Foetry

Has admirable guidelines, a nice prize, and the judge is announced in advance.
Perhaps you might win.

Tessa Rumsey is the latest loser winner. One of the judges was Queen Jorie, who crowned the little princess, a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop.
O, Queen Jorie, when will you learn? You are not going to win this battle.

Saskia Hamilton, director of the Women Poets at Barnard program and a […]

The Fourth Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize will be judged by Molly Peacock, who has selected at least one recognized manuscript in the past.
Strangely, BOA includes the following in the guidelines:

Employees, volunteers and board members of BOA Editions, Ltd., or their partners or spouses, or their immediate families, or immediate family of the judge […]

JORIE GRAHAM: You do realize I am Jorie Graham?
KEVIN: That name rings a bell.
JORIE GRAHAM: “Rings a bell”? You people drive me crazy. [She plays with her hair.]
from The Big Keep
by Kevin Killian

$10,000 plus publication!

Tupelo Press is thoroughly committed to safeguarding the integrity of our contests. Judges are instructed to set aside any manuscript where they recognize the work, where they have a personal relationship with the poet, where they have taken any part in shaping the manuscript, or where - for whatever reason - selecting a […]