Poetry Book Contests
with Spring & Summer Deadlines
Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Akron Series in Poetry
Anhinga Prize for Poetry
AWP Award Series
The Backwaters Prize
Barrow Street Book Prize
Bellday Books
Blue Lynx Prize
Bluestem Poetry Award
The Bordighera Poetry Prize
Cave Canem Poetry Prize
Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize
Colorado Prize for Poetry
Crab Orchard First Book Prize in Poetry
CustomWords Poetry Prize
The Field Poetry Prize
Fleur-de-Lis Press of the
Louisville Review
Poetry Contest
Four Way Books
Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award
The Idaho Prize
Kore Press First Book Award
Iowa Poetry Prize
Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
Literary Sashimi Award
The Magellan Prize
Main Street Rag Book Contest
Marianne Moore Poetry Prize
Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize
Mid-List Press First Series Awards
Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
National Poetry Series
Omnidawn First/Second Book Contest
Pearl Poetry Prize
Prairie Schooner Prize Series
Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Series
Rhea and Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition
Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Award
Salmon Poetry Publication Prize
Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize
Slope Editions Book Prize
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Stanzas: A Poetry Series
Sundress Publications' Annual Book Contest
University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series
Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry
Washington Prize
Wave Books
WordTech Poetry Prizes (Yellowglen Prize & Editions Poetry Prize)
Poetry Book Contests
with Fall & Winter Deadlines
A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Alberta Prize
Alice James Poetry Cooperative
American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry
The Beatrice Hawley Award
Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes
Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Award
C&R Press
Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series
Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry
David Robert Poetry Prize
DelSol Press Poetry Prize
Tupelo Press Dorset Prize
Edges: A Poetry Series
Elixir Press Poetry Awards
Fence Modern Poets Series
Gival Press Poetry Competition
Green Rose Prize in Poetry
Hayden Carruth Award
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
John Ciardi Prize for Poetry
The Journal Award in Poetry
Juniper Prize
Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
Lady McDuff Poetry Contest
Lena-Miles Wever Todd/Pleides Press Book Prize
Margie: The Robert E. Lee & Ruth I. Wilson Poetry Book Award Contest
Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest
May Swenson Poetry Award
New Criterion Poetry Prize
New Issues Press Poetry Series
New Women Poets Prize
Omnidawn Open Book Contest
Perugia Press Intro Award for a First or Second Book by a Woman
Poets Out Loud Prize
Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Series
The Richard Wilbur Award
Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize
Sawtooth Poetry Prize
Stevens Poetry Manuscript Contest
T. S. Eliot Prize
Tampa Review Prize for Poetry
Transcontinental Poetry Award
University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series
University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series
Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
Walt Whitman Award
Winnow Press First Book Award in Poetry
White Pine Press Poetry Prize
Word Press Poetry Prize
Yale Series of Younger Poets
Poetry Chapbook Contests
All Nations Press Chapbook Contest
Anabiosis Press Chapbook Contest
Assume Nothing Press
Backwards City Review
Bateau Press
Black Lawrence Press
Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition
Burnside Review
ByLine Magazine's Poetry Chapbook Competition
Camber Press
The Center for Book Arts' Poetry Chapbook Competition
Diagram's Chapbook Contest
EDDA Poetry Chapbook Competition for Women
Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Prize for Poetry
Flume Chapbook Series
Gival Press Poetry Chapbook Competition
Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award
John & Miriam Morris Chapbook Competition
Longleaf Press Chapbook Contest
Main Street Rag's International Chapbook Contest
National Poetry Chapbook Competition
New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest
Omnidawn chapbook contest
Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award
PERMAfrost
The Portlandia Group
Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize
Rella Lossy Poetry Award
Shadow Poetry Biannual Chapbook Competition
Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition
Slipstream's Poetry Contest
Tilt Press
(Open Readings)
Tupelo Press's Chapbook Contest
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