Nimrod Literary Awards
Nimrod International Journal
Entry Fee:
$20
Deadline:
April 1, 2024
Two prizes of $2,000 each and publication in Nimrod International Journal are given annually for a poem or a group of poems and a work of fiction.
Genre: Poetry
Levis Prize in Poetry
Four Way Books
Entry Fee:
$30
Deadline:
March 31, 2024
A prize of $1,000 and publication by Four Way Books is given annually for a poetry collection. The winner is also invited to participate in readings either virtually or in person in New York City, as public health guidelines allow. Ilya Kaminsky will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of 48 to 80 pages with a $30 entry fee by March 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Poetry Prize
Saturnalia Books
Entry Fee:
$30
Deadline:
April 1, 2024
A prize of $1,500, publication by Saturnalia Books, and 20 author copies is given annually for a poetry collection. Carmen Gim?nez will judge. All entries are also considered for the Alma Book Awards, which offer two prizes of $1,000 each and publication. Using only the online submission system, submit a manuscript of at least 48 pages with a $30 entry fee by April 1. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
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Rockland Residency
Rockland offers two three-week residencies from October 8, 2024, to October 29, 2024, and from January 8, 2025, to January 29, 2025, to poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators in the Rockland Woods, located on the Kitsap Peninsula across the Salish Sea from Seattle. Writers who are at least age 25 and are not enrolled in an arts or creative writing program are eligible.
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RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?:
no
Event Date:
October 8, 2024
Rolling Admissions:
no
Application Deadline:
March 31, 2024
Financial Aid?:
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
December 20, 2024
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Rockland Residency, 2615 E Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98122. (206) 799-8209. Jodi Rockwell, Cofounder.
Jodi Rockwell
Cofounder
Contact City:
Kitsap Peninsula
Contact State:
WA
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US
Elk River Writers Workshop
The 2024 Elk River Writers Workshop was held from August 11 to August 16 at Chico Hot Springs, a historic retreat in Pray, Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. The program featured workshops, craft talks, outings, lectures, panel discussions, and campfire readings for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poets Sean Singer and Ana Maria Spagna, novelists Debra Magpie Earling and Jamie Ford, and memoirist Taylor Brorby. Tuition, which included meals, was $1,600; some scholarships were available.
Type:
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?:
no
Event Date:
August 11, 2024
Rolling Admissions:
no
Application Deadline:
May 1, 2024
Financial Aid?:
yes
Financial Aid Application Deadline:
April 1, 2024
Free Admission:
no
Contact Information:
Elk River Writers Workshop, Elk River Arts & Lectures, P.O. Box 2212, Livingston, MT 59047. CMarie Fuhrman, Director.
CMarie Fuhrman
Director
Contact City:
Pray
Contact State:
MT
Contact Zip / Postal Code:
59065
Country:
US
Cosmic Connection
“You have changed me already. I am a fireball / That is hurtling towards the sky to where you are,” begins Dorothea Lasky’s “Poem to an Unnameable Man” from her 2010 collection, Black Life. The poem’s speaker regales their addressee with the projected story of their intense connection, as Lasky incorporates cosmic imagery, a confessional tone, and grandiose language combined with an intimate, idiosyncratic voice. This week write a poem that traverses the galaxy and addresses someone or something you feel tethered to, as if you’re “hurtling towards” them. As you write, play around with figurative language that points to both sizable and smaller, nuanced observations.
Ten Questions for Omotara James
“Your instinct to wait to publish is right. You only get one debut.” —Omotara James, author of Song of My Softening
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What Herbie Hancock Taught Me About Formal Poetry
The author of Midwhistle contemplates the common ground between jazz music and poetry.
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An All-Purpose Product by Patricia Smith
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In this Button Poetry video, Patricia Smith reads her poem “An All-Purpose Product,” which appears in her award-winning collection Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press, 2012), for the 2016 Get Lit Classic Slam in Los Angeles.
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Deadline Approaches for the CAAPP/Autumn House Press Book Prize
Poets of African descent sitting on a first or second collection (including work that intersects with poetry, such as hybrid text, speculative prose, and translation) should not miss out on the chance to submit to the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics/Autumn House Press Book Prize. This year’s deadline is February 15. The annual prize awards $3,000 and publication to a writer “embodying African American, African, or African diasporic experiences.”
Using only the online submission system, submit 48 to 168 pages of poetry or poetry-adjacent work. There is no entry fee. Visit the website for complete guidelines.
Founded in 1998, Autumn House Press publishes books in all genres with the belief “that literature is an affirmation of the deep and elemental range of our human experience” and that “our need for it is crucial now more than ever.” Over the years, the press has met this commitment by putting out debut poetry collections such as Ada Limón’s Lucky Wreck (2006), Danusha Laméris’s The Moons of August (2014), Cameron Barnett’s The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water (2017), and Eric Tran’s The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer (2020). This year’s CAAPP Book Prize judge, Aracelis Girmay, is a hybrid genre poet whose most recent work is the chapbook and was a flower (Center for Book Arts, 2023), made in collaboration with book artist Valentina Améstica.
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