February Deadlines: 12 Contests and Magazines With Deadlines This Month
New month, new courage: submit yourself to these fellowships, magazines, awards and internships. & as always, submit poetry for free to our New Voices.
Phillip Roth Residence
Emerging poets working on your first/second book: Bucknell University wants to give you a little college, some quiet, and $5000 to finish it. Submit here.
Entry Fee: Free
Deadline: February 1
Brooklyn Poets Fellowship
Brooklyn Poets is also opening up for free one of their esteemed workshops. If you’re not in grad school, have not had a chapbook or a book published, apply. Even finalists get a discount on the registration fees for workshops. Must be in Brooklyn. Submit here.
Entry Fee: Free
Deadline: February 4
Ambroggio Prize
This prize is for our bilingual writers out there—$1000 for a collection of poetry translated from original Spanish to English. Alberto Rios is judging this year. Submit here.
Entry Fee: Free
Deadline: February 15
Yeats Poetry Prize
Translators! This one’s for you. Get your $12,500 or $25,000 grant (while you can) for a book-length translation project. Getting a government grant is a little extra bureaucracy, so make sure you start the process early. Submit here.
Entry Fee: Free
Deadline: February 15
Breadloaf Writers Conference
The well respected Breadloaf Writers Conference is accepting applications. Each year, they select from the best samples of writing to bring together emerging and established poets for 10 days of workshop and mentoring and beautiful community. Note: they do have financial aid available. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $15
Deadline: February 15
The Boiler
A fellow magazine looking for new and emerging poets: send them you best work for the Spring Issue. Submit here.
Entry Fee: Free (or tip)
Deadline: February 15
Gigantic Sequins
Besides having a great name, Gigantic Sequins is also a lovely place to publish your work. Get your words in print in their next issue, and you get a discount on a subscription for applying (support lit journals!). Submit here.
Entry Fee: Free
Deadline: February 15
New Plains Review
A student-run journal from the University of Central Oklahoma, New Plains Review strives to find new and diverse voices for their print issues. The Spring edition is taking submissions—send three poems. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $3
Deadline: February 16
National Poetry Series
For U.S. residents: $10,000 and publication. Open to poets at any stage of their career; send in your unpublished manuscript and earn one of the highest accolades available to an American poet. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $30
Deadline: February 28
Subtropics
Subtropics is the well-respected journal hailing from the sunny University of Florida. Send them up to 4 poems for a chance to be in their next issue. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $3
Deadline: February 28
Snowbound Chapbook Award
The talented Eduardo C. Corral is judging this year’s Snowbound Award. They offer publication, distribution and marketing, as well as a $1000 prize. From Tupelo Press: “We’re drawn to technical virtuosity combined with abundant imagination; memorable, vivid imagery and strikingly musical approaches to language; willingness to take risks; and an ability to convey penetrating insights into human experience.” Submit here.
Entry Fee: $25
Deadline: February 28
Burnside Journal
From Portland, Oregon, the journal arm of Burnside publishes once or twice a year. They’ve got some great poets to rub shoulders with if you poems get selected. Send them 3-5 poems. Submit here.
Entry Fee: $3
Deadline: February 28
