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View our contests and awards for 2024 below!
The Micro Chapbook Prize
December 1, 2024 - February 2, 2025
We warmly invite you to submit to The 2025 Palette Micro Chapbook Prize! Palette Poetry will select four micro manuscripts to publish in print and digitally, beginning in the fall of 2025. The four winners will each receive $500 and 2025/2026 publication. We hope that you enjoy curating a micro chapbook from your body of work that would best fit one of the four seasonal themes.
The Queer Poetry Prize
February 4 - April 6, 2025
This spring, we encourage poets of all backgrounds to share any poems that meditate on the idea of “queerness.” These poems could explore sexuality, gender, or form. We do not require submitters to identify as LGBTQ+, because we hope to celebrate writers who are learning about themselves through poetry, in addition to those who identify as queer poets. Please send us your experiments in poetic form, meditations on relationships, and inquiries into yourself. This prize will be judged by CAConrad.
The Nature Poetry Prize
April 14 - June 15, 2025
This summer, we invite you to get outside and write some poems! Aimee Nezhukumatathil will judge our inaugural Nature Poetry Prize. Please send us your meditations on the sound of wind, your obsessions with the shape of trees, and your words woven like blades of grass. We are looking forward to reading any and all poems that are interested in the natural world.
Summer Poetry Challenge
July 6 - July 13, 2025
More information coming soon.
Summer Async Studio
July 1 - July 31, 2025
A new space for poets to receive feedback and master class style lessons from some of our favorite poets and editors. More information coming soon.
The Palette Poetry Prize
July 21 - September 21, 2025
More information coming soon.
Fall Poetry Challenge
September 25 - October 5, 2025
More information coming soon.
Collecting Your Poetry: A 15-day Micro Course
September 1 - November 30, 2025
Are you ready to gather your poems into a collection? In this micro course, each day for 15 days, you will receive a new prompt to help you write, organize, or edit your in-progress poetry collection. Don’t worry if you don’t have a lot of poems to work with yet—at the end of the course, you will receive all of the prompts for future review, so you can continue to revise and collect your poetry. Registration opens in September.
The Love & Eros Prize
October 5 - December 7, 2025
We’re delighted to bring back the Love & Eros Prize for 2025! Love engulfs us, desire rules us. We encourage love poems beyond the confines of what’s traditionally “romantic.” Rather, we’re seeking unflinching examinations of our sharpest human sensations—those of desire, longing, devotion, and intimacy. All iterations of love are welcome—send us your bitter and your sweet, your queer, platonic, reverent, and devotional.
The Micro Chapbook Prize
December 1, 2025 - February 1, 2026
Palette Poetry will open for very short collections of poetry (10 pages). Send us your best collected work based on themes, which will be announced in the fall.