Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in August or September, including Palette’s Chapbook Prize, the Nature & Place Prize, the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, Hedgebrook, and more.
“Our separate lives hold between them / a weeping floodplain”
This August, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems of Harmony.
By Hannah Smith
“as if I might fall back / into my own mother’s womb, / in the time before I slipped / into waning moonlight”
The Legacy Suite is a three-part interview series in which poets delve into the tumultuous journey of publishing a debut full-length collection: before publication, during, and after. For this interview, I.S. Jones spoke with poet Saddiq Dzukogi about loss, hope, & the page as a place of possibility.
“this here a full grown fro, a theatrical thickness, this a untameable tangle / this stuff is molasses”
This July, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates a selection of poems about care work.
“On all sides of the fishing pond, a maw. A clearing of the throat. A clear sky.”
In If These Covers Could Talk, poets interview the visual artists whose works grace their book covers. The result is an engaging discussion of process, vision, and projects. This series is a celebration of collaboration—here, we champion the fruitful conversations taking place both on and behind the cover.
This month, poet Mira Rosenthal talked to editorial director Alex Wolfe about the cover of Territorial (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022).