92NY Discovery Poetry Contest
contestLong-running first-book poetry prize administered by the Unterberg Poetry Center at 92NY, awarding four poets who have not yet published a full-length collection; winners give a public reading at 92NY.
CONTESTS.
Deadlines, fees, and what the winner actually gets — kept current, since all three change.
A contest listing is mostly fine print: the entry fee, the prize, the deadline, what happens to the manuscripts that don't win. The index keeps those numbers current and logs every correction. When a deadline moves or a fee climbs, the change is dated in the open.
First-book prizes, chapbook competitions, single-poem awards — filed together and sorted by what closes next, so the ones that need your attention surface first.
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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
contestUniversity of Pittsburgh Press's annual first-book poetry prize; the winning manuscript is published as part of the long-running Pitt Poetry Series.
APR/Honickman First Book Prize
contestAnnual first-book poetry prize from The American Poetry Review and the Honickman Foundation, awarding publication and national distribution through Copper Canyon Press; judged by a different poet each year.
Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry
contestTwo annual book prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press, judged from one submission pool.
Colorado Prize for Poetry
contestAnnual book prize from the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State.
National Poetry Series
contestAn annual open-call poetry manuscript competition, founded in 1978, that selects five winning manuscripts for publication by participating trade and university presses, each judged by a different established poet.
Walt Whitman Award
contestAcademy of American Poets first-book prize: $5,000, publication, and an all-expenses-paid residency.
Yale Series of Younger Poets
contestThe oldest annual literary award in America (1919): first-book publication by Yale University Press.
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