Only 8 More Days Till Our Contest Closes!
Not to rush you, but Atlanta Review’s annual International Poetry competition has little over a week until it closes for the year. Make sure you get your poems in! We can’t wait to read them. Enter here!
2020 Contest Opens on February 1st!
Got your poems picked out for our annual contest? Of course you have! Get ready for your chance to win the grand prize of $1000 and publication in Atlanta Review! The contest opens tomorrow, and we are so excited to read what you send us! Deets: Our contest runs from Feb. 1st to May 1st.
Congrats to Our Pushcart Nominees!
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: “Ten Love Stories” by A. Molotkov “Mexican Tongue” by JD Amick “Back Among My Own” by Wendy Drexler “Our First Time Making Love After the Funeral” by Shannon
2019 International Poetry Contest Winner Announced!
We are so excited to share that this year’s winner our annual International Poetry Contest is Kurt Luchs, for his poem “Suzie.” This year’s judge was Dan Vera. Kurt wins the $1000 prize, and his poem, along with the wonderful poems by the other Finalists, will appear in the fall issue. Congratulations to Kurt and
Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets–A Tie for Winner!
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
Hijito
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?
The Blue Island
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!
Our Submittable Portal Is Open Again!
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
Summer Hiatus Beginning 6/1
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
Last Chance to Submit to Our Contest!
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!