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.
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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.
AGNI
journalBoston University journal publishing poetry, fiction, and essays with an international bent. Pays contributors.
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.
Colorado Review
journalColorado State University literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1956, with an active book review and interview series.
Copper Nickel
journalBiannual literary journal at the University of Colorado Denver, founded by Jake Adam York in 2002 and relaunched under Wayne Miller; known for translation folios and paying $30 per printed page.
Frontier Poetry
journalOnline poetry journal focused on new and emerging voices; pays for poems and runs frequent contests.
Guggenheim Fellowship
fellowshipMid-career fellowships across fields, including poetry; substantial, prestigious, and unrestricted in use. Applications for US/Canadian citizens are typically due in mid-September, with results announced the following spring.
Gulf Coast
journalUniversity of Houston-based literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and literary translation twice a year, plus an ongoing online-exclusives series; pays contributors.
Helen Zell Writers' Program (Michigan)
mfa programA fully funded two-year MFA in fiction or poetry at the University of Michigan's English Department, offering a funded post-graduate fellowship year and named for donor Helen Zell.
Hodder Fellowship
fellowshipA funded 10-month residency at Princeton for writers and artists of exceptional promise—selected for potential rather than track record—to pursue an independent project without teaching duties.
Image
journalQuarterly journal of art, literature, and religious faith, known for serious, non-doctrinaire engagement with belief; pays contributors.
Michigan Quarterly Review
journalFounded in 1962, the University of Michigan's flagship interdisciplinary literary quarterly publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation, with an active online counterpart (MQR Online).
Milkweed Editions
pressNonprofit Minneapolis press founded in 1980, known for ecological and place-based literature, publishing poetry (Ada Limón, Jake Skeets, Fady Joudah) alongside literary fiction and nonfiction.
New England Review
journalMiddlebury College quarterly known for launching major poets and writers early in their careers; pays contributors and recently added poet Matthew Olzmann as poetry editor.
Omnidawn
pressOakland-based independent press (founded 1999) for innovative poetry and fabulist fiction, publishing primarily through a slate of annual juried contests (Open Book, 1st/2nd Book, Chapbook, Broadside, and Fabulist Fiction Chapbook prizes) and distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
Palette Poetry
journalOnline poetry-only journal publishing weekly; pays $50+ per poem and runs several prizes.
Ploughshares
journalEmerson College quarterly, each issue guest-edited by a prominent writer. Pays; small online submission fee.
Poetry Coalition Fellowships
fellowshipPaid, part-time fellowships placing early-career poets and arts administrators at member organizations of the Poetry Coalition network, coordinated by the Academy of American Poets; includes a $20,000 stipend plus health-care allowance.
Poetry Magazine
journalFounded in Chicago in 1912; the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. No fee; pays by the line.
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