The Moth Poetry Prize: 2024 Deadline
2024-12-31 | Online
The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for a single unpublished poem. The prize is open to anyone, as long as the poem is previously unpublished, and each year it attracts thousands of entries from new and established poets from over 50 countries worldwide.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. Past judges include Claudia Rankine, Marie Howe, Deborah Landau, Daljit Nagra, Leontia Flynn, Billy Collins, Nick Laird, Warsan Shire, Hannah Sullivan and Nobel Laureate Louise Glück.
Past winners include 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 2023 was American poet Lance Larsen for his poem, ‘Things I’m Against’.
‘Talk about being caught off guard! I was just happy to be among the shortlisted and commended poets. So much to learn from them. It feels great to be struck by lightning. I certainly have more confidence in this poem now, and the book manuscript it’s a part of. Thank you!’ Lance Larsen
The Judge
Fiona Benson is the author of four poetry collections: Bright Travellers, Vertigo & Ghost, Ephemeron and Midden Witch (forthcoming). All three of her published collections have been shortlisted for the T S Eliot prize, and her books have won the Forward Prize, the Seamus Heaney Prize, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. At the time of writing, Infamous Offspring, a collaboration with the Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, is in production across Europe with the company Ultima Vez. In 2024 she received a Cholmondley Award from the Society of Authors. She lives in mid-Devon with her husband and their two daughters.
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The Prize is open to anyone (over 16) from anywhere in the world, as long as the work is original and previously unpublished.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 €15 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 2024
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 2025 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 2025.Call 00 353 (0)87 2657251 or email enquiries@themothmagazine.com for more details.

Hayden's Ferry Review: Translations
2024-12-31 23:59 (America/Edmonton) | Online
We are waiving our submission fee for Black and Indigenous writers. Please submit your translation pieces here. If you have questions concerning this policy, please email us.
Translations submissions should be works translated into English from any other non-English language, and must include the original text along with the translated text.
Translators should secure rights to translate the work they are submitting.
Submit up to 6 poems/micro-fictions, or one essay/story.
Prose should be double-spaced. We do not have a strict word count, though we favor pieces under 17 pages, and rarely accept work that is over 20. Please do not submit pieces that are over 25 pages.
Please include your entire submission in one file, and be sure your name and contact information are included on the first page of the file.
All work should be uploaded through our submissions manager. Acceptable file formats include .doc, .docx, and .pdf.
Please send one submission per genre at a time, and wait for a response before you submit additional work.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please notify the editors immediately by adding a message to your submission in Submittable.
Withdraw your submission using Submittable. If you are only withdrawing a section of your work (for example: 2/5 poems), add a message to your submission in Submittable.
We do not accept previously published material.
We do not consider book-length works. Submitters are strongly encouraged to read the journal before submitting. Sample work from current and past issues is available on our website.
Upon acceptance, we will request a translator’s note on your translation process (similar to an artist statement).

Call for Paid Interns: Civitella Ranieri in Italy
2025-01-15 | Civitella Ranieri, Via Ursula Corning 1, Localitá Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, PG, 060129, Italy
Civitella seeks candidates for our paid internship program for the 2025 residency season. Located in a 15th-century castle in Umbria, Italy, Civitella is a residency program for international writers, composers, and visual artists. Over the last thirty years, we have hosted more than 1,000 Fellows and Director’s Guests.
Interns are a treasured and integral part of our community and daily life. They live and work at the Castle for roughly twelve weeks between April and November. The Civitella internship is a formative experience that emphasizes public speaking, teamwork, event planning, and problem solving. Interns provide valuable support with the library, meals, excursions, and presentations during each fellowship session. An ideal candidate for this role will demonstrate an interest in cultural and linguistic exchange, as well as in nonprofit arts programming. In addition to daily responsibilities, it is often also possible for interns to work on projects structured around their individual interests and experience. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2025.
“Art and beauty are everywhere the Castle and every day brings a new challenge that leads to cultural, linguistic, and personal enrichment. Civitella is a multicultural place that encourages cooperation and teamwork with Fellows and Staff.” – Federica Machelli, Civitella Intern in 2023 & 2024 (pictured here, standing far left with Staff)
“My time working at Civitella was as engaging as it was beautiful. The Castle facilitates a warm and enriching space to learn under the leadership of the office Staff. The cooking, housekeeping, and groundskeeping Staff take excellent care of the Castle and welcome anyone who walks through its gates. I learned so much from both the Civitella team and the Fellows, and gained new perspectives on working in an international arts environment.” -Anna Sofia Neil, Civitella Intern in 2024
Roles and Responsibilities
Interns provide general assistance to the Executive Director, Residency Director, Program Coordinator, Program Assistant, Kitchen Staff, and the Fellows. They:
— Prepare for Fellows’ arrivals; provide transportation for Fellows and Guests; distribute orientation information and give tours of the facilities.
— Assist Fellows in their work as requested, run errands, greet guests, provide assistance in the office and in the on-site gallery.
— Accompany Staff and Fellows on excursions to nearby cultural sites, providing transportation, materials, and tour assistance.
— Provide interpretation as able and necessary.
— Help organize weekly events, including communications, technical assistance, and set up.
— Attend weeknight communal dinners with the Fellows, including setting and clearing tables at meal times, coordinating between Kitchen and Fellows, making announcements, and helping to maintain a lively and inclusive environment for conversation and exchange.
— Catalog new acquisitions for the library and re-shelve materials after use.
— Help track and maintain the inventory of the Foundation’s art collection.
— Attend staff meetings.
— Engage in special projects if interested and applicable.
Schedule
Civitella typically hosts one to three interns annually, between the months April and November, for twelve weeks each. Please note your availability in your cover letter.
The structure of the Civitella internship varies based on the projects, events, and needs of a given group of Fellows. Many intern responsibilities will happen Monday-Friday from 11AM-5PM, but these hours are subject to change. Dinner with the Fellows each weeknight is required. Flexibility is crucial and the intern should be available for events in the mornings, evenings, and on the weekends, as needed. As the main staff contact living at the Castle, the intern will be Fellows’ first call should an emergency arise.
Interns are encouraged to travel in their free time with advance notice given to Staff.
Skills and Requirements
Strong English proficiency is necessary, as is a valid driver’s license. We give preference to individuals with Italian language skills, experience in the arts or study/work abroad, and the ability to drive stick shift.
Applicants should be self-motivated, independent, collaborative, and adaptable. Each day interns encounter unpredictable and varying tasks; they should be comfortable working within an intensely motivated community in an idyllic but somewhat isolated location. An ideal intern maintains a confident, positive, and helpful attitude and must be open and diplomatic with people of diverse backgrounds and widely varying lived experiences.
Compensation
We offer selected candidates round trip airfare and transportation (from place of residence to Civitella), lodging, and meals (lunch and dinner six days per week) for the period of the internship and a stipend for incidental expenses of $200 per week.
Application Process
Applications must include a cover letter and an up-to-date CV. Please list two references with their relationship to you and contact information (phone, email). Your cover letter should explain why the internship would be meaningful to you, how you might best contribute to the Civitella community, and how past experiences have prepared you for the work described above. Please send as a single PDF and use the subject line INTERN APPLICATION: [YOUR NAME]. Your application must be emailed to diego@civitella.org by January 15th at 11:59PM EST. We will conduct virtual interviews in February. Notification is sent to candidates by early March.

2025 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry: Submission Deadline
2025-02-01 08:00 - 2025-04-30 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Submittable
Submit to the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry!
🗓️ Deadline: April 30, 2025
🌍 Open to: International poets
✍️ Submit: 1-3 unpublished poems
💵 Fee: $15
🥇 Award: $1,500
🗂️ Organized by: Beloit Poetry Journal, with the support of the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust
📚 Judge: Nikky Finney
Guidelines
Submit 1-3 unpublished poems on any subject in any style up to a maximum of 10 pages per entry. (We enjoy long poems!)
Reading fee of $15 per entry. A limited number of complimentary entries are available to poets for whom the fee presents a hardship. Contact us at bpj@bpj.org for more information.
Submitters paying the reading fee may purchase a discounted 1-year subscription to the BPJ. (An additional shipping charge applies to international subscribers.)
Simultaneous submissions welcome. Please notify us immediately of publication elsewhere by leaving a message in Submittable.
We regret we that cannot accept entries after the deadline or changes to poems after submission.
Please no translations (though we are happy to see these during our regular reading periods).
Kindly refrain from placing your name anywhere on the attached manuscript.
The editors will consider all submissions for publication.
Finalists will be notified in the summer; the winner will be announced and published in the Fall issue of the BPJ.
We follow the CLMP Guidelines for contests and are committed, in all we do, to the highest ethical standards. If you are a personal friend, family member, or student of any BPJ editor or of the judge, or if you are a former or current intern or staff member of the BPJ, please refrain from submitting.
Photo of Adrienne Rich by Neal Boenzi/New York Times Co./Getty Images

2025 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry - Deadline
2025-02-15 00:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, presents the annual Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry to be awarded to a full-length book of poems by a living poet who is not a US citizen (green card holders welcome) published in the previous calendar year.
The book must be in English or in English translation, and may have been published anywhere in the world.
The prize includes a $2,000 cash award. In the case of translations, the prize money may be shared by the poet and the translator.
Publishers, authors, and others are invited to enter books published between January 1, 2024, and December 31, 2024. Submission form and 2 copies of each book must be received by February 15, 2025. There is a $20 submission fee per book submitted. Unlimited submissions allowed. Two hard copies of each book should be mailed to Arrowsmith Press, 11 Chestnut Street, Medford, MA 02155. The prize committee hopes to work with publishers to coordinate an event along with their author’s touring schedule.

Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
2025-02-15 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
The 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is a $1,000 award recognizing a poetry collection translated from any language into English and published in the previous calendar year. Established in 1976, it is given annually. A noted translator chooses the winning book.
Submissions are accepted from September 15, 2024 through February 15, 2025 (11:59 p.m. Eastern Time). The 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award will be judged by Roger Sedarat.
Please review the guidelines before sending your submission. For questions, please write to awards@poets.org.
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2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award Guidelines
Any translator who meets one of the below criteria on the date of the submission deadline, in any given year, is eligible: U.S. Citizen, or; resident of the United States for the ten-year period prior to the submission deadline, or; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), Legal Permanent Status (LPS), or any subsequent categories designated by the U.S. authorities as conferring similar enhanced status upon non-citizens living in the United States.
Please note: By law the Academy of American Poets must report cash prizes awarded to individuals to the Internal Revenue Service. If individuals have a Social Security Number (SSN) or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), the individual will receive a 1099. If the individual does not have an SSN or ITIN, the individual will receive a 1042 and could be subject to a withholding of a percentage of the cash prize.
– Only books published in the United States during 2024 are eligible for the 2025 prize.
– Books must be published in a standard edition (48 pages or more).
– Collaborations by up to two translators are eligible.
– Self-published books will not be considered.
– Only online submissions are accepted for the award through Submittable: poets.submittable.com/submit.
– The Academy of American Poets agrees to purchase for distribution to its members copies of the winning book. The Academy of American Poets may purchase additional copies of the book for its own use, but not for resale. No royalties will be paid to the author on the copies purchased by the Academy of American Poets. The publisher agrees to make available to the Academy of American Poets the number of copies requested and to sell the books at a special discount based on a percentage markup of the PPB (printing, paper, and binding) costs.
– The winner of the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award will be announced in June 2025.
– All correspondence concerning the contest should be addressed to the Academy of American Poets and sent to awards@poets.org.
– The decisions of the Academy of American Poets as to eligibility are final.
Please note: It is the mission of the Academy of American Poets to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. In furtherance of our mission, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of quality and integrity in our publications and programs, and expect and require the same from the poets with whom we collaborate.
All applicants and selected award recipients agree that, as part of their eligibility to receive the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, they will maintain the highest standards of fairness, decency and personal integrity, in the Academy’s sole discretion, including with adherence to all applicable laws and community values. The decisions of the Academy of American Poets regarding eligibility, both initial and throughout the award period, are final.

Translation Talks: Amelia M. Glaser & Yuliya Ilchuk
2025-02-19 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Zoom
Amelia M. Glaser translates primarily from Yiddish, Ukrainian, and Russian. She is Professor of Literature at UC San Diego, where she holds the Chair in Judaic Studies. She is the author of Jews and Ukrainians in Russia’s Literary Borderlands, and Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine. She is the editor of Stories of Khmelnytsky: Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising and, with Steven Lee, Comintern Aesthetics. Her joint translation with Yuliya Ilchuk of Halyna Kruk’s A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails was shortlisted for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize. She is currently writing a book about contemporary Ukrainian poetry.
Yuliya Ilchuk is Assistant Professor of Slavic Literature and Culture at Stanford University. She is the author of an award-winning book, Nikolai Gogol: Performing Hybrid Identity, and a translator of contemporary Ukrainian poetry. Ilchuk’s most recent book project, The Vanished: Memory, Temporality, Identity in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine, revisits collective memory and trauma, post-memory, remembrance, memorials, and reconciliation in Ukraine. Her co-translation of Halyna Kruk’s A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails with Amelia M. Glaser was shortlisted for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Translation Talks will run for approximately one hour on Zoom and will be hosted by Griffin Poetry Prize editorial director Adriana Oniță and social media editor Medgine Mathurin.
You will receive the Zoom link via Eventbrite after registering. Autocaptioning will be available. If you have any questions, please contact Adriana at editorialdirector@griffinpoetryprize.com
Check out our past Translation Talks on YouTube, featuring exceptional poet-translators in conversation, including Khaled Mattawa & Sarah Riggs; Ani Gjika & Dunya Mikhail; Ali Kinsella, Dzvinia Orlowsky, & Mira Rosenthal; Valzhyna Mort & Erin Moure; Manolis Aligizakis & Sharon Dolin; D. M. Bradford & Donald Nicholson-Smith, and George McWhirter & Emilie Moorhouse.
Learn more about the Griffin Poetry Prize on our website.

Cross-Pollinations: Eve Joseph and Dr. Jacqueline Hui
2025-02-26 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Zoom
On Wednesday, February 26 at 6pm (EST)/3pm (PST), register for an hour of poetry and conversation around the theme of Palliative and End-of-Life Care. This event is curated jointly by the League of Canadian Poets, The Canadian Association for Health Humanities, and the Health Arts Research Centre.
This event will feature Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet and former hospice care counsellor Eve Joseph, who will be reading from her book In The Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying. We will also hear from Dr. Jacqueline Hui, who has worked in Palliative Care for over twenty years.

Eve Joseph

Eve Joseph lives and writes on the unceded traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples. Her first two books of poetry The Startled Heart (Oolichan, 2004) and The Secret Signature of Things (Brick, 2010) were both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. Her nonfiction book In the Slender Margin was published by HarperCollins in 2014 and won the Hubert Evans award for nonfiction. Her most recent book of poetry Quarrels (Anvil, 2018) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award, The ReLit Award and won the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize. Eve worked for 21 years as a community and crisis counsellor at the Victoria Hospice.

Dr. Jacqueline Hui

Dr. Jacqueline Hui has dedicated over two decades to the field of Palliative Care, practicing in Canada and teaching internationally. She is also the Faculty Development Lead for the Department of Family Medicine and Director of Teacher Development with the Office of Faculty Development at the University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine. As a physician, educator, and advocate, she has a deep understanding of the importance of presence, meaningful connection, compassion and resilience. Her work in Palliative Care has led to a profound wisdom of acceptance and letting go, shaping an approach to care that values humanity through life’s most challenging transitions.

The Adroit Journal Seeks Translation Readers
2025-04-01 00:00, 2025-05-01 00:00, 2025-06-01 00:00, 2025-07-01 00:00, 2025-08-01 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.

Poetry Fundamentals: A Seven-Week Course Taught by the North Sea Poets
2025-04-22 08:00 - 2025-06-03 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
A series of seven classes, delivered weekly from April 22 to June 3, by members of the North Sea Poets: Kathleen Jamie, Niall Campbell, Karen Solie, Don Paterson, Lisa Brockwell, John Glenday, and Leslie Harrison.
– Classes will run between 90 minutes and two hours long, and students will have an opportunity to interact with the tutor through a Q&A at the end of the session. All class times are BST (British Summer Time).
– This series is suitable for both experienced and emerging writers.
– Your ticket gives you access to all seven classes. Cost: £250
– Please visit the website for information about the series, and for details about additional single webinars, workshops, and masterclasses.

Week 1: 22nd April 2025 7:30-9:30pm
Don Paterson: What’s a Poem Anyway?
This introductory workshop will take a deep breath then a deeper dive into a place that poets often leave curiously unexplored: what is a poem, anyway? In this class, Don will look at not just the historical, cultural and psychological roots of the poem as a verbal artefact, but how the meaning of the word ‘poet’ has changed over the millennia, together with the poet’s role in the culture at large. He’ll then turn to the present to ask what poets might be for today: why do some of us still have the urge to do this strange thing with language, even in our age of dramatic technological and cultural change? And how can we do it most effectively?
Week 2: 29th April 2025 7:30-9:30pm
Niall Campbell: The Point of the Mask is Not the Mask
Charles Wright in his poem ‘Chickamauga’ writes: ‘The point of the mask is not the mask but the face underneath.’ The mask, in its own way, can be revealing. This workshop will begin by looking at how different poets (including Seamus Heaney, Liz Berry, Ted Hughes and others) have adopted different personae to create distance from the ‘usual’ author of their own work. Later, in generative exercises, we will also put on voices and masks to test how far we can step away from ourselves – and discover how, in being someone different, we might sometimes speak more truly.
Week 3: 6th May 2025 7:30-9:30pm
Karen Solie: ‘I Can’t Tell You What I Mean’: Writing Uncertainty​​
Language is a system for conveying meaning. But how might we begin to address experiences and ideas whose meanings, even to us, are less than clear? How might we, as poets, use language to express that uncertainty? How might our poems generate uncertainty as a meaningful experience for the reader? In this session, Karen will look at poems by several contemporary poets that suggest practical strategies for writing uncertainty, and writing by poets who offer ways to consider, as Fanny Howe does, ‘bewilderment as a poetics and an ethics.’ The class will also undertake a brief writing experiment, which might uncover the seed of a new poem.

Week 4: 13th May 2025 7:30-9:30pm
Lisa Brockwell: Reading to Write
Your lifelong apprenticeship to poetry starts with your internal library. The quickest way to write a half decent poem is to read a thousand great ones. To get there, you need to battle your way through many, many thousands of mediocre poems. The trick is to know the difference. That takes a lot of practice: it’s a long apprenticeship to become someone who can write a poem that a stranger might want to read. As well as talent, a good ear, humility and a sense of vocation – a poet has a living and growing anthology inside them, whispering to you during your waking and sleeping hours. Once built, this internal library will stay with you for life, growing, transforming, bedding in, living a life of its own. In this workshop, Lisa will provide a toolbox to help you build it – whether you’re starting out with plans for a Grand Designs-style new build or doing a refurb on something old and derelict.

Week 5: 20th May 2025 7:30-9:30pm
John Glenday: Behind. Before. Above. Between. Below.
In this online antidote to the empty page, John will explore the hinterland of the imagination, using Donne’s five dimensions of desire as a template. Where should we look, and what tools can we use to avoid the dreaded Writer’s Block? How should we adapt our process so that we’re always open to the creative worlds around and within us? Through discussion, examples and quickfire exercises, we’ll lay the foundations of new work and discover strategies for revitalising our ailing drafts. Every poem we write is our first poem.

Week 6: 27th May 2025 7:30-9:30pm
Lesley Harrison: Writing Home​​​
Drawing on work from several contemporary poets, this session will examine ways in which we map ourselves onto a landscape. Is ‘home’ always that place we define and complete? Is this inevitable? In this session Lesley will discuss the process of writing from here, wherever ‘here’ is, and how we might question the whole notion of a ‘firm footing’. Are there ‘homes’ and ‘heres’ into which we might also project our imaginations and alternative futures? (‘Maybe it is a good thing for us to keep a few dreams of a house that we shall live in later, always later, so much later, in fact, that we shall not have time to achieve it.’ – Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space)

Week 7: 3rd June 2025 7:30-9:30pm
Kathleen Jamie: The Joy of Drafting
Using a new poem of her own, complete with all its drafts, Kathleen will demonstrate the process of writing a poem from start to finish. Beginning with the initial idea, she’ll ask – what is inspiration, anyway? Then follows the crucial back-of-an-envelope first draft, and after that, the absorbing task of re-writing and re-writing, listening and thinking, as poet and poem work together to achieve a finished form. Your own practice and voice will develop as you discover the skills required at each stage of this poetic process, with all its frustrations and rewards.

Call for Submissions — Beyond the Concert Hall: An Anthology of Sound
2025-05-31 | Online
Submit to Beyond the Concert Hall: An Anthology of Sound, the next anthology by Edmonton-based Laberinto Press!
Submission Guidelines:
Composer John Cage was poet John Ashbery’s musician of choice when it came to expanding his writing in innovative directions. Cocteau’s The Human Voice choreographs silences across phone lines to tell the story of a toxic relationship. Iconic Brazilian musical Black Orpheus re-tells the ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, with Afro-Brazilian inspired musical numbers. Music is silence, it is the cacophony of carnival, an improvised sing-along, that earworm that will not leave our brains, the urban frenzy of the city streets cursing through our bodies, the words and voice of our dear ones.
Edited by Laberinto Press’s Director, Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, the last anthology of the Beyond Series by Laberinto Press, titled: Beyond the Concert Hall: An Anthology of Sound invites Canadian writers to submit writing on musical experiences, and general experiences of sound, or silence. Special consideration will be offered to submissions by graduate and undergraduate Arts students and hyphenated Canadian authors.
Each submission should contain the following:
Poetry: three poems or ten pages;
Prose (Fiction, Non-Fiction): 10-12 pages.
All submissions should be double spaced, Times New Roman Pt. 12.
The contributors will be paid an honorarium.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 2025
How to submit:
Electronic submissions only:
Luciana Erregue-Sacchi at erregue@ualberta.ca
Subject: Beyond the Concert Hall

2025 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings
2025-06-04 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Toronto) | Koerner Hall, Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join us for an inspiring evening of poetry!
✨The 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize Readings
📅 June 4 | 🕢 7:30 PM ET
📍Live in Toronto or via YouTube livestream
The evening will feature:
✨ Margaret Atwood in conversation with Carolyn Forché
✨ Aaron Coleman reading Nicolás Guillén
✨ Brian Henry reading Tomaž Šalamun
✨ Karen Leeder and Durs Grünbein
✨ Carl Phillips
✨ Diane Seuss
✨ The 2025 Canadian First Book Prize Winner (announced May 21)
✨ A 2025 Finalist from Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie
Get your tickets today here!

Time and the Figurative with Karen Solie
2025-07-05 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
Register for a unique chance to learn from Griffin Poetry Prize winner and trustee Karen Solie in the North Sea Poets webinar series!
Time and the Figurative with Karen Solie
“How — with no preparation — can this singular, short-lived event constituted by the appearance of an unusual poetic image, react on other minds and in other hearts, despite all the barriers of common sense, all the disciplined schools of thought, content in their immobility?”

– Gaston Bachelard
If the image is the instant, “the frozen present,” as Charles Simic writes, and metaphor the realm of myth and the past, the simile is “the key to the kingdom.” Through examples of poems, and with reference to writing on the poetics of image, this workshop with Karen will explore the magic of the figurative – its seeming ability to stop time, to expand the moment, to invoke simultaneously the past and present and gesture toward an uncertain future. It is a magic that allows readers of poems, as Li Po wrote, to be “alive twice.” The session will include discussion and…

Poetry Editor Position at The Ex-Puritan
2025-07-08 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
Do you have strong opinions about contemporary poetry? Do you have the editorial chops and a desire to work with emerging writers? Do you want to play a role in shaping Canada’s literary conversation?
If so, you should throw your hat into the ring to become The Ex-Puritan’s new Poetry Editor!
We are currently looking for a dedicated individual to transition into our poetry department starting with our Fall 2025 issue (beginning in August 2025).
THE POETRY EDITOR WILL:
– Review all upvoted submissions to select three to six poems per issue
– Solicit poetry when necessary
– Send out acceptance and rejection emails prior to the publication of the next issue
– Actively work to diversify the demographic of poets, prioritizing work from disabled writers, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ writers, and other marginalized writers
– Edit accepted pieces and coordinate with the authors to meet the publishing deadline
– Work with the managing editor to ensure there is a team of sufficient readers to help with managing the submissions
– Attend and participate in regular masthead meetings
QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WILL HAVE:
– Knowledge of and interest in contemporary Canadian literature, literary communities, and magazine publishing
– Excellent written and oral communication skills
– Proficiency with MS programs and Google mail/docs
– The ability to meet strict deadlines
– The ability to work independently and as part of a team
Interested candidates should familiarize themselves with the magazine, its history, and the work it publishes, then send a cover letter and resume (or CV) as .doc, .docx, or .pdf attachment to both poetry@ex-puritan.ca and expuritaneditors@gmail.com. Cover letters should answer the following questions: 1) What draws you to The Ex-Puritan in particular? 2) What experience do you have as an editor? 3) What knowledge do you have of the current Canadian poetry scene? and 4) What experience makes you specifically suited for a role as a Poetry Editor?
This is a volunteer position, currently receiving a $250 honorarium per quarterly issue.
The Ex-Puritan is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and prioritizes applications from candidates who identify with historically marginalized groups and underserved communities. First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples or Indigenous peoples of North America are strongly encouraged to apply as well as racialized people, persons with disabilities, and those who identify as 2SLGBTQ+. If you require any accommodations during the application and hiring process, please let us know.
Applications will be received on a rolling basis.
Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview.
Deadline to apply is July 22, 2025.

English Program Director Position with Poetry in Voice
2025-07-10 | Online
Part-time, permanent contract position available: English Program Director
Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie (PIV/LVP) is a registered charity that promotes poetry and poetry education across Canada. We provide educators with engaging content and experiences, in English and French, to inspire their students to read, recite, and write poetry. We seek a dynamic, proactive, imaginative and productive Program Director to partner with our team members and ensure streamlined operations.
Responsibilities
– Review and curate new additions to our English poetry anthology
– Oversee all new content creation (Lesson Plans, Mixtapes, Dive Ins, etc.)
– Coordinate all English Team Regional Contests
– Collaborate with the French Director in the creation of our annual student poetry journal
– Plan and execute our National Finals and FutureVerse events with the rest of team
– Assist the Development team with its fundraising efforts

Qualifications
– 1-3 years of working with arts organizations, schools and/or non-profits
– Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Humanities, Education, etc.)
– Excellent English speaking and writing skills, good knowledge of French an asset
– A solid knowledge and interest in Canadian poetry
– Knowledge of Canadian secondary education
– Rigorous editorial skills and attention to detail
– Excellent interpersonal skills
– Previous experience writing/talking about poetry to a general and/or educational audience an asset
– Excellent knowledge of Acrobat, Word, and Excel, and a working knowledge of a CMS and HTML an asset
– Ability to work well with diverse team members in a virtual office environment
You will be able to work from home and negotiate your weekly schedule. The salary is $ 32,265.66 per year, 18.75 hours per week, with 3 weeks of holiday, increasing to 6 weeks and a 15% pay rise after one year.
If you are interested in joining this exciting, successful organization now in its 15th year, please send your CV and a motivation letter to david@poetryinvoice.ca by July 10, 2025, with “English Program Director” in the email subject..
Poetry In Voice / Les voix de la poésie welcomes applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified cand dates with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities.

Submit to the 2026 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation
2025-07-10 08:00 - 2025-10-21 00:00 (Europe/London) | Online
The Poetry Translation Centre invites international publishers to submit entries for the fourth biennial Sarah Maguire Prize, celebrating the best poetry book translated into English by a living poet from beyond Europe. Submissions open on 10 July 2025 and close on 31 December 2025. The shortlist will be announced by April 2026, with the winner revealed in September 2026.
In response to the current financial landscape affecting arts and literary organisations, the Poetry Translation Centre will, for the first time, charge a £15 entry fee per submission. Thanks to generous support from the Friends of Sarah Maguire, a limited number of free entries are available. Publishers who would struggle with this fee are warmly encouraged to get in touch with the Centre directly.
Established in honour of Sarah Maguire, the prize recognises outstanding achievement in poetry translation and aims to showcase the very best contemporary poetry from around the world.
The prize was established with a generous gift from the Estate of Sarah Maguire and donations from her friends and colleagues, as well as grants from the Golsoncott Foundation, the Garrick Charitable Trust and the British Council.
£1,500 is awarded to the winning poet and £1,500 to the winning translator (or shared if there is more than one translator). Publishers must have the right to distribute the book in the UK.
Eligibility
a) The book must have been first published in English between 1st January 2024 and 31st December 2025.
b) The book can be published in any country but the rights for sale in the UK must be in place.
c) The Publisher must hold and/or have cleared all necessary permissions to publish the book in the English language including the rights for sale of the book in the UK and be able to evidence this if requested.
d) The book must be the work of a single poet writing in a language other than English whose work has been translated into English.
e) The poet can be resident anywhere in the world but must originate from beyond Europe and publicly identify their writing as being from beyond Europe. For the purposes of the 2026 prize Europe will be defined as proposed by the United Nations geoscheme, which can be found here.
f) The book must be the work of a living poet. A posthumous collection will only be eligible if it has been published within one year of the poet’s death.
g) At least 50% of the translations in the book must not have been published before in book form.
h) A book shall be defined as having at least 48 pages and with a valid ISBN number in its country of publication.
i) Books must be physical publications. Books that are only available in e-format are not eligible for entry.
j) The book must be submitted by the publisher. Entries from individual poets or translators of their own work will not be accepted. This includes any books that have been self-published.
k) In all cases, the organiser’s ruling on the eligibility or ineligibility of a book will be final and binding.
Submissions
a) All entries must be submitted electronically through the Poetry Translation Centre’s Submittable entry page, with completed entry forms and a PDF of the book. Books must be submitted by the publisher.
b) The last date for submission will be 31st December 2025.
Shortlist
a) The judges will select a shortlist of five books, which will be announced in April 2026.
b) If in the judges’ opinion there are more titles worthy of recognition, the number of shortlisted books may be increased but will comprise of not more than seven books.
c) If an entry is shortlisted the publisher agrees to supply seven bound copies of the book by 15th April 2026 to the Poetry Translation Centre, The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford, SE8 4AG, UK.
d) Copies of books submitted to the Poetry Translation Centre will not be returned.
e) Shortlisted and winning poets and translators will be expected to be available for publicity near the time of the awards and, where possible, to attend the award ceremony. Poets and translators may also be filmed and recorded at the ceremony for the promotion of the Prize.
f) The copyright of each poem and translation remains with the author. By entering the competition, the publishers grant the Poetry Translation Centre the right in perpetuity to publish and/or broadcast their translations, with appropriate acknowledgement, for distribution throughout the world, in print, on the Poetry Translation Centre website, in our newsletter, in associated publications, on social media channels, and in press releases and emails for the purposes of marketing the publication, the Prize or associated work.
g) For books entered into the prize containing the original language poems as well as English language translations the above terms apply to the original language poems as well as the English language translations.
The Judging
a) The Prize will be judged by three judges chosen by the Poetry Translation Centre. The competition organisers reserve the right to change the judging panel without notice.
b) The decision of the judges is final and they will not enter into any correspondence with entrants regarding their decisions.
c) Judges may call in books for consideration if they so wish.
d) The judges reserve the right not to award the Prize if, in their opinion, no works entered reach a sufficiently high standard.

2025 Sheila-Na-Gig Editions First Chap Contest
2025-07-18 00:00 (America/Toronto) | Online
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions invites entries for our annual First Chapbook contest. Please follow the guidelines below.Jessica Manack’s Gastromythology was our 2023 winner! Our 2024 winner, Elinor Ann Walker’s work, Fugitive but Gorgeous, will be published in 2025!

IMPORTANT: This contest is meant to support early-career poets. Only poets who have NOT previously published a chapbook or full-length collection are eligible to submit.
– Submit a chapbook-length poetry manuscript (20-40 pgs — not including front and back matter) via Submittable. Manuscripts will not be considered via email or snail mail.
– Poems may be previously published in print journals or online, if you own the rights for reprints.
– Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Reading fees are not refundable.
– Work will be judged on the merits of the manuscripts alone. Please help us judge the work anonymously by following these next guidelines carefully:
– DO NOT include a bio or formal cover letter.
– DO NOT include an acknowledgments page for previously published work. If your manuscript is selected for publication, you may send along this information later.
– DO NOT include your name ANYWHERE on your manuscript or in the Submittable title of your submission. Submissions that reveal authors’ identities will be disqualified without notice, and fees will not be refunded.
– DO NOT include any poems that we have published in Sheila-Na-Gig online. If we have published your work and you win the contest, you will have an opportunity to add these poems later (even if it increases the length of your manuscript).
– Do NOT ask to edit your work while it is under consideration; please do not email us while your work is under consideration.
– Do NOT submit collections that contain photos or other visual art. We do not publish chapbooks with visuals.
– DO NOT submit AI-generated or assisted work!
THE PRIZE: The selected manuscript will be published by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. For sample chapbooks, check out https://sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-na-gig-editions/ (last year’s winner, Elinor Ann Walker, will be published in 2025)
$500 honorarium + 50% royalties
25 copies of the published manuscript (and 55% discounts on future orders)
All participants will receive a copy of the winning volume upon publication. International participants will receive pdf copies.
READING FEE: $15.00
THE SUBMISSION PERIOD: July 1-31, 2025 by 11pm (Eastern)
THE JUDGE: Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Founding Editor, Sheila-Na-Gig online & Sheila-Na-Gig Editions: https://sheilanagigblog.com/about/
RESPONSE TIME: The winner will be announced on or before December 31, 2025
THE FINE PRINT: Sheila-Na-Gig Editions reserves the right to NOT select a winning manuscript. In the case of this unlikely event, reading fees will be refunded. We really want to publish manuscripts! Familiarize yourself with the works in Sheila-Na-Gig online to get a sense of our aesthetic. We publish well-crafted free verse poetry and especially seek poems with excellent imagery and a strong sense of voice. Chapbooks should also include a tightly consistent theme.
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions seeks to support the work of marginalized voices. BIPOC and members of the LGBTQ+ community are encouraged to submit their work.

Social Media Coordinator Position at Words Without Borders
2025-07-20 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
Words Without Borders Social Media Coordinator
Part-time
Remote
The social media coordinator’s mission is to drive engagement and growth across Words Without Borders’ social media channels as we work to broaden the audience for international literature. Reporting to the marketing and communications manager and working closely with the editorial, digital, and education teams, the social media coordinator will help develop innovative campaigns and engagement strategies for WWB’s magazine and programs, actively interacting with our Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, and LinkedIn audiences. You will maintain a distinct voice and presence on each platform, draft and schedule posts that utilize text, images, and/or videos, and interact with our readers, partners, and contributors. This is a great opportunity for an early-career communications professional to make an impact in a growing literary organization.
Founded in 2003, Words Without Borders cultivates global awareness by offering unparalleled access to international writing in English translation. Reaching readers around the world, our website provides a vital platform for today’s international writers and literary translators. Our programs include our Whiting Literary Magazine Prize–winning digital magazine for international literature, our online education program that helps teachers bring world literature into the classroom, and public literary events held virtually and around the US.
RESPONSIBILITIES
– WWB’s mission is to cultivate greater global awareness by expanding access to—and engagement with—international literature in translation. As social media coordinator, you will help WWB deepen engagement with our content while also growing our audience in both the literary and global education communities. Specifically, you will:
– Create and schedule Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn posts (balancing the use of text, images, and/or video) for articles published on Words Without Borders and WWB Campus, WWB events, and other announcements.
– Assist in refining WWB’s visual identity on social media platforms; create graphics and memes related to WWB and international literature.
– Share articles and posts from other organizations or publications that relate to WWB’s community and mission.
– Monitor social media notifications and engage judiciously with shares, comments, and other users’ posts.
– Maintain a database of social media handles for contributors, literary nonprofits, and small, independent, and university presses that publish global literature and literature in translation.
– Work with relevant program staff to create special engagement campaigns around fundraising, program launches, and events.
– Monitor social media analytics, including by utilizing existing benchmark reporting strategies and adjusting strategies in response to trends in growth.
– Stay informed on social media trends and best practices and work with the marketing and communications manager to create and implement strategies and set benchmarks for growth and engagement.
– Propose and implement new ideas for social media engagement and growth among a wide range of demographic audiences using new and archival materials from the magazine, education program, and digital projects.
– Assist in maintaining the annual marketing and communications calendar for the extended WWB team.
– Assist with staffing virtual WWB events, as well as in-person events depending on location.

QUALIFICATIONS
– Demonstrated interest in international literature and familiarity with the publishing and international literature online communities, especially US and UK-based small, independent, and university presses. Knowledge of another language and/or cultural context strongly desired. Familiarity with global education and/or educational technology a plus.
– Demonstrated success using social media, including Facebook, Bluesky, and/or Instagram, for audience growth and engagement in a professional setting. Knowledge of current best practices for each platform’s algorithms. Professional experience on X/Twitter, Instagram, and/or Tiktok a plus. Minimum one year’s experience.
– Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills; excellent attention to detail.
– Motivated self-starter capable of working remotely and independently within a collaborative team. Must be capable of taking initiative and willing to pitch in on other projects when needed.
– Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment, prioritize workload, and meet deadlines.
– Comfortable taking risks, testing hypotheses, and analyzing results to inform and refine strategy; track record of demonstrating sound judgment.
– Demonstrated graphic design experience or credentials, including a strong design sense and familiarity with Photoshop, Canva, and/or similar tools, is required; basic video/audio editing preferred.
– Experience with regular tracking and reporting on social media analytics.
– Familiarity with project management tools such as Jiro or Trello desired; background in website CMS such as WordPress a plus.
This is a remote, part-time (20 hours/week) position.The applicant should be available during US Eastern working hours; WWB’s core hours are 11am–3pm Eastern time (ET). Salary range is $21,000–$24,000 DOE plus paid time off.
Words Without Borders does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, nationality, marital status, parental status, military service, or disability. We are committed to pursuing equity and inclusion in our organization and seek candidates who bring diverse backgrounds and new perspectives to our work. Individuals from groups who have been historically underrepresented in the field of publishing are especially encouraged to apply. Permission to work in the US is required.
Please note that applicants who use generative AI in their application materials will be severely disadvantaged, if not disqualified entirely.
Due to the volume of applications received, we will only contact individuals who make it to the interview round. Please do not send queries about your application status.
TO APPLY
Interested candidates may email a résumé, the supplemental materials listed below, and a cover letter indicating how this position aligns with their skill set and career goals by 11:59pm Eastern time (ET) on Sunday, July 20, to jobs@wordswithoutborders.org with the subject line “Social Media Coordinator.” Our ideal candidate will be able to start the job by September 2. No phone calls or social media contact, please.
In your cover letter, please include at least one example of your demonstrated, quantifiable success using social media for audience growth and engagement in a professional environment. Please confirm that you have permission to work in the US, and clearly state your available working hours in ET.
Please also create, in a separate document, a Bluesky post for each of the following articles or campaigns, as well as one Instagram post for any one of the following. Include an original Canva-created graphic for each post, which might be one image, a carousel, or a reel, sized to the appropriate platform.
– From A to Z: A Dialogue with Mahmoud Darwish
– A “Kriol Soldier” Celebrates Afro-Caribbean Heritage
– 2025 Spring Fund Drive

Forward Arts Foundation: Seeking New Chair & Trustees
2025-07-21 | Online
Work With Us
We’re recruiting: Chair & Trustees
Are you keen to move the arts forward?
Are you passionate about the role the arts can play in building a better society? Do you think that diverse voices deserve to be heard through poetry? Do you want to be an empowering advocate for poetry’s transformative power?
We are looking for a new Chair and Trustees to join our board.
We’re a small, ambitious team working nationally and online to celebrate poetry, support new voices, and widen accessibility. With a reach of over 2.4 million people each year, we’re looking for board members who can help us grow and govern well. We’re particularly keen to hear from prospective Chairs and Trustees with experience in education, digital, fundraising and philanthropy, or governance and leadership. We’d also welcome the chance to support people under the age of 30 take their first step into trusteeship.
Our meetings are flexible, online-friendly, and inclusive by design. Poetry is for everyone – and we want our board to reflect that.
To apply or find out more, please contact Lucy Macnab: lucy@forwardartsfoundation.org, letting us know which role you’re interested in and why you’d like to be a trustee. This may include your relevant experience, skills, knowledge and what you’d like to gain from this trusteeship.
Deadline: Please get your applications in by 21 July

Lillian Allen Prize and Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize
2025-07-31 23:59 (America/Toronto) | Online
In 2024 the Ontario Arts Council, in partnership with the League of Canadian Poets, created the Lillian Allen Prize and the Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize to recognize and celebrate spoken word poetry.

The prizes are named after Canadian poet and spoken word artist Lillian Allen. Her distinctive approach to poetry through language, music and social consciousness continues to capture attention and make change. She embodies the excellence, creativity, and professionalism that she has brought to the form, and we recognize her community building and generosity of spirit by naming this prize in her honour.
The Lillian Allen Prize supports and promotes a spoken word artist with five or more years’ experience, and the Lillian Allen Emerging Artist Prize is for a spoken word artist with less than five years’ experience.
Prize: Two prizes of $2,000

The League of Canadian Poets is dedicated to increasing the accessibility of our programs and services; if you are unable to complete your submission as outlined below, please contact admin@poets.ca.
In 2025, this prize is open to poets based anywhere in Canada.
Nominees must:

– Be individual, professional artists, 18 years of age or older
– Be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, or have an application pending for permanent resident status
– Submit all documentation in English or French

Submissions will require:

– A portfolio of work up to 20 minutes in length – accepted as 1-5 video files or 1-5 video links (e.g. Youtube, Vimeo)
– An artist statement on portfolio of work (up to 750 words in length)
– An artist CV, including performance history, community engagement, and education

– Submissions should not include audio or video effects that would not be replicated in a live performance.
– Submissions may include original music if it would be included in the live performance of the poem(s).

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.

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)
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.
