The 2025 Adrift Chapbook Contest
2025-07-31 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
Timeline​​– Submissions are open from March 1st 2025 until July 31st 2025.
– Finalists and winner will be announced by Driftwood editors in November 2025.
– The winning chapbook(s) will be published in 2026.
​​​Guidelines​​​– Original poetry only. Prose poetry, experimental poetry, and poetry with a visual component (color images accepted) are all welcome. We do not accept written or visual works that are AI generated or plagiarized.
– 15-40 pages of poetry (this does not include title, section break, or acknowledgement pages). We won’t turn you away if you are a few pages over or under, but please stay close to that limit.
– A standard, 12-point font is preferred.
– Poems may have been published individually, but not as a part or whole of a collection. Please include an acknowledgements page listing all previously published poems.
– Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please let us know immediately if the collection has been accepted elsewhere.
– Submit works written in English only, no translations.
– Please submit your manuscript in a .doc, .docx, or PDF format.
– We read submissions blind, so please do not include your name, email, or any identifying characteristics on the manuscript itself.
– Submission fee is $25.00 USD. Each submitter will receive a free copy of a Driftwood Press poetry chapbook of their choosing in the mail.
Awards​– The winner will receive $750 dollars and 20 copies of their chapbook.
– A print run of the winning chapbook will be sold on our website, through affiliate bookstores, and will be nationally and internationally distributed by Ingram & Asterism.
– The winner will also have the opportunity to be interviewed about their work; the interview will be published in the chapbook following the poems.
– The managing poetry editor may offer a runner-up full publication. If a runner-up is chosen, they will be awarded $350, 20 contributor copies, and the same level of marketing and distribution.
​Past Contest Winners
​[2024 Contest]
[2023 Contest]
[2022 Contest]
[2021 Contest]
[2020 Contest]
[2019 Contest]
[2018 Contest]
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​Guest Judge

​Matthew Olzmann is the author of three poetry publications. In 2012, Olzmann edited Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series along with Ross White. His debut collection, Mezzanines, was published by Alice James Books in 2013, which won the Kundiman Prize. In November 2016, Olzmann published his second collection, Contradictions in the Design, also from Alice James Books. In January 2022, his third book of poems, Constellation Route, was published by Alice James Books.

The Adroit Journal Seeks Translation Readers
2025-08-01 00:00, 2025-09-01 00:00, 2025-10-01 00:00, 2025-11-01 00:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
The Adroit Journal seeks readers in translation to join our growing team. This is a volunteer, remote position with a start date of ASAP. The monthly commitment is approximately 6-8 hours when the submissions portal is open. Readers will read, discuss, and vote on submissions of translated work, and will attend monthly meetings, convened by the section editor.
Candidates need not be expert in multiple languages to apply. We’re looking, first and foremost, for experienced readers who are passionate about language and story, who are willing to read across genres, and who are enthusiastic about literary translation as an art form.
Please apply with a statement of interest (no more than a page) detailing your experiences as a writer, editor, and translator, if applicable; and what you would add to the journal’s literary and/or artistic community. You are encouraged to include things such as experience in the specific field(s), writing and publication, and other commendations and accolades, but this statement should NOT read like a résumé.
Your statement should highlight your history, passion, and experience with the areas of the position and creative writing. Feel free to discuss other topics you feel are appropriate, as well as any specific connections, measures, or initiatives you might have (or aspire to have) with The Adroit Journal’s staff community.
Please upload a cv/résumé.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. This position is volunteer and remote, with a start date of ASAP. Due to the volume of applications, we can only respond to people we wish to interview for an opening.
Before applying please familiarize yourself with the journal by visiting our About page, and perhaps also an issue or two.

2025 Stephen Mitchell Prize for Excellence in Translation
2025-08-01 00:00 - 2025-11-30 00:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
The Stephen Mitchell Prize for Translation
Stephen Mitchell has written or translated over twenty books. He has brought into English lucid, beautiful translations of Yehuda Amichai, Homer, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, and such foundational texts as the Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and Genesis, among others. In honor of Mitchell’s linguistic and poetic acumen, Green Linden Press will award the Prize for an unpublished book-length manuscript in any genre translated from any language into English.
— Contest awards $1000 and publication.
— All finalists considered for publication.
— We welcome simultaneous submissions, multiple submissions, and co-translated manuscripts.
— Send an unpublished manuscript of at least 48 pages in any genre translated from any language into English.
— Include an acknowledgments page indicating translations that have been previously published.
— Include a cover letter with a short biographical statement for the author and translator(s).
— Also, please briefly describe the merit of the work you are submitting: Why is it important that these translations be available to an English-reading audience? If the author’s work has been previously translated into English, what makes this manuscript distinct and necessary?
— When submitting your manuscript, you will be asked to indicate your relationship to the translation rights. Please indicate if the work is in the public domain or who holds the translation rights. If you have been granted permission by the author or the rights holder, please indicate this.
— If your manuscript is not bilingual (i.e., it is in translation only), you will be asked to provide a bilingual supplement of three or more pages—a sample of your translations alongside the original text.
— Because we agree with Mahmoud Darwish that poetry changes the poet, we are not interested in submissions generated, full or in part, by artificial intelligence.
— The reading fee is necessary because it helps fund the publication of our books. There are three options: (1) general reading fee, (2) general reading fee and a discounted book—note: we are not offering this for international submitters—, and (3) a discounted rate for students and those experiencing financial difficulty.
— Green Linden Press intends to publish one or more manuscripts from this contest; however, we reserve the right to publish no manuscripts if we feel that none fit our aesthetic.
— Contest will judged by Christopher Nelson, the editor of Green Linden Press, in consultation (if necessary) with an advisory board of writers and translators.
— A portion of the proceeds from this contest will support reforestation efforts.
— Submitters to Green Linden Press agree to receive updates about future publications and submission opportunities. You can unsubscribe at any time.
— Direct comments or questions to Christopher Nelson, editor: greenlindenpress at gmail dot com.
— Deadline: November 30.

Submit your Translations to Poet Lore
2025-08-01 08:00 - 2025-11-30 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Submittable
We have a mission of discovery at Poet Lore. Therefore, every submission is read without regard to reputation by our team of readers and editors.
We are open to translation submissions from January 1 – June 30 and from August 1 – November 30.
Poet Lore publishes a range of established and award winning poets such as Erika Meitner, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Sharon Olds, Kim Addonizio, Terrance Hayes, Linda Pastan, Mary Oliver & Carl Philips, who share the space with emerging poets. Someone’s first published poem may stand alongside another author’s 100th. We nominate select published poems for both the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets.
We are committed to diversity and inclusivity and highly encourage submissions from marginalized voices. We do not tolerate racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, or any work that promotes harmful stereotypes and viewpoints.
Before submitting translations of works that are not in the public domain, please identify the rights holder and obtain a statement that the rights to publish an English translation are available. Include the original text if possible, as well as a short biography of the writer and the translator, and a short introduction of the work. If there are extenuating circumstances that prevent you from including a copy of the original text at the time of your submission, please note that in the cover letter.
Poet Lore pays contributors $50 per published poem.
We accept translations on a rolling basis, but hope to return responses within 6-8 months of submission.
You may submit up to 5 English translations of poems. This category is for translation submissions ONLY. Submissions that are original poems and not translations will not be evaluated. Please note that we do not accept self-translations.
– Include all poems in 1 single document and please only submit once per submission period.
– Include the titles of all poems in your cover letter (bullet points or numbers are easiest).
– We accept simultaneous submissions, however, let us know in your cover letter if poems are simultaneously submitted, and please inform us immediately if a poem is accepted elsewhere.
– We do not accept work that has been previously published. This includes on personal blogs and social media.
– Upon acceptance, we ask for first serial rights, with rights reverting back to the author upon publication.

Lesley Strutt Poetry Contest
2025-08-10 00:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
The Lesley Strutt Poetry Contest is an award that provides a prize for the single best poem submitted to our judges. This contest is open to all poets (professional, emerging, and first-time) in Canada, and is run each summer in memory of poet and friend Lesley Strutt.
Submissions Guidelines
– This contest accepts poems in English, French and Innu-Aimun
– Open to all poets (professional, emerging, first-time, etc.)
– Submit one (1) poem per submission.
– Please submit poetry that is unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
– This annual contest has an entry fee of $5 per submission. If you are unable to pay the contest fee, please send email to admin@poets.ca
– Multiple submissions are accepted, but the entry fee of $5 applies to each individual submission.
– Eligible to Canadian poets, poets living and working in Canada, as well as Indigenous, Inuit and Métis poets who may not identify as Canadian but live in the region known colonially as Canada.

The life of Lesley Enid Strutt (March 10, 1953 – February 3, 2021) revolved around her loved ones, her community and on poetry. One of her last wishes was to help establish an Award that would celebrate all three well into the future. Born in Quebec, she eventually called the town of Merrickville, Ontario, home.
Lesley’s own poetry was widely published in literary magazines and chapbooks, and Inanna Press, who published her Young Adult novel, On the Edge, in 2019, will publish her full collection, Window Ledge, in 2021, but one of her main interests was to wake up poetry in others, to stimulate new writing, and to share the joys of reading or listening to poetry. Her enthusiasm for new writers through the years she was Associate Representative on The League of Canadian Poets led to the creation of Fresh Voices, a space on the League’s website for poems only by associate members.
Her passion for trees gave her the idea of asking the League representatives of all regions of Canada if they would edit a section of an anthology on trees, which would be sold as a fundraiser for The League of Canadian Poets, and Heartwood: Poems for the Love of Trees was born.
In her last weeks she worked with a team of poetry-loving volunteers in Merrickville who have since raised, and continue to raise, thousands of dollars to support this Award. In this way, everything and everyone she loved comes together in gratitude for those who make poetry, or who simply love it.

The Poetry in Translation Prize - Fitzcarraldo Editions
2025-08-15 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
The Poetry in Translation Prize is a biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English. The prize is open to living, published poets from around the world, writing in any language. The winning poet and translator receive an advance of $5,000, to be shared equally between poet and translator, followed by simultaneous publication in North America with New Directions, in the UK and Ireland with Fitzcarraldo Editions, and in Australia and New Zealand with Giramondo.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Please read these eligibility and entry rules carefully before submitting. Submission of an entry is taken as acceptance of the entry rules. For any queries not covered below, please write to info@fitzcarraldoeditions.com.
1. The prize is open to living, published poets around the world writing in any language except English.
2. Submissions should contain a sample of 15-25 translated poems, or 15-25 pages – whichever is greater. All submissions should be made by the translator. We will accept self-translated work and collaborative translations. Submissions will open on the 15 July.
3. Each submission should include a cover letter including a biographical note for both poet and translator, contact details and a brief outline of the full poetry collection. You are welcome to submit the poems in their original language in the original submission, and must also be able to provide these poems in their original language on request.
4. Submissions must be for a book of a minimum of 48 pages in English. With rare exceptions at the discretion of the judges, the finished book must not exceed 112 pages in English. The submission must be from a collection already published, or with an agreement to be published, in the original language.
5. The submission must be original and not AI-generated.
6. Entries that are incomplete, corrupted or submitted after the deadline will not be considered.
7. The entry must be the entrant’s own original creation and must not infringe upon the right or copyright of any person or entity.
8. Translators may only submit once per entry period.
9. When submitting, translators must have confirmation that the underlying rights holder has granted their written permission for both submission and hypothetical publication. This is a requirement for shortlisting and will be confirmed by the publishers at the shortlisting stage with a signed letter from the original rights holder.
10. The poet can have been published in English previously, but the submitted full-length book must not have been published before in the English language. Individual poems from the book can have been published in English with the understanding that no more than 25 per cent of the whole would have been previously published in translation. Details of prior publication in English must be given in the submission.
11. The prize encourages submissions of single-volume work, but welcomes pitches for selected poems. If submitting towards a collection of selected poems, please consider the book’s conceptual frame and coherence.
12. Poets and translators who have existing contracts for other texts, or who have previously held contracts with publishers, are eligible to enter.
13. The publishers will commission a full-length collection from the winning sample, which will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions and Giramondo as part of their poetry lists.
14. Submissions will open 15 July 2025 and close 15 August before midnight EST. Submissions will only be accepted via submittable.
15. A shortlist will be announced by November 2025, with the winner announced in January 2026 and published in 2027.
16. There are no age restrictions, and we welcome submissions from writers of all backgrounds.
17. All submissions should include page numbers.
18. Only submissions via the submissions portal (open from 15 July 2025) will be considered; entries by post will not be considered.
19. Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions reserve the right to organise a meeting or phone call with all shortlisted translators and poets before the award of the prize.
20. Unsuccessful entrants will not be contacted.
21. No editorial feedback will be provided to unsuccessful entrants.
22. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the judging process.
23. Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions will have the exclusive world English rights to publish the winning text.
24. Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo and New Directions reserve the right not to award the prize, or to make multiple offers of publication.
25. Only submissions which meet all Terms and Conditions will be considered.
26. By entering this competition, each entrant agrees to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.

The Foster Poetry Prize: 2025 Deadline
2025-08-20 08:00 - 2025-11-01 23:59 (America/Winnipeg) | British Columbia
Formerly known as the Young Buck Poetry Prize, the Foster Poetry Prize is a writing contest for emerging poets of any age. The prize is awarded to the author of the single best submitted poem, along with $1000 and publication in CV2. Three honourable mentions are also awarded, each with a cash prize and publication in CV2.
Participating poets can be any age, but must not have previously published a full-length book of poetry (chapbooks are fine). All entrants must be willing to provide proof of their publication history if requested.
See the winners from previous years here!

Full contest rules

— Participating poets can be any age, but must not have published a full-length book of poetry (chapbooks are fine). All entrants must be willing to provide proof of their publication history if requested.
— Open to Canadian and International poets.
— Entry fee: $35 (first entry, includes 1-year subscription), $20 (subsequent entries)
— Due to high international shipping costs, the subscription term for contest entrants residing in the US is 9 months (3 issues). For international residents, the subscription term is 3 months (1 issue).
— Early Bird Deadline: Enter by September 1st, 2025, and submit an extra poem at no additional charge.
— Deadline for all contest entries: November 1st, 2025 at 11:59pm central time.
— Your submission may consist of 1-2 poems, and is not to exceed 80 lines total. If you are submitting within the Early Bird Deadline and will be including a third poem, that poem can put you over the 80-line limit. However, the extra poem must not be longer than 28 lines.
— Stanza breaks DO NOT count as lines, nor do titles or subheadings.
— Do not identify yourself anywhere in your attachment. Enter your name and address information in the form provided in Submittable. In the space reserved for a cover letter please enter the title(s) of your piece(s) and line count.
— Your entry must be formatted on 8 1/2″ x 11″ using single spacing and a 12 point font (Times New Roman preferred).
— Entries must be sent in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format using Submittable. Please do not send your poem as a pdf.
— Winners of the 2025 Foster Poetry Prize will be notified by email and results will be available on the CV2 website in January 2026.
— Each piece must be original, unpublished, not submitted elsewhere for publication or broadcast, nor accepted elsewhere for publication or broadcast, nor entered simultaneously in any other contest or competition for which it is also eligible to win a prize.
— Winning pieces will be published in CV2 magazine, with authors paid for publication.

Contest prizes
The Foster Poetry Prize awards $1000 and publication in CV2 Magazine to the author of the winning poem. Second and third place winners and an honourable mention will receive publication in CV2 and $350, $250, and $150 respectively.

The 2025 Oxford Poetry Prize Deadline
2025-08-31 23:59 UTC | Submittable
Oxford Poetry awards the annual Oxford Poetry Prize for a single poem in the English language. The 2025 Prize opens on 1 May 2025. This year’s guest judge is Rebecca Tamás. The winner of the Oxford Poetry Prize receives £1,000, the runner-up £200, and third place £100. The winning poets are also offered publication in the print magazine. This year’s competition opens on 1 May 2025 and closes at midnight UTC on 31 August 2025.
About the 2025 Guest Judge
Rebecca Tamás is a poet, nonfiction writer, and critic. Her first full length poetry collection, WITCH (Penned in the Margins, 2019), was a Guardian, Times, Telegraph, White Review, Irish Times, Paris Review, and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Year, as well as a Paris Review Staff Pick and a Poetry Society Recommendation. Rebecca was a MacDowell Fellow, and recipient of the Sylvia Canfield Winn Fellowship for Environmental Writing. Her essay collection Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman (Makina, 2020) was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and she was joint editor, with Sarah Shin, of Spells: Occult Poetry for the 21st Century (Ignota, 2018; Silver Press, 2025). Rebecca works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George’s, University of London. Her second collection of poetry is forthcoming in 2026 with Fitzcarraldo.
How to submit
— Entries should consist of one poem per uploaded file. The only acceptable file format is pdf.
— Entries are accepted through Submittable only.
— Entrants have the option of submitting more than one poem as part of their submission (in separate files, as above). Each poem costs £10.
— There is no limit on the number of poems an individual can submit.
— Each poem must comprise no more than 50 lines. Blank lines, titles, subtitles, dedications, and epigraphs are not counted as lines.
— All submissions are read blind. Therefore, please do not include your name or any identifying information in the documents you upload. You should include this information only in the Title or Cover Letter field of the Submittable form.
— The Competition is open to writers living anywhere in the world.
— The poems submitted must be the entrant’s own original work and not have been previously published elsewhere, in print or online.
— A limited number of free entries are available to low-income writers. Email to enquire about free entry.
Terms and conditions
— The 2025 Oxford Poetry Prize is organised by Partus Press Ltd on behalf of the magazine Oxford Poetry.
— The competition is open to anyone age 18 or over on the date of their submission. Submission of a poem to the Oxford Poetry Prize constitutes the entrant’s acceptance of these terms and conditions. Entries that do not comply with these terms and conditions will be disqualified from the competition.
— Entries are welcome from 1 May 2025. The deadline for submitting entries is midnight utc on 31 August 2025. Work received after that date will not be considered.
— Entrants will be contacted with a response to their submission by the end of November 2025. All submissions will receive a response, though we cannot provide editorial feedback on unsuccessful entries. Winners and shortlisted entrants will be notified by email.
— No correspondence will be entered into regarding the judging process.
— The poem that receives first prize in the competition will be published in a print issue of Oxford Poetry. Oxford Poetry will have the exclusive right to publish the winning poem for four months from its first publication in the print magazine. After four months, the rights will revert to the author, who may publish the poem elsewhere with appropriate credit to Oxford Poetry, but Oxford Poetry will retain the non-exclusive right to publish the poem online and in print.
— The second- and third-prize winners will be offered publication in a print issue of Oxford Poetry.
— The first-place poet will receive a cash prize of £1,000. The runner-up will receive a cash prize of £200. The third-place poet will receive a cash prize of £100. All cash prizes will be paid out in full no later than 90 days after the public announcement of the judge’s decision. No individual entrant may receive more than one cash prize.
— Partus Press reserves the right not to award the prizes, or to reduce or split the prize money if, in its opinion, such an action is justified for any reason.
— All poems submitted must be written primarily in the English language. We cannot accept translations, unless you have translated your own work and the work in the original language has not previously been published in print or online in accordance with the terms outlined above.
— Each poem costs £10 to submit. The fee is not refundable, even if the submission is later withdrawn by the submitter.
— No changes or alterations can be made to poems once they have been entered into the competition.
— Partus Press Ltd cannot accept responsibility for any damage, loss, injury, or distress suffered by any person who has entered the competition.
— Partus Press Ltd reserves the right to cancel the competition, or to amend the terms and conditions of entry, if the press deems it necessary or to account for circumstances beyond its control (in which case a notice will be posted on the Oxford Poetry website). If the competition is cancelled, paid entry fees will be refunded.
— The entry must be the entrant’s own original work and must not infringe upon the copyright of any person or entity, nor may the entry have been generated, in whole or in part, by an artificial intelligence, chatbot, or other natural language processing software.
— Each poem must comprise no more than 50 lines. Blank lines, titles, subtitles, dedications, and epigraphs are not counted as lines.
— Current and former editors of Oxford Poetry, and family members of this year’s guest judge or of the magazine’s current editorial team, are not eligible to submit.
— These terms and conditions apply equally to paid entries and unpaid entries entered under the low-income scheme.
— In the event of a dispute regarding these terms and conditions, or any matter relating to the Oxford Poetry Prize, the decision of the organiser, Partus Press Ltd, shall be final.
— The competition rules will be governed by English law and any dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Submit to Prairie Fire Magazine
2025-09-02 08:00 - 2026-06-30 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Submittable
General Submissions

***We have recently changed our submission guidelines, so please read this section carefully before submitting***
Prairie Fire is currently accepting general submissions by snail mail or email (if snail mail is not convenient). Submittable is closed for the summer, but will resume September 2nd.
In order to find out what our editors are looking for, it’s a good idea to read back issues of Prairie Fire before submitting your work. Prairie Fire publishes literary, not commercial writing. Check recent issues and our website for information about special submission procedures, calls for submissions, contests, or to subscribe.
Prairie Fire encourages person/persons of color, LGBTQ+ & disabled writers, as well as writers from any other (or more than one) underrepresented community to submit.
We do not publish work that is sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or promotes hate speech or intolerance.
We do not publish AI generated work.
If you are a beginning writer, study your craft. Learn from good writers, and consult them before you submit. You can also find Prairie Fire in many libraries and, if you live in an area where you can’t find a copy at your local bookstore, you can order a back issue from us.
Like most magazines, Prairie Fire has a standard set of submission guidelines. Following these guidelines will ensure that your writing is sent directly to the appropriate editor. This speeds up the evaluation process, an arrangement that benefits both you and our editors.

For general submissions: Prairie Fire accepts ONE submission per category (Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction) every twelve months. Once you have submitted, please wait twelve months before submitting again.
For special calls for submission: You may submit ONE submission per category (Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction). If you have submitted to general submission you CAN also submit to special calls for submission.
Contests: You can submit as many times as you like, provided you pay the contest fees, regardless of if you have submitted within the last twelve months to general submissions or special calls.
No revisions, replacements or substitutions once submitted.
Prairie Fire receives hundreds of submissions every year in each genre. Because of the high volume of submissions, our editors are not able to comment on work being returned. The editors meet several times per year. Generally, the response time takes 3-6 months. If you have waited longer than this for a reply, please feel free to query us.
If your work is accepted, you will be notified via email. Payment is made upon publication. Please see our contributor rates for details. We buy First North American Serial Rights and First Digital Publication Rights only. After publication, copyright reverts to the author.
Guidelines for contests are somewhat different, so please check our contest information. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at prfire@prairiefire.ca.
We look forward to receiving and reading your work!

Frontier Poetry's Myths & Fables Prize Deadline
2025-09-07 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
In our continued celebration of imagination, storytelling, and the power of archetype, Frontier Poetry is thrilled to announce the Myths & Fables Prize. In her poem “Circe’s Power,” Louise Glück invokes the voice of the sorceress: “I never turned anyone into a pig. / Some people are pigs; I make them / look like pigs.” With chilling clarity, she peels back the veil of fantasy to reveal something deeply human—desire, illusion, transformation. These ancient tales, passed down through firelight and ink, still echo in our modern hearts.
We invite you to lend your voice to this lineage. The 2025 Myths & Fables Prize seeks poems that engage in mythological figures, cultural lore, personal legends, and reimagined fairytales. Whether you’re unearthing stories from your heritages, wrestling with gods and monsters, or crafting your own fables from the smoke of memory—send us work that is fearless, lyrical, and rich in poetic craft. We welcome traditional retellings and radical departures. Invented myths, fractured fairy tales, elegies for forgotten heroes, or whispered epics—let your poetry become the spell.

Frontier Poetry warmly encourages submission from poets of all identities, cultural backgrounds, and traditions. We are especially interested in work that explores underrepresented mythologies and stories not often given space in the Western literary canon.
Guest judge Jennifer Chang will select the winners. The first-place winner will receive $3000 and publication. The second- and third-place winners will receive $300 and $200, respectively, along with publication. All finalists will be considered for paid publication in New Voices.

Let the myths arise.
This contest opens July 1 to September 7, 2025

Further reading can be found here:
Circe’s Power by Louise Gluck
Fable for a Genome by Heather Green
The Uncursing of the Medusa by Ola Faleti
Refusing Eurydice by Ladan Osman
At Ithaca by Hilda Doolittle (H.D)
conjuring by Xiao Yue Shan
About the Guest Judge:
Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity, Some Say the Lark, and An Authentic Life, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her other honors include the William Carlos Williams Award, the Levinson Prize from Poetry, and fellowships to the Elizabeth Murray Artists Residency, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She teaches at the University of Texas in Austin and is the poetry editor of New England Review.
What Chang Is Looking For:
“I admire most the poems that invite me to feel and think something new. Startling, yet precise language moves me. Whatever expands my imagination, suddenly alters the weather (emotional, meteorological), stops time, and/or brings me closer to a truth, I welcome. I am open to and curious about all aesthetics. I love the sentence and I love the line and I love when the two are in collusion. Poems are composed of fragments, and it is the poem that invokes what’s been left out or lost that can break me open in the best, most devastating way.”
Guidelines:
Submissions are open to all poets, regardless of publication history.
Send us only your best, polished work—unpublished poems only, please.
As part of our dedication to the pursuit of a more inclusive publishing world, we are offering a free submission window for poets from historically marginalized groups at the beginning of the contest until we reach our cap of fifty. NOTE: SUBMISSION CAP HAS BEEN MET.
Please do not include any identifying information in the body of your document.
We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.
We ask for no more than three poems (five pages) per submission. Please submit all your poems in ONE document. We have no particular aesthetic or formal requirements and consider all styles of poetry.
Each entry requires a submission fee of $20.
Multiple submissions (of up to three poems apiece) are allowed, but each requires a separate entry fee.
Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history and personal bio. Also include any content warnings in consideration of our reading staff.
Work generated by AI will be automatically disqualified.
Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing primarily in English. Some code-switching/meshing is very welcome.
Please do not submit work if you have a close relationship with the guest judge.
If you have any questions, please visit our FAQ page. If you don’t find the answer to your question, email us: contact (at ) frontierpoetry (dot) com.
The deadline is September 7th, 2025. We plan to announce winners and finalists in Fall 2025.
Editorial Feedback Option:
This option costs $59 and will provide you with two pages of detailed and actionable feedback on your submission, including suggestions for future submissions. The $149 option will provide you with three letters from three different editors. Our guest editors are paid a significant portion of the fee and all are astute and professional poets. Please allow eight to ten weeks after the contest closes to receive your feedback.

Note on What We Look For
We do not hold preference for any particular style or topic—we simply seek the best poems we can find. Send us work that is blister, that is color, that strikes hot the urge to live and be. For a sense of what we are looking for, read through our previously published poems or What We Look For. We warmly and sincerely invite all voices, and especially those that have been historically marginalized and silenced to submit work.
We also encourage you to submit your poetry for free to our New Voices, open year-round. We pay our emerging NV poets $50 per poem, published every Friday. New Voices is the beating heart of Frontier, and we hope to read your work soon. Thank you so much for supporting the community of new and emerging poets.

Funicular Magazine: Deadline to Submit
2025-09-07 23:59 (America/Edmonton) | Online
Submit your poetry to Funicular Magazine.
Funicular is an Alberta-based literary magazine that publishes short stories of 3000 words or less, poetry, and flash fiction pieces under 1000 words.
General Guidelines
– Up to 5 poems
– Font: We don’t care, just make sure we can read it or, y’know, we won’t
– File Type: PDF, Word, Text file
– Simultaneous Submissions (please withdraw your piece if it is being published elsewhere)
– Multiple Submissions (see specific submission limits below)
– No previously published stories (in print or online). Self-published is fine.
– No genre fiction. There are places for genre fiction. One of those places is not here.
– Do not put your name anywhere in the document or filename.
– We read submissions blind. What We Want If we like your work, we will ask for online and/or serial publication rights.
– Flash Fiction Submissions Allowed Per Entry: 3 What is Flash? Nobody knows for sure. Flash is brilliant. Flash is short. Flash doesn’t have time to mess around. Flash can surprise. Flash can pulverize. Do whatever you want but make sure you make it count and make it short. Short fiction under 1000 words is the general rule for flash fiction.

2025 Windham-Campbell Prize Recipients Reading
2025-09-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, United States
Conclude the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival with our cherished traditional finale: an evening of readings by all eight of this year’s Prize recipients. This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from the voices that are shaping contemporary literature, as they share excerpts from their celebrated works.
Join us to experience the breadth and depth of talent from our 2025 honorees: Anthony V. Capildeo, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Rana Dasgupta, Patricia J. Williams, Roy Williams, Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, Anne Enright, and Sigrid Nunez. A powerful and inspiring end to a week of literary celebrations.

The Moth Poetry Prize 2025 - Judged by Ishion Hutchinson
2025-09-29 08:00 - 2025-12-31 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Online
The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for individual unpublished poems. The prize is open to anyone over 16, and each year attracts thousands of entries from new and established poets from over 50 countries worldwide.
1st PRIZE €6,000
3 RUNNER-UP PRIZES OF €1,000
8 COMMENDED PRIZES OF €250
The prize is judged anonymously by a single poet each year. Past judges include Claudia Rankine, Marie Howe, Deborah Landau, Daljit Nagra, Leontia Flynn, Billy Collins, Nick Laird, Warsan Shire, Hannah Sullivan, Fiona Benson and Nobel Laureate Louise Glück.
Past winners include Laurie Bolger, Lance Larsen, Aniqah Choudhri, Michael Lavers, Natalya Anderson, Lee Sharkey, Ann Gray (whose poem was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem) and Abigail Parry (who was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection).
The winner of The Moth Poetry Prize 2024 was American author Andrew Krivák.
‘Every writer knows what it’s like to be working alone in a room with words. And then you’re on a shortlist with fantastic poets like Naoise Gale and Anthony Lawrence and Shelley Stenhouse, all of whom know what that work and that aloneness is like. So, to be part of that, to be recognized by The Moth, and to be just one of the voices that make up their larger literary tradition, this all means a great deal to me.’ Andrew Krivák
Watch Andrew read his winning poem ‘Raccoon Baculum Good Luck Charm’
The Judge
Ishion Hutchinson, author of three poetry collections, is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, among others. He is Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University in New York and recently published his essay collection, Fugitive Tilts, which New York Magazine described as ‘thrilling’.
‘I wouldn’t say I had or have an affinity for poetry ‒ it confounded me, plagued me, yet I felt enlarged by it, for it widened the presence of all I knew and didn’t. It was love, simply, love that you have to approach the same way Faulkner said you have to approach Joyce’s Ulysses, like the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.’ Ishion Hutchinson
HOW TO ENTER
– The Prize is open to anyone (over 16) from anywhere in the world, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished.
– There is no line limit, and the poems can be on any subject.
– The entry fee is €16 per poem. You can ENTER ONLINE or send your poem(s) along with a cheque or postal order made payable to ‘The Moth Magazine Ltd.’ with an ENTRY FORM or a cover letter with your name and contact details and the title of your poem(s) attached to: The Moth, Ardan Grange, Milltown, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, Ireland H14 K768.
– If you are concerned about formatting online, please go through the online process and then email your poem as a Word attachment with your entry number directly to enquiries@themothmagazine.com.**
– Please remember to READ THE RULES of the competition before you enter.
– CLOSING DATE 31 DECEMBER 2025
– You will need to SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILING LIST if you wish to be notified of the results
– The shortlist will be announced in March 2026 and the four shortlisted poems will appear in the Irish Times online.
– The overall winner of €6,000 will be announced at a special award online in the spring of 2026.
– Call 00 353 (0)87 2657251 or email enquiries@themothmagazine.com for more details.
TESTIMONIALS
‘Judging The Moth Poetry Prize was a beautiful experience. I’ve come away changed ‒ inspired and hopeful.’ Warsan Shire
‘The great thing about winning with this poem is that I have actually submitted it to other competitions without success. Sometimes you have to give up on your favourites, but sometimes it is worth ignoring the feedback and sticking with your gut. I am glad I did with this poem.’ Damen O’Brien
‘What an incredible honour!’ Larsen said of winning The Moth Poetry Prize. ‘I love Wordsworth’s reminder that “the prison, into which we doom ourselves, no prison is.” As much as I love the solitude of writing, I also like to poke my head up once in a while to celebrate the communal dimensions of poetry and see that I may have a place at the table after all.’ Lance Larsen

The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2025
2025-09-30 23:59 (Europe/Dublin) | Online
The Moth Nature Writing Prize aims to encourage and celebrate the art of nature writing. It is awarded annually to unpublished pieces of prose or poetry which best combine exceptional literary merit with an exploration of the writers’ relationship with the natural world.
An entry consists of a single poem of any length (not a collection of poems) or a single piece of prose (fiction or non-fiction) of up to 4,000 words.
Each year a single judge is asked to choose winners from entries worldwide. Previous judges include Richard Mabey, Helen Macdonald, Max Porter, Kathleen Jamie and Cal Flyn.
The prize is open to anyone over the age of sixteen, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished.
THE PRIZES
1st prize €1,000 and a week at The Moth Retreat in Ireland
2nd prize €500
3rd prize €250
THE JUDGE
Multi-award-winning author and naturalist, Mark Cocker, will judge The Moth Nature Writing Prize 2025. Mark has written 13 books, including Crow Country, A Claxton Diary and One Midsummer’s Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth. He co-founded several environmental organisations, including the Oriental Bird Club and New Networks for Nature, and has been a country diarist for The Guardian for the past 38 years.
‘Profound knowledge, uncanny ability to observe and heartliftingly exact prose.’ The Times
HOW TO ENTER
The Moth Nature Writing Prize is open to anyone over 16, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. There is a 4,000 maximum word limit (for prose and poetry).
The entry fee is €15 per entry (a single poem or piece of prose). You you can enter as many times as you like, along with €15 entry fee.
You can enter online or send your entry along with a cheque or postal order made payable to ‘The Moth Magazine Ltd.’ with an entry form or a cover letter with your name and contact details and the title of your piece attached to: The Moth, Ardan Grange, Milltown, Belturbet, Co. Cavan, Ireland H14 K768.
Please read the rules before you enter.
The Prize closes 30 September 2025.
The winning entries will appear in the Irish Times online.
You will need to subscribe to our mailing list if you wish to be notified of the results

The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize 2025 Deadline
2025-09-30 23:59 (America/New_York) | Online
Prize: $10,000 + Residency Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center
2025 Judge: Shane McCrae
General Guidelines
– Submissions are open July 1 – September 30.
– A fee of $28 must be paid at the time of submission.
– Open to any poet writing in English. Translations are not eligible.
– The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize is not a first book prize, though we welcome first books. The Prize is open to poets at any stage of their career.
– There are no formal restrictions for this prize; we welcome manuscripts of any style/form.
– Poems may have been published individually in magazines or anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished.
– Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please notify TRP immediately by withdrawing the manuscript via Submittable if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
– Current and former students and faculty of Sam Houston State University are not eligible.
– Family members and current or former students* of the final judge or TRP staff are not eligible.
– Current and former TRP authors are not eligible.
– Submitters must be 18+ years of age.
– Submissions are accepted through Submittable only.
– Winner will receive a $10,000 advance, a standard royalty contract, and 10 copies of the published book.
– Writers who studied with the final judge or TRP staff for a semester-length period are not eligible. Writers who studied with the final judge or TRP staff for two-week residencies, single workshops, or other instances less than a semester in length are eligible, provided the work submitted is previously unseen by TRP staff or the final judge.
Manuscript Guidelines
– Manuscripts must be between 50 and 100 pages in length.
– Please include a table of contents (if applicable), title page, and page numbers.
– Do not include an acknowledgments page.
– No more than one poem per page. (Multi-page poems are welcome.)
– Submissions are anonymous. Please remove any identifying information from the manuscript.
– Submit as a .pdf, .docx, or .doc file format.
– No revisions will be accepted once the manuscript is uploaded.
TRP’s X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center
Vermont Studio Center (VSC) and TRP: The University Press of SHSU (TRP) are pleased to announce a partnership to offer the TRP’s X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center. This fellowship offers a three-week residency, in the summer, to a recipient of the X. J. Kennedy Prize and includes a private studio space, a private room in shared lodging, access to the Visiting Artists & Writers Program, and all meals. The X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize Fellow at VSC will join an inclusive international community of artists and writers located in northern Vermont.
This contest honors award-winning poet X. J. Kennedy.

Embodying Translation: Poetry’s Lea(r)nings
2025-10-04 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front, 303 E 8th Ave E, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5T 0B2, Canada
Admission: $15 / Free for Indigenous participants
Register: Here
The Capilano Review and Western Front are pleased to present a workshop by writer-in-residence Erín Moure.
On the workshop, Moure says:
Translation is a performance that is incorporated, that stems from a textual flow through a body already socially, culturally and ideologically constituted (and in motion, for these do not stay fixed), and that already has corruptions in its own structure that will mar what passes through it. We can best learn about how language (linguaxe) crosses language (lingua) borders by working with poetry, which is language at its most polyvalent and demanding. In this workshop, we’ll translate a small poem in pairs, then discuss some of the effects, and how we might learn from them more about language’s workings: key skills for any translator/writer/communicator in tomorrow’s (today’s!) world. We’ll work into English, primarily, and the workshop welcomes participants with any level of multilingual experience, including unilingual. All you need is language curiosity.
This workshop is open to writers working in any genre. A total of 12 in-person workshop spaces are available.
Registration includes the option for a one-year subscription to The Capilano Review at a discounted rate.
The registration fee is waived for Indigenous writers. If you are an Indigenous writer interested in participating in this workshop, please email contact@thecapilanoreview.com to register.

About the Writer
Erín Moure is a poet, essayist, and translator of poetry based in Montréal, Canada who works across Galician, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. A recipient of two Governor General’s Literary Awards—poetry and translation—as well as the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the A.M. Klein Prize, she holds two honorary doctorates and has been International Translator in Residence at Queen’s College (Oxford) and Woodberry Creative Fellow (Harvard).

Submit to Tint Journal
2025-10-13 08:00 - 2025-11-30 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Online
Share your short stories, creative nonfiction essays, flash and poetry, as well as your artworks from October 13 to November 30, 2025 (CET midnight) with us to be considered for our 15th issue, Tint Spring ‘26! We’re looking forward to receiving your work at submissions@tintjournal.com!
In view of the diverse backgrounds of our contributing writers, any subject matter which does not violate our values of acceptance and inclusivity is welcome. Check our submission guidelines and our previous issues to find out what we are looking for. Submissions which do not follow these guidelines will not be considered.
Submissions for our In Conversation section (book reviews, interviews, profiles, other related articles) are received year-round. Please review our submission guidelines and contact our In Conversation editors Andrea Färber and Chiara Meitz.

Vancouver Writers Fest
2025-10-20 08:00 - 2025-10-26 17:00 (America/Vancouver) | British Columbia
The 38th annual Vancouver Writers Fest takes place from October 20–26, 2025, featuring a scintillating lineup of exceptional books, ideas, and dialogue in 87 events.
Our 2025 Festival Guest Curator is the brilliant, multi-award-winning poet and novelist Canisia Lubrin. She has curated four events for us in a program called Cycling and Renewal for the Earth, taking an approach based on the idea(l) of literature’s unique ability to broaden the scope of dialogue between people—and that this, in turn, can fortify the work of cultures, institutions, and literature itself.
The events at this year’s Festival will explore the issues and themes dominating the cultural and political sphere, that would benefit from deeper examination and understanding. They’ll spark reflection, curiosity, and laughter. Most of all, they’ll offer an opportunity to hear from some of the finest authors working today, and discover new books that deserve a place on your shelf.

Masterclass with Canisia Lubrin and Jillian Christmas
2025-10-22 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | YouTube
This Masterclass is an extraordinary double-bill, featuring two icons of contemporary Canadian poetry. Canisia Lubrin is the author of the multi-award-winning Code Noir and The World After Rain, a poetry collection epic in its vision and intimate in its exploration of grief and loss. Jillian Christmas is a spoken word poet, author of The Gospel of Breaking, and a passionate organizer and activist in our local arts community. Both authors are deeply knowledgeable about the wider literary scene, and their insight and curation has helped shape this year’s Festival. This unmissable session will give students the chance to generate new poems together and alone, learn reading and recitation techniques, and listen to a short craft talk, followed by a Q+A. Grades 10–12.
Presented thanks to the generous support of The Pitfield Family in memory of Ebie Pitfield.
Themes: Creative writing, BIPOC, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, technique
Curriculum Connections: Creative Writing 10-12

Jillian Christmas

JILLIAN CHRISTMAS is an artist, creative facilitator, curator, consultant, and arts advocate. She is the long-time spoken word curator of the Vancouver Writers Fest, and former artistic director of Verses Festival of Words. She is the author of The Gospel of Breaking, The Magic Shell, and My Sweet Baby Book.

Canisia Lubrin

CANISIA LUBRIN, author of Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst, has won the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Windham-Campbell Prize. She coordinates the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Guelph and is the poetry editor at McClelland & Stewart. Her debut fiction, Code Noir: Metamorphoses, won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. She is the 2025 Vancouver Writers Fest Guest Curator.

Submit to Poetry London
2025-10-24 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Submittable
Poetry London is a leading international magazine, where new names share pages with acclaimed contemporary poets. We also publish a wide range of poetry in translation.

The magazine is published in March, June and October. We receive a vast amount of submissions, so reading can take up to four months, and if your work is shortlisted, maybe even longer. You might find it helpful to read the magazine first, to see if your work is suitable.
Subscriptions
We appreciate subscriptions, as we depend on these to survive, though if you don’t subscribe it won’t affect your chances!
Subscribe today!

Costs & Fees
Please ensure that you pay the correct postage when submitting poems and books for review. As a small charitable organisation, we don’t have the resources to pay for any additional costs incurred and won’t be able to collect any post where incorrect postage has been paid. Thank you!We pay poets £35 per poem, though appropriate adjustments may be made for very long poems. Review and interview fees are agreed in advance with the Reviews Editor and benchmarked at £50 per 1,000 words.

Submitting poems
Poetry London aims to publish the best, most exciting poetry being written now, and we are always interested in work by unpublished poets, as well as celebrated ones.Submissions are read by Niall Campbell, Poetry Editor.Both electronic and postal submissions are welcome and all are carefully read.

Electronic submissions: For online submissions, please click the button below and follow the instructions.
Submit via Submittable
Postal submissions
Please send a maximum of six poems to:
Niall Campbell
Poetry London
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London
SE14 6NW
UK
Always include a stamped addressed envelope for our reply.We will reply by email if you are sending your work from abroad. In these circumstances you may submit your poems by post and request an email response in your cover letter. Unfortunately we cannot return manuscripts from outside the UK.
Simultaneous submissions
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if you are submitting online through Submittable. Please withdraw your poems if they are accepted elsewhere.

Terms & Conditions
—We do not print previously published work except in exceptional circumstances. If we do, then approval will be sought from the poetry editor. Poetry London undertakes not to change republished work in any way, including layout and punctuation, without prior consent from the author, and the author has the right to see a proof of the poem in question before publicationThe author will be sent proofs of their work for approval. Proofs must be returned within 10 days. Poetry London undertakes not to change work in any way, including layout and punctuation, without prior consent from the author.
—The author will always be credited for their work. Please let us know the preferred form of name for the credit. When asked to approve a proof, authors will also have the opportunity to ensure their name is spelled correctly.
—The author will receive one complimentary copy of the issue in which their work is featured.
—We take the first non-exclusive right to publish the author’s contribution in the next issue of Poetry London in print form and verbatim digital form, in the English language.
—We retain the non-exclusive right for the full term of copyright to publish or make available as part of that issue of Poetry London as part of an archive. We will not allow third party downloading, copying or any other use without your permission.
—We may wish to use the author’s work later for anniversary editions or anthologies, in which case we will seek the author’s permission and agree a fee.
—Following publication, we encourage contributors and/or third parties to republish, syndicate or blog their work. We will never ask for permissions fees and only ask that the author/third part publisher indicates that the contribution ‘originally appeared in Poetry London’.
—If we receive requests from publishers or others for re-use of your contribution, we will forward them to the author and facilitate contact between the publisher and said author.
—Payment for the author’s work will be made within 30 days following publication of the print issue in which their work appears.
—Payment will only be made upon receipt of an invoice. Your invoice should contain the title of your poem, the issue in which it appeared and either your bank account details, or another accepted method of payment, including, for example, PayPal. We will pay VAT on receipt of a valid VAT invoice.

Submitting books for review
Poetry London publishes reviews of around seventy or eighty titles a year. We concentrate on single author collections of poetry in English or translated into English, including some pamphlets and chapbooks. In addition, there are occasional reviews of significant anthologies or relevant critical writing.We will review collections in English from anywhere in the world, but predominantly the books reviewed are from publishers (large or small) in the UK or Ireland. We cannot accept self-published books for review or return books which are not selected for review.All reviews are commissioned in advance by the editor.

Postal submissions
Please send all books for review to:Isabelle Baafi
Poetry London
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London
SE14 6NW
UK

The Poetry Society 2025 National Poetry Competition
2025-10-31 00:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Judges: Denise Saul, Ian Duhig, Susannah Dickey
Prizes: First prize £5,000, second prize £3,000, third prize £2,000, commended prizes £500
Run by The Poetry Society since 1978, The National Poetry Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for an unpublished poem of up to 40 lines, open to all poets worldwide aged 18 or over
Closing date: 31 October 2025

Rules

We recommend all entrants read the rules carefully before entering. If you have any questions please see our Frequently Asked Questions page.
Rules: General

The competition is open to anyone aged 18 or over at the time of entering. International entries are welcome.
The closing date of the competition is midnight (GMT UK time), 31 October 2025.
There is no limit on the number of entries a single entrant can make. All entries will be considered anonymously by the judges.
Entries will not be returned, so please keep a copy.
Under no circumstances can alterations be made to poems once entered.
Online entries made via the website will receive automatic confirmation at the time of submission.
Telephone or email confirmation of receipt is not available. Poetry Society staff are unable to confirm the content of documents submitted online, so please ensure you send the correct version.
The competition organisers reserve the right to change the judging panel without notice and not to award prizes if, in the judges’ opinion, such an action is justified.
The judges read all the entries; their decision is final. Neither the judges nor Poetry Society staff will enter into any correspondence.
No current employee or Trustee of The Poetry Society is eligible to enter the National Poetry Competition.

Rules: Poems

All entries are judged anonymously and the poet’s name must not appear on the poem itself.
All poems must have a title and must not exceed 40 lines in length (excluding title). Entries can be on any subject.
Poems must be written in English.
Poems must be the entrant’s original work. AI-generated work is prohibited.
Entries must not have been published, self-published, published on a website or made public on social media, broadcast or featured among the winners in another competition before 31 March 2026.

Rules: Fees

The first poem submitted costs £8. Subsequent entries in the same submission cost £6 per poem. Poetry Society members (including those joining at time of submission) get one free second poem, with subsequent poems at £6.

Rules: Winners

Prizewinners will be notified by the end of February 2026 and invited to an awards event in spring 2026. All winners will be expected to provide a biography and photograph.
All entrants who provide a valid email address will be notified about the outcome of their entry by the end of March 2026.
The copyright of each poem remains with the author. However, authors of the winning poems, by entering the competition, grant The Poetry Society the right in perpetuity to publish and/or broadcast their poem. Use of the poems elsewhere for one year from March 2026 is subject to permission from The Poetry Society.

Diaspora Dialogues: Apply for Long Form Mentorship
2025-10-31 11:59 (America/Toronto) | British Columbia
Diaspora Dialogues invites submissions from emerging writers in both the GTA and across Canada who currently have a full or near-full draft of a manuscript. We accept novels, short story collections, creative non-fiction/memoir, works intended for young adults and poetry. Complete or near complete means that the writer has up to 85,000 words or 300 double-spaced pages of prose; or up to 25 poems (50 pages maximum). Submissions will consist only of excerpts from these works (see guidelines below).
Diaspora Dialogues is committed to supporting a literature that is as diverse as Canada itself. Writers are encouraged to keep this mandate in mind, but addressing this theme directly is not essential in the submission.
Notifications will be made at the end of December. The mentorships will begin in early 2026 and run for six months. Assigned mentors are at the discretion of Diaspora Dialogues.
The deadline to apply is 11:59 EST on October 31st, 2025.
Discover all the details here.

Submit to Crannóg
2025-11-01 08:00 - 2025-11-30 23:59 (Europe/Dublin) | Online
Crannóg welcomes general submissions of fiction & poetry
Crannóg is published in March and September. Submissions will be open in the month of November for the March issue and in the month of May for the September issue. Submissions sent outside these times will not be read.
If you have been published in the current issue of Crannóg we ask that you do not submit for the immediately subsequent issue.
If you have never been published in Crannóg we would appreciate that you first purchase the current issue and ensure you are familiar with what we publish, and the style of the magazine including bio style.

We accept simultaneous submissions on the condition that we are informed immediately if accepted elsewhere and we thank you in advance for doing this. However, we do not accept third party submissions. Submissions are accepted in good faith that they are the original work of the sender and that the attributed author is holder of copyright.

Submission Guidelines

Send no more than three poems. Each poem should be under 50 lines.
Send one story. Story should be under 2000 words.
Ensure each poem begins on a new page.

Include a brief bio in the third person. Bio should conform to the style of bios in past issues of Crannóg.
Include a postal address for contributor’s copy. We do not accept postal submissions.
There is no need to enquire about the status of your submission. We reply to all submissions whether accepted for publication or not.

Writer Benefits
A publication fee of €120 per poem and €200 per story, €200 per author interview and €200 per cover image.
A contributor’s copy.
An invitation to attend/read at the launch of Crannóg in ‘The Listeners Club’ at The Crane, Galway, Ireland.
Three contributors will be nominated for the Forward Prize for best single poem.
Six contributors will be nominated for a Pushcart Prize, (poetry and fiction).
Selected contributions may be posted on the magazine’s website and on our social media platforms.

The Malahat Review's Open Season Awards 2025
2025-11-01 23:59 (America/Vancouver) | Online
Our annual Open Season Awards accepts entries in poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
The contest is open to Canadian and international writers anywhere in the world.
Deadline: 11:59pm (PST) on November 1, 2025
The winner in each genre will receive a prize of CAD$2,000 and be published in the magazine’s spring 2026 issue #234.
Entries accepted via Submittable only. (See below for instructions.)
Contest Judges
Manahil Bandukwala (poetry)
H. Felix Chau Bradley (fiction)
Shane Neilson (creative nonfiction)
Book Prizes
In addition to the three $2,000 prizes, we’re giving away book prizes to three lucky contest entrants! All you have to do is submit your work to the contest, and you’ll be automatically entered to win. After the deadline, we’ll pull three names from the list of entrants.
Guidelines
— poetry: up to 3 poems per entry (must be submitted in a single document), no individual poem more than 100 lines long, line count must be given for each poem.
— short fiction: 1 story per entry, 2,500 words max, word count must be given at the top of the first page.
— creative nonfiction: 1 piece per entry, 2,500 words max, word count must be given at the top of the first page.
All entries are judged anonymously. No identifying information is to be included on any poem, story, or nonfiction piece submitted.
— Multiple entries are allowed (at a reduced fee, if paid for at the same time as the initial entry: see Entry Fees and How to Submit below).
— Entrants may submit work in more than one genre (see Additional Entries below).

Entry Fees
— CAD$35 for each entry from Canada
— *Early Bird discount until Sep. 30: CAD$20
— CAD$45 for each entry from elsewhere
— *Early Bird discount until Sep. 30: CAD$30
— CAD$10 for each additional entry (any writer, any country)
— See How to Pay (below) for detailed instructions.
— Entrants receive a one-year print subscription to The Malahat Review for the initial entry only.
— Additional Entries: To receive the reduced entry fee(s) of CAD$10, any additional entries must be paid for at the same time as the first entry; such additional entries should be submitted on Submittable within 24 hours of the initial entry.
— Additional entries may be submitted in any genre (e.g., an initial entry in poetry may be accompanied by an additional entry or entries in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction).
Eligible Entries
— No work simultaneously submitted elsewhere, already published, or already accepted for publication is eligible for consideration (even if only excerpted, or even if revised since original publication). We consider any appearance in print or online to be a publication, including newspapers, newsletters, magazines, anthologies, chapbooks, books, websites, blogs, social media, etc. This restriction applies regardless of the size of the print run or the extent of the circulation of previously published work.
— Failure to comply with these criteria for eligibility will immediately disqualify any entry, regardless of when the ineligiblity is discovered in the process of adjudication (submission, processing, screening, shortlisting, final judging
— The entry fee for a disqualified submission will not be refunded, and the entrant will still receive a one-year print subscription to the magazine.
Notification
— The winner in each genre will be notified by email.
— Other entrants will receive notifications of the shortlists and winners via Submittable messages.
— The shortlists and winners in each genre will be announced in January 2026 on our website, Instagram, and Facebook.
— The winners will be interviewed, and the interviews will be published on our website and in a spring edition of Malahat lite.
How to Pay (credit card)
— Go to our online store to pay your contest fee(s).
— Payment must be made online through our store before submitting, since you must include your ORDER# with your submission. We accept VISA, Mastercard, or American Express. No profile is needed in order to pay your entry fee on our store website—simply choose guest checkout.
— Online payments will not be accepted after the contest deadline (if you have any problems with such payment, please write to malahat[at]uvic.ca).
How to Pay (cheque or money order)

— If you are unable to pay by credit card, you can mail a cheque or money order made out to The Malahat Review in CAD$ or USD$ to: The Malahat Review, Clearihue Bldg, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700, Stn CSC, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada.
— Instead of an order#, you must indicate “cheque” or “money order” as required on the submission form.
— Cheques or money orders must be mailed with a postmark date of no later than November 1, 2025.
How to Submit
— Only online submissions made through The Malahat Review‘s Open Season Awards portal on Submittable will be accepted.
— Acceptable file formats: Word (.doc or .docx) or PDF.
— A single entry is defined as 1 to 3 poems (uploaded in a single document, maximum 100 lines per poem), or 1 short story or 1 creative nonfiction piece (max 2,500 words in each case).
— You can make only one entry at a time on Submittable; to submit additional entries, whether at the reduced rate (paid for at the same time) or at a standard rate, simply follow the same process as with the initial submission (the ORDER # will be the same for additional entries paid for at the same time as the initial submission; it will be different for an entry or entries made at a later date, since these require the full fee).

Submit to The Stinging Fly
2025-11-04 08:00 - 2025-11-18 17:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Submittable
‘The Stinging Fly is an essential part of the thriving ecosystem of Irish literary life. When people ask me how to break into publication I tell them to try there first. It is where the seeds of future writing careers are sown.’—Anne Enright
Thank you to everyone who submitted work for our special issue on the climate crisis. We are aiming to get back to everyone before the end of August and we will be publishing the issue in November.
We will next be open for submissions fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry between Tuesday November 4th and Tuesday November 18th 2025 (at 5pm Irish time). This will be for our Summer 2026 issue.
The link for submitting your work to us will be active here from when the submission round opens on November 4th.
To keep up to date with all our submissions, workshops, readings, and events, we recommend you join our Newsletter.
What We Publish
During our November 2024 open submission round, we hosted an information session on Zoom for new writers interested in submitting to the magazine. Magazine editor Lisa McInerney and poetry editor Annemarie Ní Churreáin spoke about submissions and the editorial process and answered some commonly asked questions.
You can watch a recording of the session here.
We publish new, previously unpublished work by Irish and international writers. We have a particular interest in promoting new writers, and in promoting the short story form. Each issue of The Stinging Fly includes a mix of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, alongside our Featured Poets and Comhchealg sections, occasional author interviews and novel extracts. We also welcome submissions of poetry and prose in translation.
We are always excited to read new writers and to hear new voices in literature. Many of the writers we publish have never been published before.
We believe that a proactive approach to diversity and inclusivity is important in redressing imbalances of representation and diversity, both in the pages of our magazine and in the wider cultural landscape. As such, we strongly encourage submissions by writers from underrepresented areas of society.
You can read more about The Stinging Fly and our team on the About Us page.

Guidelines:
Work must be previously unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere.
Only work submitted through our Submittable account will be considered. Submittable is free to use, and there is no fee to submit your work to us.
We currently accept submissions in the following four categories: short fiction; novel extracts; non-fiction; poetry. Writers may only submit work to us under one category per submission period. Graphic fiction and non-fiction submissions are welcome.
Your work should always be just as long (or as short) as it needs to be. If you are sending us a novel extract, please don’t send us your full novel! Just a chapter or a section or a story-length passage will suffice, so long as it can be enjoyed as a standalone piece.
For general poetry submissions, you may send up to 3 poems. Your poems should be submitted together in one single file.
Featured Poets: In each issue we seek to publish a number of poems (usually 5 or 6) by a poet who is working seriously towards putting together a first collection. To be considered, you must already have started publishing poems in other journals and magazines and supply us with a minimum of three publication credits from the past three years. We welcome poets who have previously had work appear in The Stinging Fly. Please send 8 of your previously unpublished poems together in a single file. If we want to see more, we will get back to you. If submitting for the Featured Poet slot, please do not make a separate general poetry submission. We will also consider individual poems within your Featured Poet submission for publication.
Comhchealg: Is í ‘Comhchealg’ cuid Ghaeilge The Stinging Fly. Cuirtear fáilte roimh phíosaí Gaeilge ó scríbhneoirí úra. Is nós linn aistriúcháin Bhéarla a chur ar fáil i gcás na ndánta a roghnaítear. Chuige sin, déanaimid filí Béarla a chur ag obair ar shaothar a gcomhúdar. Leantar na treoirlínte iarratais thuas a bhaineann le filíocht Bhéarla.
All submissions are read. The editors’ decision may not be correct but it is final. We aim to contact everyone within four months of the closing date.
Work accepted for publication in the magazine will also be added to our online archive, which is accessible to magazine subscribers and to members of our Friends of The Fly programme.

Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions? More information is available in our Submissions FAQ.
And this interview with incoming editor Lisa McInerney focuses a lot on the Stinging Fly’s submissions and editorial processes.

Payment
We pay the following fees for first serial rights. Work published in the magazine is also published on our website as part of our online archive. Copyright remains in all cases with the author.
Fiction and nonfiction: €50 per magazine page, but with a minimum/maximum payment of €350/€1250.
Flash Fiction/shorter essays (1 – 2 pages): €150
Poetry: €50 per magazine page, but with a minimum payment of €75 per poem.
Featured Poet: €600
Cover artwork image: €450
Contributors also receive a copy of the issue in which their work is featured and can order further copies at a discounted rate.

Virtual Poetry Masterclass: Erasures, Insertions, Collages with Anne Simpson
2025-11-04 08:00 - 2025-11-25 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Zoom
Working with various texts, we will find a way to erase, resist, or obscure other words to find the thread of a poem. Insertions will come into it too. We’ll play with other texts to find our own way, our own poems. We’ll read the work of Mary Ruefle and Layli Long Soldier, among others.

About the instructor: Anne Simpson writes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Among her poetry collections, Loop was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2004. Her most recent novel, Speechless, was awarded the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award in 2021. She has mentored many writers as a writer-in-residence in libraries and universities across Canada. Currently, she is working on a new novel.

Recommended experience level: Early-career, established, and professional poets (About recommended experience levels)
Participant cap: 12
Location: Zoom
Dates of 4-week workshop: Tuesdays, Nov 4 + Nov 11 + Nov 18 + Nov 25, 2025 (7:00pm to 9:00pm Atlantic)
Registration for 2025 General Members: $189
Registration for non-members: $219 (includes discounted fall 2025 General Membership in WFNS)

Poetry Society Annual Lecture – Diane Seuss
2025-11-10 19:00 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Zoom
Burlesque Picaresque in the Rural Midwest: My Education in Poetry
The lecture will address an education in poetry from outside the borders of academia, specifically that of a poet from the rural working class. Seuss will frame the discussion by considering how the literary burlesque, and the ethos of the picaresque hero, provide models for the outsider poet whose marginality is the source of her power.
FREE TO ATTEND
Diane Seuss is the author of six books of poetry, including Modern Poetry, a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize; frank: sonnets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Voelcker Prize; Still Life With Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She was a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2021 she received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Michigan.
