Calendar
View our contests and awards for 2024 below!
Previously Published Poem Prize
November 15, 2023 - January 15, 2024
Our landscape has exploded with presses and magazines in recent years with the advent of digital publications—so many great poems have been circulated and celebrated, but others have been forgotten, overlooked, and deserve a new life. We want to shine a light upon the poems that you love but feel are no longer receiving the attention or recognition they deserve.
Winter Async Studio
January 1 - January 31, 2024
A new space for poets to receive feedback and master class style lessons from some of our favorite poets and editors. Every participant will receive direct written feedback from our editorial team as well as access to a curated selection of 5-10 minute video lessons from talented authors.
Love & Eros Prize
February 2 - April 7, 2024
We’re delighted to bring back the Love & Eros Prize for 2024, awarding $3000 and publication! 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. John Lee Clark will guest judge.
Sappho Prize
April 14 - June 16, 2024
We are honored to create this space for women poets to step forward. Awarding $3000 and publication, the Sappho Prize is open to all women poets (cis and trans).
Summer Async Studio
July 1 - July 31, 2024
A new space for poets to receive feedback and master class style lessons from some of our favorite poets and editors. Every participant will receive direct written feedback from our editorial team as well as access to a curated selection of 5-10 minute video lessons from talented authors.
Rising Poet Prize
July 21 - September 22, 2024
We warmly invite all new and emerging poets to submit to The Rising Poet Prize! We will only accept submissions from poets who have not yet published a full-length collection at the time of submission. The winning poet will be awarded $3000, publication, and a brief interview in Palette Poetry. Second and third place will receive $300 & $200, respectively, as well as publication. The top ten finalists will be selected by Palette editors, and a guest judge will then select the winner and two runners-up from among the ten finalists.
Previously Published Poem Prize
September 24 - December 8, 2024
Palette Poetry is delighted to continue our tradition of celebrating previously published work. We appreciate the curatorial work of our fellow literary magazines, and we want to support poets as they continue to expand their publishing careers. Submissions to The Previously Published Poem Prize must have been already published in a literary magazine or an anthology.
Blackout Poetry Challenge
October 7 - October 17, 2024
This fall, Palette Poetry invites you to erase, highlight, blackout, and reimagine existing texts in order to create new poems. For ten days, we will be open for submissions of blackout poetry. The Palette editors will select one winning poet to receive $500 and publication. Finalists will also be considered for publication.
Micro Course
November 11 - November 29, 2024
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.
Micro Chapbooks
December 1 - February 2, 2025
Palette Poetry will open for short collections of poetry (10 pages). Send us your best collected work based on themes which will be announced in the fall.