International poetry manuscripts are eligible.
The Annual Del Sol Press Poetry Prize
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$22* [ends January 15, 2006]
The John Ciardi Prize for Poetry
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$25 [ends January 16, 2006]
Colorado Prize for Poetry
Minimum: 40pp. Fee: US$25** [ends January 17, 2006]
Main Street Rag's Annual Poetry Book Award
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$25* [ends January 31, 2006]
AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$20 [ends February 28, 2005]
Sixth Annual Verse Prize
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$20 [ends February 28, 2005]
Fourth Annual Sawtooth Poetry Prize Competition
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$25 [ends March 1, 2005]
The Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$25 [ends March 14, 2005]
The Fourth Annual Slope Editions Book Prize
Minimum: 40pp. Fee: US$20* [ends March 15, 2005]
Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$25 [postmarked March 2005]
Second Annual Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$20 [ends April 30, 2006]
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$20 [ends April 30, 2005]
Anhinga Prize for Poetry
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$20 [ends May 1, 2005]
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$20 [ends May 1, 2005]
The FIELD Poetry Prize
Minimum: 50 pp. Fee: US$22 [postmarked May 2005]
The 2005 Backwaters Prize
Minimum: 60pp. Fee: US$25 [ends June 4, 2005]
Akron Poetry Prize
Minimum: 60pp. Fee: US$25 [ends June 30, 2005]
Four Way Books
Fee: US$15 [postmarked June 2005]
Pearl Poetry Prize
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$20 [ends July 15, 2005]
Zoo Press
Fee: None [postmarked July 2005]
Bullfight Little Book Prize
Minimum: 24pp. Fee: US$8/10 [ends September 10, 2005]
The Philip Levine Prize in Poetry
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$25 [ends September 15, 2005]
Juniper Prize for Poetry
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$20 [ends September 30, 2005]
May Swenson Poetry Award
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$25 [ends September 30, 2005]
Ohio State/Journal Award in Poetry
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$25** [ends September 30, 2005]
Brittingham and Pollak Poetry Prizes
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$25 [postmarked September 2005]
Sarabande Books
Open [postmarked September 2005]
2005 Gerald Cable Book Award
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$20 [ends October 15, 2005]
Carnegie Mellon University Press
Fee: US$10 [postmarked October 2005]
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Minimum: 60pp. Fee: US$20 [postmarked October 2005]
The Paris Review Prize in Poetry
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$25 [postmarked October 2005]
T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
Minimum: 60pp. Fee: US$25 [postmarked October 2005]
NFSPS Stevens Poetry Manuscript Contest
Minimum: 35pp. Fee: US$15/20 [ends October 15, 2005]
Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$20 [ends October 31, 2005]
Elixir Press Poetry Book Awards
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$25 [ends October 31, 2005]
The Frederick Morgan Poetry Prize
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$25 [ends October 31, 2005]
Winnow Press First Book Award in Poetry
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$20 [ends November 8, 2005]
Third Annual Many Mountains Moving Poetry Book Contest
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$20/25* [ends November 15, 2005]
The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2006
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$20 [ends November 15, 2005]
Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Competition
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$20 [ends November 30, 2005]
Hayden Carruth Award
Minimum: 46pp. Fee: US$25 [ends November 30, 2005]
The New Issues Poetry Prize
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$15 [ends November 30, 2005]
2005 Nightboat Books Poetry Prize
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$20 [ends November 30, 2005]
The Eleventh Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize Competition
Minimum: 60pp. Fee: US$20 [ends November 30, 2005]
Tupelo Press Dorset Prize
Minimum: 50pp. Fee: US$25 [ends December 1, 2004]
The Seventh Annual Gival Press Poetry Competition
Minimum: 45pp. Fee: US$20 [ends December 15, 2005]
The Tampa Review Prize for Poetry
Minimum: 48pp. Fee: US$20 [ends December 31, 2005]
* Fee includes book copy
** Fee includes subscription