@newpages.bsky.social#Poets! Ashland Poetry Press offers $250 + 50 printed broadsides to its contest winner. Submit up to 2 poems, 40 lines each. Judge: Janine Joseph. $10 fee. Deadline: Nov. 1.
https://www.newpages.com/blog/where-to-submit/writing-contests/4th-annual-ashland-poetry-broadside-contest/
@newpages.bsky.socialđź“– $2,500 + book publication! The Colorado Prize for Poetry seeks full-length manuscripts. Judge: Juliana Spahr. $28 fee includes a Colorado Review subscription. Deadline: Jan. 14.
https://www.newpages.com/blog/where-to-submit/writing-contests/2027-colorado-prize-for-poetry/
@newpages.bsky.social🌿 $1,000 + publication + 30 copies! The Bartow Prize for Ecopoetry seeks 48–80-page manuscripts. Judge: MaKshya Tolbert. $25 fee or book purchase. Deadline: Dec. 15.
https://www.newpages.com/blog/where-to-submit/writing-contests/bartow-prize-for-ecopoetry-2026/
@nepoetrysociety.bsky.socialMeet our 2026 guest judge: Brad Aaron Modlin whose poetry has reached millions of readers and listeners. He won a Pushcart Prize, and has published poems in Poetry Unbound, The Slowdown, and more.
Enter: www.nepoetrysociety.org/poetry-contest
#PoetryContest #PoetryCommunity #NebraskaPoets
@newpages.bsky.socialPoets! RCC MUSE's 2027 Holden Vaughn Spangler Award seeks poems about a child or childhood. $200 prize + publication. Just $5 to enter. Submissions open today!
www.newpages.com/guide-submission-opportunities/spangler-award-2027/
@newpages.bsky.social#Poets, read the Fall 2026 issue of PHIL LIT featuring Julie Puckett, Shome Dasgupta, Jessica Jenschke, & more. Then send them your best poem for their biannual PHIL LIT Poetry Prize. Winner receives $300 cash prize & publication in PHIL LIT PARAGON 2027. $9 fee.
@housebound.bsky.socialHousebound is thrilled to announce it’s inaugural poetry prize! Submissions open Nov. 7th!
www.houseboundmagazine.com/richard-wand...
@ashlandpoetrypress.bsky.socialHey poets! @ashlandpoetrypress.bsky.social is still reading for our 2026 Broadside Contest (due: Nov 1).
Have a look at past winners!
2026 judge: Janine Joseph
Designer: Lindsay Lusby
Guidelines here: ashlandpoetrypress.submittable.com
@newpages.bsky.socialPHIL LIT will be awarding $450 in cash prizes for its PHIL LIT Poetry Prize. First place receives $300, publication in PARAGON 2027, a contributor copy, and opportunity to serve as future prize judge. $9 fee. Deadline: December 1.
@newpages.bsky.socialThe Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest closes to entries of both published & unpublished poems in any style including traditional and rhyming on October 1 (tomorrow!).$25 fee to enter up to 3 poems. Two $3,500 grand prizes.
@newpages.bsky.socialPHIL LIT is accepting submissions to its Poetry Prize. Winner receives $300, publication in PARAGON 2027, and more. Deadline to enter poems with precision, defamiliarization, musicality, emotional intelligence, & intellectual courage is December 1. $9 fee.
@newpages.bsky.socialTomorrow is the deadline to entry your best three line poem of approximately 45 syllables combining concise expression with lyrical beauty and thoughtful reflection to the International Sijo Competition from Sejong Cultural Society. No entry free. Winner receives $500.
@bardopoetry.bsky.socialMy poem, newly published by the Empyrean, "Elegy for a Flashback of Feathered Creatures​." 2nd Place in the Poetry Writing Contest. #PoetryLovers #PublishedPoetry #PoetryContest
www.empyreanliterarymagazine.com/boyd-elegy-f...
@newpages.bsky.socialDon't forget October 1 is the deadline to enter your best in poetry, any subject, any style ie rhyming or traditional, to Winning Writers' Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Final Judge: Michal 'MJ' Jones. Two $3,500 grand prizes to be awarded.
@newpages.bsky.socialNext week, September 30, is the deadline to submit your best attempt at writing Sijo, a 3-line traditional form of Korean poetry, to the Sejong Cultural Society's International Sijo Competition. Free to enter. $500 grand prize.
@ashlandpoetrypress.bsky.socialFor the equinox, let's have a poem about balance & equilibrium? & who better for that than Whitman?
It's officially fall. Don't forget to submit to Ashland Broadside Contest (due 11/1).
Submit: ashlandpoetrypress.submittable.com
#poetry #poetrycommunity #waltwhiman #kosmos #equinox #poetrycontest
@newpages.bsky.socialCalling all #poets! The Word Works announces a new book contest: the Bartow Prize for Ecopoetry. One winner will receive $1,000, book publication, and 30 author copies for a full-length collection of ecopoetry. Deadline: December 15. $25 fee or purchase of book from catalog.
@newpages.bsky.socialDid you know Winning Writers' Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest accepts both unpublished and published work? $25 fee for 1–3 poems. Two $3,500 grand prizes. Poems can be in any style, including rhyming or formal. Deadline: October 1.
@newpages.bsky.social15 days remain to take on the challenge of writing your best sijo, a Korean poem with syllabic guidelines, a more forgiving cousin of the haiku, and entering the International Sijo Competition from Sejong Cultural Society. No reading fee. $500 top prize.
@ashlandpoetrypress.bsky.socialThe world could use more poems in public, right? Good news: Ashland Poetry Press is reading for our broadside contest!
2026 Judge: @j9joseph.bsky.social
Design: @lindsaylusby.bsky.social
Deadline: 11/1
ashlandpoetrypress.submittable.com/submit
