We’re half-way through our International Poetry Contest (we close on May 1st), and so far we only have 80 submissions which means your chances to win $1000 are pretty good!
You can submit to the contest via Submittable at atlantareview.submittable.com. $15 for each 5 poems you enter.
We’re excited to read your work! Don’t let time run out!
We’ve been busy uploading sample poems from past issues so that you can see all the great poems that we’ve published down through the years.
The most recent past issues include Poetry 2014, Pakistan, and Poetry 2015, and you can find between 8-10 poem .pdfs per issue. This project (like the Index Project) is time-consuming and slow-going, so be sure to check back periodically to see what “new” past issues we have available.
Hope you’re having a great summer!
Like basic foods, poetry sustains us through the most difficult times. So, here at Atlanta Review we are providing what sustenance we can: free poetry.
We are now offering you an opportunity to download the Spring/ Summer 2018 South African Women Poets issue!
And in case you missed downloading the Spring/Summer 2020 issue, focusing on Cornwall and Wales, you can get that here as well.
We’re so excited to nominated six poets for a Pushcart Prize. (The Pushcart honors the best writing in small presses.) Our nominations (in no particular order) are:
Congratulations to all of you! Thank you for sharing your work with us (and the world!) And very best luck to each of you!
This year, two poems submitted for the Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets were so exceptional, they both had to win. That’s right: we had a tie! Both Ivy Marie Clarke, for her poem “Where to Find Poetry,” and Rema Shbaita, for their poem “Palestine is Upsidedown” will win the $100 prize, and their work will appear in the Fall issue. Congratulations to Ivy and Rema, and to all the Finalists!
Rema Shbaita is a graduate of UC, Riverside and a former Co-Editor in Chief of The Mosaic Art & Literary Journal est. 1959. They don’t consider dandelions weeds and they’re allergic to grass. They enjoy media about found families and slap-dash friendship groups. They’re working on getting into a PhD program for educational research.
Ivy Marie Clarke is an emerging writer and photographer from Georgia, where she is studying Creative Writing and English Literature at Mercer University. She is currently a preceptor for English classes at her university and an intern at Macon Magazine.
The Finalists:
Last year’s International Poetry Contest winner, Carlos Andrés Gómez, will be in Atlanta to promote his new poetry collection Hijito at Spoke ATL on Sept. 13th. Can’t make the reading? Check out his book.
And in case you missed his winning poem “Underground” from 2018, you can read it here.
Got a new book out? Let us know!
We’re always excited when our past contributors have new books out. Check out Douglas Cole’s The Blue Island, available from Kelsay Books.
If you are a past contributor who’s got something new to share, please let us know. We love to support the Atlanta Review fam!
Did you miss us while we were closed to online submissions? Of course you did. And we missed you too!
Our doors are open once more! You can start sending us your wonderful poems at Submittable. We are ready for a new batch. (Though tbh we’re still making our way through contest subs, so we ask for our contest submitters’ continued patience while we finish reading your work–we received nearly 475 submissions this year).
Hope you’re having a great summer writing your hearts out!
It’s summer which means we’re about to take a month off from receiving new work so that we can catch up on all the general/ contest submissions you’ve sent us—well, we will try anyway!
Our Submittable portal will be closed from June 1-30 for general submissions. (Of course, you can always snail mail us work in June if you simply MUST send us your poems.)
We will re-open for new submissions on July 1st.
If you’ve been sitting on the fence about sending in your poetry to our International Poetry Contest, what are you waiting for?
The contest closes at 11:59 p.m. tomorrow, May 15th! The time for procrastination is over!
