Black Lives Matter.The contest is open to students in grades K to 12.The contest is open to residents of the United States, as well as to international students.
Prize: $500
8. Carte Blanche Contest 2024
Deadline: June 15, 2024
Submission requirements: encourage and welcome submissions by individuals who identify as disabled, and those who live with mental health challenges or neuro divergence. Accept simultaneous submissions.
Theme: “Play.”
Prize: honorarium of $75 for each published piece.
9. PEN Heaney Prize
Deadline: 23:59 on Monday 3 June 2024.
Submission requirements: Open to single collections only, including collections in pamphlet form. Open to collections published in the UK or Ireland, including the British
Isles, between 1 January and 31 December 2023.
Prize : £5,000.
10. Mslexia Poetry Contests
Prize: £30, and all our contributors receive a complimentary copy of the magazine.
Deadline: June 10, 2024 & 8 July 2024
Submission requirements: Open to simultaneous submissions. Entries in English only. Encourages women to submit their poetry. Poems up to 40 lines are accepted. Send up to four poems.
Theme:
1. Red
2. Poet Laureate: 14 lined p
11. Poetry London Submission
Deadline: open
Submission requirements: They do not print previously published work. Both electronic and postal submissions are welcome. Work should be original work of the
Prize: £30 per poem
12. The 2024 Poetry London Prize
Limited number of free entries for writers from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds.
Deadline: June 30, 2024.
Submission requirements: Open to all nationalities. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. The maximum length is 80 lines.
Prize :
First Prize £5,000
Second Prize £2,000
Third Prize £1,000.
13. GRAIN MAGAZINE
Deadline: open from September 15th, 2023 to June 15th, 2024
Submission requirements: They accept typed, unpublished material only.
Individual poems, sequences, or suites up to a maximum of six pages are allowed.
Payment: $50 per page to a maximum of $250, plus two copies of the issue in which their work appears.
14. The Malahat Review
Deadline: Submissions by international writers are accepted during the following six months: January and February, May through July, and November.
Submission requirements: They do not publish any kinds of already published work whether offline or online. Simultaneous submission accepted. They accept 3 to 5 poems (up to 10 pages max).
Payment: CAD$70 per published page plus a one-year print subscription and two copies of the issue in which your work appears.
15. DUST Poetry Magazine
Deadline: 16th June 2024
Submission requirements: No specific theme. Up to three poems are accepted. Poems should be unpublished elsewhere.
Prize: publication
16. Five South Poetry Submission
Offers FREE submission windows multiple times per year for financially struggling poets.
Deadline: Open
Submission requirements: No limit, up to 5 pages. Accept all genres (including humor). All submissions must be in English and previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are accepted.
Payment: Publication+ Payment
17. The Split Lip Magazine
Deadline: open on in selected months i.e. January, March, May, August, September, November.
Submission requirements: They are looking for ‘First-time electronic publication rights’ meaning fresh work that’s not published anywhere. They accept simultaneous submissions with one submission per writer at a time.
Payment: $75 per author for poems along with payment for print is $ 5 per page, minimum of $20, plus 2contributor copies.
18. Nine Arches Press And Under The Radar Magazine
Deadline: 7th June 2022
Submission requirements: only submit previously unpublished work.
• Send up to six poems.
• We accept submissions from anywhere in the world. Do not make multiple submissions.
Payment: publication
19. Harpur Palate
Deadline: runs September 15-November 15 and February 15-April 15.
Submission requirements: They accept 1-5 poems per reading period(10 pages) for the contest. Poems with a strong lyric voice and sense of urgency are preferred. Simultaneous submissions are accepted.
Payment: NIL
20.The Spencer Poetry Villanelle Award
Deadline: February 16, 2024
Submission requirements: Annual competition is open to Undergraduate student poets who are enrolled in a United States College or University. Limit of Three poems per Category. Unpublished, original poems composed in the traditional modes of meter, rhyme and received forms are accepted.
Prize: $1,000
21. Waxwing Literary Journal
Deadline: August 1 through April 30
Submission requirements: one to five poems are accepted in a single document in this poetry contest. Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Payment: Not mentioned
22. Myong Cha Son Haiku Award
Deadline: 16 February, 2024
Submission requirements: Annual competition is open to Undergraduate student poets who are enrolled in a United States College or University. Limit of Three poems per Category. Unpublished, original haiku composed in the traditional modes of meter, rhyme and received forms are accepted.
Payment: $1,000 and $500
23. Rhina P. Espaillat Award
Deadline: 16 February 2024
Submission requirements: Annual competition is open to Undergraduate student poets who are enrolled in a United States College or University. Limit of Three poems per Category. Unpublished, original poems composed in the traditional modes of meter, rhyme and received forms are accepted. The poems should be written in Spanish and translations of English poems to Spanish.
Prize: $1000
24. James Laughlin Award
Deadline: May 15, 2023 (EXPIRED)
Submission requirements: Entries must be at least 48 pages from poets that have U. S citizenship or similar.
Payments: $5,000, an all-expenses-paid weeklong residency at The Betsy Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, and distribution ofwinning the bookto approximately one thousand Academy of American Poets members.
25. Briefly Write Poetry Prize
Deadline: 30 June 2023@ 23:59 BST (EXPIRED)
Submission requirements: One entry per person. Poem must be 10 lines or fewer. Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.
Prize:
- £70, which will be split as follows: 1st – £40 / 2nd – £20 / 3rd – £10.
- Prize and commended poems will be published online. Each winning author will have the chance to be featured on the website.
26. Frontier Poetry Magazine
Deadline: always open
Guidelines: Submissions are open to new and emerging poets only. All submissions must be no more than ten pages and no more than five poems. Multiple submissions are NOT allowed.
Payment: $50 per poem.
If you are interested in more poetry contests, you can go through our poetry contests list with entry fees.
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