3 weeks left to submit for the ONLY POEMS PRIZE ($3600 awarded)!
Ethical, prestigious, affordable, fun.
Deadline: April 30th.
$3000 Poet of the Year
$300 X 2 Runner-Ups
The Poet of the Year will also receive a lifetime comped premium subscription. The runner-ups will receive a 3-year comp. All honorable mentions will receive a 1-year comp. The winners will be published online and in our first-ever print anthology. All winners will be announced by July!
Submission Guidelines
Your submission must be between 5-10 pages.
Submissions are open internationally to any poet writing in English.
The poems must have been previously unpublished at the time of submission.
Submit all your poems in a single document (.doc or .pdf). Begin each poem on a new page.
Do not include your name or identifying information in the document or the title of your submission.
We encourage simultaneous submissions. Once you’ve submitted, you are not required to withdraw any poems. Even if all the poems in your submitted packet get published, that’s fine (and so freakin’ cool!). You will not be ineligible for the ONLY POEMS PRIZE—if we are interested in your work, we will find a way to work with you.
We do accept multiple submissions, but each submission must come with the reading fee. Though we do not encourage these, sometimes you might have two or three different sets of poems you’d like to try for an award and we welcome those.
All submissions will be considered for general publication for our Poet of the Week category.
$15 submission fee includes a two-month premium subscription to our Substack.
In case you missed it, we wrote about how we mapped everything related to this contest out here:
Please share this contest far and wide with your communities. This would go a long way for us. We’re new and scrappy and could use all the help we can get! Thank you so much!
Hi Shannan: Just listened to your wonderful interview with Authors Publish! I had a quick question for you. Are poems published on my personal blog considered "published" for the purposes of your lit mag and specifically this contest? Thanks.
Ahhhh love this! Glad I saw it. Will submit this week 💛