Deadlines: December & January
Every 15th of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the world. The next six weeks include: Our own Spotlight Award, TriQuarterly, Salt Hill Journal, Foundry, Sibling Rivalry Press & more.
DEADLINE: 12/22
45th Parallel
Submit up to 3 poems, not to exceed 10 pages. Each poem should begin on a new page. They are seeking diverse voices, especially from underrepresented communities.
Reading Fee: $0
DEADLINE: 12/31
TriQuarterly
Please submit no more than 6 poems per cycle in one document. Please use 12-pt Times New Roman font.
Reading Fee: $2
DEADLINE: 12/31
Typehouse Literary Magazine
Poetry submission with feedback. Up to 6 poems per submission. For helping to support Typehouse, you’ll receive feedback on two poems as a thank you! Please specify which two you would like feedback on in your cover letter.
Reading Fee: $6
DEADLINE: 12/31
Crazyhorse
They are seeking “poems that exhibit how content works symbiotically with form, evidenced in an intentional art of the poetic line or in poems that employ or stretch lyric modes. Along with this, poems that capture our attention enact the lyric utterance through musical textures, tone of voice, vivid language, reticence, and skillful syntax. For us, overall, the best poems do not idly tell the reader how to feel or think, they engender feeling and thought in the reader.”
Reading Fee: $3
DEADLINE: 1/1
Mississippi Review Poetry 2020 Contest
Submit 3-5 poems attached as one document. No more than 10 pages total. All submissions will be read anonymously. Please redact any identifying information from your submission.
Reading Fee: $16
DEADLINE: 1/15
Salt Hill Journal
Submit up to 5 unpublished poems in one document. They are interested in a wide range of poems, from traditional to experimental.
Reading Fee: $0
DEADLINE: 1/15
Rattle Chapbook Contest
Manuscripts should be 15 – 30 pages. Three winners (judged by the editors anonymously) will receive $5,000 and 500 author copies of their chapbook which will also be distributed to Rattle’s 7,000 subscribers.
Reading Fee: $25, includes a one-year subscription
DEADLINE: 1/15
Sibling Rivalry Press 2020 Undocupoets Fellowship
Two $500 fellowships will be awarded to poets living in the U.S. who are undocumented or who were formerly undocumented. Submit up to ten pages of poetry with no more than one poem per page. Please include a brief cover letter with a bio and brief description of your current work or work-in-progress. At least one of the awards will go to an LGBTQ undocumented (or formerly undocumented) poet. Please identify in your bio if you identify as LGBTQ.
Reading Fee: $0
DEADLINE: 1/15
The 2020 Palette Poetry Spotlight Award
The winner will receive publication, $2,000, and a unique opportunity to have themselves profiled across a quarter-page advertisement in the Poets & Writers magazine: bio, headshot, excerpt of work, and contact information for solicitation. Poets & Writers has a circulation of over 70,000 print and 100,000+ monthly visitors. Palette’s editors will choose the winner, and any honorable mentions they think deserve extra attention. Second and third place will receive $300 and $200, respectively. Submit no more than three poems in one document.
Reading Fee: $20
DEADLINE: 1/30
Foundry
Submit up to 4-6 unpublished poems in one document. Max 8 pages. They pay $20 per poem on Venmo, promote authors on social media, and nominate for prizes. No submission fee.
Reading Fee: $0
DEADLINE: 1/30
Twyckenham Notes
Please submit up to 5 poems in a single doc. No PDFs. Do not include any identifying information on the poems themselves. Poets will be awarded $25 per accepted poem. They also nominate published work for all major literary awards.
Reading Fee: $3