$3000 POET OF THE YEAR

$300 x 2 Runner-ups

SUBMIT HERE

The Poet of the Year will also receive a lifetime-comped premium subscription. The runner-ups will receive a 3-year comp. All honorable mentions will receive a 1-year comp. The winners will be published online and in our first-ever print anthology. All winners will be announced by July! As we do with our Poet of the Week series, we will publish 3-10 poems of all 3 winners alongside an extensive interview.

Indie lit is full of award-winning poems while awards for poets are reserved mostly for their books. We want to publish poets who make a home in our hearts with their voices and never leave. That's why this poetry award is not for the single best poem but rather for the poet whose body of work we feel is or will be full of one award-winning poem after another. 

Read about how we designed this contest without selling our souls here.

 

Submission Guidelines:

• Your submission must be between 5-10 pages. 
• Submissions are open internationally to any poet writing in English.
• Submit all your poems in a single document (.doc or .pdf). Begin each poem on a new page.
• Do not include your name or identifying information in the document or the title of your submission.
• The poems must have been previously unpublished at the time of submission.
• We encourage simultaneous submissions. Once you've submitted, you are not required to withdraw any poems. Even if all the poems in your submitted packet get published, that's fine (and so freakin' cool!). You will not be ineligible for the ONLY POEMS PRIZE—if we are interested in your work, we will find a way to work with you.
• We do accept multiple submissions, but each submission must come with the reading fee. Though we do not encourage these, sometimes you might have two or three different sets of poems you'd like to try for an award and we welcome those.
• $15 submission fee includes a 2-month premium subscription (worth $14) for our Substack featuring many MFA and Publishing related resources.
• All submissions will be considered for general publication for our Poet of the Week category.

SUBMIT HERE