Palette Poetry Prize 2021 | $4000 Cash Prize — Pawners Paper

Palette Poetry has announced a poetry contest for the 2021 edition of Palette Poetry Prize. Writers are invited to submit their works in contest...

Palette Poetry Prize 2021

Palette Poetry has announced a poetry contest for the 2021 edition of Palette Poetry Prize. Writers are invited to submit their works in contest for cash prizes

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According to the organizers:

We are thrilled to offer the Palette Poetry Prize for 2021: $4000 and publication! We are seeking one excellent poem that speaks to what poetry is and can be for our world today. Send us your incandescent heart on the page. The winner will be selected by our guest judge, the 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown.

Palette's editors will choose ten finalists and any honorable mentions that warrant extra attention. 

Prize For The Palette Poetry Prize

The Palette Poetry Contest judge will then select the winner and runner-ups. Second and third place receive $300 and $200, respectively.

 

Few Details About The Judge

Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American Book Award. 

His second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection, The Tradition won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

 His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.

 

Submission Guidelines For The Palette Poetry Prize

Adhere strictly to the instructions below:

• Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—other languages are okay to include, as long as the meat of the poem is in English.
• We accept simultaneous submissions—please send us a note if your work is picked up elsewhere (we want to say congrats!)
• There is no page requirement, but submission must be no more than 3 poems. Please submit all your poems in ONE document.
• We only accept submissions through Submittable. Emailed submissions, attachments, etc... will not be considered.
• We accept multiple submissions, but each submission will include the reading fee.
• Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history.
• Review our FAQ page for frequently asked questions.

Deadline For The Palette Contest :Contest closes on August 15, 2021.

 

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