Congratulations to Carol O’Brien for winning the International Poetry Grand Prize for her wonderful poem “The Woman in the Attic.” The prize comes with $1000 and publication in the Fall issue. Jeanine Hall Gailey judged. Carol holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from West Chester University. She is currently an unpublished poet* based in
The International Poetry Contest is open once more! We so look forward to reading your dazzling poems from across the world…or across town! Send us your best! Contest fee is $15/5 poems (up to 10 pages total). The Grand Prize is $1000 and publication! Twenty Finalists will also be published, and thirty Merit Winners will
We’re so excited to share that Kareem Tayyar wins this year’s International Poetry Contest! Kareem wins $1000 and publication in the Fall issue. Victoria Chang was the final judge. His most recent collection, Keats in San Francisco & Other Poems, was released in 2022 by Lily Poetry Review Books, and his work has appeared in
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
It’s that time of year again! We can’t wait to read your submissions for the 2023 International Poetry Contest. We want to read poems that sizzle, poems that make us cry or laugh or lose our breath. We want to be inundated with your beautiful and strange words. As always we appreciate all kinds of
We are thrilled to announce that Elizabeth Knapp’s poem “It’s Ok to Worry about the State of Britney Spears’s Mental Health” has been selected by this year’s competition judge, Steven Reigns, as the winner of the 2022 International Poetry Prize. Of her work, Steven writes, “There’s a cleverness to this poem that could potentially alienate
It’s February, so you know what that means: we’re throwing open the doors on our annual International Poetry Contest! As with last year, contest submissions are $15 for up to 5 poems per entry. Enter as many times as you want. One Grand Prize winner will receive $1000 and publication, and all Finalists will be
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
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!
That’s right, everyone, our 2019 International Poetry Contest closes on May 15th, which means you have less than a month to get your poems into the contest. What are you waiting for? $10 lets you submit a packet of 3 poems. Submit as many packets as you want—the more the merrier. Hurry, hurry! Send us