"They called her Sparrow, / so the Lord would be watchful of her..." Norman Dubie, Arizona State University Regents' Professor of English, reads "Sparrow" from his poetry collection The Quotations of Bone (Copper Canyon Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of Poets & Writers Magazine during the past year. We carefully review the practices and policies of each contest before including it in the Writing Contests database, the most trusted resource for legitimate writing contests available anywhere.