Poetry Deadlines: January & February
We’ve got to be thankful to live in a world which offers so many opportunities for poets to get their work out there. Here are eighteen contests, magazines, and fellowships to submit your poems to soon.
Deadline: 1/15
Featured: Our Spotlight Award
We’re so excited to start the year with this award: $2000 + a quarter page ad in Poets & Writers with your beautiful face and profile.
Reading Fee: $20
Deadline: 1/15
Columbia Journal Translation Submissions
Translations are a wonderful part of our community—Columbia Journal is looking for yours. Send up to five and read the details about the rights.
Reading Fee: $0
Deadline: 1/20
Cagibi Translation Submissions
Cagibi is also looking for your translated poetry for their April issue.
Reading Fee: $3
Deadline: 1/20
Poetry International Chapbook — Winter Edition
Jane Hirshfield and Caolyn Forché have published with International Poetry—get your name in there too. Chapbooks should be between 7 and 24 pages.
Reading Fee: $20
Deadline: 1/31
Hurston/Wright College Awards
This is the program’s first year, so if you’re a Black college writer with three stellar poems—submit now. Get in on this opportunity. There will be cash prizes awarded.
Reading Fee: $25
Deadline: 1/27
Brooklyn Poets Fellowship
Free workshop from Brooklyn Poets! Including their online coursework. Don’t miss it.
Reading Fee: $0
Deadline: 1/31
Autumn House Press’ Rising Writer Contest
This contest is looking for debut authors 33 years or younger—winner gets publication and $1000. Poet Stacy Waite will judge.
Reading Fee: $25
Deadline: 1/31
Poetry Consultations from BLP Author Marcela Sulak
Marcela Sulak is looking to give feedback: Single poems, up to 2 pages in length, $10; Folios of up to 5 poems, not to exceed 7 pages in length, $30; Chapbooks, up to 40 pages in length, $150; Full-length collections, up to 80 pages in length, $250.
Reading Fee: $10-$250
Deadline: 1/31
The Iowa Review Award
Iowa Review is looking for up to 10 pages of poetry. Kiki Petrosino will select the winner, who will receive $1500 and publication.
Reading Fee: $20
Deadline: 2/1
Crazyhorse Poetry Prize
Send up to 3 poems to this giant in our community—winner gets $2000 and publication.
Reading Fee: $20
Deadline: 2/1
Sheila-Na-Gig Poetry Contest
This quarterly award from Sheila-Na-Gig gives out $107 to each winner. Send them your work!
Reading Fee: $7
Deadline: 2/15
The Antioch-Frontier Fellowship Contest
For non-MFA poets only, this really unique contest will send the winner to Los Angeles to participate at Antioch University LA’s 10 day MFA residency, all expenses paid. If you’re a poet who’s thinking about getting an MFA, there’s no better opportunity than this to decide.
Reading Fee: $20
Deadline: 2/15
Milkweed’s Ballard Spahr Prize
Poets of the Midwest—Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, or Michigan—submit your manuscripts here for a chance at the $10,000 prize.
Reading Fee: $0
Deadline: 2/15
Sarabande’s Kathryn A Morton Prize
Sarabande’s founders, Sarah Gorham and Jeffrey Skinner, will judge this year’s prize, awarding the winner: $2,000, publication of a full-length collection of poetry, a Sarabande Writing Residency, and a standard royalty contract.
Reading Fee: $28
Deadline: 2/15
Gigantic Sequins
A great journal with a great reputation—send 3-5 poems to be considered for their next issue.
Reading Fee: $0
Deadline: 2/15
Breadloaf Writers Conference
Breadloaf may be the best known writers conference around—and they’re highly selective about who gets to show up. Send them your best work.
Reading Fee: $20
Deadline: 2/28
Beloit Poetry Journal
Send BPJ up to 5 poems to be considered for their next issue.
Reading Fee: $0
Deadline: 2/28
Cold Mountain Review’s RT Smith Prize for Narrative Poetry
If you’ve got a narrative poem (ballads, dramatic monologues, linear narratives, lyric narratives, and other hybrids) with an ecological/eco-justice theme, this contest is perfect-timing. Winner receives $500 and publication.
Reading Fee: $12