2025 Contest Open

April 15, 2025

$500 First Prize

$200 Second Prize

$100 Third Prize

We are thrilled to announce that Donald Revell will judge our 2025 Annual Poetry Contest.

Donald Revell is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, most recently Canandaigua, six volumes of translations from the French, and three volumes of critical writings, including Essay: A Critical Memoir. A former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations, he is the winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry, and he has twice been awarded Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Submissions Guidelines

We welcome regular submissions from September 1st to May 1st, and contest submissions from January to mid-March.

For regular submissions, send us three to five poems in a single document, please! They should be your own original work.

For contest submissions, three is the maximum.

We look for well-crafted poems under 61 lines. Poems should be single-spaced indicating stanza breaks.

We are also looking for creative non-fiction and short stories. Just send us a submission that is no longer than 12 pages (so you could send a single story or a small group of flash fiction pieces), double-spaced, and NOT in a PDF.

We accept work via Submittable. Please include a short bio (50 words or so).

We will not be able to read Snail-mail manuscripts, so please do not send us any.

We are happy to accept simultaneous submissions, but we do not accept previously published work. Once we have notified you of an acceptance, it will be published as a first time publication. All rights revert back to you, the author, after publication.

We read all submissions, but that process takes time and we are overworked. This is one reason we encourage simultaneous submissions–if your work is snapped up elsewhere by a more efficient magazine, we will be thrilled for you. Just let us know as soon as you know.

We close submissions from May 2 to August 31st in order to catch up on reading. We apologize for any delays. 2020-2021 almost crushed us, and Fall 2023 brought some personal losses. but we're doing better now, with wonderful readers and interns.

If you have questions, please contact us! (That is NOT the address to send poems to, however.)

To submit work electronically, including contest entries: