POETRY
CONTESTS LIST
LIST OF CONTESTS
(to find out more about any contest listed alphabetically below, cut and paste the name into a Google search bar)
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K Prose-Poem/Short-Short Prize (Indiana Review)
49th Parallel Poetry Award
Abbie M. Copps Poetry Competition
Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition
Agha Shahid Ali
Prize in Poetry 
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Akron Poetry Prize
The Alberta Prize
The Aldrich Poetry Competition
Alfred G. Bailey Prize for Poetry
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award (Poetry Society of America)
Allegheny Review Award in Poetry
Allen Ginsberg
Poetry Awards
Alligator Juniper's National Writing Contest
All Nations Press Chapbook Contest
Al Savard Memorial Poetry Contest
The Alsop Review Poetry Competition
American Literary Review Poetry Contest
American Poet Prize
American Poetry
Review/Honickman First Book Prize
American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prizes
Amy Award
Anabiosis Press Chapbook Contest
Andres Montoya Poetry Prize
Anhinga Prize for Poetry
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Ann Arlys Bowler
Student Poetry Contest
Annie Finch Prize for Poetry
Ann Stanford Poetry Prize
Annual Merit Book Awards
Anthology Poetry
Contest
Anthony Abbott Poetry Competition
Antietam Review Literary Award
A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Appalachian
Poetry Competition
Arizona Literary & Book Awards
Arizona State Poetry Society Annual Contests
Art Cooperative Fellowship in Poetry
Art in the Air Poetry Contest
Artisan Poetry Contest
Arts & Letters Awards
Arts & Letters Prize in Poetry
Asinine Poetry
Contest
ASLA Writing Competition
Autumn House Press Poetry Contest
Bacchae Press National Poetry Chapbook Contest
Backwaters Prize
The Bakeless Contest
Balticon SF
Poetry Contest
Baltimore Review Poetry Contest
Banff Center Bliss Carman Poetry Award
Bank Street Writers Competition
Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards
Barnard College New Women Poets Prize
Barrow Street Press Book Contest
Bay Area Book
Reviewers Association (BABRA) Awards
Bay Area Poets Coalition Contest
B.C. High School Writing and Design Contest
Beatrice Hawley Competition
Beginnings Poetry & Fiction Contest
Belmont Poetry Prize
Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
Bernard F. Conners Prize
Best of Ohio
Writers Writing Contest
Betsy Colquitt Award for Poetry
The Betty Drevniok Award
Beverly Hopkins Memorial Poetry Contest for High School Students
Big City Lit Poetry Contest
The Binghamton University Milton Kessler Poetry Book Award
Black Zinnias First Book Award for Poetry
Blue Light
Poetry Prize
Blue Lynx Poetry Prize
Bluestem Poetry Award
Blue Unicorn Poetry Contest
Boardman Tasker Prize
Bob Snyder Poetry Awards
Bordighera Poetry Prize
Boston Authors
Club Book Awards
Boston Review Poetry Contest
The bp Nichol Chap-Book Award
The Briar Cliff Review Fiction, Poetry & Creative Nonfiction Competition
Brick & Mortar Review Poetry Contest
The Bridport Prize
Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition
Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition
Brittingham and
Pollak Poetry Prizes
Broadway Poetry Prize
Brodine/Brodinsky Poetry Competition
Burnaby Writers' Society Annual Competition
ByLine Press Chapbook Contest
Byron's Quill Award for Poetry
CAA Jack
Chalmers Poetry Award
Cafe Poetica Fast Track Contest (Poem Train)
Caketrain Chapbook Competition
California Book Awards
California State Poetry Society Annual Contest
Campbell Corner Poetry Prize
Canadian Poetry Association Annual Poetry Contest
The Carlyle
Prize in Poetry
Carolina Wren Press Poetry Chapbook Contest
Cave Canem Poetry Prize
CBC Literary Awards
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America)
Celtic Voice Writing Contest
The Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Competition
Chelsea Award for Poetry
Cherrybite Open
Poetry Competition
Chicago Literary Awards
Chicano/Latino Literary Prize
Chistell Writing Contest
Cider Press Review Book Award
Circle Magazine Poetry Contest
The Claremont Review Poetry Contest
Clark College
Poetry Contest
Claudia Ann Seaman Poetry Award
Cleveland Poets Series
Cleveland State University First Book Competition
Cleveland State University Open Competition
CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition
Colorado Prize for Poetry
Columbia Journal Poetry Contest
Common Ground
Review Poetry Contest
Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Contest
Conference on Christianity & Literature Poetry Contest
Connecticut River Review Annual Poetry Contest
Contemporary Poetry Series (For First Books)
Contemporary Poetry Series (For Subsequent Books)
Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation
Crab Orchard
Series in Poetry - First Book Prize Award
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry - Open Competition Award
Cream City Review Poetry Contest
Creating Reality Haiku Competition
Creating Reality Open Poetry Competition
Creativity Unlimited Press Poetry Competition
dA Center for
the Arts Poetry Contest
Daily News Prize (The Caribbean Writer)
Daily Telegraph Arvon International Poetry Contest
Dallas Poets Community - Open Poetry Contest
Dana Awards in Poetry
Dancing Poetry Contest
Dan Sullivan Memorial Poetry Contest
Davoren Hanna Poetry Competition
Delirium Poetry
Contest
Del Sol Press Poetry Prize
Dense Growth: Writing the Pacific Northwest
Diagram Chapbook Contest
Diana Brebner Prize
Dicey Brown Chapbook Prize
DINER Poetry Contest
'Discovery'/The
Nation: The Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes
Dr. Maximilian Tundra Memorial Poetry Prize and Short Speculative Fiction Contest
Dogwood Poetry Contest
Donald Hall Prize in Poetry: AWP Award Series
Don Russ Poetry Prize
Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize
Dorothy Daniels Honorary Writing Award
Dream Horse
Press National Poetry Chapbook Prize
Dreams & Nightmares Poetry Competition
Dry Ground: Writing the Desert Southwest
Eastern Rainbow Open Poetry Competition
Ed & Fay Phillips Memorial Prize in Poetry
EDDA Poetry Chapbook Competition for Women
The Editions Poetry Prize (WordTech Editions)
El Dorado
Writers' Guild Annual Writing Contest
Election 2004 Political Satire Poetry Contest
Electronic Poetry Review's Discovery Award
Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize
Elixir Poetry Awards
Ellipsis Award
Emily Dickinson Award in Poetry
Envoi Poetry
Competition
Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry
Erskine J. Poetry Prize
Euphoria Annual Poetry Contest
FCCJ Writers' Festival Poetry Contests (Florida Community College at Jacksonville)
Feile Filiochta International Poetry Competition
Fence Modern
Poets Series
Fernando Rielo World Prize for Mystical Poetry
FIELD Poetry Prize
Fineline Competition
Firstwriter.com International Poetry Competition
Five Fingers Review Awards
Five Points James Dickey Prize for Poetry
Flash!Point Poetry Competition
Floating Bridge
Press Poetry Chapbook Award
The Florida Review Editors' Awards
Flume Press Poetry Chapbook Contest
Flying Corn Press Poetry Prize
Flyway Sweet Corn Prize
The Foley Poetry Contest
Foreign Ground: Travelers' Tales
Foster City
International Writer's Contest
Four Way Books Intro Series Poetry Prize
Four Way Books Levis Poetry Prize
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award
Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award
Frank O'Hara Award Chapbook Competition
FreeFall Magazine's Fiction & Poetry Contest
Free Lunch
Poetry Contest
FreeXpresSion Poetry Contest
Fresh Meadows Poets Annual Poetry Competition
Frith Press Open Poetry Chapbook Competition
Fugue Annual Contest in Prose and Poetry
Funny Paper Open Poetry Contest
Galway Kinnell Poetry Contest
Gannon
University's High School Poetry Contest
George Bogin Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America)
Gerald Brady Memorial Award
Gerald Cable Book Award
Gin Bender Poetry Contest
Gival Press Poetry Competition
Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers
GLCA New Writers
Awards (Great Lakes Colleges Association)
Governor General's Literary Awards (The Canada Council for the Arts)
Grandmother Earth National Writing Awards
Grasslands Review Editors' Prize in Poetry
Grayson Books Poetry Chapbook Competition
Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest
Green Rose Poetry Prize
Greensboro Award
in Poetry
Greensboro Review Literary Awards
Greg Grummer Poetry Award
The Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry
Grolier Poetry Prize
The Grove Review Annual Poetry Contest
GSU Review Annual Writing Contest
Gulf Coast Poetry Prize
Gulf Stream
Firsts Contest
Gumball Poetry Drive
Guy Owen Poetry Prize
Hackney Literary Awards
The Haiku Calendar Competition
Haiku Presence Award
Hard Ground:
Writing the Rockies
Harold G. Henderson Awards
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Award
Hastings International Poetry Competition
Hayden Carruth Award
Hazel Hall Award for Poetry (Oregon Book Awards)
Heaven Bone
Press International Chapbook Competition
Helen Schaible Shakespearean/Petrarchan Sonnet Contest
Her Mark 2005 Words
Hill-Stead Museum National Poetry Competition
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award
The HSA Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Competiton
Idaho Prize for
Poetry
Ilovepoetry.com Competition
Indiana Review Poetry Prize
Inkwell Magazine Annual Poetry Competition
Inland Empire California Writers Club Short Story, Non-Fiction and Poetry Writing Contest
International Tanka Splendor Award
"In the Beginning Was the Word" Literary Arts Contest
The Iowa Awards
Iowa Poetry Prize
Ishar Singh Poetry Contest
Isotope Editors' Prizes
The Jabowski Prize
Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize
Jackson/Phelan
Literary Awards
James Hearst Poetry Prize
James Laughlin Award
James W. Hackett Annual International Award for Haiku
James Wright Poetry Award
Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize
Jane R. Harwood Memorial Poetry Contest
Janice Farrell Poetry Prize
Japanese
Literary Translation Prize
Jerry Labriola & Brian Jud Writing Competitions
Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize
Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Competition
Jim Bosveld Memorial "Give 'Em Shelter" Chapbook Competition
John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry
The John Ciardi Prize for Poetry
The John Dryden
Translation Competition
John Glassco Translation Prize
The Journal Award in Poetry
Joy Bale Boone Poetry Award
'Judge a Book by Its Cover' Writing Competition
Judith Siegel Pearson Award
Julia Peterkin Award
Julia Ward Howe
Book Awards (Boston Authors Club)
Juniper Prize for Poetry
Justice Writing Contest
Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Katherine Ward Memorial Awards
Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry
Kathryn Handley Prose Poem Prize
Kay Snow Writing
Awards
Keith Browning Awards in Creative Writing
Kent & Sussex Open Poetry Competition
Kenyon Review Poetry Prize for Young Writers
The Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry
Kick Start Poets Competition
Kimera Poetry Contest
Kingsley Tufts
Poetry Award
Kore Press First Book Award
Koret Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award
LadySixString Lyric Writing Contest
Larry Levis Editors' Prize in Poetry
Laughing Frank Poetry Contest
Laurence
Goldstein Poetry Award and Lawrence Prize for Fiction
Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition
The Ledge Poetry Awards
The Ledge Poetry Chapbook Competition
Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award
Leicester Poetry Society Open Poetry Competition
Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Lesbian Writers
Fund
Levis Reading Prize
Lewis & Clark Discovery Award
Lewis & Clark Expedition Award
Library of Avalon Poetry Competition
Library of Virginia Literary Awards
Litchfield Review Spring Edition Competition
Literal Latte
Food Verse Awards
Literal Latte Poetry Awards
Literary Escape Free Poetry Contest
Literary Sashimi Award
Little Poem Press Chapbook Contest
L.L. Winship Award
The Loella Cady Lamphier Prize for Poetry
Lohmann Poetry
Prize
Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize
LOL Limerick Contest
Long Poem Contest
Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award
Louis Canepa Song/Lyric Prize
Louise Louis/Emily F. Bourne Student Poetry Award (Poetry Society of America)
The Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry
Lucille Medwick
Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America)
Lumina National Poetry Contest
Lush Triumphant Literary Awards Competition
Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
Lynn DeCaro Poetry Contest
Lyric Poetry Award (Poetry Society of America)
Lyric Recovery Festival at Carnegie Hall
Mad Blood's Literary Arts Contest
Mad Poets Review Competition
The Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Main Street Rag's Annual Poetry Book Award
Main Street Rag's International Chapbook Contest
Maize Prize for Poetry
Manchester
Cathedral Interfaith & Religious Poetry Competition
Manifold Competitions
Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest
Margin Annual Poetry Contest
Marie M. Anderson Poetry Award
The Marilyn Jacobs Poetry Award Contest
Marjorie J. Wilson Award
Marlboro Review Poetry Prize
Marsh Hawk Press
Poetry Prize
Martha C. James Writing Contest
Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Publication Award
Mary Roberts Rinehart Awards
Masters Poetry Series Contest
Matt Clark Prize
May Swenson Poetry Award
Melbourne Poets
Union Annual National Poetry Competition
Meridian Editors' Prizes
Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Award
Michigan Quarterly Review Literary Prizes
Middlesex University Poetry Competition
Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry
Mikki Griffis Morris Poetry Competition
Milford Fine Arts Council National Poetry Contest
Milton Kessler
Memorial Prize for Poetry
Miriam Lindberg Israel Poetry for Peace Award
Mississippi Review Prize
Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction & Nonfiction
Moonfire Woman Poetry Competition
The Morton Marr Poetry Prize
Mosaic Poetry Competition
Mudfish Poetry
Prize
Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award
MVP Competition
Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award
NASCENCE Emerging Writers Contest
NASCENCE Established Woman Poet Contest
National
Federation of State Poetry Societies Awards (NFSPS)
National Poetry Book Award (Texas A&M University)
National Poetry Competition (The Poetry Society, UK)
National Poetry Review Chapbook Prize
The National Poetry Series
National Translation Award (American Literary Translation Association)
National Undergrad Poetry and Flash Fiction Contests (The Crucible)
Native Writer's Circle of the Americas First Book Contest
Nat Turner
Poetry Prize
The Nature of Nature Environmental Poetry Prize
Nature Poetry Competition
Nebraska Review Awards
Nerve Cowboy Chapbook Contest
New American Press Chapbook Contest
Newark Poetry Society Poetry Competition
New Blind Press
Poetry Contest
Newburyport Art Association Annual Poetry Contest
New Century Writer Awards
The New Criterion Poetry Prize
New Discovery Poetry Contest
New Eden Chapbook Competition
New England/New York Competition
New England
Poetry Club Contests
The New Issues Poetry Prize
New Letters Poetry Award
New Millennium Writings Awards
New Women's Voices Prize in Poetry
New Words Poetry Competition
The New Writer Poetry Prizes
NFSPS Stevens Poetry Manuscript Contest
Nicholas A.
Virgilio Memorial Haiku Competition for High School Students
Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize
Nightboat Books Annual Poetry Prize
NLAPW International Haiku Contest (National League of American Pen Women)
Nobuyuki Yuasa International English Haibun Contest
No Love Lost Poetry Series
Norfolk Writers Poetry Competition
Norma Farber
First Book Award (Poetry Society of America)
North Carolina State University Poetry Contest
Northern Ontario Poetry Competition
Nottingham Open Poetry Competition
NWU Local 7 Poetry Contest (National Writers Union)
Oberon Poetry Prize
OCyber! Poetry
Chapbook Contest
Ohioana Poetry Award
The Oklahoma Book Awards
Oliver W. Browning Poetry Competition
OnceWritten.com Summer Poetry Writing Contest
OnceWritten.com Winter Poetry Writing Contest
Oneswan Productions Writing Competition
Open Chapbook Competition (Finishing Line Books)
Open Poetry
Booklet Collection Competition
Open Window Poetry Anthology Series
Oregon State Poetry Association Contests
Orphic Prize for Poetry
Oscar Wilde Award
Other Voices Fiction & Poetry Contest
Ottakar's & Faber Poetry Competition
Owl Creek
Chapbook Competition
Owl Creek Poetry Prize
Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry
Painted Bride Quarterly's Poetry Contest
Paris Lake Poetry Contest
The Paris Review Prize in Poetry
Partners Writing
Group Open Poetry Competition
Passager Poetry Contest for Writers Over 50
Paterson Poetry Prize
Pat Parnell Poetry Contest
Pauline Ellis Prize for Prose Poetry
Paumanok Poetry Award
Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award
Peace & Freedom Open Poetry Competition
Pearl Poetry
Prize
Pebble Lake Review Poetry and Fiction Contest
Pecan Grove National Chapbook Contest
Pecos River Cabin Poetry Prize
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
PEN Center USA Literary Awards
Pennsylvania Poetry Society Annual Contest
Penumbra Poetry
& Haiku Contest
People Before Profits Poetry Prize
Perelandra Writing Competition
Perugia Press Intro Award
Petra Kenney Poetry Competition
Philbrick Poetry Award
The Philip Levine Prize in Poetry
Phoenix Festival Poetry Contest
Phyllis Smart
Young Prize in Poetry
Pinyon Poetry & Fiction Contest
Pitshanger Poets Competition
Plimpton Prize
Plan B Press Chapbook Contest
Poems Niederngasse Contest
Poetic Licence Contest for Canadian Youth
Poetic Mayhem
Poetry Contest
Poetry 2004 International Poetry Competition (Atlanta Review)
The Poetry Center Book Award
Poetry Center of Chicago Annual Juried Reading
Poetry e-Motion Monthly Audio Poem Competition
Poetry Initiative Poetry Contest
Poetry Life Open Poetry Competition
Poetry London
Competition
Poetry Magazine Awards
Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowships
Poetry Society of New Hampshire National Contests
Poetry Society of Virginia (Adult Categories)
Poetry Society of Virginia (Student Categories)
Poetry West/Eleventh Muse Chapbook Competition
Poet's Corner Award
Poets' Dinner
Committee Contest
Poets on Parnassus Prize
Poets Out Loud Prize
Porter Fleming Competition
Portland Pen Poetry Contest
Portlandia Poetry Chapbook Contest
Posner Poetry Book Award
Potent Prose Ax
Poetry Prize
Prairie Poets Award
Prairie Schooner Prize Book Series: Poetry
Pudding House National Looking Glass Chapbook Competition
Pulse Poetry Prize
The Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize
Quercus Review
Poetry Contest
Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award
Quincy Writer's Guild Adult Creative Writing Contest
Ragged Raven Press International Poetry Competition
Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award
Ralph Gustafson Award for Poetry
Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Chapbook Competition
Ray Bradbury
Creative Writing Contest
Real Eight Review Poetry Contest
Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
Red Booth Review Chapbook Contest
Reuben Rose Poetry Competition
Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Prize
Richard Phillips Poetry Prize
The Richard
Snyder Memorial Publication Prize
Richard Wilbur Award
River City Writing Awards
River Styx International Poetry Contest
Robert E. Lee & Ruth I. Wilson Poetry Book Award
Robert Frost Poetry Award
Robert H. Winner Memorial Award (Poetry Society of America)
Robert Lowell Translation Prize
Robert Penn
Warren Awards
Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize
Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry
Robooth Poetry Competition
Room of One's Own Poetry Contest
Rose Velardi Poetry Showcase
Runes Poetry Award
Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award (formerly the Red Hen Press Poetry Award)
Ruth Lilly
Poetry Fellowships
Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry
Sacramento Poetry Center Annual Contest
The St. Louis Poetry Center Contest for Best Poem
Salt Hill Annual Poetry Contest
Sam Ragan Poetry Prize
Samuel French
Morse Poetry Prize
San Diego Writers' Cooperative Poetry & Fiction Contest
San Francisco International Competition: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka
San Francisco International Competition: Rengay
Sara Henderson Hay Prize for Poetry
Saturday Writers One-Page Poem Contest
Sawtooth Poetry Prize
Scintilla Open
Poetry Competition
Seattle Review Poetry Contest
Second Wind Poetry Award
SEEDS Chapbook Anthology
Sendero Poetry Contest
Shadows Ink
Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
Sheree Fitch Prize for Writing by Young People
Short Grain
Contest
Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition
Slim Volume Series
Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Competition
Slope Editions: Annual Book Prize
Small Poetry Press Chapbook Contest
Smith/Doorstop Book & Pamphlet Competition
Snake Nation
Press: Editors Choice Prize
The Snapshot Press Haiku Collection Competition
The Snapshot Press Tanka Collection Competition
Solo Poetry Contest
So To Speak Poetry Contest
SouthWest Writers Contest
SouthWest Writers: Young Writers Contest
Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook Competition
Sow's Ear Poetry
Competition
Spanish Moss Literary Competition
Speakeasy Competition
Speakeasy Prize
Spire Annual Poetry Book Competition
Spire Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition
Spirituality Poetry Competition
Split the Lark
Poets' Festival: Open Poetry Competition
Spokane Prizes
The Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize
SSA Writer's Contest (Society of Southwestern Authors)
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Scholarship Awards
Steel Toe Books Prize in Poetry
Stephen Dunn Award in Poetry
Stephen Leacock
Memorial Medal for Humour
Strokestown Poetry Prize
Strong Medicine Poetry Contest
Student Writing Contest (The Atlantic Monthly)
subTerrain's Annual Literary Awards Competition
Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Prize
Summerfield G. Roberts Award
Summer Literary Seminars Poetry Contest (Fence Magazine)
Sundress
Publications Annual Book Contest
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival National Poetry Competition
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Young Poets Competition
Swan Scythe Press Poetry Chapbook Contest
Swink Editors' Awards for Emerging Writers
Swink Literary Awards
TallGrass
Writers' Guild Poetry Contest
Tampa Review Prize for Poetry
Tampa Writers Alliance Writing Contest
Tanka Calendar Competition
Tennessee Writers Alliance Poetry Award
Terminus Chapbook Competition
Terminus Editors' Prize for Poetry and Fiction
Texas Institute of Letters Awards
Texas Laughing
Gull Writing Contest
Thin Air Poetry & Prose Contest
Third Coast Poetry Award
Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Contest
Tickled by Thunder Poetry Contest
Tiger's Eye Poetry Contest
The Times/Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry Translation
Tom Collins
Poetry Prize
Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest
Toronto Book Awards
Toronto Poetry Competition
Towson University Prize for Literature
Transcontinental Poetry Award
The Trewithen Poetry Prize
T.S. Eliot Prize
T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
Tupelo Press Dorset Prize
Tupelo Press Poetry Contest for First Books of Poetry
Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Competition
Tusculum Review Contest
Two Rivers Review Poetry Chapbook Prize
Two Rivers Review Poetry Prize
Tyme Gallery
Annual Poetry Contest
Uccelli Press Chapbook Competition
United Planet Poetry Contest
Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition
Utmost Christian Children & Youth Poetry Contest
Utmost Christian Poetry Contest
Vachel Lindsay Poetry Awards
The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
Ver Poets Open Competition
Verse Prize
Vickers Poetry Awards
Violet Reed Haas Prize
Virgil Hutton
Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest
Visions of Poetry
Viz. Youth Awards
W.B. Yeats Society Annual Poetry Competition
Wallace W. Winchell Poetry Contest
Walt Whitman Award
Ware Poets Open
Poetry Competition
War Poetry Contest (sponsored by Winning Writers)
Washington Poets Association Annual Poetry Contest
Washington State Book Awards
Water Press & Media Annual First Book Award
Wavelength Poetry Chapbook Contest
Wavelength Poetry Contest
Wednesday Club Poetry Prize (St. Louis)
Weldon Kees
Chapbook Prize
Wells Festival of Literature International Poetry Competition
Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest (sponsored by Winning Writers)
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival Poetry and Short Story Contest
West Town Press Poetry Chapbook Competition
WFNB Individual Poems Prize
W.H. Heinemann
Award
Whiskey Island Annual Poetry Contest
White Eagle Coffee Store Press Chapbook Contest
White Pelican Review Poetry Contest
White Pine Press Poetry Prize
Wick Poetry Chapbook Open Competition
Wick Student Poetry Competition
Willamette Award in Poetry
Willard R. Espy
Award
Will Hall Chapbook Competition
William Carlos Williams Award (Poetry Society of America)
William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition
William Faulkner/William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
The William Stafford Prize for Poetry
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
Winnow Press
Chapbook Award in Poetry
Winnow Press First Book Award in Poetry
Winnow Press Open Book Award in Poetry
Witness Emerging Writers Contest
Words of Love Writing Contest
Words Words Words Annual Poetry Contest
Word Works Washington Prize
Word Works Young
Poets Competition
World Order of Narrative & Formalist Poets Poetry Contest
The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award (Poetry Society of America)
Writers at Work Fellowship Competition
The Writers Bureau Poetry Contest
Writer's Challenge Literary Association Poetry Contest
Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Awards
Writers' Forum Poetry Competition
Writers' Haven
Open Poetry Contest
Writers inc Writers-of-the-Year Competition
Writers' Workshop Annual Poetry Contest
Writing on Vocation Award
Writing the River
X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize
Yale Series of Younger Poets
Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition
Zone 3 Rainmaker Awards in Poetry
