We’re thrilled to congratulate Shradha Singh, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Epistolary Challenge! Her poem “To My Mother’s Former Fiancee,” was selected by the Frontier Editorial team as the first place winner. Our readers and editors were moved by…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Kimberly Ramos, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Myths & Fables Prize! Her poem “Asian Cowgirl is Doomed from the Start,” was selected by Jennifer Chang as the first place winner. Our readers and editors were…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Anna Flores, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Frontier OPEN! Her poem “Poem Wedged into the Brittlebush or Poem that Eats What Happened,” was selected by our editorial team as the first place winner. Our readers…
We’re thrilled to congratulate JH Grimes, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Misfit Poems Prize! Their poem “Appalachian Conjure,” was selected by our guest judge Marianne Chan as the first place winner. The Frontier Poetry reading and editorial team were…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Taryn FitzGerald, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Hurt & Healing Prize! Their poem “UPON RECEIVING THE NEWS LOOKING OUT THE KITCHEN WINDOW,” was selected by our guest judge Robert Wood Lynn as the first place…
Our Ode to a Grecian Vacation Challenge invited poets to submit their odes—poems that praise or celebrate anything they felt was good, beautiful, or worthy of a little extra karmic glow. While the ode is a classic form, the submissions…
We’re thrilled to congratulate Lillian Emerick Valentine, the winner of Frontier Poetry’s Portrait Prize! Their powerful and evocative poem, “Exhibit in Reversal,” was selected by our editors for its striking social commentary and emotional depth. As always, the Frontier Poetry…
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. We made a list, we checked it twice. It was the 2024 Debut Chapbook Contest. So we checked it thrice. There were some difficult decisions, and some amazing manuscripts. Our incredible team…
Our Hermit Crab 10 Day challenge this fall invited submitters to try out a new technique, and poets were writing and submitting “hermit crab,” poems, which are poems that borrow form found in other sources—a poem built from a grocery…
The moment you’ve all been waiting for: we’re announcing the winners and finalists for the 2024 Frontier OPEN. We’re excited to welcome Marianne Kunkel into the Frontier community with her winning poem, “To the Man who Hugged Me after I…
