Poetry Contests

The Boston Review: Annual Poetry Contest

Deadline: June 1, 2015 Judge: TK First Prize: $1,500 and publication Complete guidelines: The winning poet will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in the November/December 2015 issue of Boston Review. Submit up to five unpublished poems, no more than 10 pages total. Any poet writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current student, former student, relative, or close friend of the judge. Mailed manuscripts must be...

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Call for Submissions: The Multiple eXposure Project Zine 1.0

Attention writers, researchers, photographers, visual artists, and image-makers! The Multiple eXposure Project is a multimedia, multi/trans/inter-disciplinary artistic practice and research-based initiative that explores the many layers of image-making, participatory photography, visual ethnography, and performative encounter(s) between the image and the spectator. We are happy to announce that we will be publishing the very first issue of our...

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‘At War’ Poetry Competition

‘At War’ Poetry Competition (Free entry) Arts Award Voice is an online magazine created by young people, for young people interested in the arts (artsawardvoice.com). As nations across the globe mark one hundred years since the beginning of the First World War, Arts Award Voice are excited to have launched a poetry-writing competition that will encourage writers to engage with the centenary in a creative way.  We are asking young...

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THE FIFTH ANNUAL GeminiMAGAZINE POETRY OPEN

THE FIFTH ANNUAL GeminiMAGAZINE POETRY OPEN GRAND PRIZE: $1,000 SECOND PLACE: $100 Four Honorable Mentions ($25 each) ENTRY FEE: $5 (up to three poems) DEADLINE: January 2, 2015 All Six Finalists Will Be Published in The March 2015 Issue of Gemini prose poem rhyme free verse ballad aubade haiku haibun sonnet lyric elegy limerick. . . Doesn’t matter what it’s called as long as it moves us! No restrictions on subject, style or length....

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Announcing a Bibliophilia writing contest:

“What does your avatar say about you?” Ah, the avatar–as forum communities grow, new and creative ways of self-expression flourish. One such way is through the use of avatars, an image that reflects some aspect of the user’s personality. An avatar can either chip away at the bland anonymity of cyberspace or it can symbolize something private to the user–or both at the same time. It can deceive, invent, re-invent,...

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Call for submissions: GeminiMagazine

We have no guidelines or restrictions on writing style or content—nada, zilch, keine. As Charlie “Bird” Parker pointed out, “There’s no boundary line to art.” We don’t want to set any boundaries so we use a clean, simple selection process: if it strikes a chord with us we print it. Payment: $10 per published piece TO SUBMIT BY EMAIL (except contest entries): Paste previously unpublished fiction, poetry,...

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