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Legitimate Poetry Contests

Alice James Books: The Beatrice Hawley Award
The Beatrice Hawley Award welcomes submissions from emerging as well as established poets. Entrants must reside in the United States. The winner receives $2000, book publication and has no cooperative membership commitment. In addition to the winning manuscript, one or more additional manuscripts may be chosen for publication.
Alice James Books: The New England / New York Award
American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize
AWP Awards Series
Barrow Street Press Book Contest
BOA Editions A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Bread Loaf / Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes
Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series
Cave Canem Poetry Series
Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prizes
CLP / Colorado Prize for Poetry
The Colorado Prize for Poetry is an international literary contest started in 1995. Since the contest began, over 5,000 book-length poetry manuscripts have been entered. Each year’s prizewinner receives a $1,500 honorarium and publication of his or her book by the Center for Literary Publishing.
Contemporary Poetry Series / University of Georgia Press
Crab Orchard First Book Prize
Crab Orchard Series: Open Awards
FENCEbooks: Alberta Prize & Modern Poets Series
Four Way Books Contests
Hayden Carruth Award / Copper Canyon Press
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize / Ohio UP & Swallows Press
Juniper Prize / University of Massachusetts Press
Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry / Zoo Press
Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
May Swenson Poetry Award / Utah State UP
Mid-List Press First Series Awards
Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize / Story Line Press
Paris Review Prize / Zoo Press
Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize
Slope Editions Book Prize
T.S. Eliot Prize / Truman State UP
The Barnard Women Poets Prize
The Brittingham Prize & The Felix Pollack Prize / University of Wisconsin Press
The Dorset Prize / Tupelo Press
The Field Poetry Prize
The Green Rose Prize / New Issues Poetry
The Iowa Poetry Prize / University of Iowa Press
The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry / Sarabande Books
The National Poetry Series
The New Criterion Poetry Prize
The New Issues Poetry Prize
The Sawtooth Poetry Prize / Ahsahta Press
The Tampa Review Prize
The Verse Prize
The Walt Whitman Award / The Academy of American Poets
Vassar Miller Prize / University of North Texas Press
White Pine Press Poetry Prize
Winnow Press First Book Award
Yale Series of Younger Poets


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