2024 Annual Poetry Contest Results

$500 First Prize
$200 Second Prize
$100 Third Prize
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Many thanks to this year’s judge, Rebecca Hart Olander.

We are very grateful to everyone who entered—thank you so much!

Congratulations to the winners! You can read their poems in the current issue, along with the judge's comments:

First Prize ($500)

“Salem” –Kateri Kosek

Second Prize ($200)

“Hecate, My Fixer” —Josh Feit

Third Prize ($100)

“Beach of Hvar with Po” —Kelly DuMar

Honorable Mentions

Charity Everitt—“Flowers for Roseann”

Rebecca Faulkner—“Iron Lung”

Timothy Martin—“Czardas and Carol”

Jed Myers—“I Am With You”

Sarah Anne Stinnett—“Apophenia”

Submissions Guidelines

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

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

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. If you intend to submit work simultaneously, it would be kind of you to tell us so in your cover letter. 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. 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.

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

To submit work electronically, including contest entries:

submit