It’s January again, which means our Spring submission period is open! We can’t wait to read what you’ve been working on!
As always, you can submit through Submittable, or you can snail mail us for free.
Don’t forget that our Spring submission period is abbreviated because the Contest opens back up on February 1st. So get your subs in early!
We’re thrilled to announce that Carter Rekoske has won this year’s Dan Veach Prize for his poem, “Prayer for Gratitude.” He has won $100 and his poem will be published in the upcoming Fall issue.
Carter is a 21 year old creative writing student at Bryan College in Tennessee. He won the poetry award in his school’s 2022 and 2023 annual literary contests and will be published in forthcoming issues of Listening and Black Fox Literary Magazine.
We want to thank everyone who participated, and send special shout out to our Finalists and Honorable Mentions!
The Complete List of Finalists
The Complete List of Honorable Mentions
Atlanta Review prides itself on its Spring issues, which are focused on an international country or region. Every year, we try to bring you the best new work, in translation, that we can. But we can’t do it without guest editors, and that’s where you come in.
Are you fluent in another language? We’re looking for volunteer guest editors who can solicit poetry, translate the work (if necessary), collect bios, organize the work, and write an introduction to it. We look for roughly 40-50 manuscript pages (one poem per page).
If you’re interested, PLEASE get in touch with us at jc.reilly@lmc.gatech.edu. We already have Spring 2024 and 2025 lined up, but we’ll be needing folks in the future and would love your help! We’re especially eager to have an issue from France, if anyone is inclined.
Contact JC if you have any questions. And thank you very much!
If you’ve been waiting to send us your contest submission, first of all, what are you waiting for? And second of all, Monday, May 1st is the last day to submit!
That’s right, May Day is the last day we’re accepting poems, so be sure to get them to us for a chance to win $1000 and publication. (And then you can go back to dancing around the May Pole.) 🙂
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!
